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Title: Karmic Relationships, V: Lecture I
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earthly and material domain simply through the light it sheds upon
the Earth. Membership of a spiritual world is in most cases a mere
any world other than the Earth is scarcely within the power of human
of earthly conditions alone have to be considered is the great
super-sensible, cosmic powers and forces around the Earth. In olden
plants and the animals around him on the Earth; he knew, too, that
dependence on the Earth.
embryo in earthly life, even when investigated from the purely
something extra-earthly is at work in the process. Natural science believes
Earth. Much thought is given to this complex structure of the ovum
and recently we have been hearing about the wonders of the atom and
from earlier earthly lives can enter into it.
imagine. At our Institute for Biological Research in Stuttgart
condition in which the Earth alone works had been removed. This is
limited to the Earth; he is incapable of directing his gaze in any
Earth were originally one body, but that the Moon subsequently
separated from the Earth. This fact is revealed to seership but it is
Particularly in the last few years a certain literary and scientific
— of this relationship of the Moon to the Earth. The Moon in
the heavens was once united with the Earth, was then ejected —
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Title: Karmic Relationships, V: Lecture II
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are more conscious of the appearance they present to our senses, our
wells up from within. We may be quite near to them in life but we
We heard
that such happenings are related to the extra earthly forces with
— the forces working in upon the Earth from the surrounding,
super terrestrial Universe. We learned that the forces proceeding
is able to read. The experience is quite clear to him; he himself is
of meeting a person again after the lapse of many years, he
picture of experiences shared in common with him in earlier earthly
lives. He looks back consciously into an earlier epoch when these
together in a previous earthly life or a number of previous lives.
present identity and stand before us in his earlier form, coming to
meet himself in the form he now bears. The impression is actually as vivid
is descending to earthly life from the existence he spends in worlds
comes down to the Earth, and it is they who inscribe everything that
delicate substance which, as opposed to earthly substances, the
incarnate in the flesh, once peopled the Earth together with men.
once again drawing near the Earth in order to unite with the seed
Beings have recorded what he had experienced on the Earth in earlier
Earth, brought men a wisdom relating especially to the past of the
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Title: Karmic Relationships, V: Lecture III
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through the earthly lives of men, and of the forming of destiny, and
birth. Here on the Earth, where our life between birth and death runs
During his earthly existence, therefore, man feels himself —
kingdom on Earth is linked with him from below. This is the Hierarchy
the Beings of the higher Hierarchies. Here on Earth our attention is
with this world and from the Earth we look upwards to the Heavens, to
the different religions. From the Earth man looks upwards with his
longings, with his piety, with his highest aspirations in earthly
he uses imagery borrowed from the earthly world, he pictures what is
above him in forms derived from earthly existence. In the life
the case, for the earthly world presents a quite different aspect
become clear to us how different happenings on the Earth appear when
aware that just as in the earthly realm everything around us means
existence spent between death and a new birth, we learn gradually to
spiritual outer world. Just as here on Earth we speak of what is
this environment is not a world of objects like the Earth; everything
next earthly life. A mighty, awe inspiring vista opens before us. We
of the attitude of soul, of the inner quality of mind and heart that
characterised us in the last earthly life. We now no longer say in
of mind and heart, of our life of soul, of our mode of thinking, in
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Title: Karmic Relationships, V: Lecture IV
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it clear to you that the evolution of mankind is governed by the
evidence when as a young man during the twenties and early thirties
often start from details which although clearly in evidence seem to
to which the facts of the one earthly life are carried over into the
of Garibaldi is strange in that although at heart and in sentiment he
the striking fact that Garibaldi was born, in the year 1807, quite
near to the birthplaces of the other three: the later King Victor
readily to the spirit; and in earthly existence man must use the body
to transform into earthly shape and earthly activity what was imbued
into him before he came down to the Earth. Faced with conditions that
reason, many Initiates of bygone days appear again as personalities
spiritually potent. Chaotic as conditions in that country appear
their way across to Europe in the early centuries of the spread of
one from far away, another from nearer at hand. But in the Irish
incarnation but must accomplish in earthly life something that will
realise how greatly earthly Maya, the great illusion, the semblance
connection with earthly matters and not with human beings belong to
the epoch, not to the individuality who passes from one earthly life
bear in our head may come to expression, in the later incarnation, in
heels, what quality of thinking characterised him in an earlier
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Title: Karmic Relationships, V: Lecture V
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religious impulses must spring from the heart. True, these impulses
end of a man's earthly life he is divested by death of the physical
body we see before us. The Earth takes possession of it, either
cremation. What can the Earth do with the part of man we perceive
with physical senses? The Earth can do no other than subject it to
the human body, something different from earthly forces, for they
my books then death is completely transformed. In death man tears
himself from the grasp of the Earth; and if we cultivate Imagination,
death, man stands there as earthly man. He can say: “I am here,
personal existence into world-existence. The Earth — so it
appears to Imaginative cognition — makes it possible for us to
undergo death. The Earth is revealed to Imaginative cognition as the
bearer of death in the Universe. Nowhere except on Earth is death to
aspect in which the widths of space appear to be everywhere filled
confront a man in earthly life, he is there before us in the first
perimeter of earthly life do we discover thoughts which stand alone.
from the earthly sphere of death to the space sphere of thoughts, to
death. And in the weaving cosmic thoughts there appears as it were a
single cloud in which he sees the record of his last earthly life.
and vanishes. Whereas at the end of earthly life the aspect of death
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Title: Karmic Relationships, V: Lecture VI
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spends a certain number of years in the Moon-sphere, coming into
contact there with Beings who once lived on the Earth, not in
existed on Earth and gradually faded away. When the physical Moon
separated from the Earth, these Beings went with it; their existence
death when he is looking back upon his earthly life and living
completely different from those on Earth. To this region, however,
his earthly life he belonged to the Earth.
— he begins his existence in the elements of earth, water, fire
and air. Substances that are differentiated on Earth — metals
‘earth,' all fluids are ‘water,' all gaseous
this or that course in his earthly life, has done good or evil. And
with all this behind him he appears before the Moon Beings. These
the following facts must be remembered. Man on the Earth is a being
whose members are clearly distinguishable from each other. The head
that passes away most rapidly in the spiritual world; it disappears
seen to be steadily disappearing. What actually remains, and can be
important task. From the being who now appears as a headless man
illness undergone during earthly life. This is important, for it is
the Earth. It is these Beings who take away from man the consequences
and yet as real to him as anything in earthly existence. Just as here
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Title: Karmic Relationships, V: Lecture VII
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that after death man is received into a super earthly world which
becomes manifest to us on Earth only through its signs or tokens
between death and a new birth. We have heard, too, how man enters a
retrospect the whole of our earthly life. It lies there, displayed in
seven years' duration. We see our early childhood until the change of
of the period between the change of teeth at about the seventh year,
year to the beginning of the twenties. And when, having grown older
in earthly life, we look back on the period between approximately the
twenty-first to the forty-second years when the human being is in the
be perceived in earthly nature exist in the Sun-sphere. When we have
life between death and rebirth than here on Earth. In the Sun-sphere
connected by karma on Earth, who have passed through the gate of
mineral, plant and animal kingdoms belong to the Earth.
realise that here on Earth we stand spatially enclosed within our
earthly life we distinguish between our body and our head, realising
special which corresponds to the head in earthly life, namely, Mars,
with all its Beings, is our heart and our lungs; whereas our organ of
Earth we carry in our head those insignificant earthly thoughts, so
through Jupiter we bear within us the wisdom of worlds. And as here
we bear within us the Saturn-existence which gives us cosmic memory.
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VII: Lecture One
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human life to be more clearly recognised.
man's earthly life between birth and death, two events or
moments stand out clearly and distinctly from all others. One
earthly life, into a physical body which serves as an
instrument for his activity on Earth. Not only does he
whole nature in order to become active on Earth. This is the
beginning of earthly life. The other event is that of man's
departure from earthly life, when he returns through the gate
Nature, to the existence surrounding us in earthly life in the
man's entry into earthly life; at death, the form which man
regards as that of his earthly existence begins to
around us in the realm of the Earth. But impartial observation
of our thoughts makes them appear widely removed from the
comparison with what we are in heart and soul when we surrender
clear insight into the life of thought should be one of the
too, although from a rather different standpoint, will appear
thought in the earthly world really is, it must appear to us as
human being appears as a physical corpse. The form of a corpse
moment that there were on the Earth only a single human being,
extra-human, earthly world. Its very existence betrays that it
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VII: Lecture Two
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the lecture yesterday we heard that man spends the first period
together with him on the Earth as the great primeval Teachers
never been inhabitants of the Earth in the literal sense;
they have never borne earthly bodies, nor even etheric bodies
evolution guide us from one earthly life to another, and it is
from the Moon sphere that they guide us. We have heard how in
which he suffered here on Earth. Surprising as it may seem, it
during his life on Earth and in his soul he becomes completely
the lecture yesterday we heard of the great primeval Teachers
who were once together with men on Earth; wherever human beings
sphere of the Earth as a kind of second race. But in their dim,
Earth. What has to be said about these things will of course
come down to the Earth. Initiates of the Mystery-wisdom
is characteristic of man. Here on Earth a man is always one
sense; and it is this Cosmic Love that bears what now remains
earthly life is worked out and formulated. Conditions in this
Sun region are not as they are on Earth. Why do our clever
on the Earth command admiration and awe, but the most sublime
achievements of earthly civilisation are puny and
our karma shall take effect in the next earthly life.
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VII: Lecture Three
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yesterday can be deepened in many essential respects. We heard
that will have important bearings when we come to study karmic
perplexing to ordinary thinking. As we stand on the Earth
and feel our way into existence, we conceive of the Earthly as
surface of the Earth in the environment, and when our minds
turn to the so-called super-Earthly, our gaze is instinctively
directed upwards. We feel the super-Earthly to be above us.
ourselves are within those super-Earthly realms to which we
look upwards from the Earth, when we are actually within them,
the Earthly — which now lies below. In a certain sense we
earthly things during physical existence so inadequate that
super-earthly spheres to the Earth as a kind of nether heaven
while we live on Earth between birth and death in a physical
All that was our outer world during life on Earth now becomes
described in earthly language in somewhat the following
Here on Earth we say, ‘my heart’ — meaning something that
say, ‘my heart,’ but ‘my Sun.’ For at a certain stage between
Universe, the Sun is within us just as here on Earth the heart
Conversely, what was enclosed within our skin on Earth now
becomes our outer world. But do not imagine that it bears any
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VII: Lecture Four
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man's life on Earth between birth and death with his other life
special reference to karma. We heard that man works together
feelings of an earlier earthly life or a series of lives, in
becomes the outer expression, the earthly expression of
through in earlier times. The processes connected with
be impressive and uplifting. We shall learn to feel and
and perceive from such examples how the one earthly life works
learned how the spiritual Beings belonging to a planetary
the sixty-third year and be able to look back over the period
Imagine yourselves walking about the Earth, never knowing in
new earthly life by individualities whose karma, determined by
we study the life of such personalities here on Earth —
look down to the Earth and perceive in happenings there a
Empire that were of common occurrence during those early
of death and subsequently through less important earthly lives.
deeper effect when the human being descends to earthly
an earlier earthly life. The element of retrospection is always
past. Then, when he comes down to the earthly realm, the
appeared again in the second half of the eighteenth century
early dramas, with their possibly faulty artistic construction,
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VII: Lecture Five
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the clear and distinct feeling for karma is a preparation for
that they cannot possibly be rooted in the one earthly life
in an epoch of life when as far as earthly impulses are
there is clearly a difference between one kind of
not nearly as interested in the details of his outward
appearance, whether he is handsome or ugly, whether he
antipathy simply when we are near him and conscious of his
says to us. Such experiences stand in earthly existence like
present earthly life and the link is made by what binds
activities, outward appearances, and the reason why we cannot
spiritual existence upon this earthly life will it be possible
have heard how karma takes shape, how all that we experience in
say to yourselves: earthly life brings human beings together
with higher Beings shape their karma for the next earthly life.
What, then, is the consequence in the earthly life of man?
in an earthly life where karma begins to form, will endeavour
in the next earthly life to find their way to one another
common earthly existence. And here the remarkable fact comes to
light that as Earth-evolution runs its course, human beings
epoch and karmically connected with one another, appears again
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VII: Lecture Six
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about them are the only clear and definite experiences in the
past of this earthly life plays all the time into
again. We feel that in this earthly life we are that
primarily in the past of our earthly life. Just think of all
place a long way off. His mind was absolutely clear in a matter
lectures, namely that during the first seven years of earthly
body — the body we bear until the onset of puberty
Earth. But from birth until the change of teeth we have
was absorbed in what flowed into us through having learnt to
to the effect that he had learnt more in the first three years
of his life than in the three academic years. The meaning of
this is clear. For even if the academic years are extended to
five or six — not, presumably, because one learns too
much but because one learns too little — even if this
period is considerably extended we learn only the merest
first three years of life, and thereafter through the years
memories of our first seven years compared with the events of
years of life and what we take in later on have entirely
seven years works with intense activity at the plastic moulding
when we come into earthly existence and the beautifully
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VII: Lecture Seven
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are all the time coming nearer to an understanding of those
all that a picture of our earthly life since birth. Attention
been spent on this Earth. From this we see how for the
longer find its bearings along the path of memory leading
through this earthly life.
of a friend who was particularly dear to us, or the death of
with the shadowy memories that come to us ten years later! And
earthly life. But is it not evident from this how the Ego,
which can find no bearings in earthly life without memory,
consciousness on Earth. The real Ego of life that is not
dear to us, for instance, yet the memory picture which remains
can exist in the land of Earth only if this shadow of an
thankfulness for earthly existence finds its way into the human
when in all earnestness we develop the feeling of thankfulness
is born from thankfulness to life it opens the heart to the
flowing through time, but with the creator of this earthly Ego.
acknowledge them to be powerful creators of our earthly Ego. We
Think of someone of forty years of age: he has made his mark.
example. This man looks back to his eighteenth year; he goes
year and finds that at the age of eighteen he failed in his
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VII: Lecture Eight
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sight, however, it is clear that an actual revolution
into the spiritual world. A stream bears us along in the
various impressions made by life. But memories of the earthly
ear, then, in living through the event after death you do not
experience the anger which you consciously felt on Earth when
clear consciousness, you would live through the day's
faint indication of what an individual bears within him from
his past earthly lives. This is of course taken into what the
burdensome karma, a karma that is difficult to bear, radiates
we have passed on Earth come to meet us. Soon after going to
insight, the last Earth-life, the last Earth-life but one and
during sleep that our karma from previous earthly lives finds
who can recollect clearly how at one point in his life a
into his life and then, in the early morning he has inklings of
sleep, the more clearly is their attention directed to their
earlier lives on Earth. Let us say that in the afternoon of
the last earthly life or in the last but one, and so on; we
meet him as he was in his earlier life. We encounter everything
appeared and who simply reminded us of something — we
him, for he was never with us in earlier lives on Earth. No
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VII: Lecture Nine
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us compare what we learn through direct experiences about our
completely satisfied when we observe Nature and clearly
course taken by the world-order. There appears to be no direct
were to deceive himself that in the one life on Earth the
statements really summarise that characteristic of earthly life
the single life on Earth morality remains an inner disposition,
days, seeing how earlier lives work over into later
of soul the earlier is inwardly connected with the later. Put
Earth, man has a constitution which forces back his moral
effect in one earthly life. In a single earthly life man
is powerless to give effect to the moral content he bears in
physical reality too in later lives on Earth. On Earth we live
Beings of the higher Hierarchies, just as on Earth we are
these lectures we have learnt how man lives between death and a
of the soul may come to expression in life on Earth, the
spiritual world, emerges again in a new earthly life and
appears then in the form in which it is right to appear. For
what should we be if in earthly life we could bring to direct
of the Earth! For when a power of spirit-and-soul is brought to
activities when he again descends into life on Earth. The
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