{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1906-11-08/p042","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we learn through pain, if knowledge attained through pain has an ennobling effect, then it explains why in the biblical story of creation pain and suffering are connected with the knowledge of good and evil. This we shall go into in the next lecture. It also explains why knowledgeable people have always emphasized that pain has an ennobling, purifying effect on a person. Through the great law of destiny, karma, spiritual science indicates that a person's pain and suffering in one life point to wrong done in former lives. This is a connection that can only be understood through the deeper aspects of human nature. Baser impulses that in a former life led to external action are transformed into nobler ones. Sin is like a poison that when transformed becomes a source of healing. Thus, sin can eventually contribute to a person's strength and ennoblement. In the story of Job, pain and suffering are shown to lead to greater knowledge and ennoblement.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. The Origin of Suffering","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-11-08","location":null,"word_count":163,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1906-11-08/p042","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Supersensible Knowledge","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA055/English/AP1987/19061108p02.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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Deshalb ist auch von tiefer Blickenden mit Recht immer wieder betont worden, wie der Ursprung der Läuterung, die Erhöhung der menschlichen Natur, im Schmerz liegt, und wenn die theosophische Weltanschauung in dem großen Schicksalsgesetze, Karma, von den Leiden aus, die ein Mensch im gegenwärtigen Leben erleidet, hindeutet auf das, was er in früheren Leben gesündigt, verbrochen hat, dann verstehen wir einen solchen Zusammenhang auch nur aus der tieferen Menschennatur heraus. Dasjenige, was im früheren Leben von uns in der Außenwelt vollführt wurde, verwandelt sich aus wilden in erhabene Kräfte. Die Sünde ist gleichsam wie ein Gift, das aber, wenn es in Substanz des Lebens verwandelt wird, sich zum Heilmittel gestaltet. So kann die Sünde wieder zur Kräftigung und Erhöhung des Menschen beitragen, und so stellen sich uns auch in der Erzählung von Hiob die Schmerzen und Leiden als eine Erhöhung der Erkenntnis und des Geistes dar.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":205,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1906-11-08/p039"}],"english":["GA 55/1906-11-08/p042"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":205,"en_words":163,"ratio":0.8,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.81,"band":"watch","note":"This witness is somewhat shorter than the original. 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