Address on Eurythmy

GA 277c/1922-04-02/p022 ·1922-04-02 · 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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Then these twelve souls are confronted by the entity I call Ahriman. Ahriman is the sum of all the forces that are always at work in human beings, pulling them down into philistinism, pedantry, materialism, and intellectualism, turning them into ironists, mockers, and doubters. All this appears in Ahriman, in concrete form, not in allegory or symbolism.

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