{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 156/1914-12-13/p039","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Human gestures become an expression of the whole life of the world, of the spiritual life of the world. One must feel how such knowledge of the secrets of the cosmos can deepen the ordering of the human form in art! But you can also ask yourself: What actually happened when the upward orientation of the head, which can be compared to the Luciferic, was turned forward, and the human being stands on the earth with the head turned forward? He thereby became an earthly being! That which is not an earthly being cannot have legs and feet in the human sense. Man does not get his head, and with it his countenance, from the earth, but from the cosmos; but it comes into being in its form through turning to the earth. If we take other genii, other spirits, we cannot possibly make them with human legs. To make genii, who do not belong to earthly existence, with human legs is simply wrong, is actually wrong. This can really be seen from spiritual scientific knowledge. And our art in our building should take full account of these perceptions that come from spiritual scientific knowledge.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Second Lecture","site_heading":"The Four Members and Cosmic-Astral Correspondences","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Wie vertieft werden kann die Anordnung der menschlichen Gestalt in der Kunst durch ein solches Wissen von den Geheimnissen des Kosmos, das muß man empfinden! Auch das aber können Sie sich sagen: Was ist denn geschehen, indem das gleichsam luziferisch Nach-oben-Geordnetsein des Hauptes - durch den Sonneneinfluß auf der Erde - nach vorne hingewendet worden ist, und der Mensch mit dem nach vorne gewendeten Haupte auf der Erde steht? Er ist dadurch ein Erdenwesen geworden! Dasjenige, was nicht ein Erdenwesen ist, das kann also nicht Beine und Füße im menschlichen Sinne haben. Sein Haupt, und damit auch das Antlitz, hat der Mensch nicht von der Erde, sondern vom Kosmos; aber es entsteht in seiner Form dadurch, daß es sich der Erde zuwendet. Nehmen wir andere Genien, andere Geister, so können wir sie unmöglich mit menschlichen Beinen machen. Genien, die nicht zum Erdendasein gehören, mit menschlichen Beinen zu machen, ist einfach falsch, ist tatsächlich falsch. Das kann man wirklich einsehen aus geisteswissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis heraus. Und diesen Empfindungen, die aus der geisteswissenschaftlichen Erkenntnis kommen, soll unsere Kunst bei unserem Bau allseitig Rechnung tragen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":197,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-12-13/p038"}],"english":["GA 156/1914-12-13/p039"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":197,"en_words":195,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5971,"original_word_count":5709,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"How Does One Enter the World of Ideas?","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA156/English/SOL2024/19141213p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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