{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 276/1923-06-09/p033","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Between lies that part of human nature which is connected with karma. And just as once upon a time the daimonic led to tragedy, so now the experiencing of karma can lead to inmost tragedy. Tragedy will flourish when man experiences karma. As long as we live in our thoughts we are free. But the words with which we have clothed our thoughts, once spoken or written, no longer belong to us. What may happen to a word I have uttered! Having absorbed it, somebody else surrounds it with different emotions and sensations, and thus the word lives on. As it flies through the world it becomes a power proceeding from man himself. This is his karma. Because it connects him with the earth, it may burst in on him again. Even the word which leads its own existence because it belongs not to us but to the genius of language may create the tragic. Just in our present time we see mankind at the inception of tragic situations through an overestimation of language, of the word. Peoples wish to separate themselves according to language, and their desire provides the basis for the gigantic tragedy which during this very century will break in upon the earth. This is the tragedy of karma. If past tragedy is that of daimonology, future tragedy will be that of karma.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VI","site_heading":"Painting and the Spiritual Radiance of Color","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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Aber wenn wir die inneren Dämonen als diejenigen Gestalten, die uns zu tragischen Persönlichkeiten machen, loswerden, werden wir das Äußerlich-Dämonische um so weniger los. Denn in dem Augenblicke, wo der Mensch mit der Außenwelt in Beziehung tritt, fängt auch für den neueren Menschen etwas Dämonenartiges an. Unsere Gedanken müssen immer freier und freier werden. Und wenn, wie ich es in meiner «Philosophie der Freiheit» dargestellt habe, die Gedanken die Impulse für den Willen werden, wird auch der Wille frei. Das sind auch die polarischen Gegensätze, die frei werden können, die freien Gedanken, der freie Wille. Aber dazwischen liegt das übrige Menschliche, das mit dem Karma zusammenhängt. Und ebenso wie das Dämonische einmal zum Tragischen geführt hat, so wird gerade beim modernen Menschen das Erleben des Karma zur tiefen innerlichsten Tragik führen können. Die Tragödie wird aber erst blühen können, wenn die Menschen das Karma erleben werden. Solange wir bei unseren Gedanken bleiben, so lange können wir frei sein. Wenn wir die Gedanken in Worte kleiden, gehören die Worte nicht mehr uns. Was kann aus einem Worte, das ich ausgesprochen habe, alles werden! Es wird von dem andern aufgenommen. Er umgibt es mit anderen Emotionen, mit anderen Empfindungen. Das Wort lebt weiter. Indem das Wort durch die Menschen der Gegenwart fliegt, wird es eine Gewalt, die aber vom Menschen ausgegangen ist. Das ist sein Karma, durch das er mit der Welt zusammenhängt, das sich wiederum zurück auf ihn entladen kann. Da kann schon durch das Wort, das sein eigenes Dasein führt, weil es nicht uns angehört, weil es dem Sprachgenius angehört, das Tragische werden. Wir sehen gerade heute die Menschheit, ich möchte sagen überall in der Anlage zu tragischen Situationen durch die Überschätzung der Sprache, durch die Überschätzung des Wortes. Die Völker gliedern sich nach den Sprachen, wollen sich gliedern nach den Sprachen. 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