Thirteenth Lecture

GA 254/1915-11-07/p035 ·1915-11-07 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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Suppose a woman — or, so as not to be one-sided, a man — becomes angry today, really angry, and attacks another person with evil thoughts. It is true that this is not expressed so strongly in the transformation of the face, a little bit, but not so strongly. People today can be very angry, and it is not expressed so strongly in their physiognomy. It was different in the old Atlantean time. Then, when a person had something evil in mind, the face became a complete expression of their inner being, it changed completely, so that at that time it would not have been incorrect to say: He looks like a cat. — People really did look like cats or hyenas when they became completely evil. At that time, a person's outward appearance was still a complete expression of their inner being. So people were highly transformable in those days.

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