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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.
273. The Problem of Faust: The Problem of Faust 30 Sep 1916, Dornach
Tr. George Adams

Rudolf Steiner
We see how Faust accompanied by his famulus, Wagner, goes out from his cell into the green world where, to begin with, he watches the country people celebrating the Easter Festival out-of-doors in the meadows, until he himself is affected by the Easter mood.
186. Social and Anti-social Forces In The Human Being 12 Dec 1918, Bern
Tr. Christopher Schaefer

Rudolf Steiner
It is important that these objective necessities shall be clearly placed before us at this time. Goethe, in his Legend of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily, has treated the forces of the human soul as three members, or forces; Power, Appearance, and Knowledge or Wisdom—or, as the Bronze King, the Silver King and the Golden King.
187. How Can Humanity Find the Christ Again?: Transformation of the Human Being in the Course of Evolution 29 Dec 1918, Dornach
Tr. Alan P. Shepherd, Dorothy S. Osmond

Rudolf Steiner
Just as Goethe did not stop at the blossom or at the green leaf, but related one to the other, so we may gain a perception that does not stop at the single form, but proceeds from form to form, with attention upon the metamorphosis.
258. The Anthroposophic Movement (1938): The Future of the Anthroposophical Society 17 Jun 1923, Dornach
Tr. Ethel Bowen-Wedgwood

Rudolf Steiner
And this was most strikingly apparent when one started out from something which Goethe was only able to indicate pictorially,—half symbolically, one might say; when one started out, namely, from his Story of the Green Serpent and the Lovely Lily,2 through which he wished to show how spirit, spiritual agencies, are at work in the evolution of the world, and how the several spheres of the True, the Beautiful, the Good, work together, and that they are actual Spiritual beings one must grasp, not mere abstractions of the mind, if one wants to arrive at a view of the actual life of spirit.
68c. Goethe and the Present: The “Fairytale” of Goethe (Goethe's Secret Revelation Esoteric) 21 Jan 1909, Heidelberg

Rudolf Steiner
Yesterday I endeavored to show how the material to be presented here regarding Goethe's most intimate opinions and views on the development of the human soul is not arbitrarily worked into his works, and in particular into the material with which we are particularly concerned, his fairy tale of the green snake and the Beautiful Lily, but I have tried to show how the whole basis on which to build, the explanation of this fairy tale and Goethe's more intimate worldview, can be gained from a historical consideration of Goethe's life, from a historical tracing of the most important impulses of Goethe's ideas.
108. The Answers to Questions About the World and Life Provided by Anthroposophy: On Philosophy and Formal Logic 08 Nov 1908, Munich

Rudolf Steiner
The concept of a circle cannot be formed by going through various circles, green, blue, large and small, and then omitting everything that is not common, and then forming an abstraction.

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