{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 130/1912-02-09/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"History tells us very little about the incarnations of the thirteenth. He was born many times with great and profound qualities of heart. It was known that this individuality was to be born again as a child and that he was destined for a very special mission. This knowledge was revealed to the twelve seers who took the child entirely into their charge and were able to arrange that from the very beginning he was shut off from the outside world. He was removed from his family and cared for by these twelve men. Guided by their clairvoyance they reared the child with every care in such a way that all the forces acquired from previous incarnations were able to unfold in him. A kind of intuitive perception of this occurrence has arisen in men who know something of the history of spiritual life. Goethe's poem *The Mysteries*[^2] has been recited to us many times. Out of a deep, intuitive perception Goethe speaks in that poem of the council of the twelve, and he has been able to convey to us the mood of heart and feeling in which they lived. The thirteenth is not brother Mark but the child of whom I have been telling you, and who almost immediately after his birth was taken into the care of the twelve and brought up by them until the age of early manhood. The child developed in a strange and remarkable way. The twelve were not in any sense fanatics; they were full of inner composure, enlightenment and peace of heart. How does a fanatic behave? He wants to convert people as quickly as possible; while they, as a rule, do not want to be converted. Everybody is expected immediately to believe what the fanatic wants them to believe and he is angry when this does not happen. In our day, when someone sets out to expound a particular subject, people simply do not believe that his aim may be not to voice his own views but something quite different, that is, the thoughts and opinions of the one of whom he is writing. For many years I was held to be a follower of *Nietzsche*[^3] because I once wrote an absolutely objective book about him. People simply cannot understand that the aim of a writer may be to give an objective exposition. They think that everyone must be a fanatic on the subject of which he happens to be speaking.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Intimate Workings of Karma","site_heading":null,"date":"1912-02-09","location":null,"word_count":411,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/130/1912-02-09/p013","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Pauline Wehrle","identified_edition":"RSP1984","book_title":"Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA130/English/RSP1984/19120209p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Er wurde immer und immer wieder geboren mit hervorragenden, bedeutsamen Gemütseigenschaften. Das wusste man, dass dieser Mensch wieder als Kind geboren werden würde und dass er ausersehen sei, ganz Besonderes für die Menschheit zu bedeuten. Das erhielten aus ihrer Hellsichtigkeit heraus diese zwölf Männer, die dieses Kind ganz in ihre Erziehung nehmen und es einrichten konnten, dass es von allem Anfang an der Welt ganz entrückt wurde. Es wurde ganz herausgenommen aus der Familie und unter die Erziehung und Obhut der zwölf Männer gebracht. Die zogen es mit aller Sorgfalt auf, entsprechend den Regeln ihres Hellsehertums, sodass alles, was als Kräfte von den Inkarnationen her veranlagt war, in diesem Kinde sich nach und nach wieder heranbilden konnte. Sie werden merken, dass von diesem Ereignisse eine Art ahnungsvolles Bewusstsein geblieben ist in jenen, die etwas von der Geschichte des geistigen Lebens wussten. Ich habe aus einer Dichtung, in der diese Ahnung lebt, vortragen lassen. Die «Geheimnisse» von Goethe sind wiederholt vorgetragen worden. Goethe hat aus einer tiefen Ahnung von diesem Kollegium der Zwölf gesprochen und wiedergegeben die Gemütszustände derselben. Es war nicht der Bruder Markus, sondern jenes Kind, von dem ich Ihnen erzähle, dass es von den ersten Tagen seiner Geburt hereingenommen worden ist in die Erziehung der Zwölf, bis es ein Jüngling geworden war. Merkwürdig entwickelte sich dieses Kind. Die zwölf Männer waren nicht Fanatiker, sondern abgeklärte, ruhige, innerlich harmonische Geister. Was tut der Fanatiker? Er will die Menschen so schnell als möglich bekehren; sie wollen aber gewöhnlich nicht. Jeder soll gleich glauben, was der Fanatiker will, und er ärgert sich, wenn man ihm nicht glaubt. Wenn in unserer Gegenwart jemand dies oder das vertritt, glaubt man ja gar nicht, dass er oft etwas anderes begreiflich machen will, begreiflich machen will, was derjenige dachte und glaubte, von dem er spricht. So hielt man mich jahrelang für einen Nietzscheaner, weil ich über Nietzsche objektiv ein Buch geschrieben habe. 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