{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 239/1924-06-10/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"There again we can perceive how karma works on, even when two incarnations differ as greatly as do the lives of the Irish Initiate and Victor Hugo. For it is *not* in external similarities that we must seek for evidence of the working of karma; rather must we be observant of those things which in the deep foundations of a man's being are carried over through karma from one earthly life into another. Perception of the karma of an individual human being, or even of one's own karma, requires the right attitude, the right mood-of soul. The whole study of karma is profaned if this study is pursued in the attitude of mind arising from our modern education and civilisation. The mood in which all teachings about karma should be received is one of piety, of reverence. Whenever man approaches a truth relating to karma, his soul should feel as though part of the veil of Isis were being lifted. For in truth it is karma that reveals, in a way most intimately connected with human life, what Isis was—the Being designated outwardly as: ‘I am that which was, is, and will be.’ This must still be the attitude of soul in all study of human karma. In truth, only when we study karma in the way we have now been doing and having observed how it takes effect in the process of world-evolution acquire the reverence befitting such study, then and only then can we gaze with the right attitude of soul at what may be our own karma, perceiving how from earlier earthly lives it has unfolded and taken shape as a result of experiences in the spiritual worlds of the stars between death and a new birth. With our whole being we gaze at super-sensible worlds when we ‘read’ karma with the right mood-of-soul. For the study of karma acquaints us with laws that are in utter contrast with the laws of external Nature. In the external world, Nature-relationships hold sway, but these must be discarded entirely and we must be able to gaze at spirit-relationships if we are to discern the law operating in the working of karma. Clearly, the best preparation for this will be to study illuminating examples of karma in world-history, in order that light may be shed upon things that are of importance to us in living out and observing our own karma. By speaking of characteristic personalities to illustrate the working of karma in world-history, I wanted to prepare you for other such studies during the next few days.","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. 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Eigentlich wird jede karmische Betrachtung profaniert, wenn man sie empfängt in der Stimmung, die aus der heutigen Zeitbildung, Zivilisation, Zeitschule und so weiter hervorgeht. Anschauungen über das Karma in die Seele hineinnehmen sollte eigentlich auf dem Grunde heiliger Stimmung, einer durch und durch andächtigen Stimmung geschehen. Man sollte eigentlich jedesmal, wenn man an eine karmische Wahrheit herantritt, so etwas in der Seele verspüren, als ob man einen Teil des Schleiers der Isis lüftete. Denn im Grunde genommen enthüllt ja gerade Karma in einer dem Menschen am meisten naheliegenden Art dasjenige, was die Isis war, die ja zu ihrem äußerlich sie kennzeichnenden Wahrspruch hatte: «Ich bin, was da war, was da ist, was da sein wird.» Das aber tritt einem entgegen in einer Weise, wie sie nun der Menschenseele nahe gehen muß, bei der Betrachtung des menschlichen Karma. Und eigentlich erst, wenn man in jener Art, wie wir es jetzt getan haben, auf das Karma, wie es sich im weltgeschichtlichen Werden vollzieht, hinblickt und sich dadurch die nötige heilige Stimmung erworben hat für Karmabetrachtungen, erst dann kann man in der richtigen Art, in der richtigen Seelenstimmung auf dasjenige hinschauen, was vielleicht das eigene Schicksal ist, und wie dieses Schicksal als das eigene Karma sich gestaltet und gebildet hat aus früheren Erdenleben heraus in Zusammenwirkung mit dem, was der Mensch durchgemacht hat zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt in geistigen Sternensphären. Man ist mit seinem ganzen Menschenwesen hinblickend auf übersinnliche Welten, wenn man in der richtigen Stimmung Karma liest. Denn karmische Betrachtungen machen uns bekannt mit einer Gesetzmäßigkeit, die ganz entgegengesetzt ist der Gesetzmäßigkeit in der äußeren Natur. In der äußeren Natur wirkt der Naturzusammenhang, aber man muß über diesen Naturzusammenhang ganz hinauskommen und zu einem Geistzusammenhang aufblicken können, wenn man die Gesetzmäßigkeit des Karmawirkens ins Seelenauge fassen will. Dazu bereitet natürlich am besten vor, wenn man gerade weithin leuchtendes, weltgeschichtliches Karma betrachtet, um von dem aus das Licht zu empfangen für das, was uns bedeutsam sein muß in dem Erleben des eigenen Karma, für die Betrachtung des eigenen Karma. Und ich wollte eben dadurch, daß ich Ihnen die Wirkungen des Karma in der Weltgeschichte an charakteristischen Persönlichkeiten zeigte, Ihre Stimmung auch für andere Karmabetrachtungen der nächsten Tage vorbereiten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":454,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-10/p021"}],"english":["GA 239/1924-06-10/p015"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":454,"en_words":428,"ratio":0.94,"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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