The Four Spheres of the Inner Life

This is done to a certain extent voluntarily and in the place of what has faded, comes an image of our own being, which appears to us—it cannot be expressed otherwise—it appears as our ‘personified karma.’ That, which as human beings we bear within us, that on account of which we shall have this or that fate, is here as if rolled into one. Before us stands our karma personified. When we see this we know: thou art that; such thou really art in thy moral, inner being, as thou standest as an individuality in the world, that thou thyself really art!