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Either the physical body becomes more beautiful as a result of the illness it endured; or it may be that an illness a man has caught from infection in his environment is compensated by the beauty of his new environment. Beauty thus develops, karmically, out of pain, suffering, privation and illness. This may seem a startling connection, but it is a fact. Even the appreciation of beauty develops in this way: there can be no beauty in the world without pain and suffering and illness. The same general law holds for the history of man's evolution. 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Beides hängt am Ätherleib und kommt im nächsten Leben im physischen Leib zum Ausdruck. Personen, die in einem Leben gewohnheitsmäßig egoistisch handeln, altern früh im nächsten Leben, schrumpfen früh zusammen; das lange Jung- und Frischbleiben dagegen rührt von einem liebevollen, hingebungsvollen vorhergehenden Leben her. Somit kann man auch den physischen Leib bewußt vorbereiten für das nächste Leben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":96,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-08-29/p009"},{"locus":"GA 95/1906-08-29/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Nun wird Ihnen eine Frage auf der Seele liegen, wenn Sie sich erinnern, was ich gestern gesagt habe: Wie ist es denn mit den Dingen, die der physische Körper sich selbst erringt? Seine Taten werden sein künftiges Schicksal; aber die Krankheiten, die er in diesem Leben durchgemacht hat, was wird daraus?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":51,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-08-29/p010"},{"locus":"GA 95/1906-08-29/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Die Antwort auf diese Frage, so seltsam sie klingen mag, ist keine Spekulation, keine Theorie, sie basiert auf Erfahrungen der Geheimwissenschaft und lehrt die Mission der Krankheit. Fabre d’Olivet, der Erforscher der Anfangskapitel der Genesis, hat einmal ein sehr schönes Bild gebraucht. Er vergleicht das, was als Schicksal sich herausbildet, mit einem Naturvorgang; er sagt: Die wertvolle Perle entsteht durch eine Krankheit; sie ist ein Exsudat der Perlmuschel, so daß das Leben in diesem Fall erkranken muß, um etwas Wertvolles hervorzubringen. — So wie aus einer Erkrankung der Muschel die Perle sich bildet, so kommen die Krankheiten des physischen Körpers in einem Leben im nächsten Leben als ästhetische Schönheit wieder zum Vorschein. Entweder wird der eigene Körper durch die Krankheit, die er durchgemacht hat, im nächsten Leben schön an äußerer Gestalt, oder es wird eine Infektionskrankheit, die er mit seiner Umgebung getragen hat, belohnt durch die Schönheit seiner Umgebung. Schönheit entwickelt sich also karmisch aus Leiden, Schmerzen, Entbehrungen und Krankheiten. Das ist ein frappierender Zusammenhang, aber er besteht tatsächlich. Sogar der Schönheitssinn wird auf diese Weise herausgebildet. Kein Schönes ist in der Welt ohne Leiden und Schmerzen und Krankheiten. Ganz Ähnliches tritt uns in der Entwickelungsgeschichte der Menschheit im allgemeinen entgegen. Sie werden daraus ersehen, wie wunderbar eigentlich die karmischen Zusammenhänge im Leben sind und wie die Fragen nach dem Bösen, nach Krankheit und Schmerz gar nicht zu beantworten sind, ohne die großen inneren Zusammenhänge der Menschheitsentwickelung zu kennen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":239,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-08-29/p011"}],"beads":[{"from":[8],"to":[9],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[9],"to":[10],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[10],"to":[11],"confidence":"high"}],"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)."}}