The Apollonian Course XI

GA 277a/1915-08-27/p007 ·1915-08-27 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
Record: listeners' notes. This text is a newspaper's or a listener's report of the lecture, not a transcript. The wording is the reporter's: do not quote it as Steiner's own words. Evidence: «Based on notes by Rudolf Steiner, Marie Steiner, Erna van Deventer, Annemarie Dubach, Alice Fels, Tatiana Kisseleff, Lory Maier-Smits, Mieta Waller, Unknown (the note to the Apollonian course, GA 277a of 18 August 1915)». The unit's own header line in the edition served.

In this representation, we have something that is close to the organism. It represents language; here we are closest to the microcosm, just as in the planetary dance we are closest to the macrocosm. This is how the entire human head and larynx are organized. // In humans, the vowels come from within, while in abstract thinking (consonants), they come more from outside. // The vowels come from within, the consonants partly more from behind or more from the front. This brings us closest to the microcosm, the human larynx – you have the head inside [in the word larynx].

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