{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 159/1915-03-13/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I have often shown clearly, also to you, that the human being can already delude himself in the external life, so that he mistakes cause and effect. I have said: imagine that you see a person from the distance going along a riverside. You see him suddenly staggering and falling into the river. He is pulled out dead not long afterwards. Now you are quite justified to suppose according to all external reasons that the person has fallen into the water and has just drowned. If you do nothing else, you adhere to this judgment. In this case it only requires external means to convince you of the opposite. One has still found a stone where the person has fallen into the river, and you are supported in your judgment. If one opens the corpse, one will find out that the person suffered a stroke that he has fallen consequently into the river and that he has met his death not because he fell into the river, but that he fell because he was dead. So cause and effect were completely mistaken. However, somebody who understands the matters observes that at many places above all in science. In our case where the boy met his death, we must say: the karma of this boy ordered the removal van; karma brought the van just to that place. The judgment is wrong if one believes that chance played a role. The boy should only arrive just at the seventh year in this incarnation. I would like to say, the whole arrangement was made for that. We must completely get used to exchange cause and effect compared with the way of judging matters in the everyday life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. The Intervention of the Christ-Impulse in History—Bridging the Abyss Between the Living and the Dead","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-03-13","location":null,"word_count":284,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/159/1915-03-13/p021","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"UNK2013","book_title":"The Mystery of Death","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA159/English/UNK2013/19150313p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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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Man hat an der Stelle, wo der Mensch in den Fluß gefallen ist, auch noch einen Stein gefunden und wird dadurch in dem Urteil bestärkt. Öffnet man die Leiche, so wird man finden, daß der Mensch vom Schlage getroffen wurde, daß er infolgedessen in den Fluß gefallen ist und daß er den Tod nicht aus dem Grunde gefunden hat, weil er in den Fluß fiel, sondern daß er hineinfiel, weil er tot war. Also Ursache und Wirkung sind völlig verwechselt worden. Das aber geschieht vor allen Dingen in der Wissenschaft für denjenigen, der die Dinge durchschaut, an vielen Stellen. In unserem Falle, wo der Knabe seinen Tod fand, müssen wir sagen: Den Möbelwagen hat das Karma dieses Knaben bestellt, den Wagen hat sein Karma gerade an die Stelle hingebracht. Falsch ist das Urteil, wenn man glaubt, da sei ein Zufall im Spiele gewesen. Der Knabe sollte in diesem Falle eben nur das siebente Lebensjahr in dieser Inkarnation erreichen. Und ich möchte sagen, die ganze Veranstaltung ist dazu gepflogen worden. 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