{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 140/1912-12-15/p047","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"There is a beautiful saying by Kant. He says, “There are two things that have made a specially deep impression on me, the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.” It is particularly impressive when we realize that both are really one and the same. Between death and rebirth we are spread out over the starry realms and receive their forces into ourselves, and during our life in a physical body the forces we have gathered are active within us as moral impulses. Looking up to the starry heavens we may say that we dwell among the forces that are active out there during the period between death and rebirth. This now becomes the guiding principle of our moral life. The starry heavens outside the moral law within are one and the same reality. They constitute two sides of that reality. We experience the starry realms between death and rebirth, the moral law between birth and death.","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":160,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/140/1912-12-15/p047","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"René M. Querido","identified_edition":"AP1968","book_title":"Life Between Death and Rebirth","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA140/English/AP1968/19121215p01.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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Kant sagt: Zwei Dinge sind es, die ganz besonderen Eindruck auf mich gemacht haben: der bestirnte Himmel über mir und das moralische Gesetz in mir. — Es macht ganz besonderen Eindruck, wenn man nun darauf kommt, daß beides dasselbe ist. Denn zwischen Tod und Geburt sind wir ausgegossen über den Sternenraum und nehmen seine Kräfte in uns herein, und wenn wir im physischen Leibe sind, dann sind diese Kräfte, die wir aufgenommen haben, in uns als unsere moralischen Impulse wirksam. Wenn wir da stehen und den Sternenhimmel betrachten, können wir sagen: Was da draußen an Kräften lebt und webt im Weltenraum, darin leben und weben wir in der Zeit zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt. Und das ist jetzt das richtunggebende Gesetz unseres moralischen Lebens. So sind der Sternenhimmel draußen und das moralische Gesetz in uns ein und dieselbe Wirklichkeit, nur zwei Seiten dieser Wirklichkeit. 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