Karma Viewed from the Standpoint of World History
GA 236/1924-06-29/p021
·1924-06-29
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English
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With the help of Initiation-Science, let us think of a catastrophe like that of a devastating earthquake. 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.
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