Eurythmy Performance

GA 277d/1923-07-22/p017 ·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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One need only consider the images that immediately conjure themselves before the mind's eye when one learns about the relationship of an i or an « to the things of the outside world. But anyone who is able to empathize with an i knows that in this i lies something which, when felt and sensed correctly, is like what gives us our own existence from the outside world. Therefore, all languages that have the i in the [word] “I” simply give people a sense of existence through language that languages that do not have the i in “I” cannot give people. The “I” stands before the soul, as when two elements of the outside world that are supersensible come into contact with each other, touch each other, and humans must be attentive to this contact.

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