Eurythmy Performance

We do this as long as we remain with the thought. When the image for the thought opens up to us – and this can happen with words – then we have a different task than merely invoking the pulsation of the blood to movement. When we pronounce a z, we pronounce it today, I would say, with extreme phlegm. It is just an i, it is just the letter that is in so many words. But that is not how it was originally, when the : arose within humanity; it is not that the i really breaks away from the essence of the human being. Anyone who feels the : feels how it passes through the breath and how the breath becomes intertwined with the pulsation of the blood, knows that when the i is pronounced, the human being places his own essence into the space. Whereas when he pronounces the e, he has the feeling that something spiritual is happening within him. When he pronounces the o, he must have the feeling, the image: something spiritual is revealing itself before him. Each individual sound transforms itself before those who can feel language into an image, an image that stands before them in a very specific form. Language itself is full of feeling as one moves from one sound to another. It has become silent, indifferent. Human beings have, in a sense, become sour in their soul nature.