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mankind was led and guided in ancient times. It is in this wisdom that art, science and religion
have their origins. (See also Christianity as Mystical Fact.)
7. We are not entering here into the question of style and its development.
8. This remark and the quotation from the Limburg Chronicle are taken from Max von Boehn’s
Bekleidungskunst und Mode, 1918.
9. Munich, June 14, 1908 (not a literal quotation).
10. Munich, June 14, 1908.
11. Universal-Lexicon by H.A. Pierer, 2nd edition.
12. See chapter II.
13. Not a verbatim quotation.
14. The statements of Steiner’s concerning the development of clothing contain no reference to the
role of horizontal and vertical. The author bears full responsibility for the treatment of it in this
chapter.
15. E.g. the step pyramids at Sakkara and at Medum (Springer); also the step tower of Khorsabad
(Woermann), or the Tower of Babylon, consisting, according to Rawlinson, of seven steps
(Jeremias). The spiral occurring often in buildings and clothing probably represents the
movement of the sun. Alfred Jeremias says: “The idea of seven heavens is the most prevalent. In
Babylon this is attested since Sumerian times by the pyramid with seven steps ... The conception
of seven heavens is derived from the movement of the seven planets. The daily course of the sun is
seen as a curve forming part of a circle; in the course of a year the observer sees the sun moving in
a rising and descending spiral. The two ideas combined give rise to the conception of a mountain
or tower on which a spiral rises and descends. The same picture can be derived from observation
of the moon’s movements.”
16. From a lecture given in Dornach, October 13, 1918.
17. Das Leben der Griechen und Römer by Erns Guhl and Wilhelm Koner.
18. Trachten [Costumes] by F. Hottenroth, I, 1884.
19. Geschichte der Kostüme by Adolf Rosenberg.
20. See Rudolf Steiner, The Gospel of St John, Hamburg, May 1908, lecture 3.
21. In the Louvre (Woermann). See also the portal vestments of Khorsabad (Springer), or the three
gods on a boundary stone in Asia Minor; also the god Raman of Babylon (Jeremias).
22. Orders and Congregations of the Catholic Church by Dr. Max Heimbucher.
23. Op. cit., Hottenroth.
24. Kretschmer, Die Trachten der Völker.
25. See Theosophie by Rudolf Steiner.
26. Chapter XI.
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