{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 156/1914-12-19/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This is the more exact process. Here we have another example of how materialism fails to explain everything. The materialist believes that he must look for the cause of thinking in what goes on inside, in the process of putting corpses into the ground. But what actually takes place are processes of secretion of thought, processes of the dead body. And the nervous system is there so that the process of secretion can be produced through the activity of thought. What thought leaves over, what it cannot use, what it expels, is examined by physical physiology. But during the waking hours of the day something takes shape that can be called the dying away of thinking in the physical body. The powers of thought that one develops are used to produce, as it were, casts or imprints of oneself. The forces go into these casts. During the night they do not go into such casts, for then we live, as it were, in the general ocean of spiritual existence. But because we cannot form such impressions in normal life without initiation, our thoughts also dissolve in this general sea. When we want to grasp them in the morning, they have simply dissolved; not even memory can hold on to them.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Third Lecture","site_heading":"Mirror Images and Moral Creation in Cosmic Order","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. 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Da haben Sie wieder etwas von der Art, an der man zeigen kann, wie der Materialismus eigentlich daneben haut. Der Materialist glaubt, daß er in dem, was dadrinnen vor sich geht, im Leichenprozeß, die Ursache des Denkens suchen müsse. Aber was da sich vollzieht, das sind in Wirklichkeit Absonderungsprozesse des Denkens, Leichenprozesse; und das Nervensystem ist dazu da, damit durch die Tätigkeit des Denkens der Absonderungsprozeß erzeugt werden kann. Was das Denken übrig läßt, was es nicht brauchen kann, was es ausstößt, das untersucht die physische Physiologie. Dadurch aber bildet sich während des wachen Tageslebens etwas, was man nennen kann das Ersterben des Denkens im physischen Leibe darinnen. Die Gedankenkräfte, die man entwickelt, werden verwendet, um gleichsam Abklatsche, Abdrücke von sich zu erzeugen. Da gehen die Kräfte hinein in diese Abklatsche. Während der Nacht gehen sie nicht in solche Abklatsche hinein, da leben wir gleichsam im allgemeinen Meere des geistigen Seins. 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