Address on Eurythmy

GA 277a/1918-02-19/p006 ·1918-02-19 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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Just as the sculptor outwardly realizes what is expressed in the human form, so the spiritual researcher realizes what is brought about in the human larynx and the adjacent organs by the forces of the etheric body. And so eurythmy came into being through the combination of the movements that the human limbs can make, which can perform what the larynx organism performs when it speaks or sings.

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