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If you form your ideas in such a way that you first look at an object, perceive it, and then keep it in your memory, and your thoughts are such that you are stimulated by such ideas, then you have sensual thinking. This thinking fills by far the greatest part of the soul experiences of the present human being. And when a person examines himself to see how much remains to him when he throws out of his soul all ideas that are caused by sensory perception, then he will first become aware of what content is still there in the soul. When the ideas that were stimulated by external impressions have been removed, then he will grasp what the Greek philosopher Plato meant when he wrote over the entrance to his school, “No one unfamiliar with geometry shall enter.” This means that no one should enter who has not been able to rise to thinking free of sensuality. He did not demand ordinary geometry. Nor is it required today by those who want to ascend to higher worlds. Nor would it be necessary today for intrinsic, objective reasons. But from geometric representations one can form an idea of what thinking is that is free of sensuality. If you put three beans here, add three more beans, and another three beans, then you can learn from this sensual impression that 3 times 3 = 9. The child or primitive man learns it by the fingers. This is sensual thinking. When you no longer need the fingers or the beans, but when you learn the same thing through pure mental contemplation, then it is sensual-free thinking. The child starts learning from a bridge [beans or fingers] and only later rises to sensual-free thinking. If we draw a circle on the blackboard, it is not really a circle; what we draw there is a collection of little chalk mountains. You will not be able to grasp what a real circle is with sensory perception alone. Only the spiritually viewed, inwardly constructed circle is free of sensuality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":361,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/101/1907-12-29/p006","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Myths and Legends, Occult Signs and Symbols","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA101/English/SOL2024/19071229p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Yes, in Theosophy one must teach something that is almost impossible for today's conditions and describe the old moon in such a way that there were no such rocks, minerals and stones on it as there are on our earth today. The entire old moon consisted of a living substance that could be compared in density to a kind of spinach puree or cooked salad, a body halfway between minerals and plants, half plant, half mineral. We find something like a semi-vegetable life on the old moon. Minerals as they are today did not yet exist at that time. If you look at today's peat bogs, where there is also a kind of semi-vegetable substance, you would get an outwardly similar picture to the substance of the old moon. Instead of rocks and mountains, you would have found at most something on the old moon that is like the bark of our trees today. Now every naturalist will object that something like that could not exist as a planet. But it is precisely this that is needed, and it is a necessity in order to understand other epochs of development, for the human being to tear his thinking away from what today adheres to the conceptions of ordinary sensory thinking and feeling, and to arrive at a thinking that is free of the senses. Thinking that is free of the senses is not abstract thinking, but very, very real thinking. If we think of the old moon as a kind of large salad with its bark and so on included, then this is “sensual-supersensual” thinking, as Goethe says. By detaching color and form from sensuality and projecting them freely into space, you have gained imaginations through sensual-free thinking. 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Wenn Sie Ihre Vorstellungen so bilden, daß Sie zunächst einen Gegenstand ansehen, wahrnehmen, und ihn dann im Gedächtnis behalten, und Ihr Gedankenleben verläuft so, daß Sie angeregt sind durch solche Vorstellungen, dann haben Sie ein sinnlichkeitserfülltes Denken. Dies füllt den weitaus größten Teil der seelischen Erlebnisse des gegenwärtigen Menschen aus. Und wenn der Mensch einmal mit sich zu Rate geht, wieviel ihm bleibt, wenn er alle Vorstellungen aus seiner Seele herauswirft, die durch sinnliche Wahrnehmung veranlaßt sind, dann wird er erst einmal gewahr werden, was da noch an Inhalt in der Seele ist. Wenn die Vorstellungen, die durch Äußeres angeregt wurden, weggebracht sind, dann begreift er, was der griechische Philosoph Plato meinte, als er vor das Tor seiner Schule schrieb, kein mit Geometrie Unbekannter solle eintreten. Das ist so gemeint, daß kein solcher eintreten solle, der sich nicht zu einem sinnlichkeitsfreien Denken erheben konnte. Keine gewöhnliche Geometrie hat er verlangt. Das wird auch heute nicht von denen verlangt, die zu höheren Welten aufsteigen wollen. Es würde auch heute aus inneren sachlichen Gründen nicht notwendig sein. Aber an den geometrischen Vorstellungen kann man sich eine Idee bilden, was sinnlichkeitsfreies Denken ist. Wenn Sie hier drei Bohnen hinlegen, noch drei Bohnen dazulegen, und noch einmal drei Bohnen, dann können Sie an diesem sinnlichen Eindruck lernen, daß 3 mal 3 = 9 ist. Das Kind oder der primitive Mensch lernt es an den Fingern. Das ist sinnlichkeitserfülltes Denken. Wenn Sie nicht mehr die Finger brauchen oder die Bohnen, sondern wenn Sie dasselbe lernen durch rein geistige Anschauung, dann ist das sinnlichkeitsfreies Denken. Das Kind geht beim Lernen von einer Brücke aus [Bohnen oder Finger], und erhebt sich erst später zu einem sinnlichkeitsfreien Denken. Wenn wir an die Tafel einen Kreis zeichnen, so ergibt dies in Wirklichkeit keinen Kreis; was wir da hinzeichnen, ist eine Anhäufung von kleinen Kreidebergen. Sie werden mit der sinnlichen Wahrnehmung allein nicht erfassen können, was ein wirklicher Kreis ist. Nur der geistig angeschaute, innerlich konstruierte Kreis ist sinnlichkeitsfrei.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":346,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/101/1907-12-29/p006"},{"locus":"GA 101/1907-12-29/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Das beste Mittel für einen größeren Menschenkreis, zu einem sinnlichkeitsfreien Denken zu kommen, ist heute die Theosophie, wenn die Theosophie so aufgefaßt wird, daß der Mensch lernt, die Vorstellungen loszulösen von der Sinnlichkeit. Namentlich auf den Gebieten, die ein wenig über das Allerelementarste hinausgehen, wird der Mensch durch Theosophie zu sinnlichkeitsfreiem Denken geführt. Wenn Sie sich zum Beispiel klarmachen wollen, was der Ätherleib oder der Astralleib ist, so können Sie diese ja äußerlich nicht sehen. Gerade das gibt Ihnen die Theosophie, daß sie Dinge beschreibt, die Sie äußerlich nicht sehen können. Oder wenn wir in der Theosophie den alten Mond beschreiben, dann entwerfen wir von ihm ein Bild, ein möglichst drastisches sogar, in dem wir sinnliche und übersinnliche Vorstellungen zusammenfügen, so daß ein materialistisch gesinnter Mensch sagen würde: Der malt da etwas hin, was gar nicht möglich ist. - Ja, man muß in der Theosophie etwas für heutige Verhältnisse geradezu Unmögliches lehren und den alten Mond so beschreiben, daß auf ihm keine solchen Felsen, Mineralien und Steine waren, wie sie heute auf unserer Erde sind. Der ganze alte Mond bestand aus einer lebendigen Substanz, die man vergleichen könnte in der Dichtigkeit mit einer Art Spinatbrei oder Kochsalat, also ein Körper zwischen Mineralien und Pflanzen mittendrin, ein halb pflanzlicher, halb mineralischer Körper. Wir finden auf dem alten Mond etwas wie ein halb-pflanzliches Leben. Solche Mineralien wie heute gab es damals noch nicht. Wenn Sie die heutigen Torfmoore betrachten, wo auch eine Art halb-pflanzliche Substanz ist, würden Sie ein äußerlich ähnliches Bild bekommen, wie die Substanz des alten Mondes war. Statt Felsen und Berge würden Sie auf dem alten Monde höchstens so etwas gefunden haben, wie es heute die Borke unserer Bäume ist. Nun wird Ihnen jeder Naturforscher heute einwenden, so etwas könne nicht als Planet existieren. - Aber darauf kommt es ja gerade an - und es ist eine Notwendigkeit, um andere Entwickelungsepochen zu verstehen -, daß der Mensch sein Denken losreißt von dem, was heute den Vorstellungen von gewöhnlichem sinnlichen Denken und Empfinden anhaftet, und zu einem sinnlichkeitsfreien Denken kommt. Sinnlichkeitsfreies Denken ist nicht abstraktes Denken, sondern sehr, sehr wirkliches Denken. Wenn wir uns den alten Mond als eine Art großen Kochsalat denken mit eingeschlossener Borke und so weiter, so ist das «sinnlich-übersinnlich» gedacht, wie Goethe sagt. Indem Sie Farbe und Form loslösen von der Sinnlichkeit und sie frei in den Raum hinaus projizieren, haben Sie durch sinnlichkeitsfreies Denken Vorstellungen gewonnen. 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