The Apollonian Course VIII

GA 277a/1915-08-24_02/p004 ·1915-08-24 · 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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Eurythmic dance is truly a language. Nowadays, languages are Ahrimanic. In the past, sounds could be formed after a movement had been made. Eurythmy: reproduction of sound through the speech organs. That is what is appropriate to the world about it. // Eurythmic dance is truly a language, a temple language. Originally, the sound was formed after the movement. Language is nothing more than a reproduction of these movements through the speech organs. Tongue and larynx eurythmize. // The eurythmic formation of sounds is to be understood as an imitation of the gestures of the speech organs. There are two theories in external science about the origin of language:

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