volcanos - also see catastrophes; earthquakes According to Steiner: we choose or cause them. The physical world embodies spiritual realities, so when we create a certain spiritual condition, it has its manifestation in the physical world. Catastrophes in the physical world are often the result of our own behavior, and they are a mechanism by which we can fulfill our karma. [See, e.g., Past and Future.] “[T]he fate of hundreds and thousands may be affected by an earthquake or a volcano. Does the human will have any influence on this, or is it all a matter of chance? ... What is really happening when a man is killed by [an earthly calamity]? What does the occultist say about the interior of the Earth?” — R. Steiner, AT THE GATES OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE (Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co., 1986), lecture 14, GA 95. What Steiner says is that our will does indeed influence such disasters, and we actually want such things to happen. [W]e see...groups of human souls in their descent from pre-earthly into earthly existence wander to regions situated, for example, in the vicinity of volcanoes ... [S]uch places are deliberately chosen by the souls thus karmically connected, in order that they may experience this very destiny ... [They think] I choose a great disaster on earth in order to become more perfect.... — R. Steiner, KARMIC RELATIONSHIPS, Vol. 2 (Rudolf Steiner Press, 1974), pp. 226-227.
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