{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In order to have more precise insight into how karma is formed, we must think of the following.—Stars—what are they, in reality? Scientists speak of the stars as if they were orbs of burning gas or the like. It is by no means so! Suppose you were on the planet Venus. The Earth would then appear to you more or less as Venus appears to you now, and you would describe the Earth as you now describe Venus; you would estimate that on the Earth—which is the theatre of man's existence—there are so and so many souls. But wherever a star shines, there are souls! There are souls on the Moon: the souls of the great primeval Teachers, intermingled in a sense with the souls of the Angeloi. On Mercury there are the souls of the Archangeloi, among whom we live when we pass through the sphere of the Archangeloi. The God Mercury is an Archangelic Being. On Venus are the Archai. And upon the Sun are the Exusiai, Dynamis, Kyriotetes, in whose company man forms his karma. We must see in the shining stars the outer signs of colonies of Spirits in the Cosmos. Wherever a star is seen in the heavens, there—in that direction—is a colony of Spirits.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VI","site_heading":"Cosmic Karma: Planetary Spheres and Human Destiny","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 Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote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":"1924-06-01","location":null,"word_count":210,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/240/1924-06-01/p017","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"D. S. 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Es sind Seelen auf dem Monde: die Seelen der großen Urlehrer, und diese schon etwas untermischt mit den Seelen der Angeloi. Auf dem Merkur: Seelen der Archangeloi; mit denen lebt man zusammen, wenn man die Sphäre der Archangeloi durcheilt -— Gott Merkur ist ein Erzengelwesen. Dann auf der Venus die Archai. Während der Sonne — Exusiai, Dynamis, Kyriotetes: namentlich mit denen zusammen formt man sich sein Karma. Man muß das, was da in den Sternen leuchtet, nur ansehen als das äußere Zeichen für Geisterkolonien, die im Kosmos sind. In der Richtung, wo wir einen Stern sehen, müssen wir wissen, daß eine Geisterkolonie da ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":213,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p019"}],"english":["GA 240/1924-06-01/p017"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":213,"en_words":210,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6516,"original_word_count":6430,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"D. S. 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