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Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
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The Spirit-world. Maria and her soul powers. Theodora's vision of the past incarnation of Maria and Johannes. The scene ends with Benedictus' great mystic utterance.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
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The Spirit-world. Maria and her soul powers. Theodora's vision of the past incarnation of Maria and Johannes. The scene ends with Benedictus' great mystic utterance.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Interlude
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the power to develop his promising talents. Pure enthusiasm for
of life. And I believe a great many have that power, — especially
what higher powers have already set before us as the highest works
of art. These same powers have implanted in man an impulse to
all that man can create, the original powers of creation have

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Beings and Persons Represented
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of Maria's soul-powers.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Prelude
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endows men with elemental power, even as the germinal power of
and conscious freedom with the power of spontaneous creation.
We consciously absorb this power, and do not thereby rob. it of
teach, any more than the seed-power within a plant
for the insight and power that make me hopeful of so training

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 1
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And powerless to help the bond that binds
Unfolding visibly Creation's powers
Shown forth by magic elemental powers
The ebb and flow of all my spirit's power.
Nay more, I even lack the power to love
And I must also see how spirit-power
Lies power to raise to realms celestial
By just this spirit-power, and must behold
We lived the higher powers of thought itself;
When I perceive, how powerfully in life
They may indeed wing life's creative powers
These words create the actual powers of life,
I altogether lack the power to prove
She loseth from her eyes the power to see
And by their own devotion's inward power.
It doth compel the thought that spirit-power
As if the powers of Nature, through these words,
And yet the power of knowledge, pure and true,
Where unused powers in full abundance dwell
But our friend here exhausted life's best powers
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Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 2
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For knowledge hath endowed me with the power
Ah me! Ye quench again by your own power

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 3
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With strength from these few words: ‘The powers of light
But through the mighty power of destiny.
All powers, that deep in body and in soul
Descended on our friend with magic power.
The powerful Seed of God. I had to join
The power to work within our human world.
The spirit-seeker must attain the power
For him must other powers unfold themselves
Who finds himself accoutred for such powers
And had these powers found thee not ripe enough
Have maimed thy powers of feeling, ere thou daredst
Whether there lies in them the power to reach
And those in whom such powers are found to lie
When Powers on high stirred to its depths thy soul,
Right powerfully thy Self hath fought its way
Kindle the full power of thy soul with words

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 4
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Before the world of souls stand these two powers:
Your minds opposed the ruling of my powers.
Hath been achieved. Yet he obeys my powers
I feel life's powers revive in this new land,
With power, that she must pay instead of you.
May it unfold strong powers within thyself
For we ourselves lack power to question thus
There are two ways. If my power doth attain

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 5
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Thus speaks the power of love, which bindeth worlds
And since thou hast thus raised unto the power
Entrusted, now this power shall lead him forth
World potencies shall there empower him;
Who, uninitiated, yet have power
Must ripen through thy power in human souls.
A power, which speaks from very depths of earth
Must needs give nourishment to all the powers
Could change themselves to men by their own power.
The powers of earth what they do need so much?
Will surely blossom forth in him as power.
Who doth but recognize the powers of life

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 6
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Whose spirit-powers were fructified through thee.
Which lessening of the powers of life in thee
New spirit-powers shall seed and fructify.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 7
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The Spirit-world. Maria and her soul powers. Theodora's vision of the
To fill the soul with power
From soul-creating power.
The power of shade to grow
And powerful to create,
And transforming powers
From primal powers will I
Are filled already with the spirit's power
They did present unto your thought its power,
A conqueror o'er all the powers of death,
The power, which from that message grew in thee,
There lay the power to guide us on our way
To wake in thee the power that once did urge
Thee on the path of life, which selfsame power
With all the power which I have found in me.
Yea, light, that gave to me the power of sight; —
This thought did generate the highest power:
And he hath given unto thee the power
I could confer the power that urged you here,
Endowed with novel powers shall ye both stand,
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Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 8
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Within thy nature power did dwell again,
Will consciously be guided by its power.
The spirit power creates in artists' souls,
A ghost I cannot see, nor have I power
By some strange power that can have origin
Who hath endowed this picture with such power?
For unto him was given power to pierce
E'en as we are, we must first find that power
We must, to find ourselves, that power unfold
Hath through the unfolding of his spirit power,
My brush was guided by the powers, which he

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 9
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When such power in the spirit roots itself,
Rousing themselves to grant me strength and power.
Where'er these words of power do follow me.
Which mine own power hath vivified;
And blissfully I feel creative power
Those powers, whereof the germ lies hid in me.
In my soul-powers and on my spirit-paths.
E'en thus doth work the fructifying power
I feel in mine own self the quickening power
I feel that power to guide me everywhere

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 10
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So now feel me as love-power of all worlds.
Feels its own being's power enhanced, whene'er
And they shall work salvation through thy power.
Feel me in thy soul-depths, and bear my power
I feel creative power arise in me.
When evil powers desire to seize on me.
Ye good powers of my soul, and straightway crush
And if this kindles power from its own fire
O Benedictus, thou hast given me power,
The power of being, and thou canst misuse
Only those powers, which in the souls of men

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 11
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Thou shouldst have superseded by the power
The magic power that comes from spirit-sight.
The power of thought did slip away from thee,
Thou gav'st me power to picture human life;
With power to fill and satisfy men's souls.
But not the power to still that yearning voice,
Felt other powers continually arise.
In whom they will o'erthrow my power. E'en now
No longer room for blind unseeing power:
Doth give them power to see me, and my sway
Yet doth the power continue which hath been
My power will cause within their spirit-life
Through this, thine insight, thou dost give me power
Men of thy nature rob me of the power
Gives me the power to give light to the will
‘I have achieved the power to reach the light.’

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 1
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are powers of soul later Benedictus.
And were I powerless to reject the claim
I have no power, no matter how I strive,
Abundant power is thine
And spirit's lofty power,
Before I met thee; yet the spirit's powers,
That yields itself to their compelling power.
By lords of fate and by the spirit-powers.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 2
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soul-powers.
And I am powerless to withstand the thoughts,
Deceitful powers must be obsessing me;
Horror o'erpowers me that these lips of mine
And spirit-powers did speak with blessings meet
To which thy words lend added power, how far
I will esteem them power wherewith my soul
Yet passion's impulse gives to them the power.
Thou wilt find power to do what duty bids.
The powers of sight for me
From out the spirit powers:
The budding powers of Will
The self-denying powers
The powerful spirit light

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 3
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representing soul-powers.
I feel the power that dwells within these words
In colour's power the action of that light,
This power, to feel in flowing sea of light,
Love only can beget artistic power
Kindle the powers that drive me to my work.
How powers creative blaze with spirit-light,
(The three Spirit-Figures of the soul-powers appear with
The power of thine own self
Thyself to cosmic powers — a willing sacrifice.
And warmth flies from their powers.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 4
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Can be revealed to that dark power of soul
Which robbed me of my last remaining powers.
That all unknowing I am in the power

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 5
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Concerning spirit-deeds and nature's powers
And whosoever seeks his powers from me,
And yet it rouseth powers of thought in me
And seems to be more powerful than that self. —
I have no power to go away from thee;
I leave thee not till thou hast found the power
Those pictures draw me with resistless power. —

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 6
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The powers through which they may attain their goal.
Powers he can put to use for his own ends.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 7
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A victim by the Powers of Darkness claimed,
Because the powers of destiny decree
To serve our brotherhood with their soul's power
Will find his pain requited by the power
I feel the powers of ill are gathered round.
If by the Powers of Evil they be praised?

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 8
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That mighty Powers were merciful to me
Or else yon monk had never had the power
The penance laid upon me by those powers
Those who, by grace of lofty spirit-powers,
Waged in the heart incessantly by powers
Seize firmly hold of all my powers of soul;
Nor can I gain the mastery o'er the power
In man, by opposition to those Powers
And who devote their feeling to those Powers

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 9
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Better to serve the ends of evil powers.
Who had the power to liberate my soul.
Since it clings only to those spirit-powers
The powers of destiny have not ordained
Dear sister, thou hast yet to learn the power

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 10
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From my soul-substance did they draw the power
And gifted them with power from deeds of good.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 11
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The lofty Powers of Fate have chosen well
From thee originate the powers of thought
Do gather knowledge through their reason's powers,
Thou lackest power, and therefore canst not yet
The Enemy indeed hath mighty power

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 12
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Is wrought by knowledge which path not the power
Yet does not aid the power of conscious thought.
And feel a oneness with creative powers;
Until they can experience my power.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 13
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He hath been able to o'erpower the soul
Thou wast unable to o'erpower the soul
With power of Faith's clear light,
So powers may bear aloft
Love's power will harden too:
Powerless through mists of visionary dream.
To soul depths where there shines with powerful ray,
Those spirit-beings who from cosmic powers
Now, in the temple he will gain the power
But lacketh power, those duties to fulfil,
Capesius shall, through the temple's power,
With power the words that from the darkness rise.
The powers of good can only strengthen him.
The temple's power can at the present time.
Then shall the Lord of Wishes find his power
There is the field made ready for my power.
To which thy power can never penetrate.
The powers of destiny have granted me
So that life-powers unconsciously prepared
And turn to welfare those creative powers
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Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Beings and Persons Represented
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of the soul-powers with the Cosmos.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 1
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And use our powers but as the people's voice —
Which brings an ending to their sovereign power.
Which bring strong powers into the souls of men.
Is leaders, who by using nature's powers
The powers which for such guidance of the soul
The more the spirit masters all the powers
Such powers were gathered there in front of me,
Industrial powers will be so dispersed
A man may feel as highest wisdom's power
That powers of destiny did wisely send
Who thus doth master powers mechanical
Will soon gain consciousness of its own power
To understand the working of those powers
A rousing up of soul-powers, which before
The power of the initiates will now
This power will there be proved of none effect.
And through it, too, ye will receive the power
With great creative power, he painted then
The artist-power, he might have used himself.
Those Powers which guide the purpose of our Earth
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Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 2
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Bear fruit in all the worlds, where power of man
Might perfectly unfold its powers in thee.
To follow out their soul's powers in themselves.
Who, through the Spirit's power and earnest strife,
Good in itself and in its working power.
Whence powers will spring forth
The ransoming powers
To powers of love
The powers of heart that seek
Where was I even now? My powers of soul
When darkness wounds and maims the powers of life.
Directed, and from them hast gained the power
For such desire must rob thee of all power
Thou wilt forego the power which must be thine,

Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 3
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In that way to discover all the powers
What thus he came to know about those powers
And owes to it the best powers that he hath,
E'en Lucifer who works here with such power
And can compare with it what those powers wish
The power to give his “I” reality.
Of powers that from their earthly bodies come,
And yet already have clairvoyant power,
Must be fulfilled through power from Lucifer?
Because he hath not yet the seer's full power.
For where words have an equal power with deeds
Build in Johannes, power and balm to heal,
Such healing powers in progress of the worlds.
But if with powerful thought thou wouldst suppress
The magic power to strive against, and win
By their all-powerful love.
I feel full well the power which comes from thee;
Which hath the power to purify men's souls.
Both warmth of soul and also power of heart.
It is not thus my power must fashion him.
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Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 4
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The spirit-pupilship could work with power
Within me of the power which made my soul
This power grew on thenceforward to that height
And of the strengthening of thy powers of soul
'Twas through the spirit-power which thou couldst give
The full awakening of all those powers
Through thee alone have I gained all this power.
To lose thy noble power of seership,
The power I feel within comes from without —
The mirrored working of one's own soul-powers.
Therefore with all the power that still was mine

Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 5
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Her body's powers were sapped, as one could see
For when she rallied all her powers of thought
The stern decree of mighty powers of Fate:
E'en now the powers which can deliver o'er
Will send out rays of blessing from Love's power.
Thomasius hath powers of seership,
Through earthly powers so successfully.
Power for himself within the world of sense

Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 6
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Of this great realm arousing darksome powers.
Condensing all my powers within my soul,
Win thou thyself in power of cosmic thought,
For thee the powerful work of thought hath now
Turn into knowledge through clairvoyant powers
'Tis I who fill the artist's soul with power
Fear comes from quite another realm of power.
My power into the depth of the abyss,
Send out my powerful strength upon the Earth.
But in this way my power turns into Fear.
He who hath heard what both these two powers here
And feel thyself in cosmic power of thought.
Awake to full power
Arise in full power
'Fore powers that create

Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 7
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And not creative power which dares to speak;
Which cosmic powers have wisely foreordained.
Which are mistaken for creative powers,
And also powers which to the artist gave
There truly lived within him cosmic powers,
He learned to know the power of this same blood;
He gave himself with vigour to that power
Thou must first part with many of those powers
In vain against me, even if the power
Thou hast been ordered by high spirit powers
And Who once conquered all the powers of death,
By Lucifer and his delusive power.
He meditates with powerful inmost thought.
This can good powers alone renew in me.
Perceive the strongest powers of thine own soul;
And power to wish

Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 8
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By use of powers which follow nature's laws,
Hold sway where powers mechanical obtain
If ye desire to serve the spirit-powers
Ye first must conquer for yourselves those powers
Art capable of giving through thy powers.
That I should cultivate my power of thought,
That thou hast wrung so boldly from my powers.
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
For Lucifer may try his power on them,
Each his own powers of soul with steadfast aim;
Reveal themselves through powers within his life,
The powers are found, without which human souls
And strength and power decay in earthly life.
And give his powers to thee to use at will.
Is lack of reason's power and strength of mind.
My holy, earnest vow doth ray out power:
If thou wilt feel the healing power it gives.
When darkness wounds and maims the powers of life.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 9
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He seeks for hearts, which free creative power
Thou cant by thine own power discover those
They have prepared the soul-powers which are theirs
So I must thank my fate's unbending powers
For ever by its strong effective power
Towards the objects, which that power desires
The cosmic powers do so direct their deeds
To powers from whence thy work might shine afar.
If thy creative power should bloom aright.
Must first entrust himself unto those powers
The rhythmic law of number and its power.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 10
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But this can only happen, if their powers
Which here are seen as powers of spirit-light.
Unto the spirit by whose power alone
great the guilt, so strong too are the powers
And tried to full extent of all his powers
Since powers of fate have of necessity
A self that can show forth itself with power
As powers of fate permitted me to do,
Because it hath a power that can kill life;
Is now permitted to ray forth its powers.
he should gain the power to work within.
But One who radiates His highest power
For by Christ's power, the debt hath been annulled.
Which flows with power from out the spirit-heights,
But yet those lofty powers of wisdom's realm
I have applied myself unto the power
In life what spirit-powers have foreordained.
And power and patience could maintain themselves
The working of that Power who showed himself
The power it hath, unless the blow should reach
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Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
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Arguments on plans of action and occult powers, during which Ahriman glides stealthily across the stage to bring dissension and confusion of thought among the speakers, who are ignorant of his presence.Strader's temptations.Felix speaks on mysticism.The appearance in spirit form of Maria and Benedictus to help Strader, and of Ahriman to thwart him. There is a repetition of Strader's part in Scene 2.
About 2000 B.C. The hierophant (Capesius) has refused to use his thought power to suggest to the candidate what his vision should be. The candidate has a free vision looking far into the future. A breath of love and freedom is wafted into the closely sealed precincts. The truth shall make thee free. But with this rebellion against the old order, there is a consequence. Lucifer and Ahriman hitherto chained within the temple break their chains and begin to work their will. The ancient temple has been invaded, but the Ego begins to wake. The reader will not over-look, in all this cosmic development, the individual development of the different characters which are difficult to understand from the other plays with-out this glimpse into their previous incarnation. The author has presented it in this order, as it corresponds to the reader's own experience.
Secretary and Nurse.The Secretary's speech.Ahriman's shape is here even more that of the conventional devil than in Scene 12. This is to show that his true nature is now fully grasped by Benedictus and his followers. This is seen in Ahriman's last speech. Note Benedictus' speech about the dead and their messages (p. 293).Benedictus tells Ahriman that one can only serve Good when one does good not for oneself.Ahriman's knowledge of his own final destruction.The defeat and exit of Ahriman.The triumph and initiation of Strader; his future power.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
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Arguments on plans of action and occult powers, during which Ahriman glides stealthily across the stage to bring dissension and confusion of thought among the speakers, who are ignorant of his presence.Strader's temptations.Felix speaks on mysticism.The appearance in spirit form of Maria and Benedictus to help Strader, and of Ahriman to thwart him. There is a repetition of Strader's part in Scene 2.
About 2000 B.C. The hierophant (Capesius) has refused to use his thought power to suggest to the candidate what his vision should be. The candidate has a free vision looking far into the future. A breath of love and freedom is wafted into the closely sealed precincts. The truth shall make thee free. But with this rebellion against the old order, there is a consequence. Lucifer and Ahriman hitherto chained within the temple break their chains and begin to work their will. The ancient temple has been invaded, but the Ego begins to wake. The reader will not over-look, in all this cosmic development, the individual development of the different characters which are difficult to understand from the other plays with-out this glimpse into their previous incarnation. The author has presented it in this order, as it corresponds to the reader's own experience.
Secretary and Nurse.The Secretary's speech.Ahriman's shape is here even more that of the conventional devil than in Scene 12. This is to show that his true nature is now fully grasped by Benedictus and his followers. This is seen in Ahriman's last speech. Note Benedictus' speech about the dead and their messages (p. 293).Benedictus tells Ahriman that one can only serve Good when one does good not for oneself.Ahriman's knowledge of his own final destruction.The defeat and exit of Ahriman.The triumph and initiation of Strader; his future power.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 1
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The powers which work impersonally, and pour
Who lack the power to know realities?
Whose power alone will give reality.
When he hath made the rightful powers his own.
It will contribute part of that great power
Which doth o'erpower all thought that knows its goal.
This fact doth witness 'gainst my power to judge
That such experience bath giv'n me power
From spirit-striving, which with its own powers

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And by creative powers this soul shall be
Whom by kind fate's decree wise powers have sent.
From strong desire and its alluring power.
To win me for myself by his own powers —
And claim that thou transform his being's powers
When darkness wounds and maims the powers of life.
Must rob me of my new clairvoyant powers.
And reason is a foe to seership's power.
For I must feel persuaded that high Powers
And thus can add her power unto mine own.
Ne'er sought to draw near his with Reason's power.
Which hampers seership's power with earthly things,
Before clairvoyant powers have wakened them.
Our powers with more devotion to our work.
What would seem fantasy to cosmic powers
And always to awake — exceeds its powers.
The power which drove him forth, and which forbids
The spirit-powers are coming — call on them.
And wait until the powers within those depths
Who dwell close linked with dormant cosmic powers
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Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 3
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The wise powers ruling over destiny
That full rich blessing from the spirit-powers
'Twere well for thee, if other spirit-powers
Thy power of sight doth fade ere they unfold
Which powers of destiny ordain for souls
With mighty power, to earth activity.
They would decline with thanks to have their power
Yet now my power hath not advanced so far.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 4
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With power to give at all times judgment sure
And not as yet use their clairvoyant powers
To be endowed with quite peculiar power;
Owe to his soul not to myself the power
Doth work through him moves powerfully one's soul.
I think that Strader's power will not harm me
In which he may have made that power his own.
Have made — his own — such power — and over thee —
The power of love, that drives thee forth to him,
But since, desire-powers tempting thee, thou didst
Make strong those words of power which thou dost know,
Their spirit-power will conquer fantasy.
With my power will I fortify thee well
Increase thy power.
I feel in me the power which thou dost give
To carry spirit-power to worlds of sense,
That these words' power will prove of use to him?
And if the power should prove no use to him,
The flames are scorching all my power of thought.
A furious fight — my power of thought loth fight —
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Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 5
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That which in pictures fashioneth powers for me.
I'll bring its power to thee within the mist;
I feel an impulse by soul-power to change
Awake in me, O royal Solar power
Yet know I not the power which could avail
This picture serves to give thee powers of thought
Then through his power in thy soul's vehicle
With powers for later life upon the earth.
The sunshine's word of power, with which he fed
And ye shall feel him near you then with power.
In this domain ye are within my power.

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Yet doth no powerful current of desire
And seek to seize me in their powerful grasp.
So work these souls who have attained the power
O thou sun-soul, receive the power of stars.
Thee powers, which I shall roam o'er cosmic space
I'll change it into soul-power for thy use.
More strongly waking through this same light's power
I can feel souls, but have not yet the power
The lightning's power and thunder's will I guard

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 8
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Feel in thyself the ritual's holy power.
Feel in thyself the power of wisdom's light.
Resist the flame-powers of the world of fire
My son, by powerful exercise of will
By cowardly fear thy power is still congealed;
So listen to thy soul-powers when they speak;
Feel thou therein the guidance of the powers.
Its own true individual powers of thought.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 9
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Its radiance gains in power, — and gains in calm.
I stole thy power of thought I bring it now
I kept the lightning's and the thunder's power
New powers of self. Equip my soul with strength
Their power is great; and often, if they slay
Makes thee to dream, the power of thine own will
Hast brought me hither mine own power of will
Whereto doth thy word's power now carry me?
Into a powerful motive in thy life.
He knew e'en then that powers of destiny
So he forbore to send the powerful thought
She seeks to reach it with strong power of soul.
When will-power slumbers deep in my soul depth.

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And through my power in thee behold thyself.
Whereto doth this word's power conduct me now?
If she lives powerfully within thy thought.
If thou in love wilt cultivate the powers
Where radiant beauty life-power doth create;
So work, compelling powers;
Act therefore, powers of might,
Feel now your master's power,

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 11
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I feel thou canst make stronger still the power
This picture can create new powers of soul

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 12
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Hath lent the power enabling them to face
Mine enemies of course still have their powers,

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 13
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And seeks the spirit with all-powerful thought.

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 14
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This power doth weave to form the knot in life,
There was a power that flamed forth from his words

Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 15
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About the strengthening of mine own soul's powers.
Part of the power which slowly killeth me.
Who by the strengthening of thy spirit-powers

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