{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 236/1924-05-04/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We are each placed within a certain human life. In the course of it we act, think, and feel in one way or another. We enter into certain relationships with other human beings and within these relationships things happen. We think, feel, will and do things that call for a karmic adjustment. We enter into relationships with other men, and again things happen which demand a karmic adjustment. Try to survey from this point of view one human earthly life and then observe how at the end of it a man passes through the portal of death into the spiritual world. He now lives within the spiritual world. In the spiritual world it is not as in the physical world. In the physical world you stand outside the other man. You stand outside even those people with whom you come in close contact. Between you and the other man there is at least air, and each one has his own skin! So that when you approach another ever so closely, you can always in a certain measure keep yourself to yourself. This, however, is no longer possible when you have gone through the portal of death and dwell in the spiritual world. Let us take a typical case. You have done something to another man which calls for a karmic compensation. You go on living with him, after you have both passed through the portal of death. You live then *within the other man*; and this not by virtue of your good will or your inner perfection, but compulsorily, if I may put it so.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Study of Karma and Moral Life","site_heading":"Transparency of Being: Perceiving Karma Through Cosmic Impulses","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Überblicken Sie nur einmal von diesem Gesichtspunkte aus ein menschliches Erdenleben, und sehen Sie dann darauf hin, daß am Ende dieses Erdenlebens der Mensch durch die Pforte des Todes eingeht in die geistige Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":103,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/236/1924-05-04/p011"},{"locus":"GA 236/1924-05-04/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Er lebt jetzt in der geistigen Welt drinnen. In der geistigen Welt ist es nicht so wie in der physischen Welt. In der physischen Welt, da stehen Sie außerhalb der anderen Menschen. Auch denen gegenüber stehen Sie außerhalb, denen Sie schon menschlich nahetraten. Es ist ja immerhin zwischen zwei Menschen in der physischen Welt mindestens Luft und bei jedem seine Haut. Also Menschen in der physischen Welt, wenn sie sich noch so nahetreten, können in einem gewissen Sinn sich in sich selber zurückhalten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":83,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/236/1924-05-04/p012"},{"locus":"GA 236/1924-05-04/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Das ist aber nicht möglich, wenn man durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen ist und in der geistigen Welt lebt. Nehmen Sie einen eklatanten Fall. Sie haben irgendeinem Menschen etwas zugefügt, was einen karmischen Ausgleich fordert. Sie leben mit ihm weiter, nachdem Sie beide durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen sind. 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