{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 183/1918-08-18/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus you see that we actually live our conscious life between this wave (right of Diagram 2) and this other wave (left). We should be mere funnels, therefore, letting everything flow through us; had we not this dam as the basis of memory, and we should see into the secrets beyond our boundary of knowledge were we not obliged to place ourselves outside the sphere of perceptible concepts for which we have no content. We should be funnels were we not so organised that we could not produce this dam, organised so that we should not be obliged to set up before us concepts as it were without a content, obscure concepts, we should become loveless beings, empty of love, with dry, stony natures. Nothing, in the world would please us and we should be so many Mephistopheles. Because we are organised so that we are unable to approach what is of soul-and-spirit in our environment with our abstract concepts, with our intellectual powers—to this we owe our capacity to love. For we are not meant to approach what we should love by analysing it in the ordinary sense of the term, nor by tearing it to pieces and treating it as chemicals are treated by the chemist in a laboratory. We do not love when we analyse like a chemist or synthesise chemically. The power of memory, the capacity to love—these are two capacities that correspond at the same time to two boundaries of human nature. The boundary towards within, corresponds to the power of memory; what lies beyond the memory zone is the subconscious within man. The other zone corresponds to the power of love, and whet lies beyond this zone corresponds to what is of the nature of soul-and-spirit in the universe. The unconscious part of man's nature lies beyond this zone as far as what is within man reaches; the soul-spiritual of the universe goes out boundlessly from the other zone into the wide space.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"The Soul's Dual Boundaries: Memory and Love","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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Wären wir so organisiert, daß wir nicht genötigt wären, diese gewissermaßen unausgefüllten Begriffe, diese dunklen Begriffe vor uns hinzusetzen, so wären wir liebeleere und liebelose Wesen; steinerne Naturen wären wir, trockene Naturen. Wir könnten nichts in der Welt gern haben, wir wären alle Mephistophelesnaturen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":130,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/183/1918-08-18/p025"},{"locus":"GA 183/1918-08-18/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Daß wir so organisiert sind, daß wir an gewisses Geistig-Seelisches unserer Umgebung nicht herankommen können mit unseren abstrakten Begriffen, mit unserem Fassungsvermögen, das bewirkt, daß wir lieben können. Denn was wir lieben sollen, an das sollen wir nicht so herankommen, daß wir es analysieren im gewöhnlichen Sinne des Wortes, daß wir es zergliedern, daß wir es behandeln wie der Chemiker im Laboratorium die chemischen Stoffe. 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