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According as the one or the other string is played on more or less intensely by the bow of Karma (if we may retain this analogy of the violin which also has four strings), so does the individual life arise. It may be more the etheric body or the astral body, or the etheric and the astral together, or the physical and the astral together, or the physical body and the Ego. In the most manifold ways, the four strings of human life can play together. Therefore it is so difficult if we desire to speak not in general and vague abstractions but in reality. 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Certain inner characteristics become consolidated in the growing human being, expressing themselves through the corporeality, through the whole conduct and appearance as it expresses itself in the tenure of the body, in the gestures, in the behaviour as a whole. What is thus consolidated (not all, but a great part of it) causing the human being to be short and thickset, or to have shorter or longer fingers, or to tread in a certain way—with a firm step in one case, tripping it lightly in another (to describe the radical contrasts)—in short, all that is connected with the bodily aspect of deportment, is here intended. As I said, not all, but a great part of what thus appears in the growing human being comes from his Karma. It is the effect of his vocation in the former life on Earth. People who do not observe what I have now said, often make a great mistake, especially when they try to be clever, observing the child's behaviour, and wishing somehow to determine his occupation in this life from the way he deports himself. In this way it is easy to make the mistake of wishing to place him into a similar vocation to what he had in his preceding life on Earth. And that would not be wholesome for him. What we observe in this period of life are the effects of the former incarnation; and when this period is at an end, or even before (as I said, these things merge into one another), the astral body emerges in a very peculiar way, and reacts on what has been developing hitherto. Once we are aware of these facts as derived from spiritual science, we can observe them even outwardly on the physical plane. The astral body reacts. According to quite other Karmic forces, it transmutes that which resulted from the pure ‘Karma of vocation’ between the seventh and fourteenth year. Thus there are two forces in the human being in conflict with one another. The one set of forces mould and form him; these arise more from the etheric body. The others, counteracting and partly paralysing the former, come more from the astral body. Through these latter forces, man is impelled to transform what was stamped upon him by his vocational Karma of the former incarnation. We may say therefore: The working of the etheric body is *formative*. (All that appears as gesture, posture and deportment in the physical body comes from the etheric.) The working of the astral body is *transformative*. And in the interplay of the two forces, which are very decidedly in conflict with one another, much of the working of the Karma of vocation finds expression.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":565,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/172/1916-11-13/p029","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1916-11-13","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 172/1916-11-13/p019","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/172/1916-11-13/p019"},{"locus":"GA 172/1916-11-13/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/172/1916-11-13/p020"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 172/1916-11-13/p019","GA 172/1916-11-13/p020"],"length_check":{"de_words":564,"en_words":565,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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As to the physical body, it is especially important to observe in the first epoch of life how the human being places himself through his Karma into the world. The kind of physical body we have depends on this. For by our Karma we place ourselves into a certain family, belonging to a certain nation and so forth. Thus we get quite a definite kind of body. But not only so. Think how much the course of our life depends on the situation into which we place ourselves, in that we enter a certain family. This already gives the starting-point of infinitely much in our life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":125,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/172/1916-11-13/p030","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1916-11-13","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 172/1916-11-13/p021","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/172/1916-11-13/p021"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 172/1916-11-13/p021"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":388,"en_words":491,"ratio":1.27,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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(It goes on working, of course, through our succeeding lives.) And now it receives a counter-force through the Ego. The Ego works so to annul the given situations of our life. It battles against all that determines our circumstances. Thus we may say: The physical body works so to *create* life's situation; and the Ego works to *re-create* it. In the working together of these two-battling one with another—another stream of Karma enters our life. For? there is always present in man on the one hand what strives to maintain him in a certain situation, and on the other, what strives to lift him out of it. Thus I would say, primitively speaking, 1 and 4, and 2 and 3, work upon one another. (See the diagram at the end.) And in manifold other ways the four strings play together. The way we come into connection with fresh human beings in a given life according to our Karma, depends on 1 and 4 and their connections. And this leads back in turn to our relationships of life in former lives. 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Nun müssen wir bedenken, welches Verhältnis besteht zwischen diesem Kraftkomplex und dem Menschen, insofern sein Leben verfließt zwischen der Geburt und dem Tode. Da ist der Mensch tatsächlich, ich möchte sagen, ein Instrument mit vier Saiten, auf dem gespielt wird von dem genannten karmischen Kraftkomplex. Physischer Leib, Ätherleib, Astralleib und Ich sind die vier Saiten, das Karma spielt darauf. Je nachdem mehr oder weniger das eine oder das andere, der Ätherleib, der Astralleib, oder der Ätherleib mit dem Astralleib zusammen, der physische Leib mit dem Astralleib zusammen, der physische Leib mit dem Ich zusammen gewissermaßen von dem Bogen des Karma gestrichen wird -— wenn wir uns den Vergleich mit einer Violine erlauben, die auch vier Saiten hat -, entsteht das individuelle menschliche Leben. In der mannigfaltigsten Weise können diese vier Saiten des menschlichen Lebens durcheinanderspielen. Daher ist es so schwierig, wenn man nicht in allgemeinen leeren Abstraktionen, sondern im Konkreten reden will, die einzelnen Lebensmelodien der Menschen zu entziffern, weil man sie nur dann entziffern kann, wenigstens fruchtbar entziffern kann, wenn man gewissermaßen es schauen kann, wie der Fiedelbogen des Karmas auf den vier Saiten des Menschen spielt. Dabei kommen allerdings allgemeine Gesichtspunkte in Betracht, die aber berücksichtigt werden müssen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":245,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/172/1916-11-13/p018"},{"locus":"GA 172/1916-11-13/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Wenn man einen Menschen betrachtet in denjenigen Lebensjahren, in denen im Sinne meines kleinen Büchelchens «Die Erziehung des Kindes vom Gesichtspunkte der Geisteswissenschaft» vorzugsweise zur Entwickelung kommen physischer Leib und namentlich der Ätherleib, wenn man die Entwickelung eines Kindes betrachtet vom siebenten bis zum vierzehnten Jahre ungefähr — ungefähr, denn alles das ist annähernd -, dann wird man finden, daß gerade in dieser Zeit bei dem Kinde gewisse Eigentümlichkeiten hervortreten, die diese Lebensperiode besonders auszeichnen. Man wird bemerken, daß sich in dieser Zeit, in einer gewissen Weise allerdings, gewisse Dinge konsolidieren. Manches tritt Ja schon, weil die Dinge sich durcheinanderschieben, auch in den ersten sieben Lebensjahren auf, aber genau, tiefer beobachtbar ist es erst vom siebenten bis vierzehnten Lebensjahre ungefähr. Man wird finden, daß in einer bestimmteren Weise dasjenige im werdenden Menschen hervortritt, was man nennen kann die durch die Körperlichkeit, durch die ganze Art des Sich-Gebens — aber insofern, als dieses Sich-Geben in der Haltung, in der Gestenhaftigkeit der Körperlichkeit, in der ganzen Lebenshaltung zum Ausdruck kommt - gewissermaßen konsolidierten inneren Eigentümlichkeiten. Was sich da konsolidiert, allerdings nicht alles, aber ein großer Teil desjenigen, was da macht, daß ein Mensch sogar gedrungene Gestalt hat, daß er kurz ist, kürzere oder längere Figur hat, daß er in einer gewissen Weise auftritt, festen Tritt oder tänzelnden Schritt hat, um radikale Gegensätze zu sagen, kurz, das, was mit dem Körperlichen der Lebenshaltung zusammenhängt, ist hier gemeint. Wie gesagt, nicht alles, aber ein großer Teil desjenigen, was so in dem werdenden Menschen auftritt, das ist herrührend aus den Karmawirkungen des Berufes der vorhergehenden Inkarnation. Man macht nun sehr häufig, indem man das, was ich eben gesagt habe, nicht beachtet, Fehler, indem man gescheit sein will, den Menschen beachtet in seiner Haltung, und aus dem, wie er sich gewissermaßen hält und gibt, irgend etwas für seinen Beruf bestimmen will. Da würde man den Fehler machen, den betreffenden Menschen in einen ähnlichen Beruf hineinstellen zu wollen, wie er ihn in der vorhergehenden Inkarnation gehabt hat. Das würde aber nicht heilsam sein für den betreffenden Menschen; denn man sieht in dieser Zeit die Wirkungen der vorhergehenden Inkarnation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":351,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/172/1916-11-13/p019"},{"locus":"GA 172/1916-11-13/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Und wenn nun diese Lebensperiode zu Ende ist, oder schon vorher die Dinge, wie gesagt, schieben sich ineinander -, da tritt der Astralleib in einer ganz besonderen Weise auf, und dieser Astralleib - wenn man die Sache weiß, wenn sie aus der Geisteswissenschaft herausgeholt ist, so kann sie auch äußerlich auf dem physischen Plan beobachtet werden -, der wirkt zurück auf das, was sich vorher ausgebildet hat. Er‘ wirkt zurück in einer solchen Weise, daß er umbildet nach anderen karmischen Kräften das, was sich aus dem reinen Berufskarma vom siebenten bis zum vierzehnten Jahre ergeben hat. Es sind also im Menschen hier zwei miteinander im Kampfe befindliche Kräfte, Die einen gestalten ihn; die kommen mehr aus dem Ätherleib. Die anderen wirken diesen Kräften entgegen und paralysieren sie zum Teil, so daß der Mensch durch diese anderen mehr aus dem Astralleb kommenden Kräfte dazu getrieben wird, umzugestalten das, was ihm aufgedrängt hat das Berufskarma aus der vorhergehenden Inkarnation. Wir können also sagen: Der Ätherleib wirkt gestaltend - denn das, was als Haltung im physischen Leib im Sich-Geben auftritt, das rührt aus dem Ätherleib her -, der Astralleib wirkt umgestaltend. Durch das Spiel der beiden Kräfte, die da wirklich, man möchte sagen, arg im Kampfe miteinander liegen, wird vieles ausgedrückt für das Wirken des Berufskarmas.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":213,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/172/1916-11-13/p020"},{"locus":"GA 172/1916-11-13/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Das wirkt aber nun zusammen mit anderen karmischen Strömungen, denn wir haben ja auch den physischen Leib zu betrachten. Für den physischen Leib kommt für die erste Lebensepoche vor allen Dingen in Betracht, wie der Mensch durch sein Karma sich hineinstellt in die Welt. Schon was wir für einen physischen Leib haben, hängt ja davon ab, denn wir stellen uns durch unser Karma in eine bestimmte Familie hinein, die einer bestimmten Nation und so weiter angehört. Dadurch bekommen wir einen ganz bestimmt gearteten Leib. Aber nicht nur, daß wir einen ganz bestimmt gearteten Leib bekommen, sondern wieviel, denken Sie, hängt ab von dem Verlauf unseres Lebens, von der Situation, in die wir uns hineinbegeben, indem wir uns in eine bestimmte Familie hineinstellen. Damit ist ja schon der Ausgangspunkt für unendlich vieles in unserem Leben gegeben. Und in der Tat, wirksam im physischen Leib, um den physischen Leib könnte man besser sagen, sind in der Zeit, in der sich der physische Leib besonders entwickelt, in den ersten sieben Lebensjahren, Kräfte, welche herrühren jetzt nicht aus ‘dem Beruflichen und Berufsmäßigen der vorhergehenden Inkarnation, sondern herrühren von dem, wie wir mit Menschen in der vorhergehenden Inkarnation zusammengelebt haben, indem wir in dieser oder jener Beziehung zu diesen oder jenen Menschen gestanden haben nicht in irgendeinem Lebensteil — das kommt auf ein anderes Gebiet -, sondern das ganze Leben hindurch. Das wird verarbeitet. Tiefe Beziehungen bilden sich ja heraus zu unserer Seele, indem wir zu Menschen in Beziehungen treten. Das tragen wir durch die Todespforte, und durch diese Kräfte bewirken wir, daß wir uns wieder in eine bestimmte Familie, in eine bestimmte Lebenssituation hineinstellen. So daß wir sagen können: Dasjenige, was schon gewissermaßen unseren physischen Leib hineinstellt, durch unseren physischen Leib wirkt, das ist das, was die Lebenssituation gestaltet. Das wirkt natürlich weiter durch das folgende Leben, und das erlangt jetzt die Gegenkraft durch das Ich. Das Ich wirkt auslöschend auf die Lebenssituationen, aber es wirkt im Kampfe mit dem, was determiniert in der Lebenssituation. So daß man sagen kann: Physischer Leib: Lebenssituation schaffend; Ich: Lebenssituation umschaffend. Durch das Zusammenwirken von diesen beiden, durch einen Kampf, den diese beiden bewirken, wird eine andere Karmaströmung ins Leben eingreifen. 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