{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us imagine we have here the receiver of an air-pump, say a glass bell-jar, and suppose we succeed in making a really perfect vacuum inside it. That is very nearly possible ordinarily. Everyone whose intellect is bound to the world of sense will now say, “Inside there is no air, only an empty space; we cannot go any farther, there cannot be less than no air inside.” Actually that is not true. We can pump until no air at all is left, then go on pumping until we get a space still more empty of air than a vacuum. People dependent on the material will find it difficult to imagine this “less than nothing.” Or, suppose you have ten shillings in your pocket. You can gradually spend them until you have nothing left. In this domain of life there is a real “less than nothing.” It is often one of the strongest realities—you can go into *debt* for a few shillings. In practical life less-than-nothing is often more intensely real than the reality of possession.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VII","site_heading":"Krishna, the Luke Jesus Child, and Human Creative Forces","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1913-06-03","location":null,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/146/1913-06-03/p009","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:embedding","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. 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Dann können wir uns vorstellen, daß das so weit gehen könnte, daß wir gewissermaßen am Nullpunkt angelangt wären, daß wir nun aber weiter pumpten, und nun unter Null gehen könnten: dann würden wir einen Raum bekommen, der weniger als luftleer wäre. Die Menschen, die sehr am Materiellen hängen, werden sich das schwer vorstellen können, denn die Menschen können sich gewöhnlich nicht «weniger als nichts» vorstellen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":170,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p006"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"In bezug auf Sinneswahrnehmungen wird diese Vorstellung schon eher vollzogen werden können. Denken wir uns einmal, wir seien in einem Walde, wo viele, viele Vögel singen. Mitten darin sind wir in diesem Vogelgesang. Nehmen wir nun aber an, wir entfernten uns immer mehr und mehr, wir gingen aus dem Walde heraus, wir hörten den Vogelsang immer weniger, kämen an einen Ort, wo wir ihn nicht mehr hören könnten, aber wir gingen noch weiter: dann muß das Verringertwerden des Hörens doch auch weiter gehen. Wir kommen zur Stille, aber wenn wir weiter gehen, doch auch in bezug auf den Vogelgesang zu dem, was unter der Stille, unter der Ruhe ist. Sie sehen, daß dieser zweite Gedanke, diese zweite Vorstellung schon besser zu vollziehen ist als die erste. Daß es gerade eine Grenze gibt, wo wir nichts mehr hören, können wir uns leicht vorstellen. 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