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272. Faust, the Aspiring Human: A Spiritual-Scientific Explanation of Goethe's “Faust”: Goethe's “Faust” from the Point of View of Spiritual Science 23 Jan 1910, Strasburg

Rudolf Steiner
There is a wonderful expression here: “It grunts so” to describe the passage through the plant world, the juicy green. There the soul gathers all the elements of the natural kingdoms in order to ascend. It is explicitly said: “And you have time until you reach the human being.”
68b. The Circular Flow of Man's Life within the World Of Sense, Soul And Spirit: Clairvoyance and Fantasy 07 Nov 1908, Munich

Rudolf Steiner
If we express the experiences of the clairvoyant in a different way, we have to say: our inner world, our soul world, is determined in ordinary life by what is going on outside. That I, for example, imagine a green stem with leaves on it, that I assert this image, comes from the fact that I am organized in a certain way.
60. What Has Astronomy to Say about the Origin of the World? 16 Mar 1911, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
If we visualise, what it means to be able to think such a clear thought in the space, we visualise it comparing it to any other physical effect that we see in our surroundings, for example, with the turning green of the trees in the spring or with the blossoming of a plant. Some people who stand or stood vividly in science know how bitter it is if they are compelled at first on the ground of completely outer consideration repeatedly to reach for concepts that can be thought by no means to an end if it concerns, for example, imagining a growing, developing plant, apart from more complex phenomena like animal organisms.
57. Goethe's Secret Revelation: The Riddle in Faust: Esoteric 12 Mar 1909, Berlin
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
2. Dictionary: grows green. – Ed.3. 15th October, 1908, Berlin.4.
174a. The Weaving and Living Activity of the Human Etheric Bodies 20 Mar 1916, Munich
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Leaving aside the present assumption, it is impossible to believe that the archetypal mother Eve could have been so stupid as to be tempted by a real serpent. Imagine, a real serpent creeping through the green grass should have caught mother Eve! Even the present serpent can only be looked upon as a symbol of something else.
166. Necessity and Freedom: Lecture V 08 Feb 1916, Berlin
Tr. Pauline Wehrle

Rudolf Steiner
Nowadays when a person looks at nature, he believes it to be green and the vault of heaven to be blue. He sees nature in such a way that he believes the colors to be the outcome of a natural process.
159. The Mystery of Death: The Intimate Element of the Central European Culture and the Central European Striving 07 Mar 1915, Leipzig
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Just as little as the light can be understood without recognising the colour nuances in their origin from the light, and without knowing that it is made up of the different colour nuances which we see in the rainbow, on one side the red yellow rays, on the other side the blue, green, violet ones, and if one cannot study the light as a physicist. Just as little somebody can study the human soul what is infinitely more important.
297. The Spirit of the Waldorf School: A Lecture for Public School Teachers 27 Nov 1919, Basel
Tr. Robert F. Lathe, Nancy Parsons Whittaker

Rudolf Steiner
However, in the sense of Goethe’s law of metamorphosis, we must say that, despite the fact that the green leaf is the same as the colorful flower petal, nature does make a leap from the leaf to the colorful petal, and yet another leap from the petal to the stamen, and another quite special leap to the fruit.
297. Spiritual Science and the Art of Education 27 Nov 1919, Basel
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Yet in the sense of Goethe's idea of metamorphosis we should have to say: “Although the green leaf of the plant is the same thing as the coloured petal, yet Nature makes a jump from the leaf to- the sepal of the calyx, from the sepal to the coloured petal, and again from the petal to the stamen.”
281. Poetry and the Art of Speech: Lecture V 30 Jul 1921, Darmstadt
Tr. Julia Wedgwood, Andrew Welburn

Rudolf Steiner
Some frayed off with fountain-fling of arms To play and plunge, staccatoing the water And some more slowly followed, picking the deep flowers Out of the fume and underdrone of bees: green-kneed They rose and fell in waves delightedly: new sights Consumed them; new mites and motes of smell Held and incensed them: crumbs of booty glowed In every foot-dent, eiderdowntrodden.

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