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238. Karmic Relationships IV: Lecture V 14 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Dorothy S. Osmond, Charles Davy

On the other hand it pointed to the impulses which souls, devoted to the spiritual life, must have for their work into the future. And we know that from an understanding of the spiritual stream we may also come to understand how Anthroposophy, in its real essence, signifies the impulse for a renewal, for a true and sincere understanding of the Christ-Impulse.
But many of the souls I now mean grasp with real inner understanding the Cosmic Christianity which Anthroposophy contains. Christ as the Cosmic Spirit of the Sun is taken hold of most especially by the souls (and they are very numerous in the Anthroposophical Movement) in the depths of whom much is still living of what they underwent in connection with ancient heathen Mysteries.
The same manner of perception must be evolved to perceive the spiritual realities that underlie, not the whole man, but his several organs. (For, if you will, it is the Jupiter world that underlies one organ, the Venus world that underlies another, and so forth.)
238. Karmic Relationships IV: Lecture VI 16 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Dorothy S. Osmond, Charles Davy

It was his striving to preserve it in effect towards a better understanding of Christianity. He had entered Christianity when he lived as the soul of Herzeleide. Now it was his striving to introduce into the Christian conception all that he had received through his Initiation as Julian the Apostate.
He is an extraordinarily interesting figure. Short and thick-set, under-grown a little owing to the privations of his youth, one would see him marching along the street with extraordinary firmness of step.
From Zimmermann, as you know, is derived the word Anthroposophy, though his Anthroposophy is a tangled undergrowth of abstract concepts. I had the very greatest regard for him, and yet, when I read this review, I could not help breaking out into the sigh—“Pedant that you are!”
238. Karmic Relationships IV: Lecture VII 18 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Dorothy S. Osmond, Charles Davy

In a reverse and backward life, he sees all that he underwent during his life on earth. If he offended another man he experiences the event again. If I die at the age of seventy-three, and at the age of sixty I offended someone, I experience it again on the backward journey.
It was as though he was simply unable to approach the Moon-region unhindered and undergo that life of soul which follows directly after death. There were perpetual hindrances, as though the Moon-region simply would not let this individuality approach it.
Thou must wait, and first repeat and recapitulate many things that thou didst undergo not only in thy last, but in thy former incarnations. Thou mayst not know anything at all of the stars and their real being, till thou hast thus prepared thyself.”
238. Karmic Relationships IV: Lecture VIII 19 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Dorothy S. Osmond, Charles Davy

During the past weeks we have been seeking to understand more and more what it means to say that the present age stands in the sign of the dominion of Michael.
But there remained with him the ideas he had absorbed about Christianity and all he had undergone by way of scepticism in relation to knowledge. These things were transformed in his life between death and a new birth.
Then, passing through the gate of death, he underwent a peculiar experience. For several decades after his death he could still look back upon his earthly life, and he saw it forever coloured by that element to which he had come at last.
238. Karmic Relationships IV: Lecture IX 21 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Dorothy S. Osmond, Charles Davy

The lectures I have now been giving under the impression of the presence of so many friends who have come here from different countries, have followed a certain main purpose.
Let us now look closely at the life of Thomas Campanella in so far as is necessary for an understanding of his karma. He was born with a truly remarkable receptivity for the Christian education which he received.
That indeed is the span of time including all that we must study if we would understand the life of our own time. To-day we have taken a case which teaches us how many things a soul can undergo during this age.
238. Karmic Relationships IV: Lecture X 23 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Dorothy S. Osmond, Charles Davy

[ 7 ] We must understand that strength and energy, perseverance and a holy enthusiasm are necessary in order to transform into spirituality the intellectualism which after all belongs to the present age.
[ 10 ] Please understand me rightly. Let us assume that some personality living in the second half of the 19th century bore within him a strong spirituality from former incarnations.
If, however, we speak of precursors of Christianity in this sense we must apply the term to many pupils of the ancient Mysteries, among whom we may indeed include Plato. Only we must then understand the thing aright. [ 15 ] Now I already spoke at this place some time ago of a young artist who grew up while Plato was still living, not exactly in Plato's School of the Philosophers but under Plato's influence.
238. The Individuality of Elias, John, Raphael, Novalis: The Last Address by Rudolf Steiner 28 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams

And it will be one of the more beautiful results that can follow from our anthroposophical understanding of times and seasons, if we are really able to add to the other festivals of the year a rightly ordered Michael Festival.
[ 18 ] The first book he undertook was intended to be a biography. What is it? Nothing but a reproduction of old anecdotes told by Vasari!
[ 24 ] When we consider the life of Novalis, what an echo we find there of the Raphael life for which Hermann Grimm had so fine an understanding! His beloved dies in her youth. He is himself still young. What is he going to do with his life now that she has died?
239. Karmic Relationships V: Lecture I 29 Mar 1924, Prague
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond

Even before the meal was served he said to her—he spoke only Italian and she only Portuguese—that she must be his for life. She understood, and a very beautiful relationship was established between them. There you have a telling example of a karmic relationship.
239. Karmic Relationships V: Lecture II 30 Mar 1924, Prague
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond

A comparison I have often used is that just as a picture can be understood by a man who is not himself a painter, so these truths can be understood by one who is not himself an Initiate.
Other individuals again have the gift of immediate understanding; one could easily paint what they describe. Such a gift or defect—understanding of the world or obtuseness—has not come from the blue but is the result of an earlier earthly existence.
That is very interesting: men who in their previous life were incapable of feelings of joy are incapable, now, of understanding human beings or the world around them. A man who has such understanding was one who in an earlier life took delight in his environment.
239. Karmic Relationships V: Lecture III 31 Mar 1924, Prague
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond

But if that quickening is to be a reality, something must be understood which at the beginning was not understood—which can more easily be understood to-day because more than two decades of effort have passed since the founding of Anthroposophical work.
“Studies of the practical working of karma” were announced but nobody at that time would have understood their import, least of all the leading lights of the Theosophical Society. It therefore remained a task which had to be pursued under the surface as it were of the Anthroposophical stream, performed as an obligation to the spiritual world.
Perceived in its outward aspect only, history is itself Maya; it can only be rightly understood by getting away from the Maya and penetrating to the truth. We will continue these studies in the next lecture to Members.

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