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Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Interlude
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all creative joy from his soul, and his inner life grew constantly
more desolate. In this condition of life the poor girl, whom he
had forsaken, came again into his mind, and a wrecked life was
in their life.
fails, I know, if one carries into it the feelings one had in life.
of a deep problem of life. I was once again able to realize clearly
the fulness of life. As soon as it departs therefrom, its works
of life. And I believe a great many have that power, — especially
On such a point we shall surely be able to accept whatever life

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Prelude
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of our present-day life. ... I only hope that this world of
estranged from those things in life that seem to me worth while.
something in me that rebels against your view of life.
of my inmost soul-life?
ideas such, that without vital realization of them life has no valid
an instrument for the manifestation of this view of life.
life requires at the hands of the man whom we call good. And yet
artistic life comes to be voiced, shows me that your ideas too
with reference to this life are to a certain extent superficial
how I have wrenched myself away from that manner of life, which,
I have tried to approach the heights and depths of life. I have
upon the essentials of life and presents to our souls the true
our active sympathies in daily life.
— that the richest life is to be found just there where you only
dispensing life. To the ideas that have come to me, I am indebted for
all that makes life worth while; not only for the courage, but also
ordinary everyday life, in the old traditional sense, but that
men succeed in uniting what they call the realities of life with
critique of life. No hunger is stilled, no tears are dried, no
is unspeakably distant from the true depths of life, and the true
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Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 1
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Unsealing all the depths and doubts of Life.
From utmost depths of Life before mine eyes.
For me dull monotone obscures all life.
Of sacred life itself within my heart.
All, friend, behind the changing scenes of life
That men call ‘Being,’ true life lies concealed
And in that life each soul doth weave its thread.
And see revealed all the life of men,
I am at one with all the sense of Life
As purest life, brought death, my friend, to thee
When through thy life it comes into mine own
Bereft of conscious life, and where full oft
Of Death makes mock at Life's reality.
Of life's return, then did I know full well
That mine own way to live the spirit-life
And set before man's soul the goals of life.
When I perceive, how powerfully in life
Amongst my audience with the warmth of life.
That in the clash of life's realities,
They may indeed wing life's creative powers
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Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 2
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Mine inmost being terrified to life:
He robbed me of the very warmth of life,
Endure the riddle of my life, unless
This truth sublime, that o'er all life doth float
Life's surface only in our moods of thought.
As thou didst tread with me the path of life,
And scan with steadfast gaze life's tangled path;
For I must fain believe that primal life

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 3
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Lay hidden, issued forth to light and life:
The gifts of life with her full consciousness
To solve for me life's fearful questionings
I Why do I mar the life of friend and child,
Illusion's veil o'erspreads life's surfaces —
When in life's pilgrimage I had attained
Thy course of life had fitted thee to be
When thy thoughts dwelt yet far from spirit-life.
To make thy life's sole content and its wealth.
Who hath not known as yet life's shadowed fears.
Thus thou didst learn to understand life's joy,
Must grow unto the higher life above.
And now thou stand'st before life's hardest test.
Of that new higher life of humankind
Which springs to life and fullness in himself.
Through depths of space to fill the world with life;
Quicken with life the soul of this our son:
To the creative joy of spirit-life.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 4
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I followed thee throughout the course of life,
I feel life's powers revive in this new land,
If I can pour into their life on earth
In life's storm-centres many a year I stood,
Must surely know his life's necessities.
I breathe pure air of life, and I transmute
The question of the true worth of man's life.
On all around, whilst life in merry mood
So will ye surely reach Life's fountain-head,
Had chosen for his life monastic rule,

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 5
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In the domain of everlasting life,
Prepared the way to consecrate his life
And filleth beings with the breath of life: —
Shall fill his soul with life; there too the earth's
From dim desires which feel their way through life.
Solution of the riddles set by life,
By showing forth from depths of our own life
And works within the life of men on earth.
And through the soul life of whoever seeks
Who doth but recognize the powers of life
And Felix Balde came just as in life.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 6
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Which lessening of the powers of life in thee
Thy mother's beauty and thy child's own life
Just like her husband, as she is in life.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 7
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World-substance, weaving life,
Sound-substance that gives life
The living life of sound;
Direct the soul-life's rays.
Life's ether harden too.
The Sylphs' airy life
May rouse to new life
And life of the worlds.
May guide him through his life,
Quite otherwise I viewed the life of one
As first he entered on life's thorny path
As he appeared in earthly life when young,
And only those who in their earthly life
In this life; but I shall wait patiently,
As we were joined in former life on earth.
Thine eyes of sense beheld me in this life.
It wove into our life those sufferings,
Thee on the path of life, which selfsame power
To solve for me the riddle of my life,

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 8
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Seemed of itself to have a separate life;
Did know the riddle of thine artist life,
To soar to worlds beyond the life of sense —
How spirit stands revealed in actual life.
Trodden the path that led to spirit-life.
To me it seems the symbol in sense-life
Then must we say that on each plane of life
Much that this life will not allow to come
In earthly life do manifest themselves
As consequences of some former life.
And which have shaped his present mode of life.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 9
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They will give light in sense-life's darkened ways:
Into whose life I brought such bitter grief;
By living out mine own essential life;
So closely are we one, that thy soul's life

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 10
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O Benedictus, fount of my new life!

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 11
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Thou gav'st me power to picture human life;
To spirit-life they have been lifted up.
My power will cause within their spirit-life
With thine exalted sister's loftier life:
From the dim feeling life within thy soul,
Johannes, in the realm of spirit-life
The gifts they have to offer in their life.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Beings and Persons Represented
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former life. Maria and Johannes share the experiences at the same time;

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 1
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To find the meaning and the goal of life:
The inward life of many human souls.
Unfolding truly mine own way and life
Long hath my life been, but its web displays
Which transforms human life, and makes to rise
Which feeds the springs of life within ourselves.
As chief amongst the many sins of life
To those who would lay bare the springs of life,
Thus do I recognize life's highest task;
And sought the goals of life in time and space.
But now, when I would search the fount of life
Thy confidence in life.
To depths of human life
Fighting a battle for thy very life.
In human life. Mere words of comfort now
Thy counsels pour a stream of fiery life
And also as the storms of life and love.
Much pain whilst reading in thy book of life,

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 2
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Johannes' life and aims. A stony road
If earth-life's tortuous course alone it were
The road that leads back from this present life
The goal of action in my daily life.
The workings of my soul's life, which I saw
I see my own soul's life and strength at work
From out old ways of life
Will's might that giveth life
I thine old ways of life.
The traces of thy life.
From out this sphere of life
That stretches back far from my present life
Mankind doth guide his life,

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 3
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How can the ceaseless web of spirit-life,
And radiant colours filled with spirit-life.
No work of mine owes not its life to thee.
I love the life that quickens in thy soul,

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 4
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My life hath undergone a curious change.
Such as may serve-some useful end in life.
There are no goals in life ordained for man
Can never reach the fountain: head of life.
That lead to business and to normal life.
That urged thee forth from this benumbing life?
That this my present life is not an utter loss.
If this terrestrial life repeats itself.
Of repetition of thy life on earth.
To make a fresh beginning in my life.
The repetition of our earthly life
Ever to seek for evidence in life
And by my own life testify the truth,
Thou art acquainted with my curious life.
In all their life as my apostasy.
Just as one bears the other things in life
So too my later life and all the hopes
That happened round me in my later life.
Tortured by scorn I must confront my life;
Do with me what thou wilt, thou life-machine;

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 5
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His duty bids him lead this novel life.
To this much altered fashion of our life.
The spirit-life, they say, must be made known,
Then such a knowledge wakes to life in me
Into the circle of his daily life,
By men deemed lifeless. Evening often fell,
Musing on what life held in store for him,
To him I give a draught of life and hope
To losing courage on life's battlefield.
For him I forge unwavering faith in life
When by life's riddles thou art overwhelmed.
Through labyrinths of life and depths of soul.
Across thy path in life
I know that in this life I certainly
Reacts like very life upon my soul.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 6
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That this is so mine own life proves to-day.
She is to marry me and share my life.
Oft have I told thee what my life hath been.
Because he wished to start his life anew

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 7
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The separate life of individual men
To mount aloft unto the higher life.
Lifelong allegiance, Truly ye are
Why, not content with robbing us of life
And hear his words, as in the life of sense
Of other states of life oppresseth me.
Science and daily life shall undergo
Thus hast thou learned that laws for future life
And if thou art resolved to find the life

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 8
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Her life was well nigh one continuous prayer,
In other walks of life I had not found.
For which he makes his life the sacrifice.
As in this earth-life yet is possible,
To solve the riddle of my life and fate:
That in this life I may yet find myself.
Can we proclaim life's highest aim to be

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 9
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Knowledge to serve our needs in daily life.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 10
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As only can be felt in life's full course.
That which had brought this fear to life in me.
From out life's needs they brought to being things,
So long as in the circle of thy life
Thou art a dream, and dost but dream thy life.’
From nothingness to life, and back to nothingness —
I scan a picture that seems life itself.
Thine own life hast thou dreamed.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 11
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This long-past earthly life — so too did theirs.
To find the causes of thy present life;
In their next life on earth such men as these
Must show strong traces of their previous life.
Life's contradictions to accentuate

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 12
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He knows the words writ in his book of life
To change itself to deeds in earthly life.
At every step that he would take in life
I do perceive the error of my life.
But now I have beheld the past earth life
From which my present life derives its source
As just before its present life on earth
The fashion of his life must be for me
Clamour imperiously for life and form,
This will must know the wherefore of man's life
Till impulses in life shall call it forth.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 13
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And stay a stranger to the sense of life;
And points the way unto the springs of life.
Throughout a life of studious research
'Twas given him to know his present life
Now he can see the errors of that life
Learn how a man must, in a single life,
That none may climb up to the heights of life
To set the earth-life free, and for all time
Are in a later life by spirit seen,
Whose thread of life shall have to twine with mine
Whose symbols are the actions of man's life.
In this my life in which Johannes' soul
In this sore stress of his life-pilgrimage;
So that life-powers unconsciously prepared
Which once upon a time thy life-threads wove
Fast in a life-knot with those other two.
The father could not in his former life
Of air that pulseth with immortal life,

Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Beings and Persons Represented
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of those which appeared before in my life pictures called ‘The

Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 1
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Who face life's fight in their own strength alone.
Their life and deeds make manifest to all.
And honest goals of spirit-life find place.
The Spirit's guidance, in their daily life.
We see how in man's daily life on earth
Which makes for worth in life; and through such work
Man's life itself becomes mechanical.
Might no more lame the soul-life of mankind
In thinking out this riddle of man's life.
No fruit of any value for real life.
To grace the realms of sense with life's true worth.
Which can full well illuminate life's worth.
To search in darkness for the way of life.
That can direct our steps to life's true light.
From spirit-life bath scarce indeed begun
And did but speak about the world and life —
That you with us unites in spirit-life;
And so, in living fruitfulness, that Life
To take up science as his work in life.
Of world-relationship in life and deed.
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Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 2
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While life still unto matter binds them fast,
Throughout the courses of the spirit-life.
I will embody in my spirit-life.
All that I have produced in earthly life.
Makes it far harder for the life of earth,
Since ye are leaders in this self-same life
By bold persistence life from seeming death.
When darkness wounds and maims the powers of life.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 3
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Strove through a life which he hath long since known
Through which mankind fulfils its spirit-life.
If they should learn how all the course of life
Which bind Earth's life to that of all the worlds.
The breath of life and keeps its earthly form,
Remembrance of the life that he passed through
He lives within that frame a life he fears
And his soul's life doth show in its true light
Those souls however who go through their life
I know that in these realms of Spirit-life
Capesius to shield, in life on Earth.
Who standeth near thee in the life on Earth.
'Tis thou then who dost baulk me of free life
My life within him hath for some long time
Ah, how thou dost transform my very life!

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The loved and dear companion of my life
Which shone upon a life which formerly
In spirit-life I was a starving man
To find the worth of life and goal of man.
Since life had ceased to be of worth to me.
And lived a life of torment, till once more
When we were drawn together in life's bond.
A long life had he spent in deep research
Destined to be companion of my life
My soul was flooded o'er with waves of life
Still held me far apart from spirit-life.
That hath illuminated all my life —
Whose attitude t'ward spirit-life is right.
Kindling my life that I should so perceive
This certainty of life which I had won
Which could have brought him to his life's full height
My fate had only changed my way of life;
For each experience of spirit-life
Into my life and governs all my soul —

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Throughout the last hours of her life on earth
That life brought to you here from day to day.
She was the sum and meaning of my life,
When we were told her life on Earth was o'er.
Ever the same sound healthy mode of life.
And suffering poured itself through all her life.
Could meet in earthly passion in this life.
His future life unto the realms of dark.
Entrusted with Thomasius' spirit-life,
All that hath been his custom in this life.
The life of spirit-pupilship, although
Much to accomplish in the spirit-life.

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And are the same as in the book of life
And then when I return to life on Earth
Lose thou thyself in life of cosmic force;
Capesius, thou hast in thine earth-life
In thy soul-body oped the spirit-life.
So that thy soul-life could release itself
The spirit-light from me in earthly life
The soul lives out her life within herself:
If I had not as ornament to life
Enfilled with confidence and spirit-life.’

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Of all existence and the goal of life.
Would rise to spirit from the life of sense.
To sense-existence than a daily life,
So nought remains to thee; a lifeless life
Go back again from here to life on Earth.
When in an earthly life long since passed by
Because He lived love's life so perfectly.
His thinking scans the very source of life;
Although their soul-life was but like a dream;
And in his life full many a time it chanced
Scorn and derision were his lot in life,
Would not be possible for him in life,
How little in his present mode of life
Can hold thee upright in the cosmic life.
Who leadeth thee to wastes of life

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life. Prominent on one side is a miser and on the other a massive
Before the life within it can return.
All that in earthly life hath run to waste
But much that shows the life of this same league
In human life, will surely find that I
That Strader's work in mankind's life on earth
A healthy view of life will of itself
Perchance in her next life she'll help me more,
About their life since first the Earth began.
Will lack the power to understand life's aims.
To rob men's souls of every power in life
May let external powers mould their life
Reveal themselves through powers within his life,
And such he will appear in his next life —
And strength and power decay in earthly life.
I speak such words as would destroy my life
When darkness wounds and maims the powers of life.
Of thine own soul in solemn hours of life
The soul that in a life of long ago
By bold persistence life from seeming death.

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Thy life itself will help to loose this knot.
My life's aim suddenly revealed itself.
That would have hid the spirit-life from thee
Unless the stronger forces of this life
My deadened soul-life first tormented me
It showed how in a former life on Earth
For knowledge only hath true active life,
The memory of life in spirit-realms.
My course of life is thus made clear to me.

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Can waken to true life what otherwise
It was not I, as I am in my life,
His life must aye observe this strictest rule
Throughout his life he'll carry his own cares
He who now comes, as though another's life
Because it hath a power that can kill life;
And asks how she can mould and use the life
And loving unto death foretelleth life.
And yet so live his life within himself
Is done because the course of her own life
In former life was to that one which now
In life what spirit-powers have foreordained.
Hath shown his pupils in the spirit-life.
Where life's true purpose was revealed to me.
All thought within thy life hath cast thee up
Thus, in a picture, life's reflection show.
But through reflection into mine own life;

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Persons, Figures, and Events
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seeks to substitute the actual spiritual life of modern times for
Hilary True-to-God, the adept in traditional spiritual life,
physical world, and the name is used there because his inner life

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Upon the market of our earthly life
And daily life by taste be beautified.
And shut thyself from all true human life.
That life hath brought him. Thus should I appear
In spirit it will work its way in life
As come they must, back into earthly life.
In things pertaining to this life on earth.
If his proved skill in life be wisely joined
Which, though proved true, yet had no life on earth.
Which goes out from thee to all spirit-life,
Would work creatively in thy soul-life.
Where I see clear life's evolution writ,
And gives them reason in their life on earth.
By life and nature what existence means.

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The towering masses with their silent life
It may behold life's revelation clear.
Thy personal sorrow thou must bear through life
When darkness wounds and maims the powers of life.
A transient life from out illusion's web,
Within me glowed to life thoughts not mine own —
To find its way to life in cosmic space?
I was allowed to see Johannes' life.
By hast'ning forth from their true spheres of life.
It is no transient whim; his mental life
Which stirs with conscious life akin to theirs.
Amid the surging sea of spirit-life,
When young mankind's dawn-life
Would reach actual life;
That this actual life,
'Tis life that they weave,
A life which creates.
May wake into life.
That forms their own life.
That forms their own life.’
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Opinions based on outer facts of life.
And find my way back into life on earth,
Such as can prove of use in outer life.
And what his reason grasps of spirit-life,
From inward spirit-life he stands far off.
When they pursue him into life on earth.
For well he knows that in thine outer life
In human life they well may stand so close;
How that part can grow ripe to waking life.
To outward cosmic life thy personal self?
I sought thee, fleeing from the kind of life
Expectancy the soul's whole inner life:
Mystic illusion will destroy thy life.
Into the world of active daily life
A new home in the daily life of earth.
Which makes the secret of thine inner life
Give to thy dreams the life, which I am bound
From out our group to other paths of life.

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Both in life's work and in the mystic arts:
Drives him to seek some outer work in life.
When at the door it entered into life;
This mood's strong forces into earthly life; —
How elemental spirits, quick with life,
In life and work and service for mankind
I am indebted to some past earth-life?
Some spirit lives its life in Strader's frame
Who in some earlier earth-life had attained
And mingle in the common life of men;
That hold a value for mankind's whole life?
I spin no dreams about mankind's whole life
That in an earth-life of the distant past
That forms their own life.’
That forms their own life.’
Whom thine offence doth grant a life bewitched.
Johannes, give life in the shadow-realm
The fresh life, that lies deep hid in him,
That forms their own life.’
O magical web that forms mine own life
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Thy word awakens unto work and life.
In later earth-life they will come to flower.
Doth vanish, and the lust for life doth seize
I beam forth clear and wondrous life of stars
And thus stir up a storm in earthly life.
Since I escaped the clutch of earthly life,
Demand a payment in, thy next earth-life.
The meaning of the cyclic life of earth
With powers for later life upon the earth.
Then wilt ye find that in this spirit-life

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In mine own sphere, once gave to my sense-life;
Life's gift of sympathy without mine aid.
That their soul-bodies may thus gleam with life,
That so their gleaming, glowing life may serve
And they in earth life will arouse in thee
And so will fashion wings for life on earth.
Who in mine earth — as in my spirit-life
And keep them safe within the cosmic life,
That thou mayst reap the fruits in life on earth.
I feed with life the being of thy wish,

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For its high meaning in the spirit life,
In everlasting life in spirit-worlds.
Into the current of our human life.

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Naught doth remain for me in life on earth
Thou didst but dream it in thy sembled life;
Beneath the weight of earth-life seize upon
Fly from the weight of earth-life which would kill
We light for thee the life of thy real self;
To thee than is the life of thine own self,
Now of this being it shall read the life
The beings who attend its active life;
And learn the sense of joy within life's warmth.
With rightful meaning into human life.

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The cosmic midnight! — Ere for this earth-life
To serve its purpose in the cosmic life.
Preserve, before the sense-life once again
To be my prop throughout my life on earth.
Which flowed therein from out thine own soul's life;
Into a powerful motive in thy life.
He heard the whispering stream of cosmic life.
When sense-life causeth me to dream again?
She hath beheld her long past life on earth.

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In earthly life, I should consider it
Whom thine offence doth grant a life bewitched.
Where radiant beauty life-power doth create;

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Showed yourselves to me at my life's abyss.
Without these plans my life must worthless seem.
Ahead is life reft of the breath of life.
Between the mystic life and world of sense

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He would build learned prattle into life;
And yet each wind of life will knock him down.
That Strader's span of life is nearly run.

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Hath oft opposed the mystic life and aims,
Life bath not brought me any ripened fruit;
Whene'er thy words were in the course of life
To whom life hath brought nothing but success?
Expectancy the soul's whole inner life: —
It wakes, unsought amid the stream of life,
Mystic illusion will destroy thy life.’
That which in earth-life thou canst comprehend.
Can find within the circuit of my life.

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This power doth weave to form the knot in life,
Than that the strand which links thy husband's life
My husband's happiness in life now hangs
Nothing in life but sad soul-loneliness,
Which seemed to him to be of use in life.
This aim first gave to him a worth in life.
That in his life hath yet befallen him.
He can so steep himself in spirit-life
Mere inward spirit-life that is content
Doth ever prove his guide in mystic life.
Both practical and useful for this life.
The threads of life wears now a serious face. —

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 15
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Thou knewest hard at work in active life.
Of utmost bliss, walked aye through life alone.
Of life in which to manifest.
With all the aspirations of his life;
She was in life — true mystic souls feel thus.
So must the life of this our time on earth
Like planets, light-rays which awaken life.
At first the latest of his plans in life
Who art thou, who dost take a shadowed life,
The life of sense no longer forms a bridge.
To rise newborn within the cosmic life.
Into Maria's and Johannes' life;

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