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Good habits will produce good health; bad ones will create a tendency to some specific illness in the next life. A strong determination to rid oneself of a bad habit will work down into the physical body and produce a tendency to good health. How a disposition to infectious diseases arises in the physical body has been particularly well observed. Whether we actually get a disease will depend on what we do; but whether we are specially liable to contract it is the result of the inclinations we had in a previous life. Infectious diseases, strangely enough, can be traced back to a highly developed selfish acquisitiveness in a previous life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/95/1906-08-28/p017","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1906-08-28","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 95/1906-08-28/p018","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-08-28/p018"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":183,"en_words":185,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E.H. 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In the astral bodies of such decadent people an abundance of decaying astral substance can be seen. When the Mongols fell upon the Germans and other Central European peoples, they created a wave of fear and panic. These emotions belong to the astral body, and under such conditions decaying astral substances will flourish. Thus the astral bodies of Europeans became infected and in later generations the infection came out in the physical body, affecting not merely individuals but whole groups of peoples. It emerged as leprosy, that terrible disease which wrought such devastation in the Middle Ages. It was the physical consequence of an influence on the astral body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":195,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/95/1906-08-28/p019","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1906-08-28","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 95/1906-08-28/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-08-28/p020"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":186,"en_words":195,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E.H. 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Alle Neigungen und Gewohnheiten des jetzigen Ätherleibes geben im nächsten Leben die Disposition zu Gesundheit oder Krankheit. Gute Neigungen, gute Gewohnheiten geben die Disposition zur Gesundheit; üble Neigungen, üble Gewohnheiten erscheinen im nächsten Leben als Disposition zu bestimmten Krankheiten. Der Vorsatz, der feste Wille, sich eine schlechte Gewohnheit abzugewöhnen, wirkt schon in den tiefergelegenen Leib hinunter und gibt so die Disposition zur Gesundheit. Besonders gut ist beobachtet worden, wie die Disposition zu Infektionskrankheiten im physischen Leibe auftritt. Nicht, ob man eine Krankheit bekommt - das hängt ja von den Taten ab -, sondern ob man dazu disponiert ist, ob man ihr mehr oder weniger ausgesetzt ist, hängt von den Neigungen des vorhergehenden Lebens ab. Infektionskrankheiten führen merkwürdigerweise zurück auf einen besonders ausgebildeten egoistischen Erwerbssinn im vorigen Leben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":183,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-08-28/p018"},{"locus":"GA 95/1906-08-28/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Wenn man sich informieren will über Gesundheit und Krankheit, so muß man bedenken, wie viele Dinge da zusammenwirken. Krankheiten brauchen nicht bloß ein Einzelkarma zu sein, es gibt auch ein Volkskarma in bezug auf Krankheiten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":35,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-08-28/p019"},{"locus":"GA 95/1906-08-28/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Ein interessanter Fall, wie eigentümlich die Dinge im geistigen Leben zusammenhängen, ist die Einwanderung der Hunnen und der Mongolenstämme, die sich von Asien her nach dem Westen ergossen. Diese Völkerschaften, die Mongolen, waren Nachzügler der Atlantier. Während die Inder und Germanen und andere sich weiter aufwärtsentwickelten, waren die Mongolen die auf einer gewissen Stufe stehengebliebenen Brüder. Geradeso wie sich auf der Entwickelungsbahn des Menschen die Tiere abgegliedert haben, so gliedern sich auch niedrigere Völker und Rassen ab. Diese Völkerschaften, die Mongolen, waren zurückgebliebene Atlantier, die sich physisch hinunterentwickelten. Im Astralleib solcher zurückgebliebener Menschen sieht man reichliche astralische Verwesungsstoffe. Die Mongolen stießen auf die Germanen und auf die andern mitteleuropäischen Völker, die von Furcht und Schrecken ergriffen wurden. Furcht und Schrecken sind aber Eigenschaften des Astralleibes; in ihnen gedeihen vorzüglich solche astrale Verwesungsstoffe. So wurden die europäischen Astralleiber infiziert, und diese Infektion kam dann in den späteren Generationen im physischen Leibe heraus, aber nicht für das Individuum, sondern für ganze Völkerschaften. Das war der Aussatz, die Miselsucht, die schreckliche Krankheit, die im Mittelalter solche Verheerungen anrichtete. Diese Krankheit war die physische Folge des Einflusses auf den Astralleib.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":186,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-08-28/p020"}],"beads":[{"from":[17],"to":[18],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[18],"to":[19],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[19],"to":[20],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"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)."}}