{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 236/1924-04-27/p035","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We do not only become physiologically long-sighted with age as the result of having gazed constantly at nature, but this gives our soul a certain configuration. As it gazes at nature, the soul realises inwardly that not all the demands of vision are being satisfied. Unsatisfied demands of vision remain. And this holds good for the process of perception in general—hearing, feeling, and so forth. Certain elements in the perceptive process remain unsatisfied when we gaze out into nature. It is more or less the same as if a man in physical existence wished to spend his whole life without taking adequate food. Such a man deteriorates physically. But when he merely gazes at nature, the perceptive faculty in his life of soul deteriorates. He gets a kind of ‘consumption’ of soul in his sense-world. 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Und das Sehen bloß in die Natur hinaus ist ungefähr so, wie wenn ein Mensch im Physischen sein ganzes Leben hindurch leben wollte, ohne genügend zu essen. Wenn der Mensch leben wollte, ohne genügend zu essen, so würde er natürlich immer mehr und mehr herunterkommen im physischen Sinne. Aber wenn der Mensch immer nur in die Natur hinausschaut, kommt er seelisch in bezug auf das Wahrnehmen herunter. Er bekommt die Auszehrung, die seelische Auszehrung für seine Sinnenwelt. Das wußte man in früheren Mysterienweisheiten, daß man die Auszehrung für die Sinnenwelt bekommt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":183,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/236/1924-04-27/p039"},{"locus":"GA 236/1924-04-27/p040","passage_number":40,"text":"Aber man wußte auch, wodurch diese Auszehrung ausgeglichen wird. Man wußte, wenn man hinschaute bei der Tempelarchitektur auf das Ebenmaß des Tragenden und Lastenden oder wie im Orient auf die Formen, die eigentlich in äußerer Plastik Moralisches darstellten, wenn man hinschaute auf das, was in den Formen der Architektur sich dem Auge, dem Wahrnehmen überhaupt darbot, oder was dann eben wirklich an Architektur wiederum musikalisch sich darbot, daß darinnen das Heilmittel liegt gegen die Auszehrung der Sinne, wenn diese bloß in die Natur hinausschauen. Und wenn noch der Grieche in seinen Tempel geführt wurde, wo er das Tragende und Lastende sah, die Säulen, darüber den Architrav und so weiter, wenn er das wahrnahm, was da an innerer Mechanik und Dynamik ihm entgegentrat, dann wurde der Blick abgeschlossen. In der Natur dagegen stiert der Mensch hinaus, der Blick geht eigentlich ins Unendliche, und man kommt nie zu Ende. Man kann ja eigentlich Naturwissenschaft für jedes Problem ohne Ende treiben: es geht immer weiter, weiter. 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