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And then I would like to mention a sentence that Rudolf Steiner later said in Basel, introducing the teachings and underpinning the whole of eurythmy with it, and which he put into the mouth of Mrs. Felicia in his speech at the first eurythmy performance on August 28, 1913, in Munich: “You must learn to let the heart rise up into the head.” So I stood there in the indicated posture, felt an uprightness rising from my feet (balls of my feet), I felt it in front of my body, not in my spine, through my chest and heart, up to my forehead, from which I had the feeling that it must begin to shine.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":208,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/277a/1912-08-31/p005","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Origin and Development of Eurythmy 1912–1918","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA277a/English/SOL2024/19120831e01.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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Und dann möchte ich schon an dieser Stelle von einem Satz erzählen, den Rudolf Steiner später in Basel, die Unterweisungen einleitend und die ganze Eurythmie damit unterbauend, sagte, und den er bei seiner Ansprache zu der ersten Eurythmie-Aufführung am 28. August 1913 in München der Frau Felicia in den Mund legte: «Sie müssen lernen, das Herz in den Kopf hinaufsteigen zu lassen.» - Ich stand also da in der angegebenen Haltung, fühlte, wie von den Füßen (Ballen) ausgehend eine Aufrechte emporstieg, ich fühlte sie vor meinem Körper, nicht in der Wirbelsäule, durch Brust und Herz. hinauf bis in die Stirne, von der ich das Empfinden hatte, sie müsse zu leuchten beginnen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":198,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/277a/1912-08-31/p005"},{"locus":"GA 277a/1912-08-31/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"«Nun verlagern Sie diese Säule so, dass der Kopf hinter dem Punkt der Füße steht, und dann haben Sie eine Haltung, die Sie als a empfinden lernen sollen.» Das ist nun ein ganz anderes Erlebnis. Das Gewicht verlagert sich auf die Fersen, die Säule, die außerhalb des Körpers und doch ihn aufrichtend, emporgestiegen war, erfasst und durchdringt die Wirbelsäule, sodass man jetzt ein deutliches Erleben seines Knochenmenschen hat und damit einer gewissen Schwere und Erdgebundenheit. Dafür aber ist Brust und Herz wie geöffnet für alle Einflüsse. Die ganze Welt und der ganze Himmel schicken ihre Strahlen herein. Und alle diese Strahlen treffen sich im Herzen. Im Vergleich mit der Empfindung bei der ersten Haltung ist es ein leiser Schmerz, ein Getroffen-Sein. Geöffnet und preisgegeben der Außenwelt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":126,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/277a/1912-08-31/p006"},{"locus":"GA 277a/1912-08-31/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"«Und nun kommt die dritte Haltung: Dazu bringen Sie den Kopfpunkt der Säule vor den Fußpunkt, und das lernen Sie empfinden als 0.» - Das ist ein ganz großer Unterschied gegenüber den beiden ersten Lauten, wenn man es empfindend macht. Aus dem a, aus diesem Untergetaucht-Sein in den physischen Leib bis zu einem Erleben des Rückgrats, der Rippen, bis zu dem deutlichen Gewahr-Werden: ja, die Arme sind ja eigentlich Rippen, die sich frei gemacht haben, die nicht mehr angewachsen sind, von diesem a kommt man über das i, das die Schwere überwindend sich in der Aufrechten erlebt, zu dem o. Da entsteht in zarter und doch so überzeugender Weise das Gefühl, dass die empfindende Seele, entlassen aus der Leibgebundenheit, sich draußen in dem andern, dem sie sich zuneigt in dieser leisen Geste, erleben kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":134,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/277a/1912-08-31/p007"},{"locus":"GA 277a/1912-08-31/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Das dritte Glied der menschlichen Organisation, das Instrument für die Eurythmie, wurde durch diese Übung angesprochen, und ein erstes leises Bewusstsein davon ermöglicht, wie die empfindende Seele in dreifach verschiedener Weise sich verbinden kann mit ihrem eigenen Leib und mit der Außenwelt. 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