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We are concerned there with human beings whose karma at birth did not entail the severance of the thread of earthly life by the time the catastrophe occurred. As the result of this event they were torn as it were out of their karma.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":61,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/236/1924-06-29/p021","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George Adams. Revised by M. Cotterell, C. Davy and D.S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1974","book_title":"Karmic Relationships II","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA236/English/RSP1974/19240629p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Now upheavals in nature—earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, great floods and the like—are not an integral part of the onflowing evolution of the earth; something extraneous—although still under the sway of natural laws—intervenes here in the evolutionary process, something that in times when man was not subject to birth and death as we know them to-day was both necessary and propitious for evolution. To form a clear conception of what this means, we must turn our minds to the epoch of the Old Moon.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":106,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/236/1924-06-29/p022","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George Adams. Revised by M. Cotterell, C. Davy and D.S. 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The Moon revolving out yonder in the universe has the constitution that is proper for it to-day, but after its separation from the earth, forces were left behind; and it is these Moon-forces that rumble and stir in the earth when nature-catastrophes occur.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":156,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/236/1924-06-29/p024","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George Adams. Revised by M. Cotterell, C. Davy and D.S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1974","book_title":"Karmic Relationships II","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA236/English/RSP1974/19240629p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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According to whether death occurred in old age, adult life or babyhood, a longer or shorter portion of life would have remained to him; life might have continued until the completion of its course, but as things are, the events that would otherwise have been spread across this whole span lay their grip in a single, sudden moment upon the physical organisation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":100,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/236/1924-06-29/p027","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George Adams. Revised by M. Cotterell, C. Davy and D.S. 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Schauen wir hin nach dem karmischen Faden dessen, was da zugrunde geht. Für alte Leute, die allerdings ihr irdisches Karma für dieses Leben bald ausgelebt haben würden, wird der Lebensfaden vielleicht nur um Monate oder um wenige Jahre gekürzt. Jüngere Leute, in der Vollkraft des irdischen Lebens, die viel daran gedacht haben, was sie in den nächsten Jahren vollbringen wollten für sich, ihre Familie, für eine weitere Menschheit, werden verkürzt in ihrem Lebensfaden um viele Jahre. Kinder, die eben in der Erziehung begriffen sind, für die man an der Seele tun will, was sie eben in das Menschenleben einführen soll, sie werden neben alten Leuten weggerissen vom irdischen Dasein. Säuglinge, die kaum der Mutterbrust entwachsen sind, und solche, die es noch nicht sind, werden mit alten und jungen Leuten hinweggerissen. Da entsteht das große Rätsel: Wie wirkt da Karma in einem solchen Ereignisse?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/236/1924-06-29/p018"},{"locus":"GA 236/1924-06-29/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Denken Sie einmal, meine lieben Freunde, was da eigentlich vorliegt. Nehmen wir an, ein Mensch mit dreißig Jahren wird von einer solchen Katastrophe erfaßt. Er hätte, wenn er von der Katastrophe nicht erfaßt worden wäre, nach seinem Karma meinetwillen das fünfundsechzigste Jahr erreicht. Es liegt eine Fülle von Ereignissen, die er durchgemacht hätte im Leben, vor. Die sind alle nur der Möglichkeit nach da. Aber in seinem Karma, in der Konstitution seines ätherischen, seines astralischen Leibes, in der Konstitution seiner Ich-Organisation liegt das alles darinnen. Und was wäre gewesen bis zum fünfundsechzigsten Jahre? Neben dem Aufbauen wäre fortwährend der Organismus abgebaut worden; ein langsamer Abbau hätte stattgefunden, bis der Abbau vollendet gewesen wäre im fünfundsechzigsten Lebensjahre, ein Abbau, subtil und langsam.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":121,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/236/1924-06-29/p029"},{"locus":"GA 236/1924-06-29/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Dieser langsame Abbau, der noch fünfunddreißig Jahre umfaßt hätte, der in dem langsamen Tempo vor sich gegangen wäre, das einem solch längeren Verlaufe entspricht, wird gewissermaßen in einem Augenblicke vollzogen, zusammengedrängt in einen Augenblick. Das kann man dem physischen Leibe beifügen. Das kann man nicht dem ätherischen, nicht dem astralischen Leib, nicht der Ich-Organisation beifügen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":55,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/236/1924-06-29/p030"}],"beads":[{"from":[16,17],"to":[18],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[28],"to":[29,30],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers).","uncovered":[18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27]}}