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.That is the important thing.Then you pass of your own accord from the theoretical to the artistic.Then you produce a method of studying colour which the painter can understand; because, if he identifies himself with such a method, and lives wholly in it, it is then no theoretical process of thought, but an element in colour itself.And, since he lives in the colour, he receives from it each time the answer to the question: How am I going to apply it?Hence the possibility of conducting a dialogue with colours, for they tell you themselves how they want to be applied on the surface.It is this which makes a line of approach aspiring to attain reality enter the sphere of Art.Our Physics had ruined it for us; and therefore it must be emphasized today with all distinctness that such things which above all verge on Psychology and Aesthetics must not be allowed to be further corrupted by the physical view, but that it must be understood that quite another way and method must be employed.We see the spiritual and psychic elements in Goetheanism, which must be carried further.It has not yet, for instance, shown the differentiation of colours into images and lusters.We have to live Goetheanism thoughtfully, in order to proceed further and further.And this we can do only through Spiritual SLecture IIIColours as Revelations of the Psychic in the WorldIf one regards the psychic in all movements and life, the varied and manifold world of colour becomes one whole world.One gradually takes one's place in what I should like to call an astral apprehension of the world.Then all visible colour becomes a revelation of the psychic in the world.Let us look at the green of the plant.When a plant puts on its green we cannot regard the green colour as something subjective and see vibrations in the plant as the physicists do.After all, we no longer have the plant if we think only of the vibrations in the trees which are supposed to cause the colour.These are merely abstractions.In reality we cannot imagine the plant without its green, if we use our living imagination.The plant creates its green out of itself.But how?Now, lifeless substances are incorporated in the plant, but these lifeless substances are made to live.In the plant are iron, carbon and some silicic acid.There are all kinds of substances which are found also in the Mineral Kingdom: and in seeing how life penetrates through the lifeless, and makes for itself an image by means of the lifeless, i.e.the image of the plant, we get the feeling of green as the lifeless image of life.Everywhere we look out upon our green surroundings.We know that the lifeless substances of the earth live plants.Life itself we do not perceive.We perceive plants because they contain the lifeless substances.And because of this they are green.The green is the lifeless image of the life that exists on earth.Now let us look at the green, since in a way we have in it a kind of world-word which tells us how life in the plant weaves and flows.Then let us look at men.If we examine nature we find the colour that most resembles the healthy human complexion to be the fresh peach-blossom in spring.No other colour in nature is like it.But we feel that the inner health of man is expressed also in this peach-coloured time.We learn from the flesh-colour to know the living health of man which is really endowed by the soul.And we feel that when the colour of the skin becomes green, the man is ill and soul cannot find the right way into the physical body.On the other hand if the soul occupies the physical body too markedly in an egoistical way, as e.g.with avarice, the man becomes pale; as also is the case in fear.Between paleness and greenness lies the healthy human colour with the suggestion of peach.And as we feel in the plant's green the lifeless image of life, we feel in the characteristic flesh-colour of a sound person the living image of the soul.You see the world is beginning now to come alive in colours.The living forms itself through the lifeless into the image of green.The psychic forms the human skin into the image of peach or flesh-colour.Let us look further.The sun appears to us whitish, which we feel to be closely related to light.If we awake at night in darkness we feel that it is not our real human environment in which we can fully feel our ego.For this we need light between us and other objects.We need light between ourselves and the wall so that the wall can have its effect on us from the distance.Our ego-feeling lights up in us if we wake up in light.In the darkness we feel ourselves strange in the world.I say, light: but I could also take other sense-perceptions.And you will notice an apparent contradiction, because a person born blind never sees light.But it is not a question of seeing light directly, but of how one is organized.Man, even if born blind, is organized for light.And the limitation of ego-energy which is present in the blind, is there because of the absence of light.Whiteness is related to light.If we feel whiteness in this way, as we feel the ego stimulated in a room by whiteness to its inner strength, we can say, making the thought living and not abstract: Whiteness is the psychic appearance of the spirit.For this reason we always feel, when we see white in pictures, yes, that is meant to be the spirit.Take, on the other hand, black.When you see black, when we use black somewhere, it can most easily be used to represent the spiritual image of the lifeless, just as we feel ourselves killed, lamed, when our spirit has to find its place on awakening in black darkness.So one can feel black as the spiritual image of the lifeless.And think now how one can live in colours! We experience the world as colour and light, when we experience green as the lifeless image of life, peach and flesh-colour as the living image of the soul, white as the psychic image of the spirit and black as the spiritual image of the lifeless.I have really completed a circle by saying this, for observe how I had to describe green as the lifeless image of life; I stopped at life.Peach and flesh-colour = living image of the soul.I stopped at the soul.White = the psychic image of the spirit.I stopped at the soul and go up to the spirit.Black = the spiritual image of the lifeless.I stopped at the spiritual, proceeded to the lifeless, but came back again, since the green was the lifeless image of life.I have completed the circle.Thereby this living participation in colour becomes a real, artistic experience of the astral element in the world.And if one has this artistic experience, death, life, soul and spirit present themselves as in a wheel of life, for from death one returns to death through the life of the psychic and spiritual; if they present themselves also through light and colour, as I have just described them, one knows one must go outside space, one cannot remain in space, the riddle of space must be solved on a surface.And one loses the idea of space; as a sculptor has lost the habit of thinking with the head, so we lose now the idea of space.Everything presses on one as light and colour; one becomes a painter.The source of painting is opened of its own accord by means of such a view.And one gets the great inward pleasure of putting on this or that colour and setting the other colour next to it.For then colours become a living revelation of the living, of the lifeless, of the spiritual and of the psychic [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.That is the important thing.Then you pass of your own accord from the theoretical to the artistic.Then you produce a method of studying colour which the painter can understand; because, if he identifies himself with such a method, and lives wholly in it, it is then no theoretical process of thought, but an element in colour itself.And, since he lives in the colour, he receives from it each time the answer to the question: How am I going to apply it?Hence the possibility of conducting a dialogue with colours, for they tell you themselves how they want to be applied on the surface.It is this which makes a line of approach aspiring to attain reality enter the sphere of Art.Our Physics had ruined it for us; and therefore it must be emphasized today with all distinctness that such things which above all verge on Psychology and Aesthetics must not be allowed to be further corrupted by the physical view, but that it must be understood that quite another way and method must be employed.We see the spiritual and psychic elements in Goetheanism, which must be carried further.It has not yet, for instance, shown the differentiation of colours into images and lusters.We have to live Goetheanism thoughtfully, in order to proceed further and further.And this we can do only through Spiritual SLecture IIIColours as Revelations of the Psychic in the WorldIf one regards the psychic in all movements and life, the varied and manifold world of colour becomes one whole world.One gradually takes one's place in what I should like to call an astral apprehension of the world.Then all visible colour becomes a revelation of the psychic in the world.Let us look at the green of the plant.When a plant puts on its green we cannot regard the green colour as something subjective and see vibrations in the plant as the physicists do.After all, we no longer have the plant if we think only of the vibrations in the trees which are supposed to cause the colour.These are merely abstractions.In reality we cannot imagine the plant without its green, if we use our living imagination.The plant creates its green out of itself.But how?Now, lifeless substances are incorporated in the plant, but these lifeless substances are made to live.In the plant are iron, carbon and some silicic acid.There are all kinds of substances which are found also in the Mineral Kingdom: and in seeing how life penetrates through the lifeless, and makes for itself an image by means of the lifeless, i.e.the image of the plant, we get the feeling of green as the lifeless image of life.Everywhere we look out upon our green surroundings.We know that the lifeless substances of the earth live plants.Life itself we do not perceive.We perceive plants because they contain the lifeless substances.And because of this they are green.The green is the lifeless image of the life that exists on earth.Now let us look at the green, since in a way we have in it a kind of world-word which tells us how life in the plant weaves and flows.Then let us look at men.If we examine nature we find the colour that most resembles the healthy human complexion to be the fresh peach-blossom in spring.No other colour in nature is like it.But we feel that the inner health of man is expressed also in this peach-coloured time.We learn from the flesh-colour to know the living health of man which is really endowed by the soul.And we feel that when the colour of the skin becomes green, the man is ill and soul cannot find the right way into the physical body.On the other hand if the soul occupies the physical body too markedly in an egoistical way, as e.g.with avarice, the man becomes pale; as also is the case in fear.Between paleness and greenness lies the healthy human colour with the suggestion of peach.And as we feel in the plant's green the lifeless image of life, we feel in the characteristic flesh-colour of a sound person the living image of the soul.You see the world is beginning now to come alive in colours.The living forms itself through the lifeless into the image of green.The psychic forms the human skin into the image of peach or flesh-colour.Let us look further.The sun appears to us whitish, which we feel to be closely related to light.If we awake at night in darkness we feel that it is not our real human environment in which we can fully feel our ego.For this we need light between us and other objects.We need light between ourselves and the wall so that the wall can have its effect on us from the distance.Our ego-feeling lights up in us if we wake up in light.In the darkness we feel ourselves strange in the world.I say, light: but I could also take other sense-perceptions.And you will notice an apparent contradiction, because a person born blind never sees light.But it is not a question of seeing light directly, but of how one is organized.Man, even if born blind, is organized for light.And the limitation of ego-energy which is present in the blind, is there because of the absence of light.Whiteness is related to light.If we feel whiteness in this way, as we feel the ego stimulated in a room by whiteness to its inner strength, we can say, making the thought living and not abstract: Whiteness is the psychic appearance of the spirit.For this reason we always feel, when we see white in pictures, yes, that is meant to be the spirit.Take, on the other hand, black.When you see black, when we use black somewhere, it can most easily be used to represent the spiritual image of the lifeless, just as we feel ourselves killed, lamed, when our spirit has to find its place on awakening in black darkness.So one can feel black as the spiritual image of the lifeless.And think now how one can live in colours! We experience the world as colour and light, when we experience green as the lifeless image of life, peach and flesh-colour as the living image of the soul, white as the psychic image of the spirit and black as the spiritual image of the lifeless.I have really completed a circle by saying this, for observe how I had to describe green as the lifeless image of life; I stopped at life.Peach and flesh-colour = living image of the soul.I stopped at the soul.White = the psychic image of the spirit.I stopped at the soul and go up to the spirit.Black = the spiritual image of the lifeless.I stopped at the spiritual, proceeded to the lifeless, but came back again, since the green was the lifeless image of life.I have completed the circle.Thereby this living participation in colour becomes a real, artistic experience of the astral element in the world.And if one has this artistic experience, death, life, soul and spirit present themselves as in a wheel of life, for from death one returns to death through the life of the psychic and spiritual; if they present themselves also through light and colour, as I have just described them, one knows one must go outside space, one cannot remain in space, the riddle of space must be solved on a surface.And one loses the idea of space; as a sculptor has lost the habit of thinking with the head, so we lose now the idea of space.Everything presses on one as light and colour; one becomes a painter.The source of painting is opened of its own accord by means of such a view.And one gets the great inward pleasure of putting on this or that colour and setting the other colour next to it.For then colours become a living revelation of the living, of the lifeless, of the spiritual and of the psychic [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]