76. About the Photographs of the Construction

GA 246/1918-06-30/p034 ·1918-06-30 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
Record: listeners' notes. Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word. Evidence: «Nach zum Teil bruchstückhaften Mitschriften» (From transcripts that are in part fragmentary). The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 246), which also speaks of "fragmentarischen Hörernotizen und Vortragszusammenfassungen". The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

The center of the whole is now to form a sculptural group, which is to represent the mystery, which is to become the important mystery for the cultural age that is now beginning. This group is meant to be here, so that this sculptural group will stand here, facing directly west. This group initially represents a central figure. I don't think it's right to start from the prosaic, the novellistic, but rather from the artistic. Whoever believes in the central figure what is otherwise [believed] about Christ will be right, but it is a human breast that is depicted, and [illegible word] [gap], but rather to focus on what this representative of humanity directly stands for. So that it now expresses preferably the element of love. He is connected with the Ahrimanic and Luciferic elements [which are depicted to his right and left]. This is actually what will be necessary in the future [illegible word], to understand that by looking at the human, whether in the spiritual-religious or social-economic, we must understand how the normal-human works into the human physique, that the ahrimanic and the luciferic live in the human.

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