The red west window of the first Goetheanum
The red west window of the first Goetheanum depicted in pictorial form the essence of imagination.
The path to imaginative knowledge was shown in the left side window. The warming red, in which the warmth ether manifests itself, permeates the whole picture. One sees, as self-knowledge begins, a bright figure that has climbed a high rock and is directing its gaze and arms downwards towards three grotesque bird- and snake-like animal-like figures that stretch upwards threateningly; the one on the right even shows a human-like face. This is the lower soul nature of man, the trinity of the still unpurified soul forces of thinking, feeling and willing, in which lower, animal astral forces still work. These are the three beasts from the abyss to which the Guardian of the Threshold points us, as Rudolf Steiner also described it in 1924 in the esoteric teachings for the first class of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum:
„He has called us, the guardian, so that we stand very close to him. He looks towards us with a serious face. And he shows us how our will, our feeling, our thinking appears before the face of the gods in imaginations. There it is not yet human, this wanting, this feeling, this thinking, there it is still animaI. Self-recognition is still startling, devastating.
But we must pass through the knowledge of that self which our time, our world-time, gives us out of its formation of error, so that we can advance to true self-knowledge.“ (Lit.:GA 270c, p. 33)
Literature
- Georg Hartmann: Goetheanum-Glasfenster, Verlag Am Goetheanum, Dornach 2002, ISBN 3-7235-0049-8
- Rudolf Steiner: Esoterische Unterweisungen für die erste Klasse der Freien Hochschule für Geisteswissenschaft am Goetheanum 1924, GA 270/3 (1999), ISBN 3-7274-2700-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
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