Eurythmy Performance

GA 277d/1923-07-08/p015 ·1923-07-08 · 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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And if one wanted to express this a little figuratively, one would have to say: In ordinary gestures, where the human being expresses what he wants to say in a discreet manner alongside spoken language, angelic beings help the human being to support his earthly language. But when everyday gestures are transformed into the articulated gestures of eurythmy, what we see, when translated into the language that flows from being to being, is actually what the archangels speak to each other.

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