Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/259/en

The oracle-site at Delphi, open to all, addressed the intellectual soul. It educated toward independent thinking. The one who came seeking counsel had to be capable of bringing forward a question out of the inner empowerment of thinking, and the answer of the Delphic Pythia, in its ambiguity, summoned the individual to thinking once more. Hellenism bore within itself, inwardly absorbed, the entire Mystery-wisdom of the past in lingering echoes. The ancient Greek, however, step by step departed from the Mystery-guidance of former times; he grasped himself as a whole human being, as a thinking personality who, in perfect harmony — seeking the middle in all things — lived himself forth between the Apollinian experience of the world and the Dionysian experience of his own soul-depths. Out of these two spirit-real sources the Greek created his high works of art; he shaped the physically-material dead substance and impressed upon it, in the giving of form, his spirit. Out of the evening-glow of the Mysteries arose the morning-glow of Greek artistic creation. Whether in sculpture, architecture, music, painting, poetry or philosophy — in all of it the human being stands at the centre as image of the Divine. Out of the experience of his own bodily form he creates sculptures that, purely in the formal gestalt, lift the human being beyond himself into the Divine; and he builds temples whose spatial form is fashioned after the measure of the human being. "The Greek temple represents the realization of a built organism." And yet — however unattainably high the Greek sculpture and architecture in particular