Lecture VI

GA 137/1912-06-08/p009 ·1912-06-08 · English LowLow alignmentMost translators re-paragraphed Steiner substantially. The locus identifies the same chapter or section, but paragraph-N to paragraph-N mapping is loose. For exact-quotation precision, compare with the German.
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Yesterday, when we recounted in order the members of man's form, we began with what we called his upright posture; and then we went on to speak of how man is orientated in a forward direction,—to express it better, for the act of speaking. We have, therefore, as second member the forward direction, the direction for speaking. The third, you will remember, was symmetry. Taking for the moment just these three members of man's nature, we have there one part of the human form as we behold it externally in space.

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