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This is the case with our eurythmy, which must not be confused with any of the physical, sporting, gymnastic or dance endeavors that have emerged from the materialistic age, but which is rather singled out from our spiritual endeavors, so that people can experience in the most direct and intimate way how the spirit works, especially in this sphere. I have already shown from various sides how this eurythmy came about. The aim was to give humanity something that, I would say, already shows the spirit of evolution in an outward sense. This could only be done if it was clear that we also live in a world of forms in our immediate life and that progress is a penetration into the world of movement. The world of forms dominates our physical body, the world of movement dominates our etheric body. We must now find the movements that are innate to the etheric body. The human being must be guided to express in gestures, in movements of the physical body, that which is natural to the etheric body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":208,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/156/1914-10-07/p045","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA156/English/Singles/19141007p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 156/1914-10-07/p045"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. 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Our present-day materialistic culture, from which spirits like Herman Grimm longed to escape, has led to a situation in which people have no understanding at all for the fact that we can only move properly in external forms if we do not have movements as “dalkerte” - forgive the trivial expression - as in sports, in modern gymnastics or playing football, but when he follows the movements that are naturally inherent in his etheric body, when one begins to carry the movements of the etheric body into the movements of the physical body, when the etheric body lives on in the movements of the physical body. This is attempted in eurythmy. It will become clear that the human being, in his movements, is truly an intermediate link between the cosmic letters and sounds and what we ourselves use in the human letters and sounds in our poetry.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":181,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/156/1914-10-07/p046","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA156/English/Singles/19141007p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 156/1914-10-07/p046"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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It is always good when a person learns to translate what is natural and innate in the etheric body into physical movements. It is self-evident in the spiritual life that what can be said poetically can be interpreted in the movements that our eurythmy brings.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":118,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/156/1914-10-07/p047","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA156/English/Singles/19141007p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 156/1914-10-07/p047"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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Therefore, it is a very good way to establish the connection between the divine spiritual hierarchies and the growing child.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":89,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/156/1914-10-07/p048","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA156/English/Singles/19141007p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 156/1914-10-07/p048"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. 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But for the souls it is often as if one wanted to bring about a natural development of the human body by breaking the hands and legs of children in their sixth or seventh year. That is roughly what happens when children are forced to learn letters, because for human beings, learning to read and write are the most unnatural activities there are. They have to be forced to do it, even though the art of reading and writing is in the greatest disharmony with what the soul wants. It is a sad sight to behold, but it is a necessity; it is no use closing one's mind to it. But teaching children to read and write at this age would be pretty much the most sensible thing to do. Even if they were instructed to make figures out of simple street dirt, that would be much more sensible. There is only one thing we can do: we can try to let the atrophied etheric body - for it atrophies under today's necessities - move in the eurythmic movements of the physical body, which the gods want. This is what eurythmy should offer in a pedagogical sense.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":295,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/156/1914-10-07/p049","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA156/English/Singles/19141007p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 156/1914-10-07/p049"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. 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If he says to himself: “What the Greeks did in the Olympic Games was very clever, so we'll do the same,” then it's really very funny; because it means nothing other than if, for example, a twenty-five-year-old did not like studying at a university and would rather do what a five- or ten-year-old boy does. Simply to transpose Greek into our own time is the most ridiculous thing one could do; it is a betrayal of trust in the development of humanity. If we are to seek today for that which the Greeks sought in their own way in the Olympic Games, then eurythmy must become part of humanity. People must try to achieve bodily health from the soul by not allowing the etheric body to wither away, but by letting the physical body make the movements required by the etheric body. 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So ist es mit unserer Eurythmie, die nicht verwechselt werden darf mit irgendeiner der aus dem materialistischen Zeitalter hervorgegangenen körperlichen, sportlichen, turnerischen oder tänzerischen Bestrebungen, sondern die vielmehr herausgegriffen ist aus unseren geistigen Bestrebungen, damit die Menschen gerade auch in dieser Sphäre erfahren können im unmittelbarsten, innigsten Erleben, wie der Geist wirkt. Ich habe schon von verschiedenen Seiten her gezeigt, wie man zu dieser Eurythmie gekommen ist. Das Bestreben bestand, der Menschheit etwas zu geben, was, ich möchte sagen, auch schon in einem äußerlichen Sinn den Geist der Evolution zeigt. Das konnte man nur, wenn man sich klar war darüber, daß wir im unmittelbaren Leben auch in einer Welt der Formen leben, und daß das Vorwärtsschreiten ein Hineindringen in die Welt der Bewegung ist. Die Welt der Formen beherrscht unseren physischen Leib, die Welt der Bewegung beherrscht unseren Ätherleib. Es müssen nun gefunden werden die Bewegungen, die dem Ätherleib eingeboren sind. Es muß der Mensch angeleitet werden, dasjenige in Gesten, in Bewegungen des physischen Leibes zum Ausdruck zu bringen, was dem Ätherleib natürlich ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":203,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-10-07/p045"},{"locus":"GA 156/1914-10-07/p046","passage_number":46,"text":"Sie werden in den letzten Vorträgen über «Okkultes Lesen und okkultes Hören» gesehen haben, daß im Weltenall, im kosmischen Werden, etwas liegt von regelmäßiger Bewegung. Das überträgt sich auf den menschlichen Ätherleib. Unsere materialistische Kultur der Gegenwart, aus der sich Geister wie Herman Grimm heraussehnten, hat dazu geführt, daß man gar kein Verständnis dafür hat, daß der Mensch sich nur dann richtig in äußeren Formen bewegen kann, wenn er nicht so «dalkerte» - verzeihen Sie den trivialen Ausdruck Bewegungen dabei hat wie beim Sport, beim modernen Turnen oder beim Fußballspielen, sondern wenn er in sich verfolgt die Bewegungen, die in naturgemäßer Weise seinem Ätherleibe eingeboren sind, wenn man anfängt, die Bewegungen des Ätherleibes in die Bewegungen des physischen Leibes hineinzutragen, wenn der Ätherleib fortlebt in den Bewegungen des physischen Leibes. Das wird versucht in der Eurythmie. Es wird sich herausstellen, daß der Mensch in seinen Bewegungen wirklich ein Zwischenglied ist zwischen den kosmischen Buchstaben, den kosmischen Lauten und dem, was wir selbst gebrauchen in den menschlichen Lauten und Buchstaben in unseren Dichtungen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":172,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-10-07/p046"},{"locus":"GA 156/1914-10-07/p047","passage_number":47,"text":"Ganz sicherlich wird in dieser Eurythmie eine neue Kunst entstehen. Diese Kunst ist für jeden Menschen. Und man möchte, daß die Menschheit ergriffen würde von Verständnis für diese Kunst, so daß sie wirklich schon betrieben würde bei den Kindern, angefangen von den kleinsten, wo sich ja schon jene innigste Freude daran herausgestellt hat, bis zu den größten Kindern, auch bis zu solchen von siebzig, achtzig und neunzig Jahren. Immer ist es gut, wenn der Mensch verstehen lernt, in physische Bewegungen das umzusetzen, was dem Ätherleib natürlich und eingeboren ist. Es ist wie selbstverständlich im geistigen Leben, daß das, was man dichterisch sagen kann, seine Interpretation finden kann in jenen Bewegungen, die unsere Eurythmie bringt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":114,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-10-07/p047"},{"locus":"GA 156/1914-10-07/p048","passage_number":48,"text":"Ein pädagogisches, ein künstlerisches und ein hygienisches Prinzip drückt sich in der Eurythmie zugleich aus. Ein pädagogisches Prinzip insofern, als der Mensch ja, wenn er heranwächst mit Eurythmie, wenn er von den ersten Kindheitsjahren an Bewegungen im Sinne der Eurythmie gemacht hat, dann mit seinem Leibe Bewegungen ausgeführt hat, welche so wirken, daß, ich möchte sagen, die Götter sich so recht verbunden fühlen mit der Erde. Daher ist sie so recht ein Mittel, die Verbindung herzustellen zwischen den göttlichgeistigen Hierarchien und dem heranwachsenden Kinde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":84,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-10-07/p048"},{"locus":"GA 156/1914-10-07/p049","passage_number":49,"text":"Für den Okkultisten ist es unmittelbar klar, daß eine materialistische Kultur eine furchtbare Diskrepanz auslöst zwischen dem, was dem Menschen eingeboren ist, und dem, was der Kopf und das Herz oft lernen muß. Ich will damit keine Kritik üben, sondern nur auf eine Tatsache hinweisen. Es gibt eigentlich bisher in der Welt nichts Unnatürlicheres, als daß die Kinder, die heranwachsen, heute ungefähr vom sechsten, siebten Jahre an dasjenige lernen müssen, was sie eben lernen müssen. Ich sage nicht, daß sie es nicht lernen sollen, denn selbstverständlich müssen sie lernen, das bringt die äußere soziale Notwendigkeit mit sich. Aber für die Seelen ist es vielfach so, als wenn man eine naturgemäße Entwickelung des menschlichen Leibes dadurch herbeiführen wollte, daß man den Kindern im sechsten, siebten Jahre die Hände und Beine bricht. So ungefähr macht man es, wenn man die Kinder zwingt, Buchstaben zu lernen, denn für den Menschen sind Lesen- und Schreibenlernen die unnatürlichsten Beschäftigungen, die es gibt. Man muß sie dazu zwingen, obwohl die größte Disharmonie besteht zwischen der Kunst des Lesens und Schreibens und dem, wohin die Seele will. Es ist jammervoll anzuschauen, aber es ist eine Notwendigkeit; es nützt nichts, daß man sich davor verschließt. Aber es wäre so ziemlich alles andere gescheiter in diesem Alter, als die Kinder schreiben und lesen zu lehren. Selbst wenn sie angewiesen würden, aus einfachem Straßendreck Figuren zu machen, so wäre das viel gescheiter. Wir können nur eines tun: Wir können versuchen, den verkümmerten Ätherleib - denn er verkümmert unter den heutigen Notwendigkeiten - sich bewegen zu lassen in den eurythmischen Bewegungen des physischen Leibes, die die Götter wollen. Das soll Eurythmie bieten in pädagogischer Beziehung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":274,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-10-07/p049"},{"locus":"GA 156/1914-10-07/p050","passage_number":50,"text":"Wenn viele Menschen heute klagen, daß ihnen dies oder jenes weh tue, ohne daß ihnen so recht etwas fehlt, so ist das gar nicht zu verwundern; denn der Mensch versucht heute nicht mehr, wie es die Griechen taten, einen Einklang herzustellen zwischen den äußeren Bewegungen des physischen Leibes und denen des Ätherleibes. Und wenn er es doch tut, so macht er etwas sehr Komisches. Wenn er sich sagt: Es war von den Griechen sehr gescheit, was sie in den Olympischen Spielen gemacht haben, also machen wir das auch, dann ist das wirklich sehr komisch; denn es bedeutet nichts anderes, als wenn zum Beispiel einem Menschen von fünfundzwanzig Jahren es nicht gefallen würde, an einer Universität zu studieren, und er lieber das tun würde, was ein fünf- oder zehnjähriger Knabe macht. Einfach das Griechische in unsere Zeit herüberzunehmen, ist das Lächerlichste, was man tun kann; es ist eine Versündigung am Vertrauen in die Menschheitsentwickelung. Wenn das heute gesucht werden soll, was die Griechen auf ihre Art in den Olympischen Spielen suchten, dann muß Eurythmie sich einleben in die Menschheit, dann müssen die Menschen versuchen, die Gesundheit ihres Leibes von der Seele aus dadurch zu bewirken, daß sie den Ätherleib nicht verkümmern lassen, sondern den physischen Leib die vom Ätherleib geforderten Bewegungen machen lassen. 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