Tertium Organum


part of it begins to work as intellect. An animal lives by sensations and



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part of it begins to work as intellect. An animal lives by sensations and 
emotions. In an animal the intellect is only in an embryonic state, as an 
emotion of 
curiosity,
the 
pleasure of knowing.
In a man the growth of reason consists in the growth of the intellect and in 
the accompanying growth of higher emotions: aesthetic, religious, moral ­
which, as they grow, become more and more 


intellectualized; moreover, simultaneously with this the intellect becomes impregnated 
with emotionality and ceases to be 'cold'. Thus 'spirituality' is the merging together of 
the intellect and the higher emotions. The intellect is 
spiritualized 
from the emotions; 
the emotions are 
spiritualized
from the intellect. 
The functions of reason are not limited, but the human intellect does not often rise to 
its highest form. At the same time, it would again be incorrect to say that the highest 
human form of knowledge will no longer be intellectual, but will be something 
different; only this higher reason is entirely unrestricted by 
logical concepts
and the 
Euclidean sphere. We shall hear a great deal about this from the side of 
mathematics 
which has actually transcended the domain of logic long ago. But it transcended it 
with 
the help of the intellect. 
New perception grows on the soil of the intellect and the 
higher emotions, but is not created by them. A tree grows from the earth, but is not 
created by the earth. A seed is necessary. This seed may or may not be in the soul. 
When it is there, it may be made to sprout or it may be choked; when it is not there, 
nothing else can take its place. And a soul (if it may be called soul) deprived of this 
seed, i.e. incapable of feeling and reflecting the world of the miraculous, will never 
produce a living shoot but will always 
reflect only the phenomenal world. 
At the present stage of his development, while man learns to know many things by 
means of the intellect, he also knows a great many things through emotions. Emotions 
are in no way instruments of feeling 
for the sake of feeling;
they are all - instruments of 
knowledge. By every emotion man learns to know something he cannot know without 
its help - something he cannot know by any other emotion or by any effort of the 
intellect. If we consider the emotional nature of man as limited by itself, as serving 
life 
without serving 
knowledge,
we shall never understand its true content and significance. 
Emotions serve knowledge. There are things and relations which can be known only 
emotionally and only through 
a given emotion. 
To understand the psychology of 
gambling 
it is necessary to feel the emotions of a 
gambler; to understand the 
psychology of the hunt
it is necessary to feel the emotions of 
the hunter; the psychology of a man in love is incomprehensible to a man who is 
indifferent; the state of mind of Archimedes when he jumped out of the bath is 
incomprehensible to the placid citizen who thinks him insane; the feelings of a 
traveller, breathing in the sea air and gazing at the vast expanse of the sea, are 
incomprehensible to a man content with his sedentary life. The feelings of a believer 
are incomprehensible to an unbeliever, and 


the feelings of an unbeliever are incomprehensible to a believer. The reason why men 
understand one another so little is that they always live by 
different 
emotions. And they 
understand one another only when they happen simultaneously to experience identical 
emotions. Popular wisdom is well aware of this fact: '
A FULL MAN DOES NOT 
UNDERSTAND 

HUNGRY ONE
', it says; 'a drunken man is no companion for a sober 
one'; 'birds of a feather flock together'. 
In this mutual understanding, or in the illusion of a mutual understanding from being 
immersed in similar emotions, lies one of the main charms of love. Guy de Maupassant 
expressed this very well in his short sketch 'Solitude'. In this same illusion lies the 
secret of the power of 

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