{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 120/1910-05-21/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Here it is necessary to bear in mind the law, the truth—the recognition that in life much of what we describe as ‘arising from within,’ or as ‘derived from the inner being of man’ is already clothed in illusion, because if we truly rise above illusion, we find that much of what we at first believe to have originated within man must be described as streaming in from outside. We always encounter this when we have to deal with those dispositions, those traits of character, which are summed up under the name of ‘hereditary characteristics.’ It seems as though these hereditary characteristics are a part of us only because our forbears had them, and it may appear to us in the most eminent degree as though they had fallen to our lot through no fault of our own, and without our co-operation. It is easy to arrive at a mistaken distinction between what we have brought from earlier incarnations and what we have inherited from our parents and forbears. When we reincarnate we do not come haphazard to such and such parents or to such and such a country. There is operating here a motive allied to our innermost being. Even in those hereditary characteristics which have nothing to do with illness, we must not assume anything haphazard. In the case of a family such as Bach's for instance, there were for many generations again and again more or less renowned musicians born (there were more than twenty more or less renowned musicians in Bach's family). We might well believe that this has purely to do with the line of heredity, that the characteristics are inherited from the forbears, and that as such characteristics are there, certain tendencies towards musical talent brought over from a previous incarnation will be unfolded. This is not so however; the facts are quite different.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. The Relationships Between Karma and Accidents","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-05-21","location":null,"word_count":310,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/120/1910-05-21/p005","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSP1984","book_title":"Manifestations of Karma","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA120/English/RSP1984/19100521p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. 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Die vererbten Merkmale, die uns so entgegentreten, als ob wir sie nur deshalb hätten, weil sie unsere Vorfahren auch hatten, können uns im eminentesten Maße erscheinen, als ob sie uns ohne unsere Schuld, ohne unser Zutun zugefallen wären. Und wir können leicht zu einer falschen Unterscheidung dessen kommen, was wir uns aus unseren früheren Inkarnationen mitbringen, von dem, was wir von Eltern oder Voreltern geerbt haben. Nun aber geschieht das Wiedereintreten in eine Verkörperung keineswegs so, als ob wir ohne irgendeine Veranlassung, die mit unserem Inneren zusammenhängt, zu diesem oder jenem Elternpaar, zu diesem oder jenem Volk, in diese oder jene Gegend hingedrängt würden. Schon bei den durchaus nicht in das Gebiet der Krankheiten hineinfallenden vererbten Merkmalen dürfen wir so etwas keineswegs voraussetzen, sondern wir müssen uns sagen: Wenn zum Beispiel in einer Familie, wie der des Musikers Bach, durch viele Generationen hindurch immer wieder und wieder kleinere und größere Musiker geboren wurden - der eine ist dann gewöhnlich hervorragender, aber in der Familie Bach sind über zwanzig mehr oder weniger begabte Musiker geboren worden -, so könnte man leicht glauben, daß man es mit der reinen Vererbungslinie zu tun hätte, daß also Merkmale von den Vorfahren vererbt werden und daß der Mensch gerade deshalb, weil solche Merkmale vorliegen, gewisse aus früheren Inkarnationen mitgebrachte Eigenschaften zu musikalischen Talenten entfaltet. 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