Eurythmy Performance

But what is achieved by this? Well, this is achieved: as human beings descend from their pre-earthly existence and enter the earthly world, they become what they are as earth citizens precisely through the special structure of their nervous and sensory system, which tends toward the head and head formation. The head structure is what enters when human beings, who are the expression of pre-earthly life as spirit and soul, envelop themselves in a body. The head structure, which the human being first forms when entering earthly existence, is actually there so that what strives in the human being to be outwardly earthly can fit into the earthly realm. The head rests on the physical organism in such a way that, through the special integration of all the forces in the head, the gravitational force exerted by the earth on the human being is integrated in the right way into that part of the human being which does not actually want to be subject to gravity, but which wants to be an expression of the cosmos, which the human head is modeled after. And one can say: the human head is formed in such a way that, on the one hand, it shows how it is born out of the cosmos, where there is no gravity, but [it also shows how it] integrates itself into that which governs the human body from birth to death, into the effective forces of gravity.