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• Title: Four Mystery Plays: Introduction
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  • self and carry into effect the cryptic injunction graven on the old
  • know thyself. At a later stage he comes to ‘realize’ himself,
  • distorted to bring about self-glorification rather than the ambition to
  • take this occasion of thanking Doctor Steiner himself for permitting me
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
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  • Johannes' meditation among the mountains: ‘Know thou thyself.’
  • Johannes' second meditation among the mountains three years later than Scene 2. ‘Feel thou thyself.’
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
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  • Johannes' meditation among the mountains: ‘Know thou thyself.’
  • Johannes' second meditation among the mountains three years later than Scene 2. ‘Feel thou thyself.’
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Interlude
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  • who finally died of grief, because she had to confess to herself
  • was unable to explain this to myself, but one day the light came
  • creative function leads of itself beyond nature, and the artist
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Beings and Persons Represented
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  • reveals itself as that of the Spirit of Love.
  • reveals itself as that of the Spirit of Action.
  • reveals itself as that of the Earth-brain.
  • itself as that of Lucifer.
  • Felix Balde, who reveals himself as representative
  • reveals itself as the Soul of Love.
  • reveals itself as a young soul.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Prelude
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  • (Asks Estella to be seated and seats herself.)
  • Does he not intend speaking on an important subject, himself?
  • to itself illimitable depth must needs lead through the mere appearance
  • how I have wrenched myself away from that manner of life, which,
  • absolute frankness. Spirit itself is as unknown to you as it is
  • that the character of man shapes itself, and that we can merely
  • see that thought itself actually merges into-creative spirit;
  • teaches it how to grow. It is the actual growth itself, and
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 1
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  • Of sacred life itself within my heart.
  • Is but the inner self that stands revealed.
  • I see, how oftentimes it binds itself
  • It pours itself into the souls of men.
  • As in the rainbow's arch pure Light itself
  • We lived the higher powers of thought itself;
  • And likewise all that joins itself to life.
  • But that which here reveals itself in speech
  • Its consequences; none the less, myself
  • I would associate myself in fullest sense
  • That needs a steadfast faith in its own self.
  • Of this or that premise, which he himself
  • Whate'er of truth revealed itself to me.
  • Would soar up to the heights — but for myself,
  • As though self-understood: yet when man seeks
  • One day she felt herself completely changed,
  • This mood of soul hath oft renewed itself;
  • This mystic spirit-mood would show itself.
  • I feel myself in future centuries,
  • When in such form He manifests Himself,
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• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 2
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  • Johannes' meditation among the mountains: "Know thou thyself."
  • Know thou thyself, O man.
  • ‘Know thou thyself, O man. Know thou thyself.’
  • Know thou thyself, O man.
  • These words ring forth: ‘Know thou thyself, O man.’
  • Know thou thyself, O man.
  • It robs me of my very self: I change
  • As some strange being, quite outside myself,
  • It was in truth mine own self that I left;
  • Myself into another's self to fuse.
  • Ye cruel words, ‘Know thou thyself, O man.’
  • Know thou thyself, O man.
  • Yet in what shape know I myself again!
  • Like some fierce dragon do I see myself;
  • Mine own self's fierceness must devour my Self.
  • ‘Know thou thyself, O man. Know thou thyself.’
  • Know thou thyself, O man.
  • Know thou thyself, O man.
  • Oh yea, I know thee; for thou art myself:
  • Chain mine own self — pernicious beast — to thee.
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• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 3
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  • The young soul found itself.
  • A dark enigma am I to myself,
  • Which worthy seemed to take within itself
  • And that which thine eternal Self had formed
  • Transform itself into its opposite,
  • And sunder me from mine own self in twain.
  • No longer master of myself. No more
  • But her true self doth float in spirit-spheres
  • A pictured falsehood of my very self.
  • To which thou dost aspire to raise thyself.
  • Which springs to life and fullness in himself.
  • Who finds himself accoutred for such powers
  • But thou, thou hast preserved thy Self, my son,
  • Right powerfully thy Self hath fought its way
  • When thou didst learn to doubt thy very self,
  • And gavest up thyself as wholly lost,
  • Assured, e'en when mistrusting thine own self.
  • His very Self, he lives in spirit-heights.’
  • That which can wholly wake in him his Self
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 4
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  • O man, know thou thyself; O man, feel me.
  • From spirit guidance, thou hast freed thyself,
  • Thine own existence; and to find thyself
  • But I gave thee self-will and foiled their aim.
  • O man, know thou thyself; O man, feel me.
  • O man, know me; O man, feel thou thyself.
  • O man, know me; O man, feel thou thyself.
  • Strong personal traits and joy in thine own self.
  • himself in meditation):
  • I tore myself from cloistered quietude
  • Beneath a mask devised by thine own self
  • I gave the self; ye owe me my reward.
  • I will myself create from mine own soul
  • And then if thou dost feel thyself akin
  • Sufficeth for itself; and so doth man
  • Obey the impulse of our inner self,
  • May it unfold strong powers within thyself
  • Himself alone, doth follow his own heart;
  • As though the rock itself did give it birth.
  • I fain would think the thoughts of Earth herself.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 5
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  • His Self from carnal covering thou hast drawn;
  • And love itself will crystallize his soul
  • Love too will give him strength to feel himself
  • Of mine own self. Through me the world-will speaks.
  • Out of myself I give to man on earth
  • Why dost thou not thyself reveal to men
  • If thou dost freely sacrifice thyself.
  • If I myself may tend the fruits for thee.
  • Benedictus alone, was like himself in Spirit.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 6
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  • Their spirit doth not of itself suffice
  • In mine own self from this love-service done?
  • Is lost henceforth to thee from thine own self;
  • A second time above that selfsame house,
  • This was the man, who of himself did say
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 7
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  • May quiver in itself;
  • Unite itself with mine.
  • And fill thyself with all
  • Gifts gathered by thyself
  • So firm in thine own self;
  • Impress thyself thereon
  • I will myself imbue
  • Self-sacrifice true;
  • May find his own self
  • May raise himself aloft
  • That so trust in himself
  • In his own self, and pluck
  • Which I at first did make out of myself,
  • I felt myself from bonds of sense released:
  • The goal he set before himself of old.
  • By other things, or whether mine own self
  • I knew not. Then didst thou appear thyself;
  • Falls at his feet and feels herself transformed.
  • Wrenched itself free from fetterings of sense.
  • Thou hast found me, and thou hast felt thyself,
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• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 8
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  • And I was then allowed to count myself
  • Think almost always of oneself alone;
  • The sorrow unto which he gave himself
  • Seemed of itself to have a separate life;
  • It seemed as though the man himself heard not,
  • With utmost diligence absorbed thyself
  • Itself in man, who none the less remains
  • Hath first revealed to me in his true self
  • Doth to the spirit wholly give himself
  • Yet is the tree not conscious of itself.
  • That are not of itself. — Where then is that
  • Is it then in Capesius himself?
  • That what is painted doth destroy itself,
  • Then I myself must surely ghostly be.
  • For though thou seemed'st to have lost thyself,
  • Far, far above thyself; and thou didst feel,
  • Even as I myself full oft have felt.
  • At such times, howsoe'er one feels oneself
  • And most convincing this self-knowledge proved.
  • Through sense-appearance unto spirit-self.
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• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 9
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  • than Scene 2. "Feel thou thyself."
  • ‘O man, feel thou thyself.’
  • O man, feel thou thyself! For three long years
  • A man may free himself to conquer first;
  • Then conquering himself may freedom find
  • Through these same words: ‘O man, feel thou thyself.’
  • ‘O man, feel thou thyself.’
  • Out of his narrow self to world-wide space,
  • Spirit can cause to live in its own self
  • When such power in the spirit roots itself,
  • Which can give truth unto these selfsame words:
  • O man, experience and feel thyself —
  • ‘O man, feel thou thyself.’
  • O man, experience and feel thyself;
  • ‘O man, feel thou thyself.’
  • I find myself secure on every side,
  • And I must find myself in all the worlds.
  • I rest Within myself; I look on rocks and springs;
  • I find myself again within that soul,
  • And out of her I call unto myself:
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• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 10
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  • Now canst thou feel all worlds within thyself:
  • It gives itself to give another joy.
  • Thee as the fruit of self-experience.
  • Once didst thou show thyself, yet at that time
  • I can resign myself unto my Self,
  • My love uplifted I can feel my Self:
  • Love shall through me reveal himself to man.
  • For I can feel myself within my Self;
  • Thou foe of Good; 'tis surely thine own self!
  • Whate'er has wrenched itself from thy control.
  • Nay, nay, it cannot be thyself. Thou art
  • So now experience me within thyself.
  • The strength of truth I gave to thee myself;
  • Within thyself, then shalt thou find the way.
  • 'Twas no illusion, but the man himself.
  • I will experience thee within myself,
  • Which, growing of itself within myself,
  • From all illusion thou shalt free thyself,
  • When thou dost fill thyself with mine own strength:
  • Within thee, then thou canst not live thyself.
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• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 11
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  • Instead of that thou didst thyself give up
  • From love's light ever held itself apart.
  • Itself unto love's wonder-working light.
  • Thou hast attained to knowledge through myself.
  • Then shalt thou dare to live out thine own self,
  • Long hast thou from the temple held thyself.
  • When light from thine own soul revealed itself.
  • But from world-aims henceforth direct itself.
  • Johannes, thou hast seen thine own self now
  • In spirit in myself. Thou shalt live out
  • The world's light can behold itself in thee.
  • I see myself compelled to let them go.
  • That man without thine aid may fire himself
  • Thou hast withdrawn thyself from my domain
  • Then I alone seem lost, for of myself
  • My friend, trust thou thyself! These very words,
  • When thy time is fulfilled, thyself shalt speak.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 1
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  • Of thought, conformably to self-made laws: —
  • Yet do I clearly see that I myself,
  • And nevermore allow myself to doubt.
  • That he shall lose his individual self
  • Did pride itself on elevated thought,
  • What time thou dost withdraw into thyself;
  • Will spirit-radiance show itself to thee.’
  • Abandon thou thyself to cosmic thought,
  • Experience thyself through cosmic force,
  • Create thyself anew from cosmic will.
  • When thou hast realized thy Self in thee.’
  • (Becomes entranced by a vision, then comes to himself and
  • Beside myself — is present in this place.
  • So have I but held converse with myself
  • Where is Capesius? Where is ... myself?
  • Just now I felt as if my real self
  • That yields itself to their compelling power.
  • As thou dost lose thyself on entering it.
  • As thou dost near it with self-consciousness.
  • And how can I maintain self-consciousness?
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• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 2
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  • As only truth itself can be. And yet —
  • Because in worlds of sense his inmost self
  • When it doth prove itself through inward force.
  • Thou once didst lead myself to those soul-depths
  • And only holds the mirror up to self.
  • I must investigate mine inmost self
  • Is nothing but the hunger of myself,
  • Which I, deluded, call unselfishness.
  • That in my friend I mirror but myself.
  • It was the dragon Selfishness who veiled
  • And selfishness can take an hundred forms: —
  • And guides itself within
  • That I may know myself
  • I will myself imbue
  • I will weave self-hood in
  • All conscious of itself
  • Unravel thine own self.
  • The self-denying powers
  • My 'wildered self away
  • And give myself to you
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• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 3
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  • Little as I can trust myself to judge
  • This question have I asked myself full oft.
  • And feel myself caught up in blessedness
  • In work as to forget his friend herself.
  • First must I burst the bonds of selfishness
  • Or in myself to seek my vision's source. —
  • Thou canst not find thyself
  • The power of thine own self
  • Be bold to be thyself,
  • Thyself to cosmic powers — a willing sacrifice.
  • Thou must not lose thyself;
  • If he would rob himself of personality.
  • So then prepare thyself,
  • Of cosmic love itself.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 4
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  • Of which that woman showed herself possessed.
  • I do believe I could have brought myself
  • I made myself proficient in those things
  • Is now the guise in which he shows himself.
  • If this terrestrial life repeats itself.
  • The field of knowledge traversed by myself.
  • I must have asked myself an hundred times
  • That doth not wish to tear itself away
  • That only by itself could be explained.
  • How from the world I stole myself away.
  • This man hath willed this fate upon himself
  • How many veils enshroud mine inmost self?
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 5
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  • has seated himself):
  • Save to his inner self, the secret lore
  • Felicia cannot reconcile herself
  • Now that it bids me speak I show myself
  • Who chooseth to receive it to himself.
  • Reveals itself to us from spirit-worlds,
  • It surely will unfold itself to thee;
  • When thou thyself shalt hear the voice of truth.
  • His head doth mirror heaven's very self:
  • And so a man who sets himself to learn
  • Whoso, in vanity, self knowledge seeks,
  • He dreamed a dream in which he saw himself
  • When suddenly he felt himself caught up
  • Myself to dreams abandon, which so oft
  • himself:
  • That sets itself against the spirit's trend,
  • Which can alone irradiate myself?
  • As soon as I would set myself to think
  • My own self's likeness, — he will not depart; —
  • It is the picture of my very self
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• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 6
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  • And many more can tell the selfsame tale.
  • Each time I find myself exposed to them.
  • My soul hath need of rest to find itself
  • Himself to be — the father whom I sought.
  • Myself from him, whom I so fain would love,
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  • Whom we have tended with unselfish love.
  • Collect thyself, my son. I often came
  • I spake myself whilst I was still on earth.
  • 'Ere he could bring himself to such belief
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  • Who, like herself, looks for salvation's light
  • (The Preceptor loses control over himself.)
  • How cruelly my fate fulfils itself.
  • To self-examination Was I led
  • And knowledge of myself, which otherwise
  • Before my soul this thought presents itself
  • I feel myself attracted by thy lore,
  • To take a human form upon Himself,
  • In order to disclose Himself to men.
  • But still my individual self rebels
  • Yet find myself opposed at every point
  • And when I must thus recognize myself,
  • That in this life I may yet find myself.
  • This seed can only manifest itself
  • With which it later will ally itself.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 9
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  • Unto myself by spinning out in thought
  • I mean to be among the first myself.
  • Therefore will I address myself anew
  • To kindle in myself those potent words
  • By proving herself worthy of the grace
  • When from the gloom of self's imaginings
  • Of silent prayer my soul did bow herself
  • This then transformed itself into a man
  • Doth bear the very stamp of truth itself.
  • But never could I make myself believe
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 10
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  • This longing vain, of self-denial born,
  • I felt myself embrace the universe,
  • ‘O man know thou thyself within thy world.’
  • I look upon all this as though myself
  • I scan a picture that seems life itself.
  • Withheld itself until that later time
  • Myself and others clearly recognize;
  • Reveals herself to me in monkish garb,
  • I feel myself endowed with strength of soul
  • Itself condensing out of cosmic thought
  • Now — in the world I find myself once more
  • From which a moment since I felt myself
  • The picture which disclosed to me myself
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 11
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  • If thou art ready to allow thyself
  • Thine own self's knowledge can quite clearly prove.
  • The strength how to oppose myself to thee.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 12
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  • To change itself to deeds in earthly life.
  • Henceforth Capesius must ask himself:
  • Bath shown to me myself with cruel truth.
  • What hath a man attained who gives himself
  • If to those impulses I yield myself
  • Myself I work in this same cosmic. will
  • Whose human self stands firm within the world.
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  • The human soul that gave itself to me
  • That hath withdrawn itself from thy domain.
  • I will myself imbue
  • To recognize himself in spirit-light
  • And Nature's self estranged from deity.
  • Himself in other beings to behold,
  • Which through self-knowledge he can recognize.
  • That of self-knowledge suffering is the fruit
  • But Benedictus' will itself compelled
  • And by the free-will of self-sacrifice
  • And saw the forces that compelled myself
  • In severing Johannes from myself
  • May this light operate within thyself
  • Thy friend's self on its way to spirit-land.
  • But thou shalt once more find it, when, self-willed,
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 1
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  • It seems I see but pride and self-deceit
  • Who takes such sense as guide within himself
  • What value each shall put upon himself.
  • Deep in the mother-earth of truth itself,
  • Feeling myself possessed with this idea
  • I recognize in Doctor Strader's self
  • Man's life itself becomes mechanical.
  • I have myself spent many a solemn hour
  • I felt myself draw near the bitter thought
  • And finds its own true being in itself
  • But I myself trod very different paths
  • Myself I stood upon that path of truth
  • When it doth set itself defiantly
  • And find himself therein in very truth.
  • Whoe'er can give himself, with blindfold faith,
  • To outside guidance, first must lose himself.
  • Aye, e'en that light, which deep within himself
  • Its truth admits of proof within itself.
  • Each man must trace its impulse in himself.
  • Thus hold himself toward the goal of truth
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  • Good in itself and in its working power.
  • I must myself from out the spirit-world
  • Which shows itself on Earth as the result
  • Which lent itself to help me in my search;
  • Myself to Lucifer, because I wished
  • Thyself, and the results of thy great work:
  • To kill what hinders progress in himself.
  • And I myself could quite well tell myself
  • Both for myself and other souls of men,
  • Since ye are leaders in this self-same life
  • That it was someone else, and not myself
  • himself from deep meditation):
  • Unveiled the conflict of my inner-self;
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  • As time streams on. And he had set himself
  • Through conquests which it gains o'er its own self.
  • He feels himself within a prison-house
  • Bears in itself the means to recreate
  • Will later show itself within my soul
  • Who calls himself Capesius on earth.
  • Self-knowledge for that very human soul
  • It cannot learn to know itself aright
  • Except by gazing deep into myself;
  • Johannes cut himself adrift from him
  • And placed himself beneath my guiding hand.
  • He cannot yet indeed see my true self
  • He will attain it later through myself,
  • The victory o'er all that selfhood means,
  • Shown thyself to me only that I might
  • Be frightened at the sight of mine own self.
  • And bring Johannes knowledge of himself.
  • He thought her bound in spirit to himself;
  • And give himself forthwith to earnest thought
  • I feel his purity within myself.
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  • How to reveal itself through certain things
  • I gave myself to technical pursuits
  • The work of his own brain, and cast himself
  • At first, as then, I feel myself constrained
  • Then fear I cannot banish pours itself
  • How of himself and Ahriman he spake —
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  • We shall not know again her beauteous self
  • We both, my wife Felicia, and myself,
  • Shown herself helpful to so many men.
  • And suffering poured itself through all her life.
  • She felt herself exposed to fearful thoughts
  • Was filled with sensual passion for herself.
  • This passion which is harmful to himself.
  • Would turn to evil, though 'twere good itself.
  • If Strader gives himself to certain aims
  • And join itself to knowledge that's divine.
  • Held converse often with mine inmost self
  • Gladly I'll tell thee all I know myself.
  • Unto false science to devote himself,
  • Power for himself within the world of sense
  • He best prepares himself for service high
  • Then, if I can collect myself enough
  • To speak my stories out within myself
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  • Each thing explains itself through something else.
  • Seen by itself, may often still seem dark.
  • Win thou thyself in power of cosmic thought,
  • Lose thou thyself in life of cosmic force;
  • So that thy soul-life could release itself
  • Too weak it felt itself to wander forth
  • Came as a spirit-pupil to myself.
  • As things outside himself, e'en as the seer
  • (A cheerful subdued light diffuses itself. Philia, Astrid,
  • The soul lives out her life within herself:
  • O soul, give answer to thyself ... yet ... whence?
  • From out thyself? Ah, nay ... perhaps that, too,
  • Here each soul hears itself in other's speech.
  • So dost thou only speak unto thyself
  • Yea truly, fear is there: but ask thyself,
  • If she doth not reveal herself to thee.
  • Now ask thyself, if thou shouldst fear me still.
  • That each should bear his own world in himself.
  • To show himself as peer among his peers;
  • In cosmic speech thou shalt perceive thyself;
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  • Since it in silence could itself create.
  • So did he work, and thought himself the world.
  • Which like a spirit did reveal itself.
  • He gladly would have fled away from self;
  • He thought himself a spirit but he found
  • He gave himself with vigour to that power
  • That Lucifer himself is really there
  • He ever will remain the same himself.
  • But this thou hast thyself cast off from thee
  • That is enough. And thou wilt set thyself
  • Which I myself have won upon the Earth
  • That which had been entrusted to myself
  • For one can see that, wrapped within himself
  • Reveal himself in scenes significant.
  • He learned the victory o'er his own self
  • The greatest human task — to conquer self —
  • The man to whom I wholly give myself,
  • If it approached thee now would show itself
  • Reveals itself is proving of thy soul.
  • Gaze on the groundwork of thy self, and see
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  • It needs must turn itself unto my realm.
  • But this time I myself will see to it
  • (after a pause, during which he has with-drawn into himself):
  • If here thou dost comport thyself aright.
  • That it can raise itself in haughty pride
  • Unto its full extent its own true self.
  • In haughty pride thyself into the dark.
  • But give myself completely to the lore
  • That hath revealed itself from many a source
  • Shall with proud brilliance unfold itself.
  • A healthy view of life will of itself
  • When thought through feeling shall express itself
  • And feeling let itself be led by thought.
  • That all existence may unfold itself;
  • Seven of twelve I ever need myself
  • (To himself holding his hands over Strader's ears so that
  • Since Earth refused to give herself to me.
  • Needs must betake himself to other worlds.
  • himself):
  • Thou seekest in the depths of thine own self.
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  • Gave himself to his pupils that they might
  • That here reveals itself in wakening souls,
  • I shall again discover mine own self.
  • Through free-will acts of others and thyself
  • Thy life itself will help to loose this knot.
  • To follow wisdom, which I serve myself,
  • And thou hadst brought me to myself again,
  • United with thyself accomplish much
  • My life's aim suddenly revealed itself.
  • When in thy writings I absorbed myself.
  • I scarce knew how to find myself aright
  • Behold thyself upon the threshold grim
  • It gave deep pain, within mine inmost self
  • When on awaking to myself I found
  • What I could learn from Ahriman himself,
  • I had to ask myself why I was set
  • When he would force himself upon their fates.
  • And how those people stood towards myself,
  • Shows itself clearly to the outer sense,
  • Which but as self-begotten show themselves.
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• Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 10
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  • What they have now achieved each for himself
  • So of himself he shut the door again
  • Thou showest us directions which thyself
  • And proves himself unworthy of his task.
  • But what he dares not wish for, for himself,
  • Or as I saw myself a short time back
  • A self that can show forth itself with power
  • E'en when the bearer needs must know himself
  • To give this second self that's roused in him
  • That nought from his own self must enter in
  • Hath not himself arranged or brought to pass
  • But which his second self must execute.
  • Concealed within himself he thus will work
  • To be the future goal of his true self.
  • Himself, in his own being, signifies.
  • 'Tis true that Lucifer doth show himself
  • With haughty sense of self, and with full light
  • A pattern of his own imperious self,
  • In its own self and loves to feel alive.
  • Reveals itself in glory to the soul,
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• 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.
  • 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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  • 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.
  • 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: Persons, Figures, and Events
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  • to adding material of this kind to a picture intended to speak for itself.
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  • The self-same reasons too; 'tis plain to see
  • Long since hath let himself be led astray
  • And I who, knowing this man's inner self,
  • Unto a man who came to grief himself
  • I were to strive within myself and try
  • To live self-centred, from the world apart,
  • And shut thyself from all true human life.
  • Thou fain wouldst banish selfishness on earth
  • Unto myself if, for one moment's space,
  • Myself impelled for many a year to seek
  • Thou giv'st thyself with such self-sacrifice;
  • I have found confirmation in myself
  • That in thyself I now have one friend more
  • More clearly dost thou prove thyself to me,
  • Not only will I hold myself aloof,
  • But when it seeks to live out its own self
  • With others flowing from the self-same source,
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  • Johannes' soul shall feel within itself
  • She must not thus reveal herself to me!
  • Me back unto myself with joy. The past
  • By fantasy misled; set thyself free
  • Amuse itself with dreams in slothful ease.
  • To win me for myself by his own powers —
  • Vet will I strive to free myself from him.
  • Forsake me — give me back my pristine self
  • Himself concealed, work out his task in thee,
  • So only shalt thou win thyself, if thou
  • So that in pleasure it forgets itself
  • It lives; Johannes feels in it himself,
  • (Capesius rises from his seat; as it were arousing himself
  • Himself through vain illusion, and did mock
  • The being in himself of other souls.
  • I must enquire from Johannes' self.
  • Yet my soul felt. itself quite near to thine.
  • (To himself):
  • himself):
  • How he doth free himself on spirit-wings
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• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 3
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  • Which in the temple showed itself to us.
  • Capesius hath now withdrawn himself From
  • In spirit-realms I find myself indeed
  • And if myself I heed my inner voice
  • To join himself to foes of his own soul,
  • The others are as near him as himself.
  • Were I to load myself with outward work,
  • I have not fully grasped within myself.
  • Than hath already shaped itself in me.
  • If in creating I but please myself?
  • To outward cosmic life thy personal self?
  • As I do now, when naught speaks but thyself.
  • In which the human spirit feels itself
  • By seeking to unlock the gates himself.
  • Illuminate them with thine own self's light.
  • Perceive thy darkness all around thyself —
  • And feelst it when created by thyself.
  • Yet then thou ne'er canst feel thyself create.
  • Thou wouldst enjoy therein thyself alone;
  • Thou seekest thyself, and seekest to forget;
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  • Seems right to thee. But will the selfsame path
  • Within oneself, as all true mystics know,
  • How nature-spirits still give to his self
  • In those old days when he could work himself,
  • And I myself have striv'n to serve him too
  • I find myself at thy side ever free
  • Owe to his soul not to myself the power
  • The right relation 'twixt thyself and him.
  • And that from this source people like myself
  • Made known to me how my soul's inner self
  • Revealed itself unto his spirit's eye.
  • Until thou shalt thyself set free the shade
  • To what is lost to thee in thine own self.
  • Till I can re-unite myself with him.
  • When thou didst raise thyself to spirit-spheres;
  • My strength can then create itself anew.
  • Is it mine other self?
  • I hold thy Self fast prisoned in thy sight
  • Myself too as illusion dost thou see
  • Let not thyself be quite confused by him.
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  • The germs that tend to raise self-consciousness.
  • From soul-material a thinking self.
  • That I may keep them for myself unharmed.
  • Thou canst not yet develop them thyself;
  • And wed my severed cosmic self to me.
  • But cannot penetrate thy very self;
  • And so restrain its longing for thyself,
  • That thou mayst find thyself on earth again
  • Ere it can flow into thine inmost self.
  • When thou dost tread again this star thyself.
  • If ye will still assert the sense of self
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  • Wake in thyself
  • Myself — my very words — from out his mouth
  • It knows me well, — through it I'll find myself.
  • Until thy spirit-sheath doth free itself
  • And thus by spirit-work build up myself
  • Become self-luminous, with living hues.
  • That it may form itself into a tone,
  • On spirit-heights itself; in dazzling light
  • Pour out thyself into this blessedness,
  • Then shall it see itself in other guise,
  • A soul may never wish itself to fall;
  • If thou shouldst lose me in thyself, I must
  • Then offer up myself as sacrifice,
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  • Hast thou by testing him assured thyself
  • Of self; in spirit trance he oft is seen.
  • In kindness draws souls upwards to itself.
  • But when the craving doth conceal itself,
  • Himself, nor take another course than that
  • Thou wilt thyself discover how to lend
  • Who hopes this day to dedicate himself
  • Here to the spirit off'ring up himself,
  • But he is dumb as solitude itself.
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  • Himself to serve the ancient holy laws
  • He must forever tear himself from me.
  • Where he unto the spirit gives himself.
  • How he loth tear himself away from earth,
  • Which to a semblance wove itself for thee.
  • Feel in thyself the sore weight of his words.
  • We forge for thee the form of thy real self;
  • Perceive our work; else must thou lose thyself
  • Feel in thyself the sore weight of his words.
  • The being of thyself, as thou dost sink.
  • We light for thee the life of thy real self;
  • Perceive our work; else must thou lose thyself
  • Feel in thyself the uplift of his words.
  • Thou canst not see the answer in thyself;
  • To thee than is the life of thine own self,
  • Feel in thyself the ritual's holy power.
  • Let, with thine errors, thyself also burn.
  • We cleanse for thee the form of thine own self
  • Perceive our work; else must thou lose thyself
  • Feel in thyself the power of wisdom's light.
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  • Draws near with mine own self, and as it nears —
  • My self enclosed me in my body's sheath,
  • Thyself in cosmic light didst speak these words:
  • Pour out thyself into this blessedness
  • New powers of self. Equip my soul with strength
  • Mine ego joins that self which fashioned me
  • The self in spirit finds itself again.
  • Think of the words that I myself did speak
  • ‘Then shalt thou see thyself in other guise,
  • A soul may never wish itself to fall;
  • Draws nigh with mine own self; and, as it nears,
  • At that young mystic's self-acknowledgment.
  • The cosmic word declares within thyself.’
  • By conscious thought it now transforms itself
  • In this peace will I now submerge myself; —
  • I'll keep within myself as beacon-lights.
  • Would from soul-clearness fain withdraw itself.
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  • Himself to serve the ancient holy laws
  • No sympathy.from out the picture's self
  • That forms thine own self.
  • That forms their own self.
  • But didst deceive me over thine own self.
  • From thyself didst thou fashion. As a shade
  • As thou thyself shalt not set free the shade
  • Seek what is treasured up within thy Self.
  • Thus canst thou learn by looking in thyself
  • Seek what is treasured up within my Self?
  • Lose thou thyself in me a little while,
  • How can I give myself to thee before
  • The force of love within thee is myself;
  • Laid up for thee and hid within thyself,
  • And through my power in thee behold thyself.
  • That forms thine own self.
  • That forms their own self.’
  • O magical web, that forms mine own self,
  • Through love, which in the whole beholds the self.
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  • The spirit, which had led thee to itself,
  • Because thy soul itself so fashioned it.
  • I was to carry out the work myself
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  • Johannes wore himself quite dull and blunt
  • Can still have perfect faith in his own self,
  • Deceived about itself, my gain will be
  • The confidence of Strader in himself.
  • Upon himself and his own arguments.
  • Though he cannot perceive it of himself.
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  • Prove itself true or faulty in design.
  • That self-enlightenment must come through pain;
  • It came this morning, when I thought myself
  • That is the mystic mood. And of itself
  • It leads his inmost soul but to himself.
  • And weaves betwixt himself and realms of light
  • By seeking to unlock the gates himself.
  • That which thy self's sun-nature rays on thee
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  • That fate itself doth not desire the deed
  • Till then he deemed himself of no account
  • If I should set myself to go against
  • He can so steep himself in spirit-life
  • Some solid ground to stand on. If, myself,
  • My confidence by so much of himself
  • As I myself can fully comprehend.
  • When talking with myself and Hilary? —
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  • And hear himself the message thou dost bring:
  • He held himself quite as a mystic should;
  • And he had to unite himself in soul
  • To which in love he did devote himself —
  • Unfold itself yet further, full of doubt; —
  • My mystic group will always know itself
  • Dost thou not strive for knowledge of thyself!
  • To show themselves as parts of thine own self,
  • Serve Good when thou dost strive not for thyself,
  • When thou dost lose thyself in human thought
  • Who flees himself, but fashions out of thought
  • A knowledge of his being in myself.
  • To find himself reflected in this thought.
  • And so he shows himself to men indeed,
  • Himself revealing, and concealing too,
  • Reveal himself unto the souls of men.