{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Initiation-knowledge, of the degree that can be attained only in advanced age, is necessary in order to understand the essential nature of the Saturn sphere. The question may be asked: How is it possible to acquire knowledge of life on the stars and the like? I have told you that when the human being reaches Imaginative consciousness, he beholds his whole life in a great tableau. But he also beholds it divided into epochs. When Inspiration is attained, and the emptied consciousness wipes out this tableau, something shines out of every such epoch. Instead of beholding his own life between birth and the seventh year, a man beholds, at this place in the life-tableau, the happenings of the Moon existence—he can look into these happenings. In the tableau of the second epoch which lies between the change of teeth and puberty, the Mercury existence shines through all the happenings. The events of the school period, seen as they are backwards in this tableau, lead into the Mercury existence. How aptly and truly were the functions assigned to the several planets in the days of instinctive wisdom on the Earth! Statistics reveal that the human being is most healthy, not in the years between birth and the change of teeth, nor after puberty, but during the school period as it is called (between the ages of seven and fourteen), because that is the time when Mercury works most strongly into the human being in his Earth existence. In the tableau arising from the epoch stretching between puberty and about the twenty-first or twenty-second years, the processes and Beings belonging to Venus are seen. Again it was genius that ascribed to Venus the initial stages of the sex life. The Sun existence shines through the epoch lying between the ages of twenty-one and forty-two, the Mars existence through the epoch lying between the years forty-two and forty-nine; the Jupiter existence through the epoch from forty-nine to fifty-six; and the Saturn existence through the epoch from fifty-six to sixty-three. Truth to tell, even an Initiate cannot see the circumstances of life between death and a new birth in which Saturn plays a part, until he has passed the sixty-third year of his life. Before then it is possible to learn about this existence in many different ways; but in actual vision it is possible to behold these happenings and their connections only when one has passed the sixty-third year of life. So you will realise why it is that I am only now speaking of matters connected with the Saturn existence.","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":428,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/240/1924-06-01/p025","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"D. S. 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Statt daß man sein eigenes Leben zwischen der Geburt und dem siebenten Lebensjahre schaut, erblickt man an dieser Stelle des Lebenstableaus die Geschehnisse des Mondes: da kann man hineinblicken in die Geschehnisse des Mondes. — In der zweiten Lebensepoche glänzt gewissermaßen durch alles dasjenige, was sich abspielt zwischen dem Zahnwechsel und der Geschlechtsreife, das Merkurdasein. Dieses Leben der Schulzeit in diesem Tableau nach rückwärts gesehen, führt einen eben in das Merkurdasein. Bedenken Sie, wie geistreich eigentlich in der Zeit der instinktiven Weisheit auf der Erde den einzelnen Planeten ihre Funktionen zuerteilt waren! Die Statistik lehrt, daß der Mensch am gesündesten ist nicht in den Jahren zwischen Geburt und Zahnwechsel, auch nicht nach der Geschlechtsreife, sondern während der Schulzeit, weil da die Zeit ist, wo Merkur in den Menschen am meisten hereinwirkt, auch in das Erdendasein. — In der nächsten Epoche, zwischen der Geschlechtsreife und dem einundzwanzigsten, zweiundzwanzigsten Jahre ungefähr, sieht man die Vorgänge und Wesenheiten der Venus. Wieder ist es geistreich, daß der Geschlechtssphäre, wenn sie zu wirken beginnt, die Venussphäre zugeteilt wurde. — Zwischen dem einundzwanzigsten und zweiundvierzigsten Jahre das Sonnendasein; zwischen dem zweiundvierzigsten und neunundvierzigsten Jahre das Marsdasein; zwischen dem neunundvierzigsten und sechsundfünfzigsten Jahre das Jupiterdasein und zwischen dem sechsundfünfzigsten und dreiundsechzigsten Lebensjahre das Saturndasein. Und eigentlich kann man alle Zusammenhänge, die sich abspielen, an denen der Saturn beteiligt ist, für das Leben zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt auch als Initiierter erst sehen, wenn man über das dreiundsechzigste Lebensjahr hinaus ist. Vorher kann man auf die verschiedenste Weise von diesem Dasein erfahren; aber aus eigener Anschauung im Zusammenhang die Dinge sehen kann man erst, wenn man das dreiundsechzigste Lebensjahr überschritten hat. Nun werden Sie begreifen, warum ich erst jetzt spreche über etwas, was mit dem Saturndasein zusammenhängt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":386,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p024"}],"english":["GA 240/1924-06-01/p025"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":386,"en_words":428,"ratio":1.11,"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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