Replying to LO27490 --
Dear At and dear Angel ;-)
>she moved on the Goethenian path. She was a musician, she studied the
>humanities and when she came to me she was even struggling with chemistry
>as the next chair to sit upon. She was in dispair and depressed because
>chemistry was the first of many chairs she could not sit on. She could me
>no reason why she wanted to study chemistry except that she was compelled
>to do it as the next chair.
"...There is something in the depths of man's heart that speaks of nothing
else than of what is purely human and dissolves all differences. And it is
just within these depths that we find ---. And there is a wisdom which
extends far beyond all that can be discovered concerning single spheres of
world existence, a wisdom that is able to grasp the world in its unity, even
in space and time. And this again is the star-wisdom that leads ---. We need
to have again in a new form that which led on the one hand the shepherds of
the field, and on the other hand the Magi of the East to find the way---. In
other words we need to deepen our external perception of nature through what
the heart can develop as spiritual perception of nature. We must learn once
again out of the piety of the human heart to approach all that to which in
modern times the microscope, telescope, roentgen-rays (x ray) apparatus and
such instruments are applied. Then will the growing plant, the rushing
stream, the murmuring spring, the lightning and thunder from the clouds, not
merely speak to us in an indifferent way. There will speak to us from the
flowers of the field, from the lightning and thunder of the clouds, from the
shining stars and the radiant sun, there will, as it were, stream into our
eyes and into our hearts, as the result of all our observation of nature,
words that proclaim nothing else than this: "The divine is revealed in the
heights of heaven, and peace shall be among men upon earth who are of good
will". The time must come when our observation of nature sets itself free
from the dry, prosaic, non-human method pursued in the laboratories and
clinics of today. The time must come when our observation of nature must be
irradiated by such life so that the life which can no longer exist in the way
it did for the shepherds will nevertheless be able to speak to us through the
voices of the plants and animals, from stars and springs and rivers. For the
whole of nature utters what was uttered by the Angel:
"The Divine is revealed in the heavenly heights and there can be peace among
men on Earth who desire to be of good will"
Steiner<>Goethe<>Bartoft ;-)
Mendelssohn once wrote to a young student, "-As I believe that a person of
great capacities is duty bound to become an excellent person -- so I
maintain it is with a piece of music..." and the profoundly great
Beethoven said the same " It takes spiritual [geistigen] rhythm to grasp
music in its essence....all genuine musical invention is moral progress.
To submit to its inscrutable laws, and by the virtue of these laws, to
overcome and control ones own mind, so it shall set forth the revelation;
that is the isolating principle of (all) art...Thus every true creation of
art is independent, mightier than the artist himself...music gives the
mind a relation to the total harmony, which is Unity." (Beethovens
capitalisation of U;-)
Art cannot lie ;-)
Love,
Andrew Campbell
Oxford
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