by Raphael
Three Conditions of Memory
1. If it is too hard, nothing is retained; this is like the seed that falls on the edge of the road, where the earth is too hard-packed and the seeds cannot take root. This leads to forgetting of all but the strongest impressions, and so the gentle impressions of spiritual experience are not retained.
2. If it is too soft, too much is retained; the memory is not sufficiently selective, but instead retains irrelevancies and untested delusions, which blanket the memories we wish to retain. In this case the impressions of spiritual experience are usually obscured; a few may survive, but they will not be remembered often enough to lead to any change in our lives.
3. If the wax is in perfect condition, at a perfect temperature, we retain what we wish to retain.
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