{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 64/1915-01-15/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What I have just explained is easier said than done in life. But when a person brings their I into the course of fate, then the question of fate becomes something quite different from what it usually is in ordinary life. Then it becomes something alive in life, then it kindles forces in us. Just as knowledge empties our soul and divine spiritual forces can flow into us, so that we can feel empowered, so now — while the ego was otherwise empty for the events of fate — by we carry our ego out into destiny, into this ego flows that which passes through death and birth, which leads us back to earlier earthly lives and shows us how this present earthly life is the starting point for newer earthly lives. There is no other way by which man can become one with his eternal nature and being, which passes through births and deaths, than to become one with the current of fate, to become one through the realization that we have often prepared our fate in the past, and that we have prepared our fate for this existence in our previous lives. We become one with that which connects us inwardly with the soul and the spirit. While otherwise we are a person who, as it were, swims in a boat on an endless sea and knows nothing but what is going on in this boat or in its immediate vicinity, through spiritual knowledge the person experiences that in this sea there is not only one boat; but he sees many boats going in one direction, many boats going in the other direction, and he then knows that his life in this one boat – between birth and death – lasts for a certain period of time, but that he is then, released from the forces that bind him to life in this boat, going through a life in the spiritual world, but after some time he is in another boat again – as he knows that he was in another boat before. Just as one would be insecure if one felt tied only to the one boat, but becomes secure when one knows that one can flee from one boat to the other at a certain time, so life in the eternal stream of existence becomes secure when we place ourselves in the midst of fate in such a way that we identify ourselves with fate in our own selves. What we experience in life, what comes to us as our karma, as our destiny, becomes what we have become in life. We learn to recognize the question of fate as the question of our soul's perfection. We then say to ourselves: If you experience suffering, pain, failure, then these sufferings, pains, failures penetrate your soul, make it stronger in that part where the conscious forces are, and you go with the strengthened soul through the gate of death and enter another life with the strengthened forces. If the question of fate is otherwise one that spreads darkness over life for us, it becomes a question of perfection for our soul as soon as we permeate it with spiritual knowledge; and inner peace pours over life when we are thus able to approach the question of fate. One can say: Whatever can confront man in life, whatever life necessarily demands of man, all this appears in a new light, and man confronts all this with a new strength when he enables the entry of the divine spiritual powers into his soul by filling the conscious part of his soul with spiritual knowledge. Therefore, spiritual knowledge is not mere theoretical knowledge, not something we absorb only in concepts and ideas; but by absorbing them in concepts and ideas, we make our soul into something else. We do not “prove” the immortality of the soul through spiritual science, but by devoting ourselves to spiritual science, we prepare the soul in such a way that it experiences itself in its living nature and thus experiences its immortality. Spiritual science gives the human soul a new life, a resurrected life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. 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Wie die Erkenntnis unsere Seele leer macht und göttlich-geistige Kräfte in uns einfließen können, so daß wir uns selbst erkraftet fühlen können, so fließt jetzt — während das Ich sonst leer war für die Schicksalsfälle — dadurch, daß wir unser Ich in das Schicksal hinaustragen, in dieses Ich dasjenige hinein, was durch Tod und Geburt geht, was uns in frühere Erdenleben zurückführt und uns zeigt, wie dieses jetzige Erdenleben der Ausgangspunkt neuerer Erdenleben ist. Kein anderer Weg ist es, durch den der Mensch Eins werden kann mit seiner ewigen Natur und Wesenheit, die durch Geburten und Tode geht, als der, Eins zu werden mit dem Strome des Schicksals, Eins zu werden durch die Erkenntnis, daß wir uns unser Schicksal oftmals schon zubereitet haben, und daß wir uns unser Schicksal für dseses Dasein zubereitet haben in den früheren Leben. Wir werden Eins mit dem, was uns im Innern der Seele mit dem Geist verbindet. Während wir sonst ein Mensch sind, der gleichsam auf einem unendlichen Meere in einem Kahne schwimmt und nichts weiß als das, was in diesem Kahne oder in seiner nächsten Nähe vor sich geht, erfährt der Mensch durch Geist-Erkenntnis, daß in diesem Meere nicht nur der eine Kahn ist; sondern viele Kähne sieht er nach der einen Richtung, viele Kähne nach der andern Richtung, und er weiß dann, daß sein Leben in diesem einen Kahne — zwischen Geburt und Tod — für eine gewisse Zeit währt, daß er aber dann, enthoben den Kräften, die ihn an das Leben in diesem Kahne fesseln, ein Leben in der geistigen Welt durchmacht, nach einiger Zeit aber wieder in einem anderen Kahne ist —, wie er weiß, daß er vorher in einem anderen Kahne war. Wie man unsicher wäre, wenn man nur an den einen Kahn sich gefesselt fühlte, wie man aber sicher wird, wenn man weiß, man kann zu bestimmter Zeit von dem einen Kahn in den andern fliehen, so wird das Leben in dem ewigen Strome des Daseins sicher, wenn wir uns in dieser Weise in das Schicksal hineinstellen, daß wir uns in unserm Ich mit dem Schicksal identifizieren. Was wir im Leben erfahren, was als unser Karma, als unser Schicksal aa uns herantritt, es wird zu demjenigen, was wir im Leben geworden sind. Wir lernen die Schicksalsfrage erkennen als die Vervollkommnungsfrage unserer Seele. Wir sagen uns dann: Erlebst du Leid, Schmerz, Mißerfolg, so durchdringen diese Leiden, Schmerzen, Mißerfolge deine Seele, machen sie stärker in jenem Teil, wo die bewußten Kräfte sind, und du gehst mit der gestärkten Seele durch die Todespforte durch und trittst mit den gestärkten Kräften in ein anderes Leben ein. Ist die Schicksalsfrage sonst eine solche, die uns Dunkelheit über das Leben ausbreitet, so wird sie eine Vervollkommnungsfrage für unsere Seele, sobald wir sie mit Geist-Erkenntnis durchdringen; und über das Leben ergießt sich innere Ruhe, wenn wir also an die Schicksalsfrage heranzutreten vermögen. Man kann sagen: Was im Leben an den Menschen herantreten kann, was das Leben notwendig von den Menschen fordert, all das erscheint in einem neuen Lichte, und alledem tritt der Mensch mit einer neuen Kraft entgegen, wenn er den Eintritt der göttlich-geistigen Kräfte in seine Seele dadurch ermöglicht, daß er den bewußten Teil der Kräfte seiner Seele mit Geist-Erkenntnis ausfüllt. Daher ist Geist-Erkenntnis nicht bloße theoretische Erkenntnis, nicht etwas, das wir nur in Begriffen und Ideen aufnehmen; sondern indem wir sie in Begriffen und Ideen aufnehmen, machen wir unsere Seele zu etwas anderem. Wir «beweisen» nicht die Unsterblichkeit der Seele durch die Geisteswissenschaft, sondern wir bereiten, indem wir uns der Geisteswissenschaft hingeben, die Seele so vor, daß sie sich in ihrer lebendigen Natur erlebt und so ihr Unsterbliches erlebt. Ein neues Leben, ein auferwecktes Leben gibt Geisteswissenschaft der Menschenseele.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":671,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/64/1915-01-15/p030"}],"english":["GA 64/1915-01-15/p030"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":671,"en_words":689,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9274,"original_word_count":8779,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From a Fateful Time","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA064/English/SOL2024/19150115p01.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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