{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 239/1924-06-10/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The fact that when I was fifteen years old I was still unable to spell accurately has certainly been a shock to others, but never to me personally. I have spoken at some length on the subject in *The Story of My Life*, and I owe much to this fact. For it meant that I was protected from many things against which there is no protection if by the age of fifteen one's spelling is orthographically perfect. Many things that are the outcome of the materialistic education of our day sever the human being from the spiritual life. This is a far more serious matter than people think. I mention it here in order to show you that an Initiate of bygone times has no other alternative than to avail himself of the kind of education that a particular epoch has to offer. What else can he do but adapt himself to the life of body and soul belonging to the times? True, he is obliged to let many things in his life of soul lie in the background. But for all that, from signs which may come into evidence at a certain age in his life, it will certainly be possible, even in the case of one who outwardly appears again as an ordinary citizen of the Earth and not at all as an Initiate, to discern the karmic connection with earlier Initiation. What works in karma is *not* what is thought, on the face of it, to be the outstanding feature in a man's life. For instance, in the case of someone with a very definite stamp of mind, one is readily inclined, if karma is being judged merely from the intellectual standpoint, to trace it back to similar quality in the previous earthly life. But this does not hold good. The karmic forces that become free and work over from one earthly life into the other, lie in a region of the soul far, far deeper than that of the intellectual makeup. I need only give an example and you will see that what influences karma proceeds from quite other regions of the life of soul than those from which the intellect derives.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IV","site_heading":"Saturn Sphere's Role in Shaping Human Karma","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 Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote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":"1924-06-10","location":null,"word_count":366,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/239/1924-06-10/p011","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"D. 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Was kann er denn anderes tun, als sich hineinfinden in Körper und Seele seines Zeitalters? Da muß er vieles zurücklassen, was in seiner Seele veranlagt ist. Aber es wird dennoch an den Erscheinungen des Lebens, die eben in einem bestimmten Zeitalter hervortreten können, auch bei einem Menschen, der äußerlich wie ein gewöhnlicher Erdenbürger, gar nicht wie ein Initiierter wieder auftritt, der karmische Zusammenhang mit der ehemaligen Initiation durchaus durchschaubar sein. Im Karma wirkt ja wirklich nicht dasjenige, was man zunächst als das am meisten im Menschenleben Wirksame glaubt. Wenn man zum Beispiel einen Menschen mit einer bestimmten Geistesverfassung vor sich hat, da ist man, wenn man das Karma bloß verstandesmäßig beurteilt, sehr leicht geneigt, auf eine ähnliche Verstandeskonstitution des vorigen Erdenlebens zurückzugehen. Aber das ist nicht so. Die Dinge, die karmisch frei werden und von einem Erdenleben in das andere hineinwirken, liegen in viel tieferen Seelenregionen als die Verstandeskonfiguration. Ich brauche Ihnen nur ein Beispiel zu nennen, so werden Sie sehen, daß dasjenige, was das Karma beeinflußt, eben aus anderen Seelenregionen herkommt als das bloß Verstandesmäßige.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":284,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-10/p015"}],"english":["GA 239/1924-06-10/p011"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":284,"en_words":366,"ratio":1.29,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 239/1924-06-10/p015"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4615,"original_word_count":4612,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"D. S. 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