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Thus from the deeper nature of disease and illness we shall understand that even if no pain appears, inner reactions may always come, but if pain is manifested—as long as the etheric body penetrates too far into the physical body—there may always come that which one may call: the search for the external causes of illness through the deeper-lying strata of human consciousness itself. Grotesque as it may sound, it is nevertheless true, that we search with a different degree of consciousness for the external causes of our diseases—just as we do for our inherited characteristics—when we need them. But, again, what we have just said only holds good within the limits we have described to-day.","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":233,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/120/1910-05-21/p027","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. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Der Mensch würde es aber aus seinem gewöhnlichen Ich-Bewußtsein heraus auch nie tun. Er wird sich nie aus seinem gewöhnlichen Ich-Bewußtsein heraus befehlen, in einen Herd von Bazillen einzudringen. Nehmen wir aber an, jenes dumpfe Bewußtsein findet, daß es nötig ist, daß eine äußere Schädigung eintrete und daß sich das abspielen kann, was wir gestern genannt haben den ganzen Sinn des Krankseins. Dann sucht dieses Bewußtsein, das in den physischen Leib hineindringt, die Krankheitsursache auf. Es ist das eigene Wesen des Menschen, das die Krankheitsursache aufsucht, um das zu erreichen, was wir gestern den Krankheitsprozeß genannt haben. So werden Sie aus dem tieferen Wesen der Krankheit heraus begreifen, daß selbst dann, wenn noch keine Schmerzen auftreten, noch immer Gegenwirkungen auftreten können. Und auch wenn Schmerzen sich zeigen, kann noch immer, wenn nur der Ätherleib zu stark eindringt in den physischen Leib, dasjenige eintreten, was man nennen kann das Suchen von äußeren Krankheitsursachen durch tiefergelegene Schichten des menschlichen Bewußtseins selbst. So grotesk es klingt, so ist es doch richtig: Wir suchen uns, ebenso wie unsere vererbten Merkmale, mit einem andern Bewußtseinsgrade unsere äußeren Krankheitsursachen, wenn wir sie brauchen. Das eben Gesagte gilt aber wieder nur in den Grenzen dessen, wie es heute dargestellt ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":216,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/120/1910-05-21/p029"}],"english":["GA 120/1910-05-21/p027"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":216,"en_words":233,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.98,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6440,"original_word_count":6592,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"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. 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