{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 159/1915-03-13/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In still another case that appeared to me by the karmic course of the last times, when one of our friends died as young man who gave rise to great hopes just for our movement. He died in the thirtieth year of his life. On the 26th February he would have been thirty years old, he died shortly before. This friend, our dear Fritz Mitscher, has been somebody who was able to summarise that spiritual-scientifically what he had gained in learning—he had a disposition to scholarship,—with infinite, sacrificing devotion, and thus, indeed, he stood before something our movement needs so much: taking up our extensive science in oneself, so that one penetrates it spiritual-scientifically and reports it spiritual-scientifically, so that one stands completely on the ground of the scientific present. He was well prepared for that. Even if now the karma runs a way that such souls go early through the gate of death, this has its significance in the whole world course. Like in the other cases—because I was urged just by karma to speak at the funeral,—it was there also that I had to speak words in the beginning and at the end of the funeral speech which had to be spoken again in the same manner, transporting myself into the soul's being, so that I coined the words again not arbitrarily, but grasped them in the lively being together with the deceased. There I had to say then:","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":241,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/159/1915-03-13/p032","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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Und dieser Freund, unser lieber Fritz Mitscher, er ist ja derjenige gewesen, der mit unendlicher, sich opfernder Hingabe dasjenige, was et, der eine Anlage zur Gelehrtennatur hatte, an Gelehrsamkeit erraffen konnte, geisteswissenschaftlich zusammenfaßte und damit in der Tat vor etwas stand, was für unsere Bewegung so notwendig ist: den Umfang unserer Wissenschaft so in sich aufzunehmen, daß man sie geisteswissenschaftlich durchdringt und geisteswissenschaftlich wiedergibt, so daß man voll auf dem Boden der wissenschaftlichen Gegenwart steht. Er war dazu gut vorbereitet. Auch wenn nun das Karma so verläuft, daß solche Seelen frühzeitig durch die Pforte des Todes gehen, so hat das seine Bedeutung im ganzen Weltenverlauf. Und wie es in den andern Fällen war - weil ich gerade durch das Karma dazu gedrängt war, bei der Bestattung zu sprechen -, so war es auch da, daß ich am Anfang und am Ende der Bestattungsrede Worte zu sprechen hatte, welche wiederum in derselben Weise gesprochen werden mußten, sich hineinversetzend in das Wesen der Seele, so daß die Worte wieder nicht willkürlich geprägt sind, sondern im lebendigen Zusammensein mit der durch den Tod gegangenen Seele gefaßt waren. 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