29. Eurythmy Address

But as our civilization is today, if one were to start from the intellectual and rational, much that is arrhythmic would still enter into the human being. On the other hand, if we start from what develops out of the full human being in the will, we can already work back into the [movements of human limbs, especially the movement of the arms,] so that the soul-spiritual can also be expressed in the arm movement, as it was once developed out of human nature. In this way, and in exactly the same way, only in a different direction, in the movements of the human limbs, especially the arms, something similar is achieved to that which is present in the shaping of the air movements that are released from the rhythmic breathing process. One then expresses in a visible language the same thing that is formed in the air when the word is sounded. And one thereby gains the possibility of translating into the visible what is musically at the basis of song, what is poetically at the basis of formative language.