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28. The Story of My Life: Chapter XII
Translated by Harry Collison

[ 16 ] There was great significance for me at that time in my thorough-going work upon Goethe's fairy-tale of The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily, which forms the conclusion of his Entertainments of the German Wanderers.
96. Esoteric Development: Imaginative Knowledge and Artistic Imagination 21 Oct 1906, Berlin
Translated by Gertrude Teutsch, Olin D. Wannamaker, Diane Tatum, Alice Wuslin

Just as the human tears become the expression of the inner sadness of the soul, as a man's physiognomy becomes an expression of the human soul, so the occultist learns to look on the green of the plant covering as the expression of inner processes, of the actual spiritual life of the earth.
277b. The Development of Eurythmy 1918–1920: Eurythmy Address 11 Aug 1919, Dornach

The art of eurythmy is based on Goethe's world view. Just as Goethe saw the whole plant in the green leaf, we assume that the larynx, which produces the word, with its ancillary organs, is a metamorphosis of the whole human organism.
277b. The Development of Eurythmy 1918–1920: Eurythmy Address 19 Oct 1919, Dornach

Goethe imagines that in every single plant organ, namely in every single plant leaf, be it a green leaf or a colored petal, a whole plant should be contained in a simple way. In turn, Goethe imagined that the whole plant, however complicated it grows, is just a transformed leaf.
277b. The Development of Eurythmy 1918–1920: Eurythmy Address 02 Nov 1919, Dornach

And again, if we look at an organ of the plant, for example, the colored petal of a flower, and compare it to the green leaf of a plant, for Goethe it was essentially the same, one and the same, only different in its outer form.
277b. The Development of Eurythmy 1918–1920: Eurythmy Address 14 Dec 1919, Dornach

Goethe's view, if I am to express myself in popular terms, is that in every living thing, for example in plants, a single organ, the green leaf, is the simpler expression, the simpler revelation of the whole plant. And again, the whole plant is only the complicated expression of the individual leaf.
258. The Anthroposophic Movement (1938): The First Two Periods of the Anthroposophical Movement 15 Jun 1923, Dornach
Translated by Ethel Bowen-Wedgwood

—It was the first anthroposophic lecture that I gave in Hanover, and was an ex-position of Goethe's Story of the Green Serpent and the Lovely Lily. Then he took me out with him; he lived a little way outside the town, and there was a ride of about half an hour in the tram.
—Till really one felt oneself back again in the lecture-halls, with the lecturer explaining to one the various wave-currents for red and yellow and blue and green; it was all of a piece with these wave-currents for the transit of the souls through their various incarnation'.
56. Occupation and Earnings 12 Mar 1908, Berlin

—Many people say this, not only professors, but also people at the “green tables” of socialism. What is announced there is as haughty as what is spread by the other green tables.
170. The Sense-Organs and Aesthetic Experience 15 Aug 1916, Dornach
Translator Unknown

But in everything connected with the sphere of the tongue a process goes on which has a delicate similarity to the process of tasting. If you simply look at a green parrot in the way we grasp things through the senses, it is your eyes that see the green colour.
199. Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms: Lecture VII 21 Aug 1920, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Then, thoughts do, indeed, appear only like so many associated atomistic formations that coalesce when we form an opinion. The tree is green. Here “green” is the one thought, “tree” is the other, and the two flow together. The inner being is no longer alive; it has been disemboweled and only the thought mechanism remains.

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