Eurythmy Performance

GA 277d/1923-07-21/p009 ·1923-07-21 · 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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Those who are able to see this human mystery as imagination, to imaginatively answer the question: How does man actually want to be received by the universe when he leaves his physical body? – then the answer to this question reveals the forms of monumental tombs. What emerges is a monumental structure erected above a burial site, as if it were concealing the lines along which the soul, leaving the body, wanted to swing out into the vastness of the cosmos. And the tomb answers the question: What are the paths of the soul out of the earthly body?

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