{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 239/1924-04-05/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the earlier incarnation, a man whose thoughts are fleeting and cursory walked with short, rapid steps, as though tapping over the ground, whereas the gait of a man who thinks cautiously and with deliberation was firm and steady in the earlier life. It is just these apparently minor characteristics that lead further when one is looking for the deeper, spiritual connections and not those of an external, abstract kind. And so when time and time again I called up the picture of this greatly loved teacher, I was guided to his earlier incarnation. With this picture another associated itself—also of a man with a club foot: *Lord Byron*.[^2] The two men were there before me in this inner picture. And the karma of my teacher, as well as the peculiarity of which I have told you, led me to the discovery that in the 10th or 11th century, both these souls had lived in their earlier incarnations far over in the East of Europe where they came one day under the influence of a legend, a prophecy. This legend was to the effect that the Palladium, which in a certain magical way helped to sustain the power of Rome, had been brought to that city from ancient Troy, and hidden. When the Emperor Constantine conceived the wish to carry Roman culture to Constantinople he caused the Palladium to be transported with the greatest pomp and pageantry to Constantinople and hidden under a pillar, the details of which gave expression to his overweening pride. For he ordered an ancient statue of Apollo to be set at the top of this pillar, but altered in such a way as to be a portrait of himself. He caused wood to be brought from the Cross on which Christ had been crucified and shaped into a kind of crown which was then placed on the head of this statue. It was the occasion for indulging in veritable orgies of pride!","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1924-04-05","location":null,"word_count":327,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/239/1924-04-05/p011","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"D. S. 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Ein Mensch, der bedächtig denkt, hatte ein festes Auftreten. Und gerade solche scheinbar untergeordnete Kleinigkeiten des Lebens führen einen tiefer hinein, wenn man die tieferen geistigen, und nicht die äußerlichen, abstrakten Zusammenhänge sucht. Und so wurde ich denn, als ich mir immer wieder und wiederum das Bild des geliebten Lehrers vor die Seele stellte, geführt zu seiner früheren Inkarnation. Und da gesellte sich zu seinem Bilde ein anderes hinzu, auch eines Menschen mit einem Klumpfuß: Lord Byrons. Jetzt standen diese beiden Menschen vor mir. Und das Karma meines Lehrers hatte mich dazu geführt, wie auch die Eigentümlichkeit, die ich Ihnen dargelegt habe, darauf zu kommen, wie im zehnten oder elften Jahrhundert diese beiden Seelen in einer früheren Inkarnation gelebt haben weit im Osten Europas, dort eines Tages unter dem Einfluß einer bedeutsamen Sage standen, einer Legende, einer Prophezeiung, jener Legende, die da sagt, das Palladium, das mit einem gewissen Zauber die römische Macht eigentlich gehalten hat, sei aus dem alten Troja herübergebracht worden nach Rom und in Rom verborgen worden. Und als der Kaiser Konstantin das Römertum verpflanzen wollte hinüber nach Konstantinopel, hat er in außerordentlichem Gepränge das Palladium von Rom hinüberbringen lassen nach Konstantinopel und es unter einer Säule verbergen lassen, unter einer Säule, die er allerdings so ausgestaltet hat, daß sein ungeheurer Riesenhochmut dadurch zum Ausdruck kam. Er hat oben eine alte Apollostatue aufstellen lassen, die er aber so umändern ließ, daß sie ihn darstellte. Er hat sich Hölzer kommen lassen von dem Kreuz, auf dem der Christus gekreuzigt worden ist, und hat eine Art von Kranz von diesen Hölzern gewoben um das Haupt der Statue. Er hat geradezu Orgien des Hochmutes dabei gefeiert!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":300,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-04-05/p011"}],"english":["GA 239/1924-04-05/p011"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":300,"en_words":327,"ratio":1.09,"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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