{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 255b/1921-01-04/p037","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"For example, one says to oneself: Now, I live somewhere, surrounded by people. Hundreds of people are around me, some of them I don't even know; I know others, but I pass them by indifferently; some of these hundreds are particularly close to me. An event occurs, a death within this group of people surrounding me. It may happen that I am indifferent to this; it can also happen that this death is a blow for me, because I have had a closer relationship with the person who has died. And now you learn from such things: When you see that from the fullness of life certain things are closer to you, certain events are more connected to you than others, you learn to look back on the way you came to these experiences. If you are endowed with the ability to recognize that is developed out of love, then you see the path you have taken in this life since birth. You get to know an inner, rational connection that otherwise runs unconsciously. You learn to say to yourself: I look back from now. Thirty years ago, I did something that was very far removed from the events I am experiencing today. But when I connect what I undertook then with what I undertook twenty-five years ago, twenty years ago, ten years ago, and then follow the current to what I am currently experiencing, then I notice an inner connection. Above all, I realize one thing: what otherwise seems to me as if only an external, mechanical life has pushed me, now appears to me as emerging from my will. I was not aware of it, and yet it was the will working within me that undertook things thirty years ago, which in their further progression lead to my present experiences of destiny. I experience fate in its connection with the will. Fate in its connection with the will of the innermost human nature reveals itself, but in such a way that one can now look back to earlier earthly lives with the power of recognition of love. One sees: the impulses stem from previous earthly lives, which initially remain unconscious and which make that one is not pushed by external mechanical natural laws toward one's experiences, but that one is pushed toward that which was planted in one was planted in you in a previous life, which was then further developed spiritually between death and the last birth and which now lives in you, which leads you from one life event to the next, insofar as these events are of such a nature that they take hold of you directly. You get to know the connection between your present life and previous lives.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Academic and Nationalistic Opponents V","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-01-04","location":null,"word_count":455,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/255b/1921-01-04/p037","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Anthroposophy and its Opponents","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA255b/English/SOL2024/19210104s01.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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Und nun lernt man von solchen Dingen: Wenn man sieht, daß aus der ganzen Fülle des Lebens gewisse Dinge einem näherstehen, gewisse Vorgänge mit einem verbundener sind als andere, lernt man zurückblicken auf die Art und Weise, wie man zu diesen Erlebnissen gekommen ist. Ist man ausgestattet mit jener Erkenntnisfähigkeit, die aus der Liebe herausentwickelt ist, dann sieht man den Weg, den man in diesem Leben gemacht hat seit der Geburt. Man lernt einen inneren vernünftigen Zusammenhang kennen, der allerdings sonst unbewußt abläuft. Man lernt sich sagen: Ich blicke von jetzt zurück. Vor dreißig Jahren, da habe ich etwas unternommen, was ganz ferne lag denjenigen Ereignissen, die ich heute erlebe. Aber wenn ich das, was ich damals unternommen habe, verknüpfe mit dem, was ich vor fünfundzwanzig Jahren unternommen habe, vor zwanzig Jahren, vor zehn Jahren, und dann die Strömung verfolge bis zu dem, was ich gegenwärtig erlebe, dann merke ich einen inneren Zusammenhang. Ich merke vor allen Dingen eines: Dasjenige, was mir sonst so scheint, als hätte nur ein äußeres, naturmechanisches Leben mich geschoben, das erscheint mir nun hervorgehend aus meinem Willen. Es war mir nicht bewußt, und dennoch war es der in mir selbst wirkende Wille, der schon vor dreißig Jahren Dinge unternommen hat, die in ihrem weiteren Fortgang zu meinen heutigen Schicksalserlebnissen führen. Ich erlebe das Schicksal in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Willen. Das Schicksal in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Willen der innersten Menschennatur enthüllt sich, aber so, daß man mit der Erkenntniskraft der Liebe jetzt zurückblicken kann in frühere Erdenleben. Man sieht: Aus vorigen Erdenleben rühren die Impulse her, die zunächst unbewußt geblieben sind und die machen, daß man nicht durch äußere mechanische Naturordnung hingeschoben wird zu seinen Erlebnissen, sondern daß man hingeschoben wird zu demjenigen, was in einen gepflanzt war im vorigen Erdenleben, was dann geistig weiter ausgebildet worden ist zwischen dem Tod und der letzten Geburt und was jetzt in einem lebt, was einen von Lebensereignis zu Lebensereignis führt, insofern diese Ereignisse solcher Art sind, daß sie einen unmittelbar ergreifen. 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