Address on Eurythmy

This visible language is found in the way that the human organism is listened to, what it initially accomplishes externally, invisibly, but internally with all its strength when it sings or speaks. What the human organs of speech and singing receive, so to speak, in the inner movements of the whole organism and then translate into their own movements, which in turn are transformed into vibrations in the air, through which the tone or sound, the word, is heard: This is what is explored through sensory-supersensory observation and then transferred to the whole human being, to the movements of the whole human being or even to the movements of groups of people, thereby achieving a truly visible language. It is therefore not a matter of wanting to perceive how this or that arm movement, just like everyday gestures or facial expressions, arises from this or that sound. Rather, there is an inner organic connection between what becomes visible to the eye as movements, just as there is an inner organic connection between the sound, the self-sound or co-sound that is uttered, or even the phrases that are formed and the like, and what lives in the soul.