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But they get unusually excited, gather up in the area of the larynx where they receive impacts from the sun and the moon, and this brings about something like a play of forces in the astral body that come to external expression in the movements of the larynx. And now you have the possibility of having a picture of this at least: when you listen to any kind of language you are looking at the astral body which straight away passes its vibrations onto the etheric body, thus making the two bodies work more closely as one. Now if you draw this, you will get pure movement coming from the human organism, and you will obtain the kind of eurythmy that is always being carried out by the astral body and etheric body together, when a person speaks. 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For what was still soul experience for the Greeks has gradually imprinted itself into the brain. This is inherited in the brain from generation to generation, and modern man now thinks with imprints in the brain; he now thinks by means of material processes. This had to come. Only now we have to go up again; what has to be added to these processes is that man raises himself up to what comes from the supersensible world. Therefore we now have to do the opposite of the former imprinting of soul in the body, that is, we have to take hold, in freedom, of the spiritual supersensible element, through spiritual science. But this has to be consciously taken in hand, if human evolution is to continue. We have consciously to bring man's visible body into movement, just as it has been done for us up till now in the invisible realm, without our being conscious of it. Then we shall be consciously carrying on in the direction in which the gods worked when they imprinted thinking into the brain, if we make invisible eurythmy visible. If we did not do this, mankind would fall asleep. Although all kinds of things would flood into the human ego and astral body from the spiritual worlds, this would only happen during sleep, and on awakening these things would never get passed on to the physical body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":324,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/302a/1920-09-21/p015","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1920-09-21","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 302a/1920-09-21/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/302a/1920-09-21/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":333,"en_words":324,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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If after seeing a eurythmy performance you could wake up suddenly in the night you would see that you had got much more from it than if you had been to a concert and heard a sonata; eurythmy has an even stronger effect than that. It strengthens the soul by bringing it into living contact with the supersensible. But a certain healthy balance must be maintained. 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Sonst wirken sie ja auch im Menschen, aber sie kommen in eine sonderbare Aufregung, konzentrieren sich zum Kehlkopf hin, bekommen ihre Einschläge von Sonne und Mond, und das gibt etwas wie ein Spiel im astralischen Leib, das sich äußerlich offenbart in den Bewegungen des Kehlkopfes. Und jetzt haben Sie die Möglichkeit, wenigstens als ein Bild vor Ihnen stehend: Sie hören irgendeiner Sprache zu, schauen den astralischen Leib an, der dann seine Vibrationen sogleich auf den Ätherleib überträgt, wodurch das Ganze noch intimer wirkt; Sie zeichnen nun das Ganze, dadurch bekommen Sie nur Bewegungen, die im menschlichen Organismus begründet sind, und Sie erhalten jene Eurythmie, die immer ausgeführt wird gemeinsam vom astralischen Leib und Ätherleib, wenn der Mensch spricht. Es ist keine Willkür möglich, sondern es wird dadurch lediglich in die Sichtbarkeit heruntergeholt, was sonst fortwährend unsichtbar geschieht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":186,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/302a/1920-09-21/p014"},{"locus":"GA 302a/1920-09-21/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Warum tun wir das gegenwärtig? Ja, wir tun es, weil es in uns liegt, gegenwärtig bewußt diejenigen Sachen machen zu müssen, die wir früher unbewußt gemacht haben; denn alle Entwickelung des Menschen besteht darin, daß nach und nach das erst bloß geistig existierende Übersinnliche sich ins Sinnliche herunterbewegt. Die Griechen zum Beispiel haben noch eigentlich mit der Seele gedacht; es war ihr Denken noch ganz seelisch. Die modernen Menschen, besonders seit der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts, denken mit dem Gehirn. Der Materialismus ist eigentlich eine ganz richtige Theorie für den modernen Menschen. Denn was die Griechen noch in der Seele erlebten, das hat sich allmählich abgedrückt im Gehirn, das vererbt sich im Gehirn von Generation zu Generation, und die neueren Menschen denken schon mit den Abdrücken des Gehirns; sie denken schon durch materielle Vorgänge. Das mußte so kommen. Man muß nur wieder hinauf; man muß nur zu diesen Vorgängen hinzufügen das Sich-Erheben des Menschen zu denjenigen Ergebnissen, die aus der übersinnlichen Welt kommen. Daher müssen wir dem Hineinprägen des früheren Seelischen in den Leib jetzt den Gegenpol entgegenstellen, das freie Ergreifen des Geistig-Übersinnlichen durch die Geisteswissenschaft. Aber damit die Menschheitsentwickelung fortgehe, müssen wir dieses Hinuntertragen des Übersinnlichen in das Sinnliche bewußt in die Hand nehmen. Wir müssen den Körper des Menschen, diesen sinnlichen Körper, so in die sichtbare Beweglichkeit bewußt versetzen, wie es bisher nur im Unsichtbaren, unbewußt für uns, geschehen ist. Damit setzen wir dann den Weg der Götter bewußt fort, indem wir die Arbeit der Götter noch übernommen haben: die Einprägung des Denkens in das Gehirn, indem wir aus dem Übersinnlichen der Eurythmie, aus der übersinnlichen Eurythmie die sinnliche machen. Würden wir das nicht machen, so würde die Menschheit allmählich in ein seelisches Träumen verfallen; sie würde schlafend werden. Es würde so werden, daß zwar aus den geistigen Welten heraus allerlei in das menschliche Ich und in den astralischen Leib hineinfluten würde, aber das würde immer im Schlafzustande geschehen, und beim Erwachen würde es sich niemals auf den physischen Organismus übertragen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":333,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/302a/1920-09-21/p015"},{"locus":"GA 302a/1920-09-21/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Wenn die Menschen Eurythmie treiben, so ist es so, daß Eurythmisten und Zuschauern im Leben gedient wird; beide haben etwas Wesentliches davon. Bei denen, die selbst Eurythmisten sind, wird der physische Organismus durch die Bewegungen der Eurythmie zu einem geeigneten Aufnahmeorgan für die geistige Welt gemacht, weil die Bewegungen herunter wollen aus der geistigen Welt. Es werden gewissermaßen die Eurythmisten Aufnahmeorgane für Vorgänge der geistigen Welt, indem sie ihren Körper dafür vorbereiten. Bei denen, die Zuschauer in der Eurythmie sind, wird gewissermaßen, was an Bewegungen in bezug auf ihren astralischen Leib und ihr Ich lebt, durch die Bewegungen der Eurythmie intensiviert. Könnten Sie nach einer Eurythmieaufführung plötzlich in der Nacht aufwachen, dann würden Sie sehen, daß Sie noch viel mehr in sich haben als nach einer Sonate, wenn Sie ein Abendkonzert gehört haben und in der Nacht wieder aufwachen; das tritt bei der Eurythmie in noch stärkerem Maße auf. Das stärkt die Seele, indem es die Seele lebendig sich einleben läßt in das Übersinnliche. Es muß nur auch da eine gewisse Hygiene herrschen. Denn wenn es zuviel wird, so zappelt die Seele in der geistigen Welt des Nachts, wenn der Mensch schlafen soll, und dieses Zappeln würde im Seelischen drinnen das Gegenbild für die physische Nervosität sein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":207,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/302a/1920-09-21/p016"}],"beads":[{"from":[14],"to":[14],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[15],"to":[15],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[16],"to":[16],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}