{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 239/1924-06-10/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"*Ernst Haeckel* was undoubtedly a most interesting personality of the nineteenth century. What struck people most forcibly about him was his materialistic view of the world, his fight against Ultramontanism, against the Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church. Haeckel worked himself into such a pitch of fervour in this fight that the expressions he used, although at times very refreshing, were at others lacking in taste. When his karma is traced back into the past, one finds him, in his most important previous incarnation, as Pope Gregory the Great, the mighty Pope who strove to establish the external, worldly supremacy of the Papacy as against that of the Emperors. Pope Gregory the Great, as Hildebrand, had come from the Cluniac Order which from the sixth until the thirteenth century had been engaged in a struggle with Rome, until one of its own members actually became Pope. To begin with, he too, in his own way, was actively at variance with the Papacy in the form it had assumed in those days. What worked over from the Hildebrand incarnation into the Haeckel incarnation was the enthusiasm for pressing home a certain world-conception, enthusiasm for the realisation of impulses arising from a particular view of the world. This is only an example to disprove the belief that it is possible to discover an earlier incarnation of importance by external observation of a particular constitution of soul. Caution is necessary in these matters, and attention must be given to what often seem to be trifling idiosyncrasies. If these are discerned with spiritual insight they will gradually provide the clue to the content of the earlier earthly life.","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 Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote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":274,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/239/1924-06-10/p012","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"D. S. 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Dasjenige, was am meisten den Menschen auffiel an Ernst Haeckel, das war seine materialistisch nuancierte Weltanschauung, sein Kampf gegen Ultramontanismus, römisches Papsttum, römisch-katholische Kirche. Er hat einen solchen Enthusiasmus in diesem Kampf entwickelt, daß er in den Ausdrücken, die er gebraucht hat in diesem Kampf, manchmal zwar ganz entzückend ist, manchmal aber auch geschmacklos. Wenn man aber in sein Karma zurückgeht, dann findet man als seine wichtigste vorhergehende Erdeninkarnation den Papst Gregor, den großen, mächtigen Papst, der gerade die äußerliche weltliche Herrschaft des Papsttums begründen wollte gegenüber dem äußeren Kaisertum; den Papst Gregor, der als Hildebrand hervorgegangen ist aus der Cluniazenser Reform, die, allerdings in ihrer Art, vom zehnten bis elften Jahrhundert diesen Kampf führte gegen das Kaisertum, bis eben einer der ihrigen Papst wurde, der zunächst auch auf seine Art sich auflehnte gegen das weltliche Herrschertum, gegen das damalige Kaisertum. Der Enthusiasmus im Durchdrücken einer Weltanschauung, der Enthusiasmus im Verwirklichen von Impulsen, die aus einer Weltanschauung kommen, das war es, was aus der Hildebrand-Inkarnation hineinwirkt in die Haeckel-Inkarnation. Das ist nur ein Beispiel dafür, daß man durchaus nicht glauben darf, aus der äußeren Beurteilung irgendeiner Seelenkonfiguration ließe sich erraten ein früheres Erdenleben, das maßgebend ist. Darinnen muß man schon vorsichtig sein und auf diejenigen Dinge gehen, die nun eben in Wirklichkeit manchmal als winzige Kleinigkeiten, die an dem Menschen bemerkt werden können, in geistiger Anschauung aufgefaßt werden müssen, und die dann hinter dem Menschen allmählich erscheinen lassen dasjenige, was in seinem früheren Erdenleben war.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":255,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-10/p016"}],"english":["GA 239/1924-06-10/p012"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":255,"en_words":274,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"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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