{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 236/1924-06-29/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Think of this situation, my dear friends.—Suppose such a catastrophe befalls a man at the age of thirty. If he had not been a victim of the catastrophe he might, in accordance with his karma, have reached the age of sixty-five, living through countless experiences which now are no more than possibilities. But everything is contained in his karma, in the make-up of his etheric and astral bodies and of his ego-organisation. And what would have been happening up to the sixty-fifth year of life? After the culmination of the upbuilding process, the organism would have been involved in a process of slow and steady decline; a subtle, gradual decline would have been taking place until the sixty-fifth year of life. This steady decline which, in the slow tempo corresponding to such a lengthy period, would have lasted for at least thirty-five years, is fulfilled in a single moment, concentrated as it were into a single moment. Such a thing can happen to the physical body but not to the etheric body, the astral body or the ego-organisation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Karma Viewed from the Standpoint of World History","site_heading":"Karma, Catastrophe, and Divine Intervention in World Events","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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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. 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