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An etheric body was formed that does not want to penetrate the physical body completely, does not want to enter heart and stomach in the proper way but wants to flood them: in other words, an etheric body that carries the astral body and ego organization too strongly into the various organs. Already at birth or very soon after, we see facial or bodily deformities that can give us deep concern. This is called congenital mental retardation—but there is no such thing! There is only karmic mental retardation, related to the child's entire destiny. We will also speak about this more fully, so that you will see how an incarnation spent in such mental dullness can, under certain conditions, even have a beneficial place in a human being's karma, although it may mean misery in that one incarnation. There is need, after all, to regard things not merely from the point of view of finite life, but *sub specie aeterni* from the point of view of the immortal life of a human being. 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If in the first life period, between birth and change of teeth, not only the second life period shines in but also the third—the period between puberty and the twenties, when our organization should work into our organism—then we see a child in their fourth or fifth year with capacities that often delight the people. They say, “This child talks or acts like a twenty-year-old!” But this is what is happening: the ego organization is developing too early and is overpowering the physical body and making it weak. Idiocy will then appear in the latter part of the person's life. In this case it is not brought on by karma but has been acquired in this very life, and can only be balanced out karmically in later lives. 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Er tritt schon durch dasjenige, was er durchgemacht hat beim Aufsuchen der Zusammensetzung des Ätherleibes, bevor er in den physischen Leib hereintritt, schon in einen abnormen Zustand ein. Er gestaltet sich einen Ätherleib, der überall nicht hinein will, der nicht hinein will in Herz und Magen in der richtigen Weise, sondern sie überfluten will, der zu stark astralischen Leib und Ich-Organisation in die Organe hineinträgt, und wir sehen auftreten schon bei der Geburt oder sich wenigstens bald nach der Geburt herausbilden die physiognomischen Deformationen, die uns besorgt machen können. Man nennt das angeborenen Blödsinn. Den gibt es aber nicht. Es gibt nur einen karmischen Blödsinn, der mit der ganzen Schicksalslage des Menschen zusammenhängt. Auch das werden wir genauer besprechen, damit man doch auch einsieht, wie eine Inkarnation, die in einer solchen geistigen Umnachtung zugebracht werden kann, unter Umständen sogar günstig in das Karma des Menschen sich hineinstellen kann, wenn es auch ein Elend darstellt in der einen Inkarnation. Da beginnt die Notwendigkeit, die Dinge nicht bloß unter dem Gesichtspunkte des endlichen Lebens, sondern sub specie aeterni oder unter dem Gesichtspunkt des ewigen Lebens des Menschen anzusehen. Da tritt ein dasjenige, was eine gemütvolle und zu gleicher Zeit weise gewordene Caritas durchdringen soll.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":233,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/318/1924-09-12/p019"},{"locus":"GA 318/1924-09-12/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Auf der anderen Seite aber kann das zweite Stadium, das ich Ihnen geschildert habe, durchaus in das dritte übergehen, und das zeigt sich dann, wenn schon in der ersten Lebensepoche des Menschen zwischen Geburt und Zahnwechsel nicht bloß die zweite Epoche hereinleuchtet, sondern schon die dritte, diejenige, in der der Mensch seine Ich-Organisation hereinnehmen soll. Wenn uns ein Kind entgegentritt mit Eigenschaften im vierten, fünften Lebensjahr, die oftmals das Entzücken der Umgebung hervorrufen, weil man sagt: der redet oder tut wie ein Zwanzigjähriger — schlimm genug, wenn es so ist. Denn dann tritt eben dasjenige ein, daß die Ich-Organisation zu früh sich entwickelt, den physischen Leib überwältigt und schwach macht. Dann tritt nicht der karmisch vermittelte, sondern im Leben akquirierte Blödsinn ein, der sich karmisch erst später ausgleichen kann; der Blödsinn aber, er tritt im späteren Leben ein. Wenn wir mit verständigem Sinn, mit einer guten Pastoralmedizin hinblicken auf das Leben, werden wir ihn dadurch beherrschen lernen können, indem wir einfach die Erziehung in der richtigen Weise gestalten im Frühstadium des Betreffenden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":172,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/318/1924-09-12/p020"}],"beads":[{"from":[22],"to":[19],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[23],"to":[20],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}