{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 279/1924-06-24/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"For this reason eurhythmy must, in its very nature, be something which represents a primeval creation. Speech—let us take this as our starting point—speech appears as a production of the human larynx and of those organs of speech which are more or less connected with it. What is the nature of the larynx? This question must eventually be brought forward, for I have often shown how in eurhythmy the whole human being must become a sort of larynx. We must therefore put to ourselves the question: Of what significance is the larynx? Now if you look upon speech merely as a production of the larynx, you will gain no conception of what is really proceeding from it, of what is being fashioned within it. Here it would perhaps be well to remind ourselves of a remarkable tradition which to-day is little understood, and of which you find some indication when you take the beginning of St. John’s Gospel: ‘In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and a God was the Word’. The Word.—Of course that which we to-day imagine to be the Word is something which gives not the slightest sense to the opening sentences of this Gospel. Nevertheless they are continually quoted. People believe they can make something out of them. They do not, however, succeed. For it is an undeniable fact that the conception of a word as held by the man of to-day is often truly expressed by his saying something of this kind:—What is a name but mere sound and smoke, mist and vapour?—In a certain sense he values the word itself little in comparison with its underlying concept. He feels a certain superiority in thus being able to value the word little in comparison with the thought. When, therefore, one puts oneself in the position of the man of to-day, and considers his conception of a word, the beginning of St. John’s Gospel has indeed no meaning. For consider the Word?—we have so many words, which word? It can only be a definite, concrete word. And what is the nature of this Word? That is the question.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. 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Die Sprache - gehen wir von ihr aus - erscheint als Hervorbringung des menschlichen Kehlkopfes und desjenigen, was mit dem Kehlkopfe mehr oder weniger zusammenhängt. Dieser Kehlkopf, was ist er denn eigentlich? Die Frage muß einmal aufgeworfen werden, denn ich habe oft angedeutet, in der Eurythmie wird der ganze Mensch zu einer Art von Kehlkop£ Wir müssen also einmal uns die Frage vorlegen : Was für eine Bedeutung hat denn überhaupt der Kehlkopf? Wenn wir zunächst auf die Sprache als auf eine Hervorbringung aus dem Kehikopfe hinschauen, so werden wir nicht aufmerksam darauf sein, was da eigentlich aus dem Kehlkopfe herauskommt, was sich da bildet. Aber wir können uns vielleicht erinnern, daß eine merkwürdige Tradition vorhanden ist, die heute wenig verstanden wird, die Sie einfach angedeutet haben, wenn Sie den Anfang des Johannes-Evangeliums nehmen : «Im Urbeginne war das Wort und das Wort war bei Gott und ein Gott war das Wort.» Das Wort. Nicht wahr, dasjenige, was man sich heute als Wort vorstellt, das ist etwas, was innerhalb dieses Zusammenhanges im Beginne des Johannes-Evangeliums nicht den allergeringsten Sinn gibt. Es wird zwar dieser Anfang des Johannes-Evangeliums fortwährend besprochen. Die Leute glauben, sie können sich dabei auch etwas denken. Sie tun es nicht, denn eigentlich, wenn man das nimmt, was sich der heutige Mensch unter Wort vorstellen kann, wovon er zu gleicher Zeit sagt : Name ist Schall und Rauch, umnebelnd Himmels-glut ... und so weiter - was er ja in gewissem Sinne sogar dem Gedanken gegenüber gering achtet und wobei er sich erhaben vorkommt, wenn er es geringachten kann gegenüber dem Gedanken -, wenn man sich in das versetzt, was der heutige Mensch unter Wort vorstellen kann, hat der Anfang des Johannes-Evangeliums nicht den geringsten Sinn, gar keinen Sinn. Denn das Wort - wir haben so viele -, welches Wort? Es kann doch nur ein bestimmtes, konkretes Wort sein. Und was ist denn das Wesen dieses Wortes? Das muß gefragt werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":333,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/279/1924-06-24/p011"}],"english":["GA 279/1924-06-24/p010"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":333,"en_words":357,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 279/1924-06-24/p011"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.12,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6442,"original_word_count":5736,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Vera Compton-Burnett and Judith Compton-Burnett","identified_edition":"APC1956","book_title":"Eurythmy as Visible Speech","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA279/English/APC1956/19240624p02.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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