Eurythmy Performance

GA 277d/1923-07-08/p016 ·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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Human beings thus lift themselves up from the heavy ground into the region where spiritual-divine beings pour out their messages in the special way that is peculiar to them: Where the movements are not like that – one could say that the component of heaviness is inserted into them, but where the [heaviness] component detaches itself and wants to vibrate quite peripherally in the cosmic freedom. And this non-insertion is the inclination toward the eternal. Through eurythmy, one unleashes the eternal human being in the human being. That which rests within them as the divine-spiritual is expressed through the temporary earthly human being. And the soul of the human being appears to us through its eurythmic activity; it appears to us as that which pours forth from the eternal nature of the human being into the temporary form of the physical body.

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