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And how could we penetrate more deeply into the cosmic being than by becoming conscious of the relation existing between speech and the genesis of man. Every time that a man speaks he produces out of himself some part of that which existed in primeval times, when the human being was created out of cosmic depths, out of the etheric forces, and received form as a being of air before he acquired fluidic form, and, later still, his solid physical form. Every time we speak we transpose ourselves into the cosmic evolution of man as it was in primeval ages.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. 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Wir sehen im Offenbaren dasjenige fluktuierend sich vor uns abspielen, was sich sonst in die geheimnisvollen Tiefen der menschlichen Organisation bei der physischen Menschenentstehung zurückzieht. Da bekommen wir dann das, was wir für eine künstierisch-schöpferische Betätigung brauchen, wir bekommen Respekt, Achtung vor dem Schöpferischen, in das wir als Künstler hineingestellt sind. Im Künstlerischen können wir nicht eine bloße theoretische Erörterung brauchen, das können wir nicht, das verabstrahiett uns. Im Künstlerischen brauchen wir etwas, was uns mit unserem ganzen Menschen hineinstellt in das Weltenwesen. Aber wie könnten wir mehr mit unserem ganzen Menschen in das Weltenwesen hineingestellt werden, als wenn wir uns bewußt sind, wie mit der Entstehung des Menschen das Sprechen zusammenhängt. Jedesmal, wenn der Mensch spricht, stellt er einen Teil desjenigen hin, was in Urzeiten einmal Menschenschöpfung war, wo der Mensch als solcher aus den Weltentiefen, aus dem Ätherischen heraus als Luftform gebildet wurde, bevor er Flüssigkeitsform oder später feste Form wurde. 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