76. About the Photographs of the Construction
GA 246/1918-06-30/p053
·1918-06-30
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English
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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.
Well, there is something here that is captured everywhere, something that is not possible in external naturalistic art as sculpture. In external art, symmetry must prevail. Here there is asymmetry. So it is that which is contained by external physical nature. This must be retained in the spiritual. You will also notice from the physical that your left eye is often different from your right eye; the same applies to your ears, nose and so on. The human being is always somewhat asymmetrical. This being is in fact artistically quite asymmetrical, not created from within, but from this moment of destiny of anthroposophy.
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