189. Thus the individual obtains a strengthened faculty of recognition by being able to gather all his memories of a certain type into one area. This means that he has the faculty of recognizing things to a deeper and more detailed extent than would have been the case otherwise. By the moving about of memories in this way the individual can acquire further experiences within the field of recognition. He has obtained this additional experience for himself consciously by mobilizing all his outstanding memories of a certain type the better to be able to recognize a reality or manifestation occurring outwardly. Arising from this kind of mobilization of memories is a deeper recognition, appearing in daily life under the terms "definition" or "analysis". To define, analyse, reason out or "think things through" is thus the same as to mobilize already previously lived-through recollections in a certain area, the better to recognise an outward reality related to one of these memory types with which an increased recognition arises of that reality. This recognition or analysis then becomes equivalent to the individual's first form of "knowledge". The quality of this knowledge as an expression of absolute fact or actuality will thus be dependent on how large a group, or amount, of memories the individual has in the area in question, and how far his faculty to mobilize memories is developed. To analyse or "think things through" in this way is a function which cannot be carried out with the hands or take place on the physical plane, and it becomes therefore a "mental function" which takes place by means of the body of intelligence. These areas, composed of related memories, constitute power centres in the faculty of recognition and a basis for all absolute knowledge, thereby forwarding still further any form of additional talent. By this shifting of memories the individual will have new experiences. He discovers that not only can memories be grouped together, thereby strengthening power centres for the faculty of recognition, but that these groupings or compositions also make up new "pictures" or "image formations". He thus becomes more and more acquainted with the special nature of single memories and recognizes that each one constitutes a "shape", "feature" or "figure" and that each one has an "outline". This will again denote that when two or more memories are placed together this combination makes up a new unit in a new shape with new outlines, which means a whole new "figure" or "picture". This new picture is not a memory picture, however, but a new creation, which means a new experience. But as this experience is not conveyed to the physical senses, in that it is neither seen, smelt, tasted or generally felt or sensed, it becomes of a purely mental nature. However, this mental experience also leaves memories in the individual's mind. This again expands his faculty of recognition for mental realities. Gradually he gains experience in this way in combining memories, not merely to strengthen the faculty of recognition, but also to let firm shapes and outlines of single memory pictures come together with other memory pictures, shapes and outlines to present new figures, images and pictorial compositions. Through these experiences the "ability to create consciously" is formed. But as yet this creating can come about only in memory material. The memories in this case become like building blocks with which the individual can build up quite new pictorial compositions. Such pictorial compositions then become of the same special nature or character as the memories from which they were combined and built up. In this way "auditory images" are created from auditory memories, "visual images" from visual memories and so on. But as these images cannot be grasped by the hands or sensed with the physical senses they become synonymous with "mental objects". As long as the individual's day-consciousness can still be carried only by his physical body, these images can therefore be perceived only as "thoughts" or "mental compositions". This implies that mental objects or compositions in the conscious physical state of terrestrial mankind can be perceived only as "ideas". However, all the individual's thoughts or ideas are just as realistic as objects on the mental plane as are material objects on the physical plane.