{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 239/1924-04-05/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I want to give another example, one with which I came into close personal contact. I had a *geometry teacher*[^1] who was of enormous help to me. My autobiography will have indicated to you that geometry is one of the subjects to which I owe most because of the impulses it quickened in me. This geometry teacher himself played a very valuable part in my life. The fact that he was an excellent constructor might well have led to my great affection for him because I myself loved geometrical construction and because he expressed everything with genuine independence of mind and also with all the exclusiveness belonging to geometrical thinking. His mind was focused so exclusively upon geometry that in the real sense of the word he was no mathematician; he was a geometrician and nothing else. In this sphere he was brilliant but it could not be said that he was deeply versed in mathematics. He lived at a time when all descriptive geometry—his special subject—underwent changes. Characteristically, however, he kept to the old forms. But something else about him provided a far more revealing clue for occult investigation: he had what is called a club foot. Now the strange thing is that the force—not, of course, the physical substance—the force which a man has in his feet in one incarnation, the character of his tread, how his feet lead him into wrong-doing or well doing—this force is metamorphosed. Whatever is connected with the feet may live itself out in a subsequent incarnation in the head organisation; whereas what we now bear in our head may come to expression, in the later incarnation, in the organisation of the legs. Metamorphosis takes a peculiar form here. One who is conversant with these things can discern from the style and manner of a man's gait, how he treads with his toes and heels, what quality of thinking characterised him in an earlier incarnation. And one who observes the qualities of a man's thinking—whether his thoughts are quick, fleeting, cursory, or deliberate and cautious—will be able to picture how he actually walked in a previous incarnation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IV","site_heading":"Karma Across Incarnations: Garibaldi, Byron, Marx","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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Vielleicht werden Sie aus meiner Lebensbeschreibung wissen, daß ja Geometrie überhaupt zu demjenigen gehört, dem ich im Leben am meisten an Anregungen verdanke. So wurde mir dieser Geometrielehrer auch besonders wertvoll. Aus dem, daß er ein ausgezeichneter Konstrukteur war, konnte zwar folgen, daß ich ihn sehr liebte, weil ich das Konstruieren liebte, und weil er, was er vorbrachte, mit einer wirklichen Unabhängigkeit und auch mit aller Einseitigkeit des geometrischen Denkens vorbrachte. Er war so einseitig aufs Geometrische hin geschult, daß er zum Beispiel kein Mathematiker war, sondern nur ein Geometriker. Darin war er genial, hatte aber keine Kenntnisse, keine wirklichen Kenntnisse in der Mathematik. Und er lebte gerade in einer Zeit, wo gerade alle Darstellende Geometrie, die sein Fach war, umgestaltet wurde. Er blieb beim alten. Das war ein charakteristischer Zug an ihm. Aber noch viel charakteristischer für den okkulten Forscher war ein anderes. Er hatte das, was man einen Klumpfuß nennt. Nun ist das Eigentümliche, daß, selbstverständlich nicht die physische Substanz, aber die Kraft, die in einer Inkarnation der Mensch in seinen Füßen trägt, die Art und Weise, wie er auftritt, wie er sich durch die Bewegung der Füße in Schuld oder in das Gute hineinstellt, sich metamorphosiert. Alles dasjenige, was mit den Füßen zusammenhängt, kann in einem nächsten Erdenleben in der Organisation des Kopfes sich ausleben, während dasjenige, was wir jetzt im Kopfe haben, gerade in der Organisation der Beine im nächsten Erdenleben sich ausleben kann. Diese Dinge metamorphosieren sich in eigentümlicher Art. Derjenige, der in diesen Dingen bewandert ist, kann in der Art und Weise, wie jemand auftritt, wie er die Zehen setzt, die Fersen setzt, sehen, wie das Denken in einer vorigen Inkarnation war. Und derjenige, der die Eigentümlichkeit der Gedanken eines Menschen verfolgt, ob einer schnell, flüchtig denkt oder gemessen, bedächtig denkt, wird oft dazu geführt, wirklich zu sehen, wie er in einer vorigen Inkarnation ging.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":334,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-04-05/p010"}],"english":["GA 239/1924-04-05/p010"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":334,"en_words":354,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5642,"original_word_count":5468,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"D. S. 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