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For now we see how things which, to begin with, arouse horror and indignation—as does the life of Nero—live themselves out according to a perfect world-justice; we see how this world-justice is fulfilled and how the wrong returns, but in such a way that the individuality is himself involved in creating the balance.—That is what is so stupendous about karma.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":107,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/236/1924-04-27/p027","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-04-27","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 236/1924-04-27/p030","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/236/1924-04-27/p030"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":104,"en_words":107,"ratio":1.03,"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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In this case the balance will be almost complete, for you will realise how closely the fulfilment is bound up with the compensatory deed. Just think of it ... a life which considers itself worthless, so worthless that a whole Empire (Austria was then a great Empire) and the rulership of it are abandoned! The suicide in such circumstances bears the consequence that after death it all has to be lived through in direct spiritual vision. 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Denn nun sieht man, wie solche Dinge, die eigentlich zunächst, man möchte sagen, empörend auftreten, wie das Dasein des Nero, sich mit voller Weltgerechtigkeit ausleben, wie sich die Weltgerechtigkeit wirklich erfüllt und wie zurückkommt das Unrecht, aber so, daß die Individualität hineingestellt ist in die Ausgleichung des Unrechtes. Und das ist das Ungeheure an dem Karma.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":104,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/236/1924-04-27/p030"},{"locus":"GA 236/1924-04-27/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Und dann kann sich noch etwas anderes zeigen, wenn ein solches Unrecht ausgeglichen ist durch einzelne Erdenleben hindurch, wie es hier wohl fast schon ausgeglichen sein wird. Denn man muß nun wissen, daß ja zum Ausgleich dazugehört die ganze Erfüllung — denken Sie sich —, hervorgehend aus einem Leben, das sich wertlos hält, das so sehr sich wertlos hält, daß dieses Leben zunächst ein großes Reich und Österreich war ja dazumal noch ein großes Reich — und seine Herrschaft über ein großes Reich hingibt! Dieses Handanlegen an sich selbst in solchen Umständen, und hinterher, nachdem man durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen ist, weiterzuleben in der unmittelbar geistigen Anschauung, das erfüllt allerdings in einer furchtbaren Weise, was man Gerechtigkeit des Schicksals nennen kann: also Ausgleich des Unrechts.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":127,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/236/1924-04-27/p031"},{"locus":"GA 236/1924-04-27/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Aber auf der anderen Seite, wenn wir jetzt von diesem Inhalte absehen, so ist ja wiederum eine ungeheure Kraft in diesem Nero gewesen. Diese Kraft darf nun auch nicht verlorengehen für die Menschheit; diese Kraft muß geläutert werden. Die Läuterung haben wir besprochen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":43,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/236/1924-04-27/p032"},{"locus":"GA 236/1924-04-27/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Ist nun eine solche Seele geläutert, dann wird sie die Kraft, die geläutert ist, eben auch in der Folgezeit in spätere Erdenepochen in einer heilsamen Weise hinübertragen. Und gerade dann, wenn wir das Karma als einen gerechten Ausgleich empfinden, werden wir auch niemals verfehlen können, zu sehen, wie das Karma prüfend auf den Menschen wirkt, prüfend wirkt selbst dann, wenn er sich in irgendeiner empörenden Weise in das Leben hereinstellt. Der gerechte Ausgleich geschieht, aber die Menschenkräfte gehen doch nicht verloren. 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