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It is possible to sense the form of the cave man, by going inside, leading out after yourself the beating sounds; the macrocosmic human being according to the assurances of Steiner will become distinctly comprehensible, when we learn to view how a sound is clothed in the image. Steiner counsels us to observe the sound: pronunciations are -- attempts; it is essential to sense how the sound "a" as it wafts through the air, weaves for itself weaves. |
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Then we will comprehend, what rose up before the wise Jew in the sounds of the Bible; B'reschit bara élohim et haschamajim w'et ha'arez* The whole world arose; pictures emerged resembling those rising up at the threshold to the suprasensible mystery; immergence into the Bible is -- via delving deeply into sound; the ability to delve deeply is essential; the ability to observe is essential. |
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-- "Bereshit" is -- a sound free from the grassblades of comprehension/concepts that conceal it, free from metaphors, from the root: and then it is -- be, resh, and shit; then -- a flaming flambeau; you have to fling yourself into the flambeau of sound, like into the furnace of Daniel; to remain untouched in it; and -- a representation of an enormous sphere shape and of ashen heat will arise: and a light, as if the solar center, suddenly gleams: inside of itself; the world's weave "of the world in the beginning" will appear as an image of steam, of fires, of scorched, raging, inflamed substances; out of the steam, the fires, the scorched, raging, inflamed substances comes -- the countenance of the Spirit, who creates the stormy and white hot fabric; this woven fabric is -- the world's boiling water, -- like a cover, on that Spirit; the representation of enormous heat and of the sphere will in truth become for us a clear cover, iridescent, like mother of pearl, and transparent, like the air; through it precisely like deaf-mute demons, -- the Elohim strive with their voiceless stares at us; and they create for us "Beginnings": what was "in the beginning" of the earth, in "bereshit." |
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"Bereshit" -- here are three sounds: bet, resh and shit; bet in the soul of the wisemen evoked the energy of actions, which had been concealed by the cover; the energy of an action is in a shell (scorlupa)... in a mother-of-pearl of flames; resh evoked enormous clouds of Spirits, creating inside the cover and striving their speechless stares at us; "shit" was streams of striving forces -- passionate forces, which had been striving to the surface; in the sound shit there is ardor: -- this is the kind of picture which arose in front of the Jew from the very first sounds of the first placed book; the sounds of the Bible are a special language; if you melt the soul, it clarifies: and -- there opens a path to the comprehension of the Bible. -- So says Rudolf Steiner: "Therefore, in the sounds themselves. . .we have the elevated school, which brought the ancient wiseman to the pictures, which had been resurrected to vision... An inexpressible trembling appears ... before, our universe was resurrected."** |
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For the protectors of the museums of roots this is all -- simply delirium, it stands to reason; their indelirious thoughts on the other hand are frequently -- pallors. |
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* "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." |
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**The text and the excerpt summarize the spatial depiction of pictures wisely inscribed into sound. Rudolf Steiner. Course XIV. Third lecture. (For members of the Anthroposophical Society.) |
