{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 140/1912-12-15/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A person has died. During his lifetime for [one] reason or another he did not concern himself with spiritual science. The one who remains behind on earth can know by means of spiritual science that the deceased has a burning thirst for spiritual science. Now if the one who remains behind concerns himself with thoughts of a spiritual nature as if the dead were there with him, he performs a great service to him. We can actually read to the dead. That enables the gulf that exists between the living and the dead to be bridged. The two worlds, the physical and the spiritual, are severed by materialism. Consider how their union will take hold of life itself! When spiritual science does not remain mere theory but becomes a life impulse as it should, there will not be separation but immediate communication. By reading to the dead we can enter in immediate connection with them and help them. The one who has avoided spiritual science will continue to feel the anguish of longing for it unless we help him. We can assist him from the earth if such a longing is at all present. By this means the living can help the dead.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. The Working of Karma in Life After Death","site_heading":null,"date":"1912-12-15","location":null,"word_count":203,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/140/1912-12-15/p018","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"René M. 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Die Lebenden, die noch hier sind auf dem physischen Plan, sind sozusagen, wenn sie in irgendeiner Weise zusammengehangen haben, also beide, sie und der jetzt Verstorbene, hier gewesen sind, die Lebenden sind die einzigen, die etwas lindern können den Schmerz, die etwas stillen können die Qual derjenigen, die durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen sind. Und fruchtbar hat sich in einer großen Anzahl von Fällen erwiesen, was man nennen kann gerade für diesen Fall: das Vorlesen den Toten. Es hat sich wirklich das bewährt: da ist jemand gestorben; hier im Leben hat er sich aus irgendeinem Grunde, aus dem, der genannt worden ist, oder aus anderen Gründen, nicht mit Geisteswissenschaft befaßt. Derjenige, der zurückgeblieben ist, kann aus der Geisteswissenschaft heraus wissen, daß der Verstorbene ein brennendes Interesse für Geisteswissenschaft haben kann. Wenn der Zurückgebliebene nun Gedanken innerlich durchnimmt mit ihm, als wenn der Tote ihm gegenüberstehen würde, mit dem Gedanken, als ob der Tote vor ihm stehen würde, so ist das für den Toten eine große Wohltat. Wir können tatsächlich dem Toten vorlesen. Das überbrückt sozusagen die Kluft, die besteht zwischen den Lebenden und den Toten. Bedenken Sie, wenn die zwei Welten, die durch die materialistische Gesinnung der Menschen so geschieden sind — die Welt des physischen Planes und die spirituelle Welt, die der Mensch durchläuft zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt —, bedenken Sie, wie dies unmittelbar ins Leben eingreift, wenn diese zwei Welten zusammengeführt werden! Wenn Geisteswissenschaft nicht Theorie bleibt, sondern unmittelbarer Lebensimpuls wird, also das, was Geisteswissenschaft eben sein soll, dann gibt es keine Trennung, sondern unmittelbare Kommunikation. Das Vorlesen den Toten ist einer von den Fällen, in denen wir in unmittelbare Beziehung zu den Toten treten können, in denen wir ihnen helfen können. Derjenige, der Geisteswissenschaft gemieden hat, bleibt immer in der Qual, nach ihr zu verlangen, wenn wir ihm hier nicht helfen. Aber wir können ihm auch von hier helfen, wenn er überhaupt ein solches Verlangen hat. 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