Eurythmy Performance

GA 277d/1923-07-22/p014 ·1923-07-22 · 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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As you know, there are two types of language theories that may be less prominent today, but once caused quite a stir. One is called the Bimbam theory and the other the Wauwau theory. Well, these theories have been advocated by learned people, and you could, of course, read more about them in the works of Max Müller, the Oxford professor, than what I am telling you now. But essentially, the Bimbam theory assumes that, just as the sound of a bell strikes from within the outer object, so too – not always through hearing, but through the perception of the other senses – is it with the processes and things of the outside world that humans are able to empathize with them. Now, this is not as external as the Bimbam theory suggests, but it comes about through the inner intimate communion that the ego and astral body always enter into when they are separated from the outside world.

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