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- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Interlude
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- Here I am back again with you already. I long for your sympathy
- what higher powers have already set before us as the highest works
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Prelude
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- The breadths of space;
- you always claim that your view is the more profound. I can readily
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 1
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- The speeches which follow are continuations of discussions already
- And in that life each soul doth weave its thread.
- The threads of thought, and seek the consequence
- For I had read and learned of many things,
- Receive the word of Spirit readily,
- For even if I fail to read aright
- Hath oft already given full report.
- Ah me, if ye would only dare to tread
- Keep clear the thread of meaning in his words.
- Already do I feel forebodings strange
- That spreads itself before our faculties.
- And low already had her courage ebbed
- A dreadful symbol of our nothingness.
- From out that drear and dreadful nothingness —
- With cunning tread, if this be possible;
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 2
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- I Am. — Alas, already do I feel
- As thou didst tread with me the path of life,
- And yet whene'er I seek to tread these paths
- Black night doth spread a curtain round my sight.
- That out of that dread nothingness in me
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 3
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- That shall fill full thy soul ere thou dost tread
- And much already ripe hath withered up.
- Illusion's veil o'erspreads life's surfaces —
- Of threads that Karma spins world-fashioning.
- Of threads which Karma spins, world fashioning.
- To tread the path of knowledge, they needs must
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 4
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- And make me feel the sharp dread sting of doubt.
- That we can find, with sure but cautious tread,
- And issue in new form, they spread abroad
- Then if ye wish to tread the other path
- Those men who are already known to me:
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 5
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- To weave the thread of destiny for one,
- Already now a long time have they starved
- Thou show'st already how untaught thou art
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 6
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- His contemplations had already graved
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 7
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- From breadths of space shalt thou,
- Are filled already with the spirit's power
- Already, I could not as yet decide.
- In thee my sight of sense already grasped
- I see how rage doth spread amongst the throng
- And make me ready for the sacrifice
- Who in the world of sense already wast
- Thus reads the law, which I must needs obey: —
- The grace of love spreads warmth from soul to soul
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 8
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- Already then before my spirit's eye
- When first I dared to tread the realm of souls.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 10
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- I feel already how ye mount within
- From out my very Self, that I may read
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 11
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- Thou hast at length been ready to approach;
- From out thine heart a glow of light spreads forth;
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 1
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- Capesius (reading
- When threads of thought along illusion's path
- (Resuming his reading.)
- (Resuming his reading.)
- Much pain whilst reading in thy book of life,
- Spirits well skilled to read the signs in which
- Am ready to obey. He doth not ask
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 2
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- Already was united with thine own.’
- Already something is becoming clear
- No more will I be overswift to read
- When he decides to tread a path not traced
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 3
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- Already hast in spirit there beheld,
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 4
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- Already I can see the days approach
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 5
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- 'Tis I who spin the threads of thought that lead
- Which shakes me through and through with fear and dread —
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 7
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- Our foes already spy the country round
- We must be ready to lay down our lives
- O, that mine office forceth me to tread
- To trace the paths on which mankind must tread.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 8
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- My wife and I alone have read the lines;
- Nay, worse than this, the dread doth haunt me oft
- In breadth before mine eyes until I saw
- And gladly follow where our leaders tread.
- Already path been sown for future lives.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 9
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- Already preparations have been made
- Things have already come to such a pass
- Already hath a dream revealed to me
- Although we read it not aright at first.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 10
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- And memory; dread and shuddering shape, appears
- In all its detail spread before my gaze.
- Thus they resounded through the breadth of Space:
- But while I am engrossed in reading it,
- It opens cosmic doors to breadths of Space. —
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 11
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- If thou art ready to allow thyself
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 12
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- The spirit-path which thou hast sought to tread
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 13
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- Which he can only tread unconsciously.
- But spirit-calls already have been heard
- Whose blossoms we already see unfold.
- There is the field made ready for my power.
- Already too have I received the signs
- Whose thread of life shall have to twine with mine
- Treads not the way illumined by the light.
- Of threads which Karma spins world-fashioning.
- Which once upon a time thy life-threads wove
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 1
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- They do not hold that we are ready yet
- It hath indeed already reached mine ears
- Initiates did dread this line of thought
- They knew already in the years gone by
- As he already hath so richly found
- O friends, read ye aright this man's true soul;
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 2
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- That it should lead me with such certain tread
- And ought to read the spirit-worlds aright.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 3
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- He finds important many threads of fate
- Thinks that fate dreadful, which compels him now
- And yet already have clairvoyant power,
- Already hath he stolen much from me.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 4
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- And gladly would I flee from that dread
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 5
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- And yet they fill my soul with dread and fear.
- Capesius, when treading o'er the path,
- Maria hath already set alight
- He is already destined by his fate
- To which his soul hath been already called,
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 6
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- spread out and send shoots into the interior. Owing to natural phenomena
- I feel already what I must pass through
- Which he in spirit learned to tread through me.
- Thoughts all spread out in space in front of her —
- The threshold to tread,
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 7
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- Ready with earnest minds to hearken well
- In pictured form thou hast already seen
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 8
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- He who would cosmic riddles rightly read
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 9
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- A knot shall one day loosen in the threads
- Of all I lived through ere I saw with dread
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 10
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- Hast read within the cosmic book of fate,
- That I could never tread the temple courts
- Can in this place draw near with secret tread
- For often when my soul did tread the depth
- In that dread loneliness which aye approached
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
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- 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.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
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- 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.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Persons, Figures, and Events
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- to a point already made with reference to the preceding soul-pictures.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 1
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- Had not kind fate already brought to me
- Which Strader thought he had already won.
- Will show to man the path that he should tread
- Who have already let themselves be taught
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 2
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- Johannes' spirit treads illusion's realm
- Upon the spirit path. May I thus read
- Whoe'er is suffered to tread spirit-ways
- The dread decree of fate is plainly seen.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 3
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- And not at this time tread the hard rough road
- The wakefulness of soul already sought
- The rightful mood to tread the mystic path.
- Than hath already shaped itself in me.
- And if they strive to tread it otherwise
- That rids him of his danger; one who treads
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 4
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- Already many hundred years ago,
- To read a certain word in spirit-light
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 5
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- When thou dost tread again this star thyself.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 7
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- Since passion spreads a mystic fog between.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 8
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- everything in readiness for the initiation of the Neophyte, who is
- And read thine answer hidden in its fire.
- Now of this being it shall read the life
- O human soul, read now what through the flame
- Declare what can be read from cosmic words!
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 9
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- ‘O human soul, read now what through the flame
- It did not find thee ready to respond.
- His light spreads peace, far round the wide flung space; —
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 12
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- And is already stifled by their fog;
- Now in fate's book I have already read
- I see already how I shall begin
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 13
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- Already as a man upon the earth,
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 14
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- Seems likely when one views the tangled threads
- But hath he not already broken faith?
- Or has the dreaded spirit sleep o'ercome me?
- The threads of life wears now a serious face. —
- Hath now laid hold upon thy thread of fate,
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 15
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- (Exit Nurse. Benedictus reads Strader's last words.)
- (reading)
- By clouding wisdom, seeks to spread the night
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