IV. The Symbolism of the Building at Dornach II

GA 288/1920-04-05/p033 ·1920-04-05 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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Now there are two ways in which these contradictions can be present in human nature: One is that man strives to achieve a kind of equilibrium, that is, to facilitate everything that strives within him towards the philistine, the bourgeois, by also developing imagination, by also being able to devote himself to the world, and by also understanding how to bring the artistic into the purely abstract. That is to say, it is possible for a person to achieve such a balance of these two opposing currents that the person becomes one through the two harmoniously blending into each other and becoming one. ![288_81](images/288_81.webp) 81. Angelic Figure ![288_82](images/288_82.webp) 82. Russian Culture ![288_83](images/288_83.webp) 83. Centaur and Angel ![288_84](images/288_84.webp) 84. East Cupola, view toward the southeast ![288_85](images/288_85.webp) 85. Lucifer. ![288_86](images/288_86.webp) 86. Ahriman ![288_87](images/288_87.webp) 87. Middle motif, head of the Representative of Man

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