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- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Beings and Persons Represented
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- reveals itself as that of the Earth-brain.
- heavy clogs, as if tied to earth. Scene 6.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Prelude
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- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 1
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- Shed by the flickering sunlight o'er the earth.
- Once, long ago, Christ lived upon the earth,
- In union with the earth's own spirit-sphere;
- When that new sight shall come to men on earth.
- Upon the earth; this shall be seen by souls
- Besides ourselves, live on the earth at all.
- Yet surely there are men enough on earth
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 2
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- Out from earth's depths do they resound to me:
- The earth I follow on its cosmic course:
- Revealed the core of suns and earths to me.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 3
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- Who would descend into the realms of earth,
- And brought to being through thy birth on earth
- That enters earth's domains, and shows such moods.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 4
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- And into earth's free realms thou hast escaped.
- Midst earth's confusion thou didst seek to prove
- And thou hast found again the earth's pure light,
- I make earth hard and fast. The spirits willed
- Thy mortal eyes saw me in all earth's growth;
- Capesius and Strader, whom he has brought to the earth's surface
- from the earth's depths. They are conceived as souls looking
- out upon the earth's surface. The Spirit of the Elements is
- If I can pour into their life on earth
- Sound proud indeed; but in the depths of earth
- Storm-spirits in primeval. depths of earth.
- I sense earth's essence and with human brains
- I fain would think the thoughts of Earth herself.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 5
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- Shall fill his soul with life; there too the earth's
- No sign as yet hath come to us from earth
- First must they bring us message that the earth
- Out of myself I give to man on earth
- (Felix Balde appears in his earthly shape: the Other Maria
- A power, which speaks from very depths of earth
- Which serve world-cycles in the earth's dark depths.
- Doth only serve the surface of the earth,
- Unto primeval origins of earth
- And without spirit earth's primeval beasts
- The powers of earth what they do need so much?
- So long as on the earth men only heed
- The mineral forces buried in earth's depths.
- When we did serve earth's purposes the best
- In thee the spirits of the earth arose
- And works within the life of men on earth.
- Thou wilt bear fruit on earth in human deeds
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 6
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- Two men did I present unto the earth
- The earthly part in them; and so through me
- What thou at first didst do for them on earth,
- The cycle of the earth in love and hate.
- like clogs are almost earth-bound.)
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 7
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- Into his work on earth
- I knew on earth, and looked beyond the space
- As he appeared in earthly life when young,
- And only those who in their earthly life
- Had kept the forms in which they lived on earth,
- Who did descend to earth and conquer death.
- A heart doth love God's messenger on earth.
- As we were joined in former life on earth.
- Can wed these twain, there doth stream forth on earth
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 8
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- In earthly life do manifest themselves
- Unfolded in his former lives on earth.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 9
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- And all that doth make hard the solid earth.
- From these high aims in my weak, earthly form.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 10
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- And into earth's free realms thou hast escaped.
- Midst earth's confusion thou didst seek to prove
- And thou hast found again the light of earth.
- The solid earth do I make hard and fast:
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 11
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- To make Maria's soul-light on the earth
- To give my light unto men's souls on earth.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 2
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- If earth-life's tortuous course alone it were
- By earthly ties of such complexity,
- Thy path on earth in days long since gone by.
- And lead to earthly paths
- In distant paths on earth
- And force Earth's bounds to heed
- The primal shaping of this earthly globe
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 3
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- Thy spirit's visions unto earthly eyes.
- To lofty heights of spirit, far from earth.
- Their beauty to earth's depths.
- In all thy ways on earth
- Press on through earthly love
- And rob thee of earth's touch.
- That earthly love bears trace
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 4
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- Of repetition of thy life on earth.
- The repetition of our earthly life
- Appointed for our earthly pilgrimage.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 5
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- As earth's existence gradually evolves.
- As is his body's sheath to man on earth;
- And in his breast earth-beings hold their sway.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 7
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- Into the scope of earth's activities,
- Since that sad loss we strive on earth in vain,
- To live anew in future days on earth.
- Will come again to earth, and then bestow
- In later days that are to come on earth.
- Unto the progress of our earthly aims.
- The while thou wert amongst us here on earth,
- I spake myself whilst I was still on earth.
- So let those thoughts which I once held on earth
- To dwell on earth and work with thee to-day.
- Can good be made to blossom on this earth.
- Desirable, may well upon the earth
- Which, when the latter days of earth draw near,
- On earth possess thee in thine inmost soul.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 8
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- As in this earth-life yet is possible,
- I fain would sink to earth and humbly bow
- Through all the lives that I shall live on earth.
- Earth once only in a human frame.
- To live Earth's future stages in advance.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 9
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- But bear their fruits in later lives on earth.
- Which may be faithful guides in earthly ways
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 11
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- This long-past earthly life — so too did theirs.
- Have been transferred into an earthly past.
- Unlock the door of every earthly age?
- Admission into any earthly age.
- In earthly evolution there are times
- Whilst seeking out our former lives on earth.
- In their next life on earth such men as these
- Shorter than usual 'twixt two earthly lives.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 12
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- To change itself to deeds in earthly life.
- But now I have beheld the past earth life
- As just before its present life on earth
- E'en at the end of all his earthly days
- When in earth's primal days his human form
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 13
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- For short earth-lives alone, but all in vain;
- To show the meaning of all earthly growth.
- She could behold in bygone earthly lives
- To set the earth-life free, and for all time
- Transformed to earthly action, which shall tend
- Throughout the evolution of this earth.
- I saw how in its earthly frame of yore
- To distant days on earth will teach me now
- In olden days on earth was formed a knot
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 1
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- From all Earth's other children separate,
- And working thus amidst the things of Earth
- Deep in the mother-earth of truth itself,
- We see how in man's daily life on earth
- Of reason and of sense hath found on earth,
- Against the light that since Earth's dawn hath streamed
- That men have dared to make upon the Earth.
- Through many earthly lives and spirit-realms.
- In the wise plan of earth's development.
- Those Powers which guide the purpose of our Earth
- As one great whole throughout its earthly course.
- Yet in the Earth's beginning there were sent
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 2
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- Which shows itself on Earth as the result
- All that I have produced in earthly life.
- Makes it far harder for the life of earth,
- Close barriered in earth.
- And follow thee to earth's primeval depths,
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 3
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- Who in the kingdom of the Earth erewhile
- Have woven round about weak men of Earth.
- Who ne'er have been incarnate on the Earth.
- They tell you Earth hath no significance,
- But he who hath belonged to realms of Earth
- Which bind Earth's life to that of all the worlds.
- Must keep his gaze fixed fast upon the Earth,
- If he could find no booty on the Earth,
- The breath of life and keeps its earthly form,
- The body which is proper to Earth-souls
- And on the Earth is called Capesius.
- Of powers that from their earthly bodies come,
- Who calls himself Capesius on earth.
- Capesius to shield, in life on Earth.
- Who standeth near thee in the life on Earth.
- Who is my strong opponent on the Earth,
- With his own wonted form, which on the earth
- Thee as thou seemest to his earthly form
- It hath opposed me since the Earth began.
- Which he on Earth accomplished, must be giv'n
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- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 4
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- And formed ... the image ... of an earthly man. ...
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 5
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- Throughout the last hours of her life on earth
- When we were told her life on Earth was o'er.
- To spend on Earth for many years as yet
- Could meet in earthly passion in this life.
- From earthly passions in his search for me.
- Lived in the body on this earth of ours.
- Although she hath no knowledge of the earth.
- Through earthly powers so successfully.
- For Lucifer, since first the Earth began
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 6
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- Which souls on earth find hard to understand
- The words which serve to test the souls on Earth?
- With earthly nature to create some work,
- And which were written for men's souls on Earth,
- Again there come the words which on the Earth
- Incomprehensible to souls on Earth
- I'll loose my inmost being from the Earth,
- And then when I return to life on Earth
- Thou shalt find earthly aims reflect themselves
- Doth then the teacher bring the lore of earth
- Which he doth use on earth in other ways?
- Capesius, thou hast in thine earth-life
- From thought's dream-play within thine earthly frame.
- Through all the darkness that surrounds the Earth.
- The spirit-light from me in earthly life
- Beholds his earthy form released from him,
- Children of Earth have loved me from the first
- Throughout the long dull progress of the Earth.
- The gods however willed to rule on Earth,
- Send out my powerful strength upon the Earth.
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- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 7
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- I needs must relegate again to Earth,
- When earthly darkness no more shelters them.
- Thomasius, although upon the Earth
- In long forgotten ages on the Earth.
- Which thou hast won when in thine earthly frame.
- Unto her soul, apart from lore of Earth.
- Which I myself have won upon the Earth
- Go back again from here to life on Earth.
- With strictest oath, that in Earth's future times
- Johannes in his earthly form doth now
- When in an earthly life long since passed by
- But which were hindered from his earthly ears
- As once mankind in olden times on Earth
- He caused much blood to flow upon the earth.
- To meet the earthly soul which formerly
- No matter if on Earth or otherwhere.
- Many a man now walks upon the Earth
- When earthly love doth guard them safe
- Since first the Earth began.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 8
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- The grain of corn must fall to earth and die
- All that in earthly life hath run to waste
- That Strader's work in mankind's life on earth
- About their life since first the Earth began.
- This leads to nothing on this Earth of ours.
- Since Earth refused to give herself to me.
- Must lose themselves whilst living on the Earth.
- And strength and power decay in earthly life.
- If on the Earth I found that they were true.
- It would be error for the world of Earth
- It wore on earth, hath kindled in the depths
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 9
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- From all the wondrous beauty of the earth,
- Which Karma spins in lives of men on earth.
- The aims which in the progress of the earth
- With such intent since first the Earth began
- It showed how in a former life on Earth
- Which shows how on the Earth things come to pass
- And offering it to the gods of Earth.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 10
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- Which shines upon our Earth from out the east.
- To service in the progress of the Earth
- To souls of men when first the Earth was formed
- Towards true love, in progress of the Earth,
- ‘The goal of love for earthly souls — 'tis this
- The guiding light of Earth's salvation-path.
- Which Karma spins in human lives on Earth.
- To Earth's primeval source
- In lives of men on Earth.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
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- Johannes is a prey to delusion and loves to wander in his own dreamland. He is warned by Maria and Benedictus. Capesius, in a moment of clairvoyance gets a glimpse of Johannes' inner mood, and is so alarmed that he decides that there can be no blending of spiritual gifts with earthly things, and he withdraws from Hilary's group and goes to the old mystic Felix. Maria urges Johannes to discriminate between truth and self-delusion which can be done by the study of elemental sprites.The dance of gnomes and sylphs.The Youth of Johannes appears. It is in despair because it is separated from Johannes. Lucifer tries to console it with promises of human wisdom and love of beauty. Theodora offers divine wisdom.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
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- Johannes is a prey to delusion and loves to wander in his own dreamland. He is warned by Maria and Benedictus. Capesius, in a moment of clairvoyance gets a glimpse of Johannes' inner mood, and is so alarmed that he decides that there can be no blending of spiritual gifts with earthly things, and he withdraws from Hilary's group and goes to the old mystic Felix. Maria urges Johannes to discriminate between truth and self-delusion which can be done by the study of elemental sprites.The dance of gnomes and sylphs.The Youth of Johannes appears. It is in despair because it is separated from Johannes. Lucifer tries to console it with promises of human wisdom and love of beauty. Theodora offers divine wisdom.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Persons, Figures, and Events
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- deep spiritual connection of earthly events. In my earlier soul
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 1
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- Upon the market of our earthly life
- Thou fain wouldst banish selfishness on earth
- And set up as a pattern on this earth.
- That earthly deeds are wed to spirit aims;
- As come they must, back into earthly life.
- In things pertaining to this life on earth.
- Acts based upon experience on earth;
- Which, though proved true, yet had no life on earth.
- The source of true creation on the earth.
- Thy work on earth severely separate
- Those hours which earthly labour doth not claim.
- To earthly labours in the world of sense.
- And gives them reason in their life on earth.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 2
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- That chills my earthly feelings —
- Since all activity in work on earth
- If they disturb his duties on the earth.
- From thy warm loving bonds of work on earth.
- Although our earthly bodies are close friends, —
- By any ties unto this work of earth.
- Which hampers seership's power with earthly things,
- Our spirit to be turned to work on earth.
- The nebulous earth-dust;
- Hard-crusted earth-boulders;
- And dreamed when earth began.
- Earth-evolution's sense.
- They shatter the earth
- With those earth-spirits thou canst fashion forms,
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 3
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- And find my way back into life on earth,
- When they pursue him into life on earth.
- By my desire for outer deeds on earth.
- And kindle there on earth the light that shines
- A new home in the daily life of earth.
- Lie like a burden on thine earthly thought.
- With mighty power, to earth activity.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 4
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- This mood's strong forces into earthly life; —
- I am indebted to some past earth-life?
- Who in some earlier earth-life had attained
- Which by degrees could make their way to earth
- That in an earth-life of the distant past
- The fruits of earth-lives in the distant past,
- The way into the realm of earthly things.
- In future days to work upon the earth.
- Which leads into the realm of earthly things.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 5
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- is a globe symbolising the earth. The figures that appear seem to
- The earth-star now receives a faded light;
- In later earth-life they will come to flower.
- Thrown on the realm of spirit by earth's star,
- On earth they work, by cosmic reason led,
- But on the earth they would fill thee with hate.
- Then thou wilt re-discover it on earth.
- To beings, that they may make forms therefrom. They to thine earthly
- And thus stir up a storm in earthly life.
- Since I escaped the clutch of earthly life,
- That which two earth-lives gave thee thou must feel.
- Demand a payment in, thy next earth-life.
- Who shows his earthly future to thee here.
- That thou mayst find thyself on earth again
- The meaning of the cyclic life of earth
- With powers for later life upon the earth.
- With these opaque earth-laden spheres of yours.
- The robes of earthly matter woven, wear;
- You kindly in far distant times on earth.
- Thoughts which in earth-lives in the distant past
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 6
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- On earth, that which the soul who stands revealed
- Of which thou wast a member once on earth.
- To strengthen in forthcoming lives on earth
- Past thoughts of earth arise in glowing light
- I saw it when on earth; it follows here;
- Which thou didst faithfully display on earth.
- And they in earth life will arouse in thee
- And so will fashion wings for life on earth.
- For mine own future wanderings on earth.
- Germs we shall need in future lives on earth.
- When earthly forces once more clothe thy form.
- To which this soul shall answer when on earth,
- Who in mine earth — as in my spirit-life
- That thou mayst reap the fruits in life on earth.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 7
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- appearance. A place of initiation in the far-distant past in this Earth's
- To wisdom divine, neglecting earthly cares
- For earthly cares; his soul is set upon
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 8
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- Naught doth remain for me in life on earth
- How he loth tear himself away from earth,
- the Impersonator of the Earth Element, an earlier in-carnation of
- of the Earth Element:
- Beneath the weight of earth-life seize upon
- Fly from the weight of earth-life which would kill
- Sink with thy weight of earth to cosmic depths;
- The weight of earth and be as light as air.
- I saw the body that I wear on earth
- Mine earthly sheath with longing and desire.
- There lurked the wish that weight of earth should sink
- This is no spirit-vision; earth's desires
- At present? — Later lives on earth will show
- As earthly burden, this will serve my work.
- At present by the burden of earth's weight.
- Which later shall illuminate the earth,
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 9
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- With service true back to thine earthly form.
- The cosmic midnight! — Ere for this earth-life
- Mine earthly thoughts concealed from me before
- My senses feel earth clearness once again?
- To be my prop throughout my life on earth.
- And so it wrought in later lives on earth
- Which to the spirit-stream of earth foretold
- She hath beheld her long past life on earth.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 10
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- In earthly life, I should consider it
- The fruits of long-past lives upon this earth
- That leads from realms of Earth
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 12
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- The interior of the earth. Enormous crystal
- Yet I shall need some earthly help if I
- Earth-knowledge he must leave here at the door.
- He drifts about upon the star of Earth;
- But if while still on earth his soul can be
- Who will be more opposed to them on earth
- The mystic light on earth doth burn me sore
- He dwells on earth or in the spirit-realms.
- He still doth dwell on earth, I stand to lose
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 13
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- That which in earth-life thou canst comprehend.
- Already as a man upon the earth,
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 14
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- That he appears quite sundered from the earth.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 15
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- To render earth's last services to him
- The work on earth through which his love had poured.
- So must the life of this our time on earth
- Thy services to him whilst yet on earth.
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