{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 277a/1912-09-16_02/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"On that very first afternoon, Rudolf Steiner spoke last of three consonants — he had emphatically stressed: “One must sensitively experience the vowels in their movement tendencies: stretching, grasping, bending, crossing, striving.” In all this activity, the soul lives and expresses itself in ever-changing ways: “The whole soul is represented in its emotional life in the vowels.” This purely soul-based, weaving, living process was then contrasted with three specific consonants, namely the three consonants “b,” “s,” and “z,” which grasp a piece of the outside world, where we “have something in our hands” and now direct all our attention, all our experience, all our adaptability toward this “something,” this object. I will touch, hold, relate to, or even move or shape this piece of the outside world differently if it is a veil, a staff, a shield, a bud, or a flower. “Imagine how spiritual it can be when the boy in ‘Heidenröslein’ holds a stick in his hand and performs all his s-movements with the stick,” said Rudolf Steiner when, about six months later, he showed us a few more of the only stick exercises he had given us during these first lessons, some of which clearly had such an s-character.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Dionysian Course I","site_heading":null,"date":"1912-09-16","location":null,"word_count":202,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/277a/1912-09-16_02/p027","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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/SOL2024/19120916e01.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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Anders werde ich dieses Stück Außenwelt berühren, halten, auf mich beziehen oder gar mich mit ihm gemeinsam bewegen oder Form geben, wenn cs ein Schleier, ein Stab, ein Schild, eine Knospe oder eine Blume ist. «Denken Sie sich, wie geistvoll es sein kann, wenn der Knabe im ‹Heidenröslein› einen Stab in der Hand hält und mit dem Stab alle seine s-Bewegungen ausführt», sagte Rudolf Steiner, als er uns etwa ein halbes Jahr später zu der einzigen Stabübung, die er während dieser ersten Unterweisungen angab, noch einige weitere zeigte, die zum Teil deutlich einen solchen s-Charakter hatten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":209,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/277a/1912-09-16_02/p027"}],"english":["GA 277a/1912-09-16_02/p027"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":209,"en_words":202,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2095,"original_word_count":2027,"may_be_abridged":false},"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/SOL2024/19120916e01.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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