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The influences of earlier lives make themselves felt in all later lives, but it is only possible to understand the sequence of connections by taking account, too, of the periods lying between death and rebirth. Then, for the first time, we have a true conception of history, for we realise that what appears on the Earth through human beings in one epoch is linked with the happenings of an earlier epoch. But the essential question is: How are the fruits and happenings of an earlier epoch carried over into later times?—Historians have long been content to record consecutive facts but from data of this kind it is impossible to understand *why* later events follow those that preceded them. Some have said that ideas are at work in history and then become actuality. But no genuine thinker can conceive why this should be so. Others—those who hold the materialistic view of history—say: Ideas—so much twaddle! Economic factors are the only reality, they lie at the root of everything!—Such is the materialistic, mechanistic conception of history.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":262,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/239/1924-06-09/p013","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p013"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":152,"en_words":262,"ratio":1.72,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"D. S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1973","book_title":"Karmic Relationships: VII","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA239/English/RSP1973/19240609a01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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The reality is that what came to pass in earlier epochs of history is carried over into later epochs *by human beings themselves*. All those who are sitting here now lived in earlier epochs. Their deeds and manner of acting are the consequences of what they experienced in earlier lives. And so it is with everything that comes to pass in the course of history, be it of importance or of little account. The earlier is carried over into the later by human souls themselves. The conception of life prevailing nowadays can be deepened in the true sense only by the realisation that historical evolution too is borne onwards by man himself. But everything is determined by what is achieved in the starry worlds between death and rebirth where man works in cooperation with the Beings of the higher Hierarchies.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":153,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/239/1924-06-09/p014","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":140,"en_words":153,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"D. S. 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In comparatively early times, not long before the founding of Christianity, a certain Initiate was incarnated in the East, in the Indian civilisation. In his earthly life this individuality had poor eyesight—in describing karmic relationships one must go into details of this kind—and his perceptions remained more or less superficial. This life which was characterised by the mystical outlook typical of Indian culture, was followed by other, less important incarnations. But there was a life between death and a new birth during which the superficial experiences of the Indian incarnation were worked upon in the Mercury sphere, partly too in the Venus sphere and in the Mars sphere, in conjunction with Beings of the higher Hierarchies. In the majority of human beings the influences of *one* of the cosmic spheres are dominant in the shaping of the karma, but in the case of this particular individuality the influences of the Mercury sphere, the Venus sphere and the Mars sphere worked with almost equal strength at the karmic transformation of incipient faculties arising from the experiences of an Indian incarnation. In the nineteenth century this individuality appeared again as a somewhat complex personality, namely, *Heinrich Heine*.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":208,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/239/1924-06-09/p015","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":230,"en_words":208,"ratio":0.9,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"D. S. 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A rigid, superficial thinker will argue that this tends to take away the whole atmosphere and quality of the personality, that what he wants is a picture of the elementary characteristics of the man in question ... well, he has every right to take this attitude if he chooses; it is his karma to be a philistine and he has the right to speak in this way ... but he will not succeed in reaching more than a fragment of the truth. When we look more deeply into the facts, the foundations and the background of the reality come to light. The life of an individual is certainly not impoverished but infinitely enriched in meaning when it is studied in the light of such foundations, when we can perceive the experiences of an earlier, Indian incarnation glimmering through that problematic, fitful Heine-life. Having absorbed the influences operating in the Mercury sphere and the Venus sphere, this individuality passed into the Mars sphere, where a certain strain of aggressiveness developed for the next earthly life; the experiences of an earlier life were transformed into a faculty in which there was a certain vein of aggressiveness. In the Mercury sphere the soul acquired the tendency to flit from one experience to another, one concept to another, and in the Venus sphere an element of eroticism—eroticism in the spiritual sense—crept into the imaginative, conceptual faculties.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":259,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/239/1924-06-09/p016","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p016","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p016"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":252,"en_words":259,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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But now we begin to read from history how behind the individual destinies of men there are the deeds of Gods and of worlds which become manifest in ever greater grandeur and power in the process of the historical evolution of humanity—where we shall always discern the weaving of the destinies and the thoughts of individuals.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":135,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/239/1924-06-09/p017","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p017","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p017"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":122,"en_words":135,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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In the course of further development during a life between death and a new birth, a certain strain of aggressiveness was acquired and, in addition, a talent which had something rather dangerously fascinating about it, namely, fluency of speech and language in dealing with all kinds of problems which arose in the soul from the earlier incarnation. With these characteristics the individuality in question was born again in the eighteenth century as *Voltaire*.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":196,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/239/1924-06-09/p018","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p018","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p018"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":230,"en_words":196,"ratio":0.85,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"D. S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1973","book_title":"Karmic Relationships: VII","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA239/English/RSP1973/19240609a01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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It is only by studying the spiritual background as well as the earthly nature of a man that we can hope to approach reality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":147,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/239/1924-06-09/p019","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p019","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p019"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":157,"en_words":147,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"D. S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1973","book_title":"Karmic Relationships: VII","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA239/English/RSP1973/19240609a01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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When the German Section of the Theosophical Society was founded in Berlin in 1902, I gave as the title of my first lecture: *Studies of the concrete working of Karma*. The lecture was announced but could not be delivered for the simple reason that the older members of the Theosophical Society had their own ideas of what may or may not be spoken about, and this attitude had determined the whole atmosphere. The leading Members would have been horrified if at that time one had spoken of the concrete workings of karma. The Theosophical Movement was not ready for it. A great deal of preparation was necessary and has, in fact, been going on now for more than two decades. But at the Christmas Foundation Meeting the impulse was given to speak without reserve, not only about the Spiritual in general but also about what can be discovered concerning man's life in the realm of spirit. And so in future we shall speak quite openly in the Anthroposophical Society of matters of which from the very beginning it was the intention to speak, but for which preparation had to be made. This is part of the esoteric trend and impulse with which the Anthroposophical Society was imbued through the Christmas Foundation Meeting. The Christmas Meeting was no trifling episode; it betokened the assumption of new responsibilities for the Anthroposophical Movement, responsibilities flowing from the realm of spirit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":252,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/239/1924-06-09/p020","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p020"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":265,"en_words":252,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"D. S. 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The Jupiter sphere and its Beings are experienced when in the process of self-observation one looks back with the insight of Initiation over the period between the forty-ninth and fifty-sixth years of life—and then obliterates the pictures. The vista of the Jupiter sphere may be a shattering experience, for the Beings of Jupiter are utterly different from human beings. Think of a quality which is sometimes more and sometimes less in evidence, namely the quality of *wisdom*. Men insist that they are wise ... but what a struggle it is for them to acquire wisdom! The tiniest fragment of wisdom in any field is difficult to attain and demands inner effort. Nothing of the kind is necessary for the Jupiter Beings. Wisdom is an integral part of their very nature—I cannot say it is ‘born’ in them, for the Jupiter Beings do not come into existence through an embryo as men do on Earth. You must picture to yourselves that there is something around Jupiter like the cloud-masses around the Earth. If you were now to imagine bodies of men forming out of the clouds and flying down to the Earth, that would be a picture of how the new Beings come forth from a kind of cloud-mass on Jupiter; but these Beings have wisdom as an original, intrinsic characteristic. Just as we have circulating blood, so they have wisdom. But their wisdom is not a merited reward, nor has it been acquired by effort; they have it by nature. Therefore their thinking, too, is utterly different from the thinking of men. The experience is shattering, overwhelming, but we must gradually get accustomed to the idea. Just as we on Earth are pervaded by air, so everything on Jupiter is pervaded by wisdom. Wisdom there has substantiality, streams in the atmosphere, discharges itself like rain on Jupiter, rises like mist to the heights. But Beings are there—Beings who ascend in a cloud, a mist of wisdom. Herein live the Cherubim, who in this realm of existence gather up and give shape to the karma of human beings. Other impulses too are in operation, but what holds good unconditionally is that the experiences of an earlier incarnation are gathered together and moulded into shape by the forces of the self-subsisting wisdom of the Jupiter sphere. Then, when the individuality comes down again to incarnation on the Earth, he bears the stamp arising from the re-shaping of his earlier experiences by wisdom which ultimately takes effect in very diverse forms.—Again we will take an example.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":495,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/239/1924-06-09/p021","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p021","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p021"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":511,"en_words":495,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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This individuality had a very significant incarnation as a sculptor in Greece. What he there experienced was carried over into intermediate incarnations of less importance. This is an individuality whose karma for what is at the moment his latest incarnation was elaborated chiefly in the sphere of the Jupiter wisdom.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":70,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/239/1924-06-09/p022","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":71,"en_words":70,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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He was connected with the then declining Mysteries of the early, original inhabitants of Mexico and came into contact with the Mexican deities at a time when the pupils of the Mysteries still had real and living intercourse with these spiritual Beings. This was karma of a special—not a particularly favourable—kind. These Gods—Quetzalcoatl, Tetzkatlipoka, Taotl—are still mentioned by scholars to-day but hardly more than by name. The individuality of whom I am speaking was closely connected with those Mysteries which, in spite of their decadence, enabled a God such as Taotl or Quetzalcoatl to be a living reality to him. There, in those declining Mysteries, he became thoroughly versed in the magic arts—arts which were already rife with superstition—and a Being like Tetzkatlipoka was a vivid reality to him. Tetzkatlipoka was a kind of Serpent God with whom men felt themselves astrally connected. Unlike the other individuality whose life as a man in Greece was followed by female incarnations, this individuality had no intermediate incarnation. He lived as a man within the Mexican Mysteries, passed through the sphere of the Jupiter-wisdom in his life between death and a new birth and then incarnated in the eighteenth/nineteenth century. The other individuality who had lived in Greece also passed through the Jupiter sphere in the way that is possible for one who had been a sculptor and had unfolded the faculty of creative imagination which was still so potent a force in Greece. This was transformed and re-cast in the Jupiter sphere where the wisdom underlying the Greek talent for plastic representation of the human form, for pictorial conceptions of the world, is present in its very essence, and the individuality came down into a body with a strongly Grecian bent of mind that had been elaborated in the Jupiter sphere, being reborn as *Goethe*.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":322,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/239/1924-06-09/p023","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p023","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p023"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":347,"en_words":322,"ratio":0.93,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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But the Jupiter sphere could not produce identical results from an earthly life in Greece and an earthly life in Mexico of the kinds I have described. Both sets of experience were worked upon by the wisdom of the Jupiter sphere but both were conditioned by the formative forces that had been in operation in earlier lives. The individuality who had been connected with the Mexican Mysteries lived through the Jupiter sphere and was reborn as *Eliphas Levi*. There you have an example of how magic practices, magic rites and enactments have been transformed in a remarkable way into wisdom. It is Jupiter-karma of an inferior kind, but for all that replete with spirituality, replete with wisdom. From this we perceive how what a man has experienced in earthly life works into what he becomes during his life between death and a new birth. The later life is invariably conditioned by the earlier life. But the experiences of earthly life can be transformed by the selfsame sphere into very different karma. Our view of human life can only be deepened in the right way when we perceive how this life is shaped in conformity with karma. Then it is enriched, then and only then do we acquire a real knowledge of man and of human life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":238,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/239/1924-06-09/p024","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p024","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p024"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":226,"en_words":238,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Aber wie kommt dasjenige, was in früheren Erdenepochen geschieht, in die späteren hinüber? - Die Geschichtsschreiber haben das lange so beschrieben, daß sie einfach die in der Geschichte aufeinander folgenden Tatsachen notierten. Da konnte man gar nicht einsehen, wie das Spätere auf das Frühere folgt. Dann sind einige gekommen, die haben gesagt: Da wirken Ideen in der Geschichte, und die Ideen verwirklichen sich ja. Derjenige, der real denkt, kann sich nichts dabei vorstellen, daß Ideen sich verwirklichen sollen. Da sind. dann die anderen gekommen, die materialistischen Geschichtsauffasser, und die haben gesagt: Ideen das ist Wischi-Waschi! Es verwirklichen sich nur wirtschaftliche Zusammenhänge, und aus denen geht alles hervor. - Es kam die mechanistische, materialistische Geschichtsauffassung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p013"},{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Das alles ist eigentlich ein Herumplätschern an der Oberfläche. In Wirklichkeit wird dasjenige, was in früheren Geschichtsepochen geschehen ist, durch die Menschen selber in die späteren hinübergetragen. Die Menschen, die hier sitzen, sie alle lebten ja in früheren Geschichtsepochen. Dasjenige, was Sie selber tun, ist die Folge dessen, was Sie in früheren Leben getan haben. So ist es mit allem Großen, mit allem Kleinen, das im Laufe der Geschichte geschieht. Durch die Menschenseelen selber wird das Frühere in das Spätere hinübergetragen. Dadurch wird erst die menschliche Lebensauffassung vertieft, daß man den Menschen als den Träger auch des geschichtlichen Werdens ansehen kann. Man kann ihn so ansehen, aber das kann man erst, wenn man im Menschenleben anlangt bei demjenigen, was zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt in den Sternensphären durch die Wesenheiten der höheren Hierarchien zusammen mit den Menschen geschieht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":140,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p014"},{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Lassen Sie uns das an einem Beispiel veranschaulichen. Da war in einer verhältnismäßig frühen Zeit, so etwa gerade in der Zeit, die hart an die Begründung des Christentums herankommt, ein Initiierter verkörpert im Orient, im indischen Leben. Dadurch, daß diese Individualität in ihrer irdischen Verkörperung im indischen Leben schlechte Augen hatte - man muß so auf die Einzelheiten eingehen, wenn man karmische Zusammenhänge bespricht -, hatte sie über alles mehr oder weniger oberflächlich hinweggeschaut. Sie stand eben drinnen in der mystischen indischen Lebensauffassung, ging dann durch andere Verkörperungen hindurch, die weniger Bedeutung hatten. Dann aberging sie durch ein Leben zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt durch, in dem alles das, was dieser Individualität sich auf der Seele abgelagert hatte im indischen oberflächlichen Erleben, nun ausgebildet wurde in der Merkursphäre, zum Teil in der Venussphäre, zum Teil in der Marssphäre. Da wirkte es mit Wesen der höheren Hierarchien zusammen, um das in einer gewissen Weise zu formen. Nun ist es bei den meisten Menschen so, daß vorzugsweise aus einer Sternensphäre heraus das Karma charakteristisch gebildet wird. Da aber ergab sich durch dieses Zusammenwirken eine Individualität, wo an der Formung der inneren Fähigkeiten, an der karmischen Umgestaltung der Fähigkeiten, die aus einem indischen Erleben einmal hervorgegangen warten, fast gleichmäßig arbeiteten die Merkur-, die Venus- und die Marssphäre. Diese Individualität trat im neunzehnten Jahrhundert als eine Persönlichkeit auf und wurde als solche Fleinrich Feine.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":230,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p015"},{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Nun, schauen wir uns ein solches Beispiel an, das ja durch ganz besonders gewissenhafte geistige Forschung aus den Tiefen des geistigen Lebens auf die Oberfläche gebracht worden ist. Der steife oberflächliche Philister würde sagen: Da geht mir das ganze Aroma von der Persönlichkeit weg; die will ich in ihren elementaren Eigenschaften haben. - Mag der steife Philister das sagen, er hat auch seine Menschenrechte, und sogar nach seinem Karma hat er das Recht des steifen Philisters. Aber er gelangt eben nur bis zu einem gewissen Grad der Wahrheit. Schaut man tiefer in die Tratsachen hinein, dann kommen eben die Unter- und Hintergründe der Wahrheit, der Wirklichkeit zu Tage. Und da muß man schon sagen: Das Leben, auch das Leben des einzelnen Menschen wird nicht ärmer in seiner Bedeutung, sondern unendlich reicher, wenn man es auf solchen Untergründen betrachtet; wenn man wirklich herausglänzen sieht aus diesem problematischen, fragmentarischen Heine-Leben des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts dasjenige, was einmal eine indische Inkarnation war und was dann durch alle die Einflüsse als Folgen aus einem früheren Dasein in Merkur, Venus und Mars durchgemacht werden kann: im Marsdasein, wo ein gewisser aggressiver Sinn für das folgende Erdendasein ausgebildet wird, wo also das, was angeeignet worden war in einem früheren Erdenleben, als eine besondere Fähigkeit in einen gewissen aggressiven Sinn sich hineinentwickelte, im Merkurdasein, wo sich die Seele erwerben kann, da diese Fähigkeit karmisch ja besonders im Merkurdasein ausgebildet wird, ein Hinflattern über Empfindungen und Begriffe, und im Venusdasein, wo wiederum ein gewisses Geistig-Erotisches hereinkommen konnte in die menschlichen Vorstellungskräfte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":252,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p016"},{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Wir schauen also, indem wir so ein Menschenleben überblicken, zu gleicher Zeit in das Weltendasein hinein, und dasjenige, was wir so im Menschen sehen, das ist wahrhaftig nicht ärmer als das, was wir in der sogenannten unmittelbar elementarischen Betrachtung, die nur eine Philisterbetrachtung ist, haben. Es ist schon so, daß man sieht, wie das frühere Geschichtliche in das spätere hinübergetragen wird, und wie die Vermittler die Sternenwelten sind mit ihren Wesenheiten. Dadurch wird Geschichte erst eine Wirklichkeit, sonst bleibt sie Buchstabe, zweiunddreißig Buchstaben. Dann aber beginnen wir zu lesen in der Geschichte, wenn wir sehen, wie hinter den einzelnen Menschenschicksalen ganze Götterwelten-Taten stehen, nur noch grandioser, gewaltiger ausgebreitet als das Geschichtswerden der Menschheit, in das wir immer hineinverwoben finden die menschlichen Einzelschicksale.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":122,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p017"},{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Und nehmen wir ein anderes Beispiel. Da gibt es eine Individualität, die eine für die damalige Zeit gründliche Ausbildung erworben hatte in der Zeit, als auf der Erde der Islam sich ausbreitete durch Nordafrika nach Spanien. Da gab es in Nordafrika noch Schulen, die so ähnlich waren wie die Schule, in welcher der heilige Augustinus ausgebildet worden ist; aber es war schon in einer späteren Zeit, die Schule war in Dekadenz. Diese Individualität lernte vieles, was eigentümlich diesen Schulen war, was noch vieles von den alten Mysterien, aber im Niedergange, in sich enthielt. Dann wurde diese Individualität verschlagen nach Spanien, kam dann in Zusammenhang nicht mit späterer, aber mit der früheren jüdischen kabbalistischen Schule, nahm wieder vieles auf aus der Früh-, nicht aus der Spätkabbalistik und wurde ein Geist, der so etwas Manichäisch-Kabbalistisches in einer großen inneren Geläufigkeit in der Seele hatte. Diese Individualität fand nun ihre Weiterentwickelung in einem Leben zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt, und da insbesondere in Gemeinschaft mit den Wesenheiten, die mit dem Marsdasein zu tun haben. Sie eignete sich im Marsdasein an einen gewissen aggressiven Sinn, aber auch wieder außer diesem aggressiven Sinn die Leichtigkeit der Sprache, geradezu etwas Verführerisches in der Sprachgabe, die Leichtigkeit in der sprachlichen Behandlung von allen möglichen Problemen, die sie so in ihrem Inneren aus ihrem früheren Erdenleben hatte. Damit verkörperte sie sich im achtzehnten Jahrhundert, wurde Voltaire.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":230,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p018"},{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Sehen Sie, zu wissen, daß das Voltaire-Dasein zurückführt auf Erlebnisse, die sogar ähnlich waren denen des Augustinus in seiner Jugend, die ähnlich waren den späteren kabbalistischen Erlebnissen, mit all diesem Ironischen, das in der Ur-Kabbalistik vorhanden war, zu wissen, daß das alles da ist, so zu überschauen den Zusammenhang, auch wiederum hineinzuschauen dutch das Zusammenhalten der zwei irdischen Leben in dasjenige, was dazwischen liegt, zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt: das macht die Welt erst ganz, das führt erst hinein in die Wirklichkeit. Wir haben, wenn wir die Erdenleben überblicken, zunächst ganz Unzusammenhängendes in den aufeinanderfolgenden Erdenleben. Man sieht nicht, wie das eine in das andere hineinragt. Aber das sind ja außerdem nur Fragmente. Das, was dazwischen liegt, wird nicht gesehen; aber die Wirklichkeit umfaßt alles dies zusammen. Und es ist schon so, daß man eigentlich an die Wirklichkeit nur herandringt, wenn man nicht nur die Natur, sondern wenn man auch das Menschenwesen nach seinen geistigen Hintergründen betrachtet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":157,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p019"},{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"In dieser Beziehung muß es schon so sein, daß von jetzt ab ein neuer Zug in unsere Bewegung hineinkommt. Als die Deutsche Sektion der Theosophischen Gesellschaft in Berlin begründet worden ist, 1902, da kündigte ich an als meinen ersten Vortrag, den ich dazumal halten wollte, «Praktische Karmaübungen». Ja nun, angekündigt war der Vortrag, gehalten konnte er nicht werden aus dem einfachen Grunde, weil ja die gegebenen Verhältnisse da waren. Da waren die verschiedenen alten Mitglieder der theosophischen Bewegung, die hatten so ihre Vorstellungen von dem, was man sagen darf, was man nicht sagen darf; danach hatte sich aber das ganze Milieu, die ganze Atmosphäre gebildet. Die, welche die Leiter waren, wären ja Kopf gestanden, wenn man dazumal begonnen hätte, über praktische Karmaübungen zu sprechen. Es war einfach die theosophische Bewegung nicht reif dazu. Es mußte erst vieles vorbereitet werden. Und in der TT’at, die Vorbereitung hat zwei Jahrzehnte gedauert, mehr noch. Aber bei der Weihnachtstagung ist der Impuls ausgegossen worden, nun rückhaltlos nicht bloß dasjenige, was über die natürlichen Gebiete des Geistigen erforscht werden kann, zu enthüllen, sondern rückhaltlos auch dasjenige zu enthüllen, was über die menschlichen Gebiete des Geistes so erforscht werden kann. Es wird daher in der Zukunft rückhaltlos gesprochen werden innerhalb der Anthroposophischen Gesellschaft über dasjenige, was doch schon von Anfang an in der Absicht lag, wozu aber diese Anthroposophische Gesellschaft erst allmählich heranreifen mußte. Das ist auch etwas, was als ein esoterischer Zug durch die Weihnachtstagung in die Anthroposophische Gesellschaft hineingekommen ist. Die Weihnachtstagung war wirklich keine Spielerei, sondern das Übernehmen neuer Verantwortlichkeiten gerade vom Geistgebiete aus für die anthroposophische Bewegung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":265,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p020"},{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Sehen Sie, wenn man hinschauen kann auf dasjenige, was zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt liegt, so kann einem gerade dadurch klar werden, wie mannigfaltig, wie vielseitig die Welt ist. Denn wenn man auf der einen Seite sagt: In der Marssphäre wird angeregt für das spätere Erdenleben der aggressive Sinn, die Sprachgeschicklichkeit, die Sprachgewaltigkeit -, so ist das nur eine Seite; es werden auch andere Seiten innerhalb des Marslebens angeregt. Und so ist es zum Beispiel auch beim Jupiter. Die Jupitersphäre und ihre Wesenheiten erlebt man, wenn man mit der Initiationseinsicht zurückschaut auf dasjenige, was man zwischen dem neunundvierzigsten und sechsundfünfzigsten Jahre erschaut und auslöscht die Selbstbeobachtung. Da kann man schon von dem Anblicke dessen, was it Jupiter geschieht, etwas erschüttert werden. Denn diese Jupiterwesen sind doch ganz anders als die Menschen. Nehmen wir nur eine Eigenschaft der Menschen, die ja nun an sich mehr oder weniger häufig ist, nehmen wir die Weisheit. Die Menschen sagen: Wir sind weise. — Aber wie schwer erringt sich der Mensch diese Weisheit! Wenn das auch nur ein bißchen Weisheit ist, so ist das etwas schwer Errungenes. Da muß man vieles innerlich durchringen, um sich auf einem Gebiete nur ein bißchen Weisheit zu erwerben. Das alles haben die Jupiterwesen nicht nötig. Die werden mit der Weisheit - ich kann nicht sagen geboren, denn so wie auf der Erde das Entstehen der Menschen im Embryo geschieht, so geschieht nicht das Entstehen der Jupiterwesen. Da müssen Sie sich vorstellen, daß in der Umgebung des Jupiter so etwas ist wie um die Erde die Wolkengebilde. Wenn Sie sich nun vorstellen, aus den Wolken heraus formten sich die Menschenkörper und flögen dann auf die Erde herunter, so würde dies die Art sein, wie auf dem Jupiter aus einer Art von Wolken die neuen Wesen sich herausgestalten, aber so, daß diese Wesen, die etwa aus den Wolken herausflögen, eben die Weisheit zu ihrer Grundeigenschaft haben würden. Wie wir eine Blutzirkulation haben, so haben sie die Weisheit. Aber sie ist kein Verdienst, kein Errungenes, sie haben sie eben. Dadurch denken sie auch ganz anders als die Menschen. Das wirkt zwar erschütternd, aber man muß sich nach und nach an diesen Anblick gewöhnen. Und das ist alles auf dem Jupiter durchdrungen und durchzogen, wie wir auf der Erde von Luft durchdrungen sind, von Weisheit. Die Weisheit ist dort substantiell, sie strömt auf dem Jupiter in Wind und Wettern herum, ergießt sich auf den Jupiter, zieht als Nebel in die Höhe. Das sind aber immer wiederum Wesen, die in einem Weisheitsnebel aufsteigen. Darin nun leben vorzugsweise die Cherubim, die in diesem Zusammenhange an dem menschlichen Karma mit den Menschen zusammen formen. Aber es leben darin auch andere Impulse. Das gilt aber unbedingt: Was ein Mensch in einem früheren Erdenleben durchgemacht hat, wird karmisch zusammengeformt durch die Kräfte der Weisheit, der selbstverständlichen Weisheit. Er kommt dann auf die Erde herunter und trägt das Gepräge desjenigen, was sich dadurch ergibt, daß er früher auf der Erde Erlebtes in selbstverständliche Weisheit zusammengeformt hat, die dann nur auf die verschiedenste Weise zum Ausdruck kommt. Auch dafür ein Beispiel.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":511,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p021"},{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Da ist eine Individualität, die führt uns zurück ins alte Griechenland, so in eine Art platonischer, aber zugleich auch bildhauerischer Atmosphäre. Eine wichtigste Inkarnation hat diese Individualität in dieser plastischen Zeit Griechenlands erlebt als Bildhauer. Das, was sie da erlebt hat, trug sie in spätere Zwischenverkörperungen, die weniger wichtig waren, hinein. Das ist eine Individualität, die ihr Karma ausarbeitete für ihre vorläufig letzte Erdeninkarnation besonders in der Sphäre der Weisheit Jupiters.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":71,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p022"},{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Eine andere Individualität führt uns zurück in die Zeiten, bevor Amerika von Europa aus bevölkert worden ist, nach Mittelamerika, nach Mexiko. Da lebte sie in den verfallenden Mysterien der früheren mexikanischen Urbevölkerung. Sie lernte da kennen, als die Zusammenhänge der dortigen Menschen, der Mysterienschüler, mit den geistigen Wesen noch lebendig waren, dasjenige, was da lebte als mexikanische Götter. Heute reden Leute, die gelehrt sind, ja auch wieder - ein besonderes Karma, aber ein für die Menschen nicht besonders glückliches Karma - über diese Götter, Quetzalkoatl, Tetzkatlipoka und Taotl; doch man bekommt durch diese Beschreibungen kaum viel mehr als die Namen. Aber die Individualität, von der ich Ihnen spreche, die lebte lebendig darinnen, wenn auch in den verfallenden Mysterien. Für die war so ein Gott Taotl, Quetzalkoatl, etwas Lebendiges. Es waren das in der Tat zauberische, lebendige Wesenheiten. Und dort, in den verfallenden Mysterien des Quetzalkoatl, da lebte sie sich auch hinein in einen damals schon ganz abergläubischen, magischen Inhalt, in solch eine Wesenheit wie Tetzkatlipoka - Tetzkatlipoka ist eine Art Schlangengott gewesen, mit dem man sich astral verbunden fühlte -, und das wurde für sie intensiv lebendig. Diese Individualität ging dann nicht durch andere Inkarnationen, nachdem sie ihr Leben zwischen Tod und einer neuen Geburt erlebt hatte, wie jene andere, die noch Zwischeninkarnationen durchmachte, als Mann in Griechenland gelebt hatte und dann durch weibliche Inkarnationen durchging. Diese Individualität lebte als Mann innerhalb der mexikanischen Mysterien, ging in dem Leben zwischen dem Tode und der neuen Geburt durch die Jupitersphäre der Weisheit und lebte dann gerade im achtzehnten, neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Die Individualität, die in Griechenland gelebt hatte, ging auch durch die Jupitersphäre, wie man eben durchgehen kann, wenn man Bildhauer war und zugleich auf griechische Art erlebt hatte diese plastische Vorstellungsweise, die ‘dazumal auch wirklich lebendig war. Sie prägte dieses Plastische, das in Griechenland an der Gestaltung des Menschen erlebt werden konnte, um in gestaltendes Auffassen der ganzen Welt in der Weisheitssphäre des Jupiter, wo alle diese Weisheit substantiell vorhanden ist, kam dann in einen Menschenleib mit ihrer durch den Jupiter ausgeprägten Griechenheit und wurde als Goethe wiedergeboren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":347,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p023"},{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-09/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Die andere Individualität ging auch durch die Jupitersphäre, prägte dasjenige, was man erfahren konnte in den mexikanischen Mysterien, dann auch um in der Jupitersphäre. Aber es konnte nicht dasselbe in der Jupitersphäre entstehen aus einem Erdenleben, das in Griechenland so erlebt worden ist, wie ich es geschildert habe, und aus einem Erdenleben, das in Mexiko so erlebt wurde, wie ich es geschildert habe. Beides ist durch die Weisheitssphäre des Jupiter gegangen, aber beides ist so geworden, wie es werden mußte gemäß den Gestaltungskräften aus dem früheren Leben. Die Individualität, die durch die mexikanischen Mysterien gegangen ist, ging durch die Jupitersphäre, wurde wiedergeboren als Eliphas Levi. Da haben Sie in einer merkwürdigen Weise in Weisheit umgewandelt magisch-rituelle Handlungen, magische Kulte. Es ist eben minderwertiges Jupiterkarma, trotzdem außerordentlich geistvolles, weisheitsvolles. Man sieht daran, wie zusammenwirken dasjenige, was der Mensch im Erdenleben erfahren hat, und dasjenige, was er zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt wird. Es wird durchaus das spätere Leben nach dem früheren Leben gebildet, aber in mannigfaltiger Weise kann durch die gleiche Sphäre umgeprägt werden im Karma dasjenige, was ein Mensch im Erdenleben durchgemacht hat. Wenn man so ansieht die Gestaltung des menschlichen Lebens im karmischen Sinne, vertieft man erst richtig dieses Menschenleben. Dann bereichert es sich, dann erscheint es erst in seiner ganzen Wirklichkeit, dann kennt man in Wirklichkeit erst den Menschen und das Menschenleben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":226,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-09/p024"}],"beads":[{"from":[13],"to":[13],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[14],"to":[14],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[15],"to":[15],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[16],"to":[16],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[17],"to":[17],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[18],"to":[18],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[19],"to":[19],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[20],"to":[20],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[21],"to":[21],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[22],"to":[22],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[23],"to":[23],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[24],"to":[24],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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