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192. Humanistic Treatment of Social and Educational Issues: Ninth Lecture 15 Jun 1919, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
Just think how great a leap there is in plants from the green leaf to the colored petal of the flower. If you think that nature does not leap over an abyss, it may be right; but there can be no question of a continuous development without discontinuity in nature.
202. The Bridge Between the World Spirit and the Physical Body: Sixth Lecture 10 Dec 1920, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
We can only face the outer world as fully human beings if we can feel what appears to us in the dawn, what appears to us in the blue firmament, what appears to us in the green plant, if we can feel what we perceive in the rippling wave – for light does not only refer to the light that can be perceived through the eye, but I use the term light here for all sensory perceptions.
343. The Foundation Course: Insights into the Mystery of Golgotha 01 Oct 1921, Dornach
Tr. Hanna von Maltitz

Rudolf Steiner
Nature in fact makes continuous jumps. Take for example a green foliage leaf to the coloured flower petal—that is a jump. In the same way we have leaps in the course of time, apparently quite a sharp advancement from one soul state into another.
30. Collected Essays on Philosophy, Science, Aesthetics and Psychology 1884–1901: A Unified View of Nature and the Limits of Knowledge 15 Jul 1893,

Rudolf Steiner
The right and left, the top and bottom, the red next to the green in my field of vision are in reality in uninterrupted connection and mutual togetherness. However, we can only look in one direction and only perceive what is connected in nature separately.
339. On The Art of Lecturing: Lecture V 15 Oct 1921, Dornach
Tr. Maria St. Goar, Peter Stebbing, Beverly Smith, Fred Paddock

Rudolf Steiner
And for that I have formulated the following exercise. One should picture a sizable green frog that sits in front of him with its mouth open. In other words, one should imagine that one confronts a giant frog with an open mouth.
57. The Bible and Wisdom 12 Nov 1908, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
If today anybody wanted to put together a Bible from the different pieces and fragments from which one thought that it must be composed, if anybody printed with blue letters everything that one counts among one document, with red letters what among a second, with green letters what among a third and so on, then a strange document would originate. However, it has already come about—the so-called Rainbow Bible!
83. The Tension Between East and West: Cosmic Memory 05 Jun 1922, Vienna
Tr. B. A. Rowley

Rudolf Steiner
Thus, a sympathetic thought, for example the verdict: “Yes indeed, the tree is green,” does in fact induce a state of heat, whereas a thought in which antipathy is present, a negative judgment for example, has a chilling effect on our air-heat substance.
80b. The Threshold In Nature and In Man 01 Feb 1921, Basel
Tr. Mary Adams

Rudolf Steiner
For the Greek this kind of inner activity did not yet exist. Just as we get red, green, G, C sharp from sense-perception, so did he get the thoughts too from the external world. He had not yet the independence that comes from the comprehension of self.
162. The Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: Tree of Knowledge I 07 Aug 1915, Dornach
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Actually they pictured, that is they experienced 'red' or 'green' or any other colour as flowing current. Try to conceive this vividly: blue = flowing current; red = flowing current; conceive, too, of the other sense-experiences in the same way—streaming, but only in time, letting no real spatial concept, intermingle ... we can say: at the transition from Moon- to Earth-existence one can feel how the mere time-quality was yoked into the spatial.
181. Anthroposophical Life Gifts: Lecture VII 21 May 1918, Berlin
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
The second part is to give Goethe's thoughts about his Faust, and the third part some development of thoughts on the “Fairytale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily.” I mention this because I wish to draw your attention to the fact that it is really necessary to grasp with penetrative thoughts what is contained in the spiritual substance of humanity—also as regards the past; that we should take seriously what is to be found there.

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