Eleventh Lecture

GA 319/1924-08-29/p069 ·1924-08-29 · 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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And then, when what was not gained from arbitrary imagination, but from those images that were copied from the mysteries of the world itself, was represented in ideas, that was science at that time. The same thing represented in such a way that it evoked in its images the essence of human will as piety was religious cult. The same thing represented in such a way that it delighted and uplifted the human mind, touched it graciously, and drew it up sublimely to beauty, was art. And the place of art was directly united with the place of worship. The same thing represented in the form of ideas was knowledge, was science.

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