{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p006-p014","extent":"range","passage_number":6,"through":14,"paragraph_count":9,"first_locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p006","last_locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"Lecture VI","date":"1924-06-01","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"D. S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1971","book_title":"Karmic Relationships VI","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA240/English/RSP1971/19240601p01.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. 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If a man dies at the age of sixty, this backward ‘journey’ lasts about twenty years, that is to say, this other life is passed through three times as quickly as the life on Earth. Between death and a new birth we review the nights during which—unconsciously of course—pictures were produced which are in a sense negative images of the earthly life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":160,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/240/1924-06-01/p006","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p007","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p007"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":196,"en_words":160,"ratio":0.82,"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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How comes it that we are able to live through these compensatory experiences?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":127,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/240/1924-06-01/p007","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p008","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p008"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":152,"en_words":127,"ratio":0.84,"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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During the course of the Earth's evolution, the Moon—which was originally part of the Earth—separated and emerged from the Earth to lead an independent physical existence. Some time after the physical substances of the Moon separated from the Earth, the ancient primeval Teachers of humanity departed to the Moon. While they were on the Earth, these primeval Teachers had not incarnated in physical bodies, but only in etheric bodies. Hence the nature of their influence upon human beings was imaginative, inspirational. And all the wonderful teachings which were given in a more poetic form and contained in legends and sagas, originated in a majestic, primeval wisdom imparted by these ancient Teachers on the Earth. But the essential nature of these Teachers enabled them to withdraw to the Moon which has since been their habitation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":148,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/240/1924-06-01/p008","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p009","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p009"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":182,"en_words":148,"ratio":0.81,"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":"RSP1971","book_title":"Karmic Relationships VI","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA240/English/RSP1971/19240601p01.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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He passes first into the Moon sphere and encounters these great primeval Teachers as they now are. They preserve as it were a naively instinctive, innocent state of the human race. Before men succumbed to the possibility of doing evil, these primeval Teachers were present on the Earth. They take into themselves what is inscribed by us into the Akashic Chronicle during the nights we live through during our existence on Earth. They permeate it with their own being and thus make it possible for us, during the first third of our life after death when we are living through the events of earthly existence in backward order, to experience it all with greater intensity than we experienced it on Earth. Events in earthly life jolt us, impel and drive us, but those whose spiritual vision is able to witness what a dead man lives through in these first decades after his death know well that through the magical power of the great Teachers who have established their colony on the Moon, the experiences of yonder life have an intensity infinitely greater and more vivid than those of earthly life. We actually undergo all this. Suppose you once gave someone a box on the ears: after death you do not experience the feeling of satisfaction or perhaps of anger or malice occasioned in you by your action, but you are then *within* the other man, you experience the pain and the shock that were caused to him. You feel exactly what your action made him feel. 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Most of you will remember that among the characters in my Mystery Plays, I have depicted that of Strader. As in the case of most of the characters in the Plays, the figure of Strader is drawn from actual life. There was a man whose life was almost exactly similar to that of Strader as depicted in the Plays. You can well imagine that I was very much interested in this personality during his physical life on Earth. He died in the year 1912, and my interest in his experiences after death began from then onwards. He had ultimately become a writer on the subject of rationalistic theology, and everything he had experienced on the Earth became infinitely more intense as he himself was experiencing the effect of his books and his rationalism. After I had shared for some time in what he was experiencing, I found it impossible to continue the character of Strader in the Plays and he dies because my interest in his earthly life was no longer there; it was eliminated by the intensity of interest in what he was experiencing after death.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":194,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/240/1924-06-01/p010","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p012","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p012"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":185,"en_words":194,"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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But at any rate a man must come to realise which of his deeds, his thoughts, his feelings, were just and which were not.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":162,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/240/1924-06-01/p011","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p013"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":147,"en_words":162,"ratio":1.1,"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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For when the human being realises what actually happens between death and a new birth, his judgement differs from judgement as it is on Earth.—I may already have mentioned that many years ago I met a lady who had listened to a conversation that had taken place in her presence on the subject of repeated earthly lives. She said that one life was enough for her, that she had no desire at all for any others, and she protested vehemently against the possibility of having to return again and again. I was obliged to say to her at the time: ‘Yes, it may be that this is your opinion here on Earth; but that is not the point. What matters is the judgement that is made between death and a new birth.’ As long as she was with us, she realised this, but on her travels afterwards she sent me a postcard saying that after all she did not admit that there are many earthly lives!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/240/1924-06-01/p012","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":156,"en_words":185,"ratio":1.19,"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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And you do most assuredly form it!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":106,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/240/1924-06-01/p013","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":105,"en_words":106,"ratio":1.01,"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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Passing through the following spheres of Mercury and Venus, man gradually approaches the Sun sphere. The Mercury sphere and the Venus sphere form the transition into the Sun sphere. But entry into the Sun sphere would not be possible if the whole burden of the evil laid upon the soul in the Moon sphere had still to be taken in tow. The Cosmos therefore provides that when the human being leaves the Moon sphere, the evil in him stays behind; it waits until he returns and is again passing through the Moon sphere. But as the human being is one with his deeds, he leaves much of himself behind. If I have done evil on the Earth, this simply makes me an inferior being; in passing through the Moon sphere I lose part of myself, leave it behind. A man who had been an out-and-out villain, who had never once done anything good—but after all, nobody like this really exists—such a man would be left behind in his entirety in the Moon sphere. But, as I say, nobody like this exists ... human beings do make progress.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":197,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/240/1924-06-01/p014","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p016","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p016"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":198,"en_words":197,"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. 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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Allein wenn der Mensch durch die Todespforte gegangen ist und die ersten Tage verbracht hat, in denen er den Ätherleib abgelegt hat, dann tritt er zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt in ein Dasein, das rückwärtslaufend ist, wo wir mit dem Todestage beginnen, weitergehen zum vorhergehenden Tage und so weiter, und so das Leben noch einmal durchleben, doch jetzt in der Richtung vom Tode bis zur Geburt hin. Nun aber durchleben wir nicht die Tage, sondern wir durchleben die Nächte. Daher nimmt auch die Zeit, in der wir in dieser Weise rückwärts das Leben verbringen, ungefähr ein Drittel unserer Lebenszeit in Anspruch. Bei einem Menschen, der sechzig Jahre alt geworden ist und dann stirbt, dauert diese Rückwärtswanderung etwa zwanzig Jahre. Dreimal so schnell wird also dieses Leben durchlebt als das Erdenleben. Und dann durchleben wir dieses Leben zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt so, daß wir hinschauen auf die Nächte, in denen sich, allerdings unbewußt, Bilder erzeugt haben, die in einer gewissen Weise negative Abbilder des Lebens sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":196,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p007"},{"locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Wäre der Mensch nicht durch den «Hüter der Schwelle» behütet, so würde er jede Nacht - aber in einer Art, die er nicht ertragen kann, von der er solche Folgen haben würde, wie ich sie eben beschrieben habe -, jede Nacht würde er so erleben, wenn er jemandem etwas Böses getan hat, wie wenn er sich hineinversetzen müßte in den anderen Menschen, in das, was der empfindet und erlebt durch das Böse, das er ihm zugefügt hat. Der Mensch ist dann während des Schlafes richtig in demjenigen Wesen darinnen, dem er das eine oder das andere zugefügt hat. Nur durchleben wir aus dem angegebenen Grunde das während des Schlafes nicht. Aber nach dem Tode erleben wir es in der gekennzeichneten Zeit, und wir erleben es sehr, sehr stark. Wir leben da das Erdenleben zurück und erleben überall die Ausgleichserlebnisse für dasjenige, was wir getan oder unterlassen haben. Wodurch erleben wir diese Ausgleichserlebnisse?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p008"},{"locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Um diese Frage zu beantworten, müssen wir auf ein kosmisches Erlebnis hinweisen. Sie erinnern sich ja, daß ich Ihnen öfters ausgeführt habe, wie im Laufe der Erdenentwickelung sich der Mond, der ursprünglich ein Glied in der Erdenentwickelung war, von der Erde getrennt hat. Ich habe das erst vor kurzem hier dargestellt, wie der Mond aus der Erde herausgegangen ist und ein selbständiges physisches Dasein gebildet hat. Aber auch das habe ich schon erwähnt, daß einige Zeit nachdem der Mond seine physische Natur von der Erde getrennt hat, nachgezogen sind die ganz alten Urlehrer der Menschheit, die, solange sie auf der Erde waren, nicht in einem physischen Leib verkörpert waren, sondern nur in einem ätherischen Leib. Sie wirken daher imaginierend, inspirierend auf die Menschen ein. Und alle die wunderbaren Lehren, die in ein mehr poetisches Gewand gehüllt sind, die in den Sagen der Völker enthalten sind, die rühren her von einer auf der Erde vorhandenen großartigen, majestätischen Urweisheit, die von den Urlehrern der Menschheit erteilt wurde. Aber diese Urlehrer konnten sich vermöge ihrer Natur zurückziehen nach dem Monde, und da leben sie seither.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":182,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p009"},{"locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Wenn nun der Mensch durch die Pforte des Todes geht, durchlebt er tatsächlich den Kosmos. Und er durchlebt tatsächlich den Kosmos so, daß er sich mit seinem Dasein immer mehr und mehr vergrößert. Zunächst wächst er in die Mondensphäre hinein. Aber indem der Mensch nach seinem Tode zunächst in die Mondensphäre hineinwächst, kommt er zusammen mit dem, was diese großen Urlehrer jetzt sind. Diese großen Urlehrer bewahren gewissermaßen einen naiv-instinktiven unschuldigen Zustand des Menschengeschlechtes. Bevor die Menschen in die Möglichkeit, Böses zu tun, verfallen sind, waren diese Urlehrer auf der Erde da. Daher sind sie es, welche dasjenige aufnehmen, was während der Nächte, die wir innerhalb des Erdendaseins durchleben, in die Akasha-Chronik hineingeschrieben wird; sie durchdringen es mit ihrer eigenen Wesenheit und lassen es uns dann in dem ersten Drittel beim Rücklauf durch das Leben nach dem Tode stärker erleben als die Ereignisse des Lebens hier auf der Erde. Wer hineinschauen kann in das, was ein Toter in diesen ersten Jahrzehnten nach dem Tode durchlebt, der weiß, daß die Erdenerlebnisse ja robust genug sind, sie stoßen und sie treiben uns, was aber da durchlebt wird durch die Macht magisch wirkender Lehrer, die auf dem Monde ihre Kolonie aufgeschlagen haben, das wirkt viel stärker, das übertönt, das überfärbt die irdischen Erlebnisse. Und wir machen wirklich das durch. Sagen wir, Sie haben","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":220,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p010"},{"locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"einem Menschen eine Ohrfeige gegeben: wenn Sie zurückleben, so erfahren Sie nicht das Wohlbehagen, den Zorn oder Groll, dem die Ohrfeige entsprungen ist, sondern Sie kriechen in den anderen hinein, erleben, wie es ihm wehgetan hat, wie es sein Gemüt erschüttert hat, Sie spüren genau das, was er durchlebt hat. Die Ereignisse mitzumachen mit einem Toten, hat schon etwas, man kann nicht sagen Erschütterndes, aber etwas einen außerordentlich stark Berührendes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":70,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p011"},{"locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Sehen Sie, ich möchte dafür ein Beispiel anführen. Die meisten von Ihnen werden sich erinnern, daß ich unter den Gestalten meiner Mysterien diejenige des Strader gezeichnet habe. Diese Gestalt des Strader ist so wie die meisten Gestalten der Mysterien der Wirklichkeit abgelesen. Eine Persönlichkeit hat es gegeben, die fast genau so gelebt hat, wie Strader in meinen Mysterien dargestellt worden ist. Sie können sich auch denken, daß ich für diese Persönlichkeit in ihrem physischen Erdendasein ein großes Interesse hatte. Nun ist sie 1912 gestorben. Von da ab fing mein Interesse an für ihr Erleben nach dem Tode. Alles, was diese Persönlichkeit, die ein theologisch-rationalistischer Schriftsteller zuletzt geworden ist, hier auf der Erde erlebt hat, erschien in viel stärkerem Maße, indem er selber die Wirkung seiner Bücher, seines theologischen Rationalismus und so weiter erlebte. Nachdem ich einige Zeit dasjenige mitgemacht hatte, was er erlebte, war es mir nicht mehr möglich, in den Mysterien die Gestalt des Strader fortzuführen: er stirbt im Drama, weil das Interesse nicht mehr für das Erdenleben aufzubringen war, das ausgelöscht war gegenüber dem Interesse an dem, was er nach dem Tode erlebte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p012"},{"locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Es stellte sich noch ein kleines Nebenereignis ein: Einige Freunde interessierten sich sehr stark für den Nachlaß jenes Vorbildes des Strader, setzten sich dafür ein, wollten mir das vorführen. Ich konnte kein Interesse dafür gewinnen. Ich mußte vorbeigehen, mußte alles überhören aus dem einfachen Grunde, weil das Interesse an dem Toten ein viel vehementeres ist, alles andere auslöscht. Ich will nur darauf hinweisen, wie der Mensch in diesem Rücklauf des Lebens viel stärker, viel intensiver erlebt, als er auf der Erde erlebt. Es ist das Erdenleben fast wie ein Traum gegenüber diesem Erleben. Aber es ist eben das negative Erleben, das Erleben der Folgen in dem anderen von dem, was wir getan und unterlassen haben. Daher darf es auch nicht als ein bloß schauderhaftes Leben dargestellt werden. Aber immerhin, der Mensch muß schon gewahr werden, welche von seinen Taten, welche seiner Gedanken, Empfindungen gerecht waren, welche ungerecht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":147,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p013"},{"locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Nun können Sie sich denken, daß da der erste Keim gebildet wird zu dem Karma. Denn wenn der Mensch sieht, wie es zugeht zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt, urteilt er anders als wir. Ich habe es vielleicht schon einmal erwähnt, wie ich vor vielen Jahren eine Dame kennenlernte, die sich ein Gespräch anhörte, das in ihrer Gegenwart über die wiederholten Erdenleben geführt wurde. Sie sagte: Nachdem sie das eine gekostet habe, möchte sie nicht weitere Erdenleben haben, und hat sehr gewettert gegen die Möglichkeit, immer wiederzukommen. Da habe ich ihr sagen müssen: Ja, es mag sein, daß Sie hier auf der Erde dieses Urteil haben; aber darauf kommt es nicht an, sondern es kommt auf das Urteil an zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt. — Das hat sie zunächst für die Zeit, die sie da war, eingesehen, dann aber eine Karte von der Reise geschrieben: sie gäbe doch nicht die wiederholten Erdenleben zu!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":156,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p014"},{"locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Der Mensch, wenn er dieses intensive Erleben nach dem Tode hat, faßt dann eben den Entschluß, der etwa sich so ausdrücken läßt: Du bist durch dieses und jenes unvollkommen geworden, ein minderwertiges Menschenwesen; du mußt das wiederum ausgleichen! Damit ist der Vorsatz zum Karma gegeben. Und Vorsätze in der geistigen Welt, im Leben zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt, sind Realitäten. Geradeso wie es hier eine Realität ist, daß Sie sich verbrennen, wenn Sie mit dem Finger in die Flamme greifen, so bedeutet es in der geistigen Welt, wenn Sie einen Vorsatz fassen, eine Realität, die sich verwirklicht. Und Sie fassen den Vorsatz sicher!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":105,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p015"},{"locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Das alles aber erlebt der Mensch in der Mondensphäre. Durch die nächsten Sphären, die Merkur- und Venussphäre, gelangt er dann allmählich dahin, in die Sonnensphäre kommen zu müssen. Die Merkur- und Venussphäre bilden für ihn den Übergang, um in die Sonnensphäre zu kommen. Aber da kann man zunächst nicht hinein, wenn man den ganzen Anhang, die ganze Last des Bösen, das sich einem während der Mondensphäre auf die Seele gelegt hat, mitschleppen wollte. Da ist denn die Einrichtung im Kosmos getroffen, daß beim Weggehen aus der Mondensphäre das Böse zurückbleibt. Das wartet, bis wir zurückkommen: da gehen wir wieder durch die Mondensphäre zurück. Aber mit dem Bösen lassen wir ein gutes Stück von uns selbst zurück, denn der Mensch ist ja eins mit seinen Taten. Wenn ich irgend etwas Böses vollbracht habe hier auf der Erde, werde ich dadurch nur minderwertig; beim Durchgang durch den Mond auf die geschilderte Weise verliere ich ein Stück meiner selbst, ich lasse ein Stück meiner selbst zurück. Ein Mensch, der ein ausgepichter Bösewicht wäre, wie es solche gar nicht gibt, der niemals etwas Gutes getan hätte, würde in der Mondensphäre ganz zurückgelassen werden. Nun, das gibt es nicht: die Leute kommen weiter.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":198,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p016"}],"beads":[{"from":[6],"to":[7],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[7],"to":[8],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[8],"to":[9],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[9],"to":[10,11],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[10],"to":[12],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[11],"to":[13],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[12],"to":[14],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[13],"to":[15],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[14],"to":[16],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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