{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68c/1909-11-28/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The “apprenticeship years” were completed under Schiller's criticism. The “travel years” were created under peculiar circumstances. It turned out that the typesetter printed faster than Goethe could write; and in the beginning, he helped out with things he had written earlier: St. Joseph, Man of 50, Melusine and others. In the end, he could not keep up, so he gave it to Eckermann to revise. This is how the “Wanderjahre” came about. But it should be considered that everything Goethe wrote is full of the highest wisdom [and it is a concise excerpt of his own development]. Each one signifies a stage in his own development, a stage in Goethe's development. Thus life flows like a composition, if only it is taken up in the right way and can have an effect on individuality. Much has emerged from Goethe's development. Take the “Pedagogical Province”: the boys have three gestures. [Signs of] insight into the effect of the symbols. [There are three religious levels.] The best of the three religious categories: [a gesture upwards, downwards, towards one's own kind symbolizes real reverence for the highest, for those below us, and for our own kind.] Upwards, Goethe calls the first direction of reverence, the second to one's own kind, then reverence downwards. What is below us has also come from God. Then we have reverence for religion because the divine has descended. As the student immerses himself in what the gesture shows, the gesture should draw itself into his soul. The boys are dressed differently. Why? To develop their individuality, they should choose the colors themselves.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XXIX. The Essence of Egoism (Goethe's “Wilhelm Meister”)","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-11-28","location":null,"word_count":264,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68c/1909-11-28/p018","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Goethe and the Present","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068c/English/SOL2024/19091128p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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Jedes bedeutet eine Etappe seiner eigenen Entwicklung, ist eine Werdestufe Goethe’scher Entwicklung. So verfließt dann das Leben wie eine Komposition, wenn es nur in richtiger Weise aufgenommen wird und wirken kann auf die Individualität. Da ist manches hervorgegangen aus Goethes Werdegang. Nehmen wir die «Pädagogische Provinz»: Die Jungen haben drei Gebärden. [Zeichen der] Einsicht in die Wirkung der Symbole. [Es sind drei religiöse Stufen.] Das Beste aus den drei religiösen Kategorien: [Eine Gebärde nach oben, nach unten, nach seinesgleichen versinnbildlichen reale Ehrfurcht vor dem Höchsten, vor denen, die unter uns stehen, und vor unseresgleichen.] Nach oben nennt Goethe die erste Ehrfurchtsrichtung, die zweite zu seinesgleichen, dann die Ehrfurcht nach unten. Auch was unter uns ist, ist gottentstanden. Dann haben wir die Ehrfurcht [vor] der Religion, weil die Gottheit heruntergestiegen ist. Indem der [Schüler] sich hineinlebt in das, was die Gebärde zeigt, soll die Gebärde sich hineinziehen in seine Seele. Die Jungen sind verschieden bekleidet. Warum? 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