{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 240/1924-04-09/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"How very little the ordinary conditions of earthly existence affected Garibaldi is shown, for example, by the way in which he contracted his first marriage—which for many decades was an exceedingly happy one. How he became acquainted with the woman he married is a strange story. He was on board ship, still some distance out at sea, and looking towards the land through a telescope he saw a woman standing there. He fell in love with her at once. Falling in love through a telescope is by no means an everyday occurrence and in such a case the ordinary bourgeois conditions of life mean nothing! What happened? Garibaldi steered at once to the land and met a man who was so taken with him that he invited him home to a meal. This man was the father of the girl he had seen through the telescope! A slight drawback was that Garibaldi spoke only Italian, she only Portuguese, but although neither knew the other's language he made her understand that they must unite for life. It turned out to be the happiest and also one of the most interesting marriages imaginable. She shared in all his undertakings and experiences in South America and once, when a report reached her that Garibaldi had been killed in one of the many fights for freedom, she searched every battlefield—as legend narrates of other women. She lifted every corpse in order to look at the face but finally discovered on her journeyings that her husband was still alive. During these adventures she gave birth to her first child who would have died from cold if she had not bound it with a sling around her neck and kept it warm against her breast. These are not ordinary circumstances and the companionship was anything but a conventional one in the bourgeois sense. Some time after the death of his wife, Garibaldi married again, this time in perfectly conventional circumstances. But this marriage—which had not been arranged through a telescope—lasted no longer than a day! These happenings and similar features of Garibaldi's life are clear evidence that there was something quite out of the common about him.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture V","site_heading":"Reincarnation and Karma in Historical Evolution","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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Er steuert sogleich dem Lande zu, trifft einen Mann, dem gefällt Garibaldi so gut, daß er ihn mit sich nimmt. Er kommt zum Mittagessen zu dem Mann: es ist der Vater der Dame, die er durch das Fernrohr gesehen hatte! Es stellt sich ein kleines Hindernis ein: Er kann nur italienisch sprechen, sie nur portugiesisch. Er kann ihre Sprache nicht, er gibt ihr aber zu verstehen, daß sie sich für das Leben verbinden müssen, und sie versteht das, trotzdem sie nicht italienisch, sondern nur portugiesisch kann. Es wird eine der glücklichsten, aber auch interessantesten Ehen. Sie ist mitgegangen durch alles dasjenige, was er in Amerika erlebt hat, und man braucht nur darauf hinzuweisen, wie sich einmal die Nachricht verbreitet hat, Garibaldi sei auf den dortigen Schlachtfeldern bei den Freiheitskämpfen gefallen. Frau Garibaldi suchte alle Schlachtfelder ab, so wie es erzählt wird von manchen sagenhaften Frauen. Jeden Leichnam hob sie auf, um ihm ins Gesicht zu schauen, bis sie auf ihrer Wanderung entdeckt, daß Garibaldi noch lebt. Aber bei diesem Unternehmen hatte sie ihr erstes Kind geboren, das vor Kälte umgekommen wäre, wenn sie es nicht bei ihrer Weiterwanderung mit einem Strick um den Hals gebunden und an ihrem eigenen Busen gewärmt hätte. Das alles sind keine gewöhnlichen bürgerlichen Verhältnisse, und dieses Zusammensein war auch nicht in gewöhnlichem Sinne bürgerlich. Aber als dann die Frau Garibaldis starb, da ereignete es sich, daß nach einiger Zeit Garibaldi doch wieder eine Dame heiratete, und zwar jetzt ganz nach gewöhnlichen bürgerlichen Verhältnissen, wie man halt zusammenkommt im Leben. Aber siehe da, diese Ehe, die nicht durch das Fernrohr arrangiert war, dauerte nur einen Tag. 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