Eurythmy Performance

If this were not so, human beings would never have been able to speak. For language is not merely a revelation of what human beings experience within themselves, that is, within their skin, but languages also contain what lives in the mysteries of the earthly things around us and what we become aware of precisely because our ego and astral body are separated from our physical and etheric bodies. And it is language that we learn in the outside world. Up to the vocal cords, there vibrates, there undulates, there reverberates that which the ego and the astral body experience in intimate acquaintance with the outside world. And it is indeed the case that in our civilized languages, that which connects language with the outside world in an immensely intimate way has already been completely worn away. Therefore, it should not be underestimated when it is said, from a deeper understanding than today's materialistic physiology or what can be built on this basis, that when we pronounce a z or an e or an " for example, this is not merely an expression of human nature, but something that human beings experience in their entire being with the external environment.