{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 94/1906-07-11/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When very definite evil volitions combine today, they affect the layer of fire, and it may be that the shock from the layer of fire is transmitted to the layer of water and through the other layers to the uppermost one. This causes earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, seaquakes and so forth. When humanity ensures that things improve morally on earth, things will slowly improve in relation to natural disasters. The progress of the planet earth is connected with the progress of humanity; what the earth's interior shows us is just one example of this. The relationship between the karma of the individual and the karma of the whole has been studied, and research has been conducted into how their future destiny might unfold. It has been found that such people [who die in an earthquake] usually appear in their next incarnation as particularly spiritual personalities, or at least bring with them a predisposition for spiritual life. They have experienced the vanity of material things forcefully and quickly; it was the last jolt they needed to turn to the spirit. Similarly, the fiery death of the martyrs results in particular idealism in the next incarnation. The connections between births and earthquakes are also interesting. In most cases, people born immediately after an earthquake occur, prove to be particularly materialistic people. The force by which man descends again from Devachan has something to do with the fire layer. Man sets the fire layer in motion in that his will, which leads him to embodiment, is particularly sensual at his birth. In the beginning of its development, the Earth was a being capable of transformation, and accordingly, it is humanity. Man has bound the Earth's fate to his own. You can imagine how, in view of this, the occultist's sense of responsibility grows in relation to the spiritual currents that are brought into humanity. The Theosophical movement is connected with a definite goal of the evolution of the Earth. It has to bring about the general fraternization of men. Its goal should therefore be to improve the Earth fragmenter, the eighth layer; it strives to save what can be saved from the center of the Earth. Here, constant dripping hollows out the stone. Even the smallest effect is not lost. The person who strives to transform his soul so that the power that comes from occultism becomes effective, is working on this work and will then also take everyday life quite differently. The true study of occultism consists in the fact that the spiritual student penetrates into ordinary, natural life. Occultism can bear fruit in all areas and have a beneficial effect. Every soul must and will eventually attain the truth. And so occultism relies on the response it will receive in the souls.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XIV","site_heading":"Christian Initiation and the Earth's Inner Layers","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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Wenn die Menschheit dafür sorgt, daß es auf Erden moralisch besser wird, wird es auch langsam besser werden in bezug auf die Erdkatastrophen. Mit dem Fortschritt der Menschheit hängen die Fortschritte des Erdenplaneten zusammen; was uns das Erdinnere zeigt, ist nur ein Beispiel dafür. Man hat untersucht, in welcher Beziehung das Karma des einzelnen Menschen zum Karma der Gesamtheit steht, hat erforscht, wie sein zukünftiges Schicksal verlaufen könnte, und gefunden, daß solche Menschen [die durch ein Erdbeben umkommen] gewöhnlich in der nächsten Verkörperung als besonders spirituelle Persönlichkeiten auftreten, oder wenigstens die Anlage zu spirituellem Leben mitbringen. Sie haben die Nichtigkeit des Materiellen eindringlich und rasch erfahren, es war der letzte Ruck, den sie noch brauchten, um sich dem Geist zuzuwenden. Ähnlich hat der Feuertod der Märtyrer in der nächsten Inkarnation besonderen Idealismus zur Folge. Interessant sind auch die Zusammenhänge zwischen Geburten und Erdbeben. In den meisten Fällen findet sich, daß die Menschen, die unmittelbar nach der Zeit eines Erdbebens geboren werden, sich als besonders materiell gesinnte Menschen erweisen. Die Kraft, durch die der Mensch aus dem Devachan wiederum herunterkommt, hat etwas zu tun mit der Feuerschicht. Der Mensch bringt die Feuerschicht insofern in Bewegung, als sein ihn zur Verkörperung führender Wille bei seiner Geburt besonders niederer, sinnlicher Art ist. Die Erde war im Beginne ihrer EntwickeJung ein Wesen, das einer Umwandlung fähig ist, und dementsprechend ist es das Menschentum. Der Mensch hat der Erde Schicksal an sein eigenes gebunden. Sie können sich denken, wie im Hinblick darauf das Verantwortungsgefühl des Okkultisten wächst in bezug auf die geistigen Strömungen, die in die Menschheit gebracht werden. Die theosophische Bewegung steht in Beziehung zu einem ganz bestimmten Ziel der Erdenentwickelung. Sie hat die allgemeine Menschenverbrüderung zu bringen. Ihr Ziel soll deshalb sein: den Erdenzersplitterer, die achte Schicht, zu verbessern; es erstrebt, vom Erdenzentrum zu retten, was zu retten ist. Hier gilt: Steter Tropfen höhlt den Stein. Selbst die kleinste Wirkung geht nicht verloren. Der Mensch, der danach strebt, seine Seele umzuwandeln, so daß die Kraft, die aus dem Okkultismus herauskommt, wirksam wird, der wirkt an diesem Werke mit und wird dann auch das alltägliche Leben ganz anders nehmen. Das wahre Studium des Okkultismus besteht darin, daß der Geistesschüler erkennend eindringt in das gewöhnliche, natürliche Leben. Der Okkultismus kann auf allen Gebieten fruchtbar werden und segensreich wirken. Jede Seele muß und wird schließlich zur Wahrheit gelangen. Und so vertraut der Okkultismus auf das Echo, das er in den Seelen finden wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":455,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-07-11/p027"}],"english":["GA 94/1906-07-11/p027"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":455,"en_words":460,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.08,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2434,"original_word_count":2258,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2023","book_title":"Popular Occultism","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA094/English/SOL2023/19060711p01.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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