{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 34/e02/p001-p009","extent":"range","passage_number":1,"through":9,"paragraph_count":9,"first_locus":"GA 34/e02/p001","last_locus":"GA 34/e02/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"II. How Karma Works","date":null,"location":null,"alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"AP1962","book_title":null,"publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA034/English/AP1962/ReKarm_e02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. 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For it gives us an idea of the way in which the most manifold incarnations passed through by this human spirit are interrelated. In the first chapter of this book, *Reincarnation and Karma, Concepts Compelled by the Modern Scientific Point of View*, it has been shown that the present natural-scientific mode of thought, if it but understands itself properly, leads to the ancient teaching of the evolution of the eternal human spirit through many lives. This knowledge is necessarily followed by the question: how are these manifold lives interrelated? In what sense is the life of a human being the effect of his former incarnations, and how does it become the cause of the later incarnations? The picture of sleep presents an image of the relation of cause and effect in this field.[^1] I arise in the morning. My continuous activity was interrupted during the night. I cannot resume this activity arbitrarily if order and connection are to govern my life. What I have done yesterday constitutes the conditions for my actions of today. I must make a connection with the result of my activities of yesterday. It is true in the fullest sense of the word that my deeds of yesterday are my destiny of today. I myself have shaped the causes to which I must add the effects. And I encounter these causes after having withdrawn from them for a short time. 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I myself have been changed by them. Let us suppose that I have undertaken something in which I succeeded only partially. I have pondered on the reason for this partial failure. If I have again to carry out a similar task, I avoid the mistakes I have recognized. That is, I have acquired a new faculty. Thereby my experiences of yesterday have become the causes of my faculties of today. My past remains united with me; it lives on in my present; and it will follow me into my future. Through my past, I have created for myself the position in which I find myself at present. And the meaning of life demands that I remain united with this position. Would it not be senseless if, under normal conditions, I should not move into a house I had caused to be built for myself?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":158,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/34/e02/p002","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"AP1962","book_title":null,"publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA034/English/AP1962/ReKarm_e02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. Cite the German for anything load-bearing.","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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And its future development is connected with what arises from the deeds. This connection of a being with the results of its deeds is the law of karma which rules the whole world. *Activity that has become destiny is karma*.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":200,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/34/e02/p003","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"AP1962","book_title":null,"publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA034/English/AP1962/ReKarm_e02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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What was separated from us during the night, envelops us, as it were, during the day.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":98,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/34/e02/p004","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"AP1962","book_title":null,"publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA034/English/AP1962/ReKarm_e02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. Cite the German for anything load-bearing.","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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Their results are embodied in the world in which we were incarnated. Yet they belong to us just as the life in the caves belongs to the animals which, through this life, have lost the power of sight. Just as these animals can only live if they find again the surroundings to which they have adapted themselves, so the human spirit is only able to live in those surroundings which, through his deeds, he has created for himself and are suited to him.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":94,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/34/e02/p005","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"AP1962","book_title":null,"publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA034/English/AP1962/ReKarm_e02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. 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The dreamless sleeper is comprehensible to the same degree that the world is comprehensible before consciousness appeared. But just as the world became doubly incomprehensible with the first stirring of consciousness, so the sleeper becomes incomprehensible with the first dream picture that arises in him.” This cannot be otherwise. For, what the scientist describes here as the dreamless sleeper is that part of the human being which alone is subject to physical laws. The moment, however, it appears again *permeated by the soul*, it obeys the laws of the soul-life. During sleep, the human body obeys the physical laws: the moment the human being wakes up, the light of intelligent action flashes forth, like a spark, into purely physical existence. We speak entirely in the sense of the scientist Du Bois-Reymond when we state: the sleeping *body* may be investigated in all its aspects, yet we shall not be able to find the soul in it. But this soul continues the course of its rational deeds at the point where this was interrupted by sleep.—Thus the human being, also in this regard, belongs to two worlds. In one world he lives his bodily life which may be observed by means of physical laws;in the other he lives as a spiritual-rational being, and about this life we are able to learn nothing by means of physical laws. If we wish to study the bodily life, we have to hold to the physical laws of natural science; but if we wish to grasp the spiritual life, we have to acquaint ourselves with the laws of rational action, such, for instance, as logic, jurisprudence, economics, aesthetics, and so forth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":414,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/34/e02/p006","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"AP1962","book_title":null,"publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA034/English/AP1962/ReKarm_e02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. 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And just as much as he has carried into it will he find again when, after an interruption, he resumes the thread of his activity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":59,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/34/e02/p007","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"AP1962","book_title":null,"publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA034/English/AP1962/ReKarm_e02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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My memory connects my logical action of today with my logical action of yesterday. If matters depended merely upon logic, we certainly might start a new life every morning. But memory retains what binds us to our destiny.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":193,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/34/e02/p008","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"AP1962","book_title":null,"publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA034/English/AP1962/ReKarm_e02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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And I find—preserved by memory—everything that my yesterday, that my entire past has made of me.—","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":77,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/34/e02/p009","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"AP1962","book_title":null,"publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA034/English/AP1962/ReKarm_e02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. Cite the German for anything load-bearing.","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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In dem Aufsatz «Reinkarnation und Karma, vom Standpunkte der modernen Naturwissenschaft notwendige Vorstellungen » ist dargelegt worden, daß die gegenwärtige naturwissenschaftliche Vorstellungsart, wenn sie sich nur wirklich selbst versteht, zu der uralten Lehre von der Entwickelung des ewigen Menschengeistes durch viele Leben hindurch führt. Notwendig schließt sich an diese Erkenntnis die Frage: wie hängen diese mannigfaltigen Leben miteinander zusammen? In welchem Sinne ist das Leben eines Menschen die Wirkung seiner früheren Verkörperungen, und wie wird es zur Ursache der späteren? Ein *Bild* des Zusammenhanges von Ursache und Wirkung auf diesem Felde gibt das Gleichnis vom Schlafe.[^1] Ich stehe des Morgens auf. Meine fortlaufende Tätigkeit war des Nachts unterbrochen. Ich kann diese Tätigkeit des Morgens nicht in beliebiger Weise wieder aufnehmen, wenn Regel und Zusammenhang in meinem Leben sein soll. Mit dem, was ich gestern getan habe, sind die Vorbedingungen geschaffen für das, was ich heute zu tun habe. Ich muß an das Ergebnis meines Wirkens von gestern anknüpfen. In vollem Sinne des Wortes gilt es: meine Taten von gestern sind mein Schicksal von heute. Ich habe mir selbst die Ursachen geformt, zu denen ich die Wirkungen hinzufügen muß. Und ich finde diese Ursachen vor, nachdem ich mich eine Weile von ihnen zurückgezogen habe. Sie gehören zu mir, auch wenn ich einige Zeit von ihnen getrennt war.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":261,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/34/e02/p001"},{"locus":"GA 34/e02/p002","passage_number":2,"text":"Noch in einem anderen Sinne gehören die Wirkungen meiner Erlebnisse von gestern zu mir. Ich bin selbst wohl durch sie verändert worden. Man nehme an, ich habe etwas unternommen, das mir nur halb gelungen ist. Ich habe nachgedacht, warum dies teilweise Mißlingen mich getroffen hat. Wenn ich etwas Ähnliches wieder zu verrichten habe, so vermeide ich die erkannten Fehler. Also ich habe mir eine neue Fähigkeit angeeignet. Dadurch sind meine Erlebnisse von gestern die Ursachen meiner Fähigkeiten von heute. Meine Vergangenheit bleibt mit mir verbunden; sie lebt in meiner Gegenwart weiter; und sie wird mir in meine Zukunft hinein weiter folgen. Ich habe mir durch meine Vergangenheit die Lage geschaffen, in der ich gegenwärtig mich befinde. Und der *Sinn des Lebens* verlangt, daß ich mit dieser Lage verknüpft bleibe. Sinnlos wäre es doch, wenn ich unter regelmäßigen Verhältnissen ein Haus, das ich mir habe bauen lassen, nicht beziehen würde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":149,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/34/e02/p002"},{"locus":"GA 34/e02/p003","passage_number":3,"text":"Nicht *erwachen* müßte ich heute morgen, sondern neu, aus dem Nichts heraus, geschaffen werden, wenn die Wirkungen meiner Taten von gestern nicht mein Schicksal von heute sein sollen. Und neu *geschaffen*, aus dem Nichts heraus entstanden, müßte der Menschengeist sein, wenn nicht die Ergebnisse seiner früheren Leben verknüpft blieben mit seinen späteren. Ja, der Mensch kann in gar keiner anderen Lage leben als in derjenigen, die durch sein Vorleben geschaffen worden ist. Er kann es ebensowenig wie die Tiere, die nach ihrer Einwanderung in die Höhlen von Kentucky das Sehvermögen verloren haben, anderswo als in diesen Höhlen leben können. Sie haben sich durch ihre Tat, durch die Einwanderung, die Bedingungen ihres späteren Lebens geschaffen. Eine Wesenheit, die einmal tätig war, steht in der Folge eben nicht mehr isoliert da; sie hat ihr Selbst in ihre Taten gelegt. Und alles, was sie wird, ist fortan verknüpft mit dem, was aus den Taten wird. Diese Verknüpfung einer Wesenheit mit den Ergebnissen ihrer Taten ist das die ganze Welt beherrschende Gesetz vom *Karma*. Die Schicksal gewordene Tätigkeit ist Karma.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/34/e02/p003"},{"locus":"GA 34/e02/p004","passage_number":4,"text":"Und deswegen ist der Schlaf ein gutes Bild für den Tod, weil der Mensch während des Schlafes in der Tat dem Schauplatz entzogen ist, auf dem sein Schicksal ihn erwartet. Während wir schlafen, laufen die Ereignisse auf diesem Schauplatz weiter. Wir haben eine Zeitlang auf diesen Lauf keinen Einfluß. Dennoch finden wir die Wirkungen unserer Taten wieder, und müssen an sie anknüpfen. Wirklich verkörpert sich unsere Persönlichkeit jeden Morgen aufs neue in unserer Tatenwelt. Was über die Nacht von uns getrennt war, ist tagsüber gleichsam um uns gelegt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":88,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/34/e02/p004"},{"locus":"GA 34/e02/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"So ist es mit den Taten unserer früheren Verkörperungen. Ihre Ergebnisse sind der Welt, in der wir verkörpert waren, einverleibt. Sie gehören aber zu uns, wie das Leben in den Höhlen zu den Tieren gehört, die durch dieses Leben das Sehvermögen verloren haben. Wie diese Tiere nur leben können, wenn sie die Umgebung wiederfinden, an die sie sich angepaßt haben, so *kann* der Menschengeist nur leben in der Umgebung, die er durch seine Taten, als die ihm entsprechende, sich geschaffen hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":81,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/34/e02/p005"},{"locus":"GA 34/e02/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"An jedem neuen Morgen wird der menschliche Körper gleichsam von neuem durchseelt. Die Naturforschung gibt zu, daß damit etwas vorgeht, was *sie* nicht begreifen kann, wenn sie sich bloß der Gesetze bedient, die sie in der *physischen* Welt gewonnen hat. Man halte sich vor, was der Naturforscher Du Bois-Reymond darüber in seiner Rede «Die Grenzen des Naturerkennens» gesagt hat: «Ein aus irgendeinem Grunde bewußtloses, zum Beispiel ohne Traum schlafendes Gehirn enthielte, naturwissenschaftlich (Du Bois-Reymond sagt «astronomisch ») durchschaut, kein Geheimnis mehr, und bei naturwissenschaftlicher Kenntnis auch des übrigen Körpers wäre so die ganze menschliche Maschine, mit ihrem Atmen, ihrem Herzschlag, ihrem Stoffwechsel, ihrer Wärme, und so fort, bis auf das Wesen von Materie und Kraft, völlig entziffert. Der traumlos Schlafende ist begreiflich, wie die Welt, ehe es Bewußtsein gab. Wie aber mit der ersten Regung von Bewußtsein die Welt doppelt unbegreiflich ward, so wird es auch der Schläfer wieder mit dem ersten ihm dämmernden Traumbild.» Das kann nicht anders sein. Denn, was der Naturforscher hier als den traumlos Schlafenden beschreibt, das ist dasjenige vom Menschen, was allein den physischen Gesetzen unterworfen ist. Es folgt aber in dem Augenblicke, in dem es wieder *durchseelt* erscheint, den Gesetzen des seelischen Lebens. Schlafend folgt der menschliche Körper den physischen Gesetzen: der Mensch erwacht, und das Licht des vernünftigen Handelns schlägt wie ein Funke in das rein physische Dasein ein. Man drückt sich ganz im Sinne des Naturforschers Du Bois-Reymond aus, wenn man sagt: man kann den schlafenden *Körper* nach allen Seiten durchsuchen; das Seelische wird man nicht in ihm finden können. Aber dieses Seelische setzt den Lauf seiner vernünftigen Taten da fort, wo es ihn vor dem Einschlafen unterbrochen hat. — So gehört der Mensch — auch für diese Betrachtung — zwei Welten an. In der einen lebt er körperlich, und dieses körperliche Leben kann man am Faden physischer Gesetze verfolgen; in der anderen lebt er geistig-vernünftig, und über dieses Leben können wir durch physische Gesetze nichts erfahren. Wollen wir das eine Leben studieren, so müssen wir uns an die physischen Gesetze der Naturwissenschaft halten; wollen wir aber das andere Leben begreifen, so müssen wir die Gesetze des vernünftigen Handelns kennenlernen, zum Beispiel Logik, Rechtslehre, Wirtschaftslehre, Ästhetik usw.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":365,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/34/e02/p006"},{"locus":"GA 34/e02/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Der schlafende Menschenkörper, der nur den physischen Gesetzen unterliegt, kann niemals etwas vollbringen, was im Sinne der Vernunftgesetze liegt. Aber der Menschengeist trägt diese Vernunftgesetze in die physische Welt. Und soviel er in sie hineingetragen hat, soviel wird er von ihnen wiederfinden, wenn er, nach einer Unterbrechung, den Faden seiner Tätigkeit wieder aufnimmt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":53,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/34/e02/p007"},{"locus":"GA 34/e02/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Bleiben wir noch eine Weile bei dem Bilde vom Schlaf. Die Persönlichkeit muß heute an ihre Taten von gestern anknüpfen, wenn das Leben nicht sinnlos sein soll. Sie könnte es nicht, wenn sie sich nicht mit diesen Taten verknüpft fühlte. Das Ergebnis meiner Wirksamkeit von gestern könnte ich heute nicht aufnehmen, wenn nicht in mir selbst etwas von dieser Wirksamkeit geblieben wäre. Hätte ich heute alles vergessen, was ich gestern erfahren habe, so wäre ich ein neuer Mensch und könnte an nichts anknüpfen. Es ist mein *Gedächtnis*, das mir die Anknüpfung an meine gestrigen Taten ermöglicht. — Dieses Gedächtnis bindet mich an die Wirkungen meines Tuns, Dasjenige, was im eigentlichen Sinne meinem vernünftigen Leben angehört, zum Beispiel die Logik, ist heute dasselbe wie gestern. Dies ist anwendbar auch auf dasjenige, was gestern durchaus nicht, was überhaupt *niemals* noch in meinen Gesichtskreis getreten ist. Mein Gedächtnis verbindet mein logisches Handeln von heute mit meinem logischen Handeln von gestern. Wenn es bloß auf die Logik ankäme, dann könnten wir in der Tat jeden Morgen ein neues Leben beginnen, Aber im Gedächtnisse bleibt aufbewahrt, was uns an unser Schicksal bindet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":187,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/34/e02/p008"},{"locus":"GA 34/e02/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"So finde ich mich wirklich am Morgen als eine dreifache Wesenheit. Ich finde meinen Körper wieder, der während meines Schlafes seinen bloß physischen Gesetzen gehorcht hat. Ich finde mich selbst, meinen Menschengeist, wieder, der heute derselbe ist wie gestern, und der heute die Gabe vernünftigen Handelns hat, wie gestern. Und ich finde alles dasjenige bewahrt im Gedächtnisse, was der gestrige Tag - was meine ganze Vergangenheit — aus mir gemacht hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":71,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/34/e02/p009"}],"beads":[{"from":[1],"to":[1],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[2],"to":[2],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[3],"to":[3],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[4],"to":[4],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[5],"to":[5],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[6],"to":[6],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[7],"to":[7],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[8],"to":[8],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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