{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 120/1910-05-25/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now it will be clear why in our period the protection of vaccination appeared. We also understand why, among the best minds of our period, there exists a kind of aversion to vaccination. This aversion corresponds to something within, and is the external expression of an inner reality. So if on the one hand we destroy the physical expression of a previous fault, we should, on the other hand, undertake the duty of transforming the materialistic character of such a person by means of a corresponding spiritual education. This would constitute the indispensable counterpart without which we are performing only half our task. We are merely accomplishing something to which the person in question will himself have to produce a counterpart in a later incarnation. If we destroy the susceptibility to smallpox, we are concentrating only on the external side of karmic activity. If on the one side we go in for hygiene, it is necessary that on the other we should feel it our duty to contribute to the person whose organism has been so transformed, something also for the good of his soul. Vaccination will not be harmful if, subsequent to vaccination, the person receives a spiritual education. If we concentrate upon one side only and lay no emphasis upon the other, we weigh down the balance unevenly. This is really what is felt in those circles which maintain that where hygienic measures go too far, only weak natures will be propagated. This of course is not justifiable, but we see how essential it is that we should not undertake one task without the other.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. Karma of the Higher Beings","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-05-25","location":null,"word_count":267,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/120/1910-05-25/p030","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/RSP1984/19100525p01.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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Wir können aber noch etwas anderes begreifen, daß nämlich bei den besten Geistern unserer Zeit etwas wie ein Widerwille gegen Impfung vorhanden ist. Das steht mit einem Inneren in Korrespondenz, das ist das Äußere eines Inneren. Und wir können jetzt sagen: Wenn wir auf der einen Seite das Organ töten, hätten wir auch die Verpflichtung, als Gegenstück dazu bei diesem Menschen den materialistischen Charakter durch eine entsprechende spirituelle Erziehung anders zu gestalten. Das müßte das notwendige Gegenstück sein. Wir leisten sonst nur halbe Arbeit. Ja, wir leisten nur eine Arbeit, zu der der Mensch selber in einer späteren Inkarnation in irgendeiner Weise wird das Gegenstück schaffen müssen, wenn er das Pockengift in sich hat und die Eigenschaft aus sich herausgeschafft hat, durch die man geradezu hinneigt zur Blatternerkrankung. Hat man die Empfänglichkeit für die Blattern herausgeschafft, so hat man nur die äußere Seite der karmischen Wirksamkeit ins Auge gefaßt. Wenn man auf der einen Seite Hygiene übt, muß man anderseits die Verpflichtung fühlen, den Menschen, deren Organisation man umgewandelt hat, auch etwas für die Seele zu geben. Impfung wird keinem Menschen schaden, welcher nach der Impfung im späteren Leben eine spirituelle Erziehung erhält. Wir haben die Waagschale zu stark zum Sinken gebracht, wenn wir nur auf die eine Seite abzielen und auf die andere keinen Wert legen. Das fühlt man im Grunde in den Kreisen, wo man sagt: Wo hygienische Maßregeln zu weit gehen,würden nur schwache Naturen fortgepflanzt. Das ist zwar unberechtigt; aber Sie sehen, wesentlich ist, daß man eine Aufgabe nicht ohne die andere übernehmen darf.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":270,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/120/1910-05-25/p031"}],"english":["GA 120/1910-05-25/p030"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":270,"en_words":267,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.96,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6502,"original_word_count":6740,"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/RSP1984/19100525p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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