SUN : the human being in entirety

The eurythmist stands upright; the right arm is raised above the horizontal line and the left lowered so that the two are held in a slight diagonal, the right forward the left back. Then the arms are moved in a majestic, streaming circular motion. The right arm circulates clockwise and the left counter-clockwise.

Here all directions of space are encompassed in this  radiant movement that breathes, as the human being breathes. The centre through which this movement passes is freely streaming, giving and receiving.

 Of the Sun itself Rudolf Steiner says, “the force that streams from the Sun is the same force that streams from heart to heart, the warm enlivening power of love. Within us we carry a picture of the streaming forces of the Sun, in the streaming of our blood. The blood courses into the heart, there evaporating into a fine & subtle form, and then continues its streaming.”

This movement of the blood in its tireless streaming, is the Sun sphere in our organisation, and circulates in a lemniscate, through the ‘eye’ of the heart as the arms move. In that the eurythmic movement given for the Sun encompasses all the directions of space, up, down, forward, back, left and right, and circulates on the diagonal, the movement passes through the centre of the body, the heart and the rhythmic centre, giving rise to this lemniscate form. This then is described as the ’human being in entirety.’