You may select a new search term and repeat your search. Searches are not case sensitive, and you can use regular expressions in your queries.

Enter your search term: by: title, keyword, or contextually

Query was: soul

Here are the matching lines in their respective documents. Select one of the highlighted words in the matching lines below to jump to that point in the document.

• Title: Four Mystery Plays: Cover Sheet
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • Soul's Probation
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: Introduction
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • of the soul during initiation; or in other words, the psychic development
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Spirit of the Elements. The Soul-world.
  • 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
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Spirit of the Elements. The Soul-world.
  • 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
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • from Soul touched me so deeply. Does it seem to you odd when
  • of the soul.
  • all creative joy from his soul, and his inner life grew constantly
  • behind them in my soul a certain discomfort For a long time I
  • point. They could say that it is irrational for the soul to reproduce
  • problems of the soul, my best friend follows views so different
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Beings and Persons Represented
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • of Maria's soul-powers.
  • reveals itself as the Soul of Love.
  • Ahriman and Lucifer, conceived as Soul-influences only.
  • reveals itself as a young soul.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Prelude
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • And human souls in reverent gratitude,
  • a student of souls, he is interested in just those methods of
  • Soul. I should so like to hear it with you.
  • of my inmost soul-life?
  • the barrenness and banality of their soul speaks in their every
  • soul has never permitted you to stand aloof from that which daily
  • upon the essentials of life and presents to our souls the true
  • within their souls. I have no wish to stray from the point, but
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 1
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • Thy spirit and thy soul in sadness droop,
  • That lightens all the darkest depths of soul,
  • In pictures beauty-steeped thy soul held fast
  • That hovered in thy soul; but in the hearts
  • Soul rapture deep into the hearts of men.
  • So dreamed mine own soul of the goal of thine.
  • That erstwhile quickened in my soul are quenched.
  • And in that life each soul doth weave its thread.
  • Unto the very kernel of man's soul,
  • What lifts thy soul to Heaven's sun-kissed heights
  • Thrusts my soul down, to death's abysmal gloom.
  • Where human souls do enter every night,
  • It pours itself into the souls of men.
  • Present themselves in such wise to the soul,
  • Became through many souls articulate,
  • That dwelt within the souls of those who sought
  • And set before man's soul the goals of life.
  • We thought that in the depths of our own souls
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 2
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • is to be thought of as taking place in the-soul of Johannes Thomasius.
  • Of soul, of spirit, time, eternity.
  • And deep within my soul thick darkness yawns:
  • And up from out the darkness of my soul
  • Poor soul, 'tis she I left, and leaving her
  • And now once more within my sightless soul
  • Have flooded o'er thy soul. I also know
  • Such grievous sorrow drew from thy soul's depths.
  • Within my soul, and all that I lived through
  • Within that soul to whom I brought such grief
  • If thou shouldst try within another's soul
  • Yet in the best part of my soul I know
  • Which hath o'erwhelmed thy soul, dear friend of mine,
  • Can never be extinguished in the soul.
  • Through what my soul hath fought its way but now?
  • That hath so wholly shattered mine own soul.
  • And in another's soul I listened to
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 3
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • That shall fill full thy soul ere thou dost tread
  • The realm of souls in sleep. Wilt thou do this?
  • Fill thy soul full ere sleep embraceth thee,
  • All powers, that deep in body and in soul
  • Sprang from the realm which sheltered this child's soul
  • Save habit chained its soul at first to mine.
  • The needs of body and the growth of soul.
  • The young soul found itself.
  • And germinate henceforth in souls of men
  • My task it was to find that human soul
  • Within thy tender soul thou didst bring forth,
  • Anger and love thy soul did learn to know
  • A ripened fruit of many lives that soul,
  • And such a soul alone was I to choose
  • When it flows forth to other human souls.
  • Yet near enough that thy soul may be reached
  • Often had I to mark how from my soul
  • Thy friend's soul hovers in the heights above.
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 4
  Matching lines:
  • The Spirit of the Elements. The Soul-world.
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • of souls by its characteristic peculiarities.
  • Before the world of souls stand these two powers:
  • The one, as Tempter, lives within the soul;
  • To bring the soul's illusions 'neath my gaze;
  • from the earth's depths. They are conceived as souls looking
  • The soul of man may only look on me,
  • And souls of men shall bloom, as choicest flowers
  • When hope's young dreams surge upward in the soul?
  • Thou may'st well call a dreamer that friend's soul
  • So oft with chill persistence pierced my soul
  • This too I heard before in mine own soul,
  • I will myself create from mine own soul
  • The impulse that doth drive the souls of men
  • Then tell the woman, who endowed your souls
  • (The Other Maria, also in soul form, emerges from the rocks,
  • And if your souls do then but steep themselves
  • In your men's breasts let your child-soul have sway,
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 5
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • And hath in deepest agony of soul
  • Love's warmth will wake the spirit in his soul;
  • And love itself will crystallize his soul
  • Shall fill his soul with life; there too the earth's
  • Instead of health to souls that are not ripe.
  • as a soul form from out of the rock.)
  • Must ripen through thy power in human souls.
  • The woe of world-depths in thine own soul's core.
  • And yet whene'er his soul doth thirst to find
  • Forth from thy soul with such resplendent ray?
  • And bring forth fruitful work in human souls.
  • And through the soul life of whoever seeks
  • Will blossom from the soul's discipleship.
  • To my soul-sight, in feature like
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 6
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • They found their soul's awakening in thy words
  • Found nought therein but death unto his soul.
  • In my own soul from my first childhood's years;
  • A man of desert soul and empty heart.
  • Robbed of his strength of soul thine only son;
  • They robbed my child of all his strength of soul,
  • When one day in the souls and hearts of men,
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 7
  Matching lines:
  • The Spirit-world. Maria and her soul powers. Theodora's vision of the
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • And permeate a soul
  • To fill the soul with power
  • From soul-creating power.
  • In the soul-stirring dance
  • Direct the soul-life's rays.
  • Soul substance will I warm,
  • To mankind's seeking soul.
  • The sensitive soul.
  • Shall rouse in the soul
  • Souls laden with grief,
  • Souls yearning for joy.
  • Shall form for the soul
  • In weaving of souls
  • The soul-sense to enchant,
  • Upon the paths of soul
  • To reach thee o'er the pathways of the soul.
  • The spirit placed before my soul a youth;
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 8
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • Words that were wrenched with pain from out my soul.
  • The spirit power creates in artists' souls,
  • The very soul-force of my friend doth gleam
  • From this same picture into my soul's core.
  • Of soul-experiences gained thereby.
  • It hath taught me to recognize my soul,
  • Which can pierce through into our very souls:
  • That dwells, invisible, within thy soul,
  • And Strader suffers deeply. What his soul
  • When first I dared to tread the realm of souls.
  • In his soul's essence I could first behold
  • With my soul's vision, yet I did perceive
  • What dwells within the basis of his soul.
  • It will confirm its work within that soul
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 9
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • I have sought strength of soul, with courage winged,
  • I note their presence in mine inmost soul,
  • Of being, in the elements, in souls,
  • The whole world's essence lies in one soul's core,
  • I feel them sounding in my very soul,
  • Around me; soul light germinates in me;
  • Soul-substance will they pour into my heart
  • I gaze upon the nature of my soul,
  • They speak the native language of my soul.
  • I find myself again within that soul,
  • In my soul-powers and on my spirit-paths.
  • I too will free myself, like all those souls,
  • Have woken now the vision of my soul.
  • My soul did urge me here.
  • So closely are we one, that thy soul's life
  • Allows its light to shine forth in my soul.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 10
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • Feel me in thy soul-depths, and bear my power
  • And feel Love's spirits in mine inmost soul:
  • Ye good powers of my soul, and straightway crush
  • Ask of thy soul now, whether it can feel,
  • Work on then further in my soul's deep core,
  • Doth now some new illusion haunt my soul,
  • Only those powers, which in the souls of men
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 11
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • For to the Brethren I must give their souls.
  • The souls of men at this time or at that:
  • With power to fill and satisfy men's souls.
  • Deep in mine inmost soul I none the less
  • The Brethren are approaching with those souls
  • Johannes' and Maria's souls have now
  • Then must I straightway from their souls depart.
  • O'er souls of men doth only last so long
  • Now that I can no longer tempt their souls,
  • Johannes' and Maria's souls have now
  • With sense-appearance to delight their souls.
  • From the dim feeling life within thy soul,
  • To make Maria's soul-light on the earth
  • In souls, such as thine own was heretofore,
  • I see in thee that nature of the soul,
  • Which led to thine exalted sister's soul
  • Thou bring'st, shall be repeated in my soul.
  • True soul-existence, when thou findest too
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Probation: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Probation
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Probation: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Probation
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Beings and Persons Represented
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Probation: Beings and Persons Represented
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Probation
  • experiences of the characters appearing in this ‘Soul's
  • the connection between the Soul and the Cosmos. They are not allegorical,
  • connection between the Soul and the Cosmos.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 1
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Probation: Scene 1
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Probation
  • are powers of soul later Benedictus.
  • The soul from its own depths would draw replies
  • The inward life of many human souls.
  • Which haunt my dreaming soul and fondly strive
  • Down many a path my restless soul I turned.
  • Was not the active master of my soul
  • Upheld by truest energies of soul
  • From hidden gulfs of soul the energy
  • That which awoke from out his inmost soul
  • Until the spirit treasure in my soul
  • Have been implanted in the human soul,
  • ‘In silence sound the depths of thine own soul,
  • Fear and misgiving have beset my soul.
  • And end in the recesses of thy soul.
  • (Three Figures, representing soul forces, float round him.)
  • Win mightiness of soul;
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 2
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Probation: Scene 2
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Probation
  • soul-powers.
  • Great conflicts in my soul bid me invoke
  • I know how closely to my soul are knit
  • And yet — deep in my soul I hear a voice
  • If thou wouldst not work evil to his soul.
  • This lying dream will cease to haunt my soul,
  • With thee united. Now his soul demands,
  • That knits Johannes' soul unto mine own.
  • Which knits soul unto soul eternally.
  • Johannes' soul is knit unto thine own
  • Darkness of soul is difficult to ban.
  • Thou once didst lead myself to those soul-depths
  • In which my soul was linked unto my friend's.
  • Johannes' soul unto the spirit-fount
  • To olden days when my friend's soul sought mine.
  • Henceforth to bridle my soul's arrogance ...!
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 3
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Probation: Scene 3
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Probation
  • representing soul-powers.
  • The visions that are granted to my soul.
  • The spirit's deeds and soul's reality.
  • At thy soul's fire my love of work is warmed;
  • From thy soul's spring and flow thence into mine,
  • I love the life that quickens in thy soul,
  • It may well be that, coming from one soul
  • I can withdraw to deep retreats of soul
  • I can pour out my soul in worlds of sense
  • If I am left with mine own soul alone.
  • Then with my soul I well might upward soar
  • And my soul cannot to my picture give
  • All this, my friend, thy soul in noble speech
  • Mirrored as spirit in the souls of men.
  • So loth my friend's soul speak as it 'twere mine
  • Bethink, Johannes, how the One Soul must —
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 4
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Probation: Scene 4
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Probation
  • Thy soul, profoundly shaken, had to drain
  • Can be revealed to that dark power of soul
  • I am not spared those hours in mine own soul
  • The strongest impulse of my soul hath been
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 5
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Probation: Scene 5
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Probation
  • That sorrow dwelleth in thy soul to-day.
  • That in the quiet heart enshrined, the soul
  • Than as a visionary soul who seeks
  • That though the souls of just such men as these
  • The soul through which we live and feel and strive,
  • And make a picture for my seeking soul,
  • Few souls he knew beside his parents twain.
  • Into his soul, until his heart became
  • Held converse in his soul with many things
  • His yearning soul made known its interest.
  • I lead men's yearning hearts to depths of soul
  • Through labyrinths of life and depths of soul.
  • Into my soul, and how to all my thoughts
  • Have sought to usher thoughts into my soul,
  • Thus quench the sounding voice of mine own soul
  • I seemed to draw them up into my soul
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 6
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Probation: Scene 6
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Probation
  • Their coming in my spirit, when my soul
  • Our souls from devil-visions, and from death,
  • That which our souls require, and that which is
  • Which Makes the truth apparent to my soul, —
  • Forced to rely on mine own soul alone
  • My soul hath need of rest to find itself
  • 'Twould seem anxiety weighs down thy soul.
  • And art thou also certain of thy soul,
  • But what I can bestow upon thy soul
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 7
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Probation: Scene 7
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Probation
  • Around us individuals, in whose souls
  • But still my soul desires to comprehend
  • To serve our brotherhood with their soul's power
  • Within its ranks souls not yet purified
  • Doth mark alone the goodness in men's souls;
  • My brothers, if undauntedly your souls
  • Would rob us also of those humble souls
  • That which we have implanted in men's souls
  • Into my soul's deep places, and arouse
  • A soul must be defiled by secret stains
  • And many honest souls are now at work
  • And drive away the darkness from thy soul.
  • My soul beheld thee with its inner eye,
  • Which thou shalt cause to flow into my soul.
  • Rise up afresh and live within thy soul
  • Can well be framed by souls now steeped in sin!
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 8
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Probation: Scene 8
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Probation
  • Hath won dominion o'er our daughter's soul.
  • Can turn their gaze upon the souls of men,
  • Which fight against the nature of the soul.
  • Arouse an echo in my deepest soul.
  • A picture often riseth in my soul
  • Seize firmly hold of all my powers of soul;
  • That fans the opposition of my soul,
  • Before my soul this thought presents itself
  • And yet my soul will not assent thereto.
  • To understand the soul of every man,
  • Yet even from the souls of such as these
  • ‘Your souls must ripen slowly, if indeed
  • When your souls think that it is furthest off.’
  • Whose beauty we confess within our souls,
  • That we to-day can meet so many souls
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 9
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Probation: Scene 9
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Probation
  • The soul can find real treasure in those tales.
  • And from such darkened sight, our souls can win
  • A thought was straightway born within his soul
  • It must be that a soul is led astray
  • The soul can only triumph over lies
  • Of silent prayer my soul did bow herself
  • Who had the power to liberate my soul.
  • Which they have reawakened in my soul.
  • ‘From source divine hath sprung the human soul
  • That men who guide the footsteps of the soul
  • To speak of aims that lead the soul to peace.
  • Peace for the soul, it seems, for thee and me;
  • Of thought, once it hath gripped a human soul.
  • Thought is the sovereign whom my soul obeys
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 10
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Probation: Scene 10
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Probation
  • his soul):
  • Is but a picture of soul substance spun.
  • Out of the thirst and longing of the soul.
  • To bring to mind these longings of my soul.
  • Poured out such storms of suffering on my soul
  • From my soul-substance did they draw the power
  • And, showing me his soul, displayed mine own.
  • A living picture stands before my soul,
  • But which more plainly sets before my soul
  • I recognize each soul I look upon,
  • It seems as if its working on my soul
  • And forthwith I must call to mind that soul,
  • The souls of Felix and Felicia.
  • And I can feel that those soul-elements
  • Themselves are pouring into mine own soul.
  • I feel myself endowed with strength of soul
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 11
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Probation: Scene 11
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Probation
  • Was but the vain delusion of thy soul.
  • The better to ensnare the souls of men,
  • More than illusion finds the soul in thee
  • Thou hast attacked that portion of my soul
  • Thou bringest freedom to the souls of men
  • When thou dost penetrate to their soul-depths.
  • It is a realm in which the souls of men
  • United in a brotherhood of souls
  • Are carefully implanted in men's souls,
  • To work upon my vanity of soul.
  • How lightly souls may into error fall
  • And thus rob souls of their security.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 12
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Probation: Scene 12
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Probation
  • What fruits are ripened when a soul attempts
  • Are trusty guides for every human soul,
  • Before the soul bath learned to master it.
  • The forces of the soul that worked unconsciously
  • Nought was it but the shadow of a soul,
  • I dreamed of soul-love, pure and free from stain,
  • Cannot be followed far by such a soul
  • But to thy soul it bringeth nought but gloom.
  • A soul-less puppet to the spirit-world?
  • Which, springing from unfathomed depths of soul,
  • Is vital wealth wherewith to form the soul.
  • When it flows mightily through human souls;
  • Repose henceforth within mine inmost soul
  • That hath more wisdom than the human soul.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 13
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Probation: Scene 13
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Probation
  • Mysteries of the Hierophants; Lucifer, Ahriman, the three Soul-Figures,
  • He hath been able to o'erpower the soul
  • Thou wast unable to o'erpower the soul
  • The human soul that gave itself to me
  • I find no means of access to men's souls.
  • (The three Soul-Figures with Strader.)
  • From soul's aspiring joy;
  • With humble joy of soul
  • Soul light will I make warm
  • That his soul's love of light
  • That should flow streaming to the souls of men.
  • Ye know the nature of the sun of soul
  • To soul depths where there shines with powerful ray,
  • That lurk unnoticed in the soul's dark fairs
  • Bestow the spirit-food on human souls
  • To guide this man's soul from the spirit-night
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Beings and Persons Represented
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • Portal of Initiation’ and ‘The Soul's Probation,’
  • represented in a former incarnation in ‘The Soul's Probation’
  • Ceremonies of the Spirit-Brotherhood in ‘The Soul's
  • THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ELEMENT OF SOUL:
  • The Soul of Theodora.
  • whose agency the human soul forces are connected with the Cosmos.
  • of the soul-powers with the Cosmos.
  • are the reincarnations of the twelve peasants in ‘The Soul's
  • when he is in the soul, e.g., in scenes 3 and 6, appears
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 1
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • But in whose souls the instinct for the truth
  • To comfort and to heal the souls of men.
  • And pierce with warming glow his inmost soul
  • To reach, through deep soul struggle, to the high
  • Within those souls who strive to follow close
  • Which bring strong powers into the souls of men.
  • The powers which for such guidance of the soul
  • On the free spirit-instinct in his soul.
  • Which in our day Both weigh on many souls.
  • The strength for this work flows into his soul.
  • The workings of emotion and the soul
  • Disperse and lapse into a soulless state
  • Might no more lame the soul-life of mankind
  • In which the soul may find development.
  • 'Tis only when a human soul unfolds
  • A soul, which hath been given to our times
  • To find out what is needful for the soul.
  • To every man within his inmost soul.
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 2
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • That in thine inmost soul thou loved'st best.
  • Who went from thee, so that thy human soul
  • To follow out their soul's powers in themselves.
  • Those souls who after spirit-knowledge strive
  • The voice of mine own soul, which could instil
  • Thou feelest in thy soul. There is no need
  • There opened out upon my soul a world
  • I only noticed in my soul that part
  • But was in truth in deepest night of soul.
  • Those beauteous pictures, while within my soul
  • And bear it also in my soul alone,
  • Both for myself and other souls of men,
  • The soul is athirst
  • In realms of the soul,
  • Yet souls are enlarged,
  • It ripens the soul
  • That each searching soul
  • Comfort of soul ...
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 3
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • On the right, Lucifer's throne. At first only the souls of Capesius
  • He tried to keep deep fastened in his soul.
  • That their results may ripen his own soul.
  • And when the human soul can clearly see
  • Seems, as it were, extinguished from his soul.
  • At times he feels aware of human souls,
  • The body which is proper to Earth-souls
  • Seems but a shadow in the human soul,
  • And his soul's life doth show in its true light
  • That only souls, who consciously make use
  • Those souls however who go through their life
  • Will later show itself within my soul
  • Thou hast here spoken with the soul of him
  • Self-knowledge for that very human soul
  • Maria carries deep within her soul
  • His soul would recognise, there will emerge
  • To help him in the progress of his soul.
  • I only know that thou dost guide my soul.
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 4
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • Within the human soul. What thus I saw
  • Stand out so vividly before thy soul.
  • Within me of the power which made my soul
  • And then the true light shone into my soul
  • That thou wast seeking from thy sister-soul.
  • And of the strengthening of thy powers of soul
  • That my soul's messenger could be by fate
  • My soul was flooded o'er with waves of life
  • Rose from the depths of my subconscious soul,
  • Of spirit in close contact with my soul.
  • Which now I study, is enriched by souls
  • Thus in thy light I felt within my soul
  • Thou still didst stay my strength and light of soul.
  • A gentle light did hover round my soul
  • Into my life and governs all my soul —
  • The mirrored working of one's own soul-powers.
  • Yet thy soul could not show such things as these.
  • When I again recall before my soul
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 5
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • the little house in the wood, described in the “Soul's
  • Later appears the Soul of Theodora. The room is the natural colour
  • Loved her indeed from out our inmost soul,
  • Her soul with ours through all the days to come.
  • By some great struggle in her inmost soul.
  • That he must never harbour in his soul
  • Became consuming fire within her soul
  • And yet they fill my soul with dread and fear.
  • Which he hath found most needful for his soul
  • Through which the senses speak unto the soul.
  • So far as mine own searching of the soul
  • Perceive within the depths of his own soul
  • It seems his soul is from his body loosed
  • (Theodora's Soul appears.)
  • Soul:
  • To which his soul hath been already called,
  • Which can just now make blind so many souls.
  • When his soul seemed bereft of all ideas.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 6
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • thoughts, lastly the Soul of Dame Balde.
  • Which souls on earth find hard to understand
  • The words which serve to test the souls on Earth?
  • Souls, versed in spirit-ways, can grasp with ease;
  • The soul begins to lose her grasp of things.
  • And which were written for men's souls on Earth,
  • Incomprehensible to souls on Earth
  • But are imprinted on their souls by signs;
  • A world-descriptive language for the soul.
  • Condensing all my powers within my soul,
  • As knowledge in mine inmost depth of soul.
  • And his soul will not hear him spoken of.
  • In thy soul-body oped the spirit-life.
  • So that thy soul-life could release itself
  • From out world distances to depths of soul;
  • Thou hast through thy soul-sight in cosmic space
  • To souls that are here;
  • To souls that are here —
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 7
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • So storm men's souls when first approaching me
  • The souls which thus comport themselves when here
  • The soul of him who was the pupil once
  • Except the living content of his soul.
  • The picture she had graven on his soul
  • Then did he see how strongly souls of men
  • Such effort truly binds the soul more firm
  • Before his soul as being his own state
  • Believe that I must search and find the soul
  • Unto her soul, apart from lore of Earth.
  • That other soul unto thy threshold now,
  • Pouring from Lucifer to human souls
  • Discern the words which come forth from my soul
  • When through the eyes of thine own soul I look.
  • I now can see into his very soul,
  • Pass through his soul; it is from him he comes.
  • Although their soul-life was but like a dream;
  • The old man's soul doth trace that line of thought
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 8
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • To guide the soul of him who oft before
  • Hath made the struggle in my soul severe;
  • Were resting painfully upon my soul. —
  • To age-long pains of hell that human soul
  • words they speak live in their souls, but they know nothing
  • Before what spirit doth my soul then stand?
  • 'Tis but as souls
  • That lives within their souls, though they would scarce
  • The soul should not in blind devotion think
  • The impulse after truth within my soul
  • But in the upper layers of their souls.
  • Bring to the soul the fruits of spirit-realms
  • So too with souls: they find it good to talk
  • To rob men's souls of every power in life
  • Souls that would stunt their own inherent strength
  • It is but human what these souls conceal.
  • Each his own powers of soul with steadfast aim;
  • And can through their soul-nature fashion them,
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 9
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • With pitiless intent the souls of men
  • That here reveals itself in wakening souls,
  • As I held converse with mine inmost soul,
  • They have prepared the soul-powers which are theirs
  • So thoughtfully before the souls of men.
  • And weighed with heavy pressure on my soul
  • My deadened soul-life first tormented me
  • Where souls alone are taken into count
  • Yet 'tis well known to thee why all these souls,
  • Must ever surely bind their souls to mine.
  • So Ahriman desired to mould the souls
  • In binding their soul-nature unto thine.
  • So was it needful for thine own soul's good.
  • Johannes, knowledge hath thy soul acquired
  • Weave only in thy pictures that which souls,
  • That can reveal itself within the soul
  • Which lets thy soul press farther on its path,
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 10
  Matching lines:
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • Balde, and Dame Balde, and later on the Soul of Theodora; and last
  • of all the four Soul-Forces. [East is here at right of stage, West
  • The souls of all my pupils have received
  • Whose souls must first unite, and then shall sound
  • And through the strictest proving of their souls.
  • Which rules unconscious in the souls of men,
  • Our souls here humbly offer sacrifice
  • The inner soul of man is fructified.
  • Desired to send this call unto his soul.
  • In spirit, as a wholly worthless soul,
  • Full far removed from lofty aims of soul.
  • Locked fast in deep recesses of his soul.
  • To souls of men when first the Earth was formed
  • And needs support within the depths of soul.
  • And in the soul transform themselves to ill.
  • As bearer of the light to man's soul-sight
  • But then the human soul will always wish
  • Then may the inmost being of the soul
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Awakening: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Awakening
  • The Spirit World. The same remarks apply. Capesius is struck by the figures of his previous incarnations, as shown in the former plays. The Guardian of the Threshold will allow an even earlier incarnation to appear.Theodora's quotation refers to Scene 9 in ‘The Soul's Probation.’
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Awakening: Editorial Summary of the Scenes
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Awakening
  • The Spirit World. The same remarks apply. Capesius is struck by the figures of his previous incarnations, as shown in the former plays. The Guardian of the Threshold will allow an even earlier incarnation to appear.Theodora's quotation refers to Scene 9 in ‘The Soul's Probation.’
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Persons, Figures, and Events
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Awakening: Persons, Figures, and Events
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Awakening
  • The experiences of soul
  • deep spiritual connection of earthly events. In my earlier soul
  • pictures ‘The Portal of Initiation’ and ‘The Soul's
  • In ‘The Soul's Awakening’ Benedictus must no longer be
  • as having his own soul's destiny interwoven with theirs.
  • He is the same individuality who appears in ‘The Soul's
  • of Initiation.’ In ‘The Soul's Probation’
  • ‘Soul's Probation’ as the First Master of Ceremonies
  • Professor Capesius appearing in ‘The Soul's
  • mysticism. He appears as Joseph Keane in ‘The Soul's
  • Soul's Probation’ he appears as Second Master of Ceremonies
  • Soul's Probation’ as the Jew, Simon.
  • Soul's Probation’ as Bertha, Keane's daughter.
  • Dame Balde who appears in ‘The Soul's Probation’
  • REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ELEMENT OF SOUL:
  • Maria whose individuality appears in ‘The Soul's
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 1
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Awakening: Scene 1
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Awakening
  • A soul, whereby they may be justified.
  • Which ever will entice the souls of men,
  • Yet was it once conceived by human souls
  • As being the possession of such souls
  • Is that such souls, despite their utmost care,
  • Thy knowledge of the nature of those souls
  • Ordained no doubt by spirit for these souls,
  • Drear doth the future stretch before my soul.
  • Men recognize each other in their souls,
  • Would work creatively in thy soul-life.
  • It raiseth souls in human dignity
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 2
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Awakening: Scene 2
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Awakening
  • A soul that seeks not for experience
  • This is the world in which Johannes' soul
  • Johannes' soul shall feel within itself
  • And by creative powers this soul shall be
  • With gentle soul-warmth forces in his soul.
  • Hath been in these few weeks Johannes' soul
  • Before my soul the objects of my will.
  • Before she had transformed his soul in him
  • I feel in me the turmoil of thy soul;
  • Into my soul; it is another being,
  • Because I am content to let my soul
  • Long years ago he flooded my soul's depth
  • Thou stranger being in Johannes' soul
  • Johannes, heed the warning of thy soul;
  • Fast locked within the chamber of thy soul.
  • Seek me within those cosmic depths where souls
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 3
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Awakening: Scene 3
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Awakening
  • Be turned, upon that road, to soul's dream-sleep.
  • To come to us, speaks clearly to our souls.
  • The wakefulness of soul already sought
  • Within my soul the meaning of events.
  • To show my soul the road, where I may then
  • Finds not in Strader's soul true spirit-strength
  • To join himself to foes of his own soul,
  • But only that part of his soul which still
  • To seek the spirit in mine inmost soul
  • How far I now can pierce another's soul
  • The cloak of forces; forces of the soul
  • Deep in my soul adore that world of yours.
  • Expectancy the soul's whole inner life:
  • It leads his inmost soul to realms of light.
  • I once saw clearly through another's soul;
  • Yet only that soul's error could I see.
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 4
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Awakening: Scene 4
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Awakening
  • I planted truly deep within my soul
  • My soul into my work. And it is well
  • That soul by reason should not be disturbed.
  • Owe to his soul not to myself the power
  • Doth work through him moves powerfully one's soul.
  • And if thy strong soul must succumb to him,
  • To most unusual altitude of soul;
  • Made known to me how my soul's inner self
  • That all that lives within the human soul
  • Make clear unto souls
  • True counsel didst thou bring unto my soul.
  • With all my soul's strength I renew that vow.
  • Who was allowed thy soul-sight to unseal,
  • From those enchanted regions of the soul,
  • t And spirit-peacefulness of soul hath not
  • And e'en this clownish form can serve thy soul.
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 5
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Awakening: Scene 5
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Awakening
  • and in the immediate foreground the soul-forces.
  • Felix Balde's Soul:
  • to the right, towering over Felix Balde's soul.)
  • It is the time when souls like thine can work
  • There shall the blossoms by thy soul be sought;
  • Felix Balde's Soul:
  • Hilary's Soul:
  • From soul-material a thinking self.
  • But to themselves they seem like solid souls.
  • Soul:
  • Strader's Soul:
  • the soul of Capesius. Similarly only his head is to be seen.
  • Maria has later. — All three soul figures and the Other
  • Philia are near Strader's soul and stand in the centre of the
  • Soul:
  • I feel an impulse by soul-power to change
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 6
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Awakening: Scene 6
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Awakening
  • Capesius' Soul:
  • On earth, that which the soul who stands revealed
  • Direct me to this soul.
  • Romanus' Soul:
  • soul, whilst close are the souls of Bellicosus and Torquatus
  • Soul:
  • See Simon's image rise from my soul-waves —
  • And see, another joins him — some soul-shape —
  • Soul:
  • Soul:
  • His soul's irradiations burn and bore
  • Their way into mine own Soul's inmost core —
  • So work these souls who have attained the power
  • To see the inmost depths of other souls.
  • Felix Balde's Soul:
  • Capesius' Soul:
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 7
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Awakening: Scene 7
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Awakening
  • For earthly cares; his soul is set upon
  • The union of the spirit with his soul.
  • In kindness draws souls upwards to itself.
  • Can never penetrate unto such souls,
  • Doth reach the goal along the soul's true path.
  • The contents of a soul are poured therein
  • Into the holy precincts, where his soul
  • If he were conscious master of his soul.
  • The soul must ask this question. When, ah, when
  • Will to my soul the spirit make reply?
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 8
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Awakening: Scene 8
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Awakening
  • From out those heights of light to which his soul
  • So listen to thy soul-powers when they speak;
  • Thine own soul speaks thus in these temple halls;
  • My brother hierophant, explore this soul,
  • The soul no more remembers what it was.
  • Naught save its being hath the soul retained.
  • O human soul, read now what through the flame
  • Within the being of my spirit soul
  • The ego from the group-soul and let loose
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 9
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Awakening: Scene 9
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Awakening
  • A starry soul, on yonder spirit-shore,
  • Doth thine approach shed on my gazing soul?
  • Appeared to me as shining shadow-soul;
  • For thee, that they might stay within thy soul,
  • This spirit scene in soul-obscurity
  • Now in soul clarity it doth emerge.
  • And let my guide, and let that other soul
  • New powers of self. Equip my soul with strength
  • Which Astrid brings from soul-obscurity,
  • E'en from disaster may the soul's wings gain.
  • A soul may never wish itself to fall;
  • A spirit-star on yonder shore of souls!
  • ‘O human soul, read now what through the flame
  • Recalling them from waters of the soul?
  • Which flowed therein from out thine own soul's life;
  • In thy soul's depth although thou knew'st it not.
  • Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 10
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Awakening: Scene 10
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Awakening
  • Make clear unto souls
  • True counsel didst thou bring unto my soul
  • I am within thee, member of thy soul;
  • A spirit-star on yonder shore of souls —
  • From out the magic kingdoms of the soul;
  • Whom once thy soul sought at the temple gate.
  • Seek me in cosmic fundaments, where souls
  • Now through his soul salvation's healing ray.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 11
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Awakening: Scene 11
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Awakening
  • Into the soul and takes pictorial form.
  • Because thy soul itself so fashioned it.
  • Thee with swift flight to lofty grades of soul.
  • And yet these words still terrify my soul:
  • The spirit had to call thy soul afraid
  • Which would, in lesser souls, be bravery.
  • My friend, I can behold in thine own soul
  • This picture can create new powers of soul
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 12
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Awakening: Scene 12
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Awakening
  • Now therefore I will call upon a soul
  • (Ahriman goes off and returns with the soul of Fox, whose
  • The Soul of Fox:
  • But if while still on earth his soul can be
  • The Soul of Fox:
  • The Soul of Fox:
  • (Ahriman leads out Fox's soul and again blindfolds the
  • individual portraying the soul before he is allowed to depart.)
  • (Theodora's soul appears.)
  • Theodora's Soul:
  • United on the radiant path of souls,
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 13
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Awakening: Scene 13
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Awakening
  • My soul was ever plagued by loneliness.
  • Was pressing painfully upon my soul
  • My soul hath deeply realized the words
  • Then Strader's soul came clearly into view
  • As if the sound came from his inmost soul.
  • Expectancy the soul's whole inner life: —
  • Whene'er a human soul is rightly strong
  • It's only will is that the soul should not
  • It leads his inmost soul but to himself.
  • The dark veil of his own soul's enterprise.
  • Truth doth not sound within the soul of him
  • Since thy soul-forces show it unto thee.
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 14
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Awakening: Scene 14
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Awakening
  • I saw the transformation of his soul
  • Nothing in life but sad soul-loneliness,
  • Because thoughts would not spring up in his soul
  • Then stood before his soul, he grew quite young,
  • And entered actively within my soul;
  • O little soul of mine, what mighty hand
• Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 15
  Matching lines:
  • The Soul's Awakening: Scene 15
  • Includes The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of
  • the Threshold, and The Soul's Awakening. Steiner's bold attempt to depict
  • The Soul's Awakening
  • Learned to admire his loftiness of soul.
  • A sweet soul, that, except for seven years
  • And what his soul sought on the mystic path
  • And he had to unite himself in soul
  • So Strader's soul reluctantly did leave
  • She was in life — true mystic souls feel thus.
  • What were the thoughts which occupied his soul?
  • His soul did gently leave its body's sheath.
  • My thanks to thee, thou faithful soul, for all
  • About the strengthening of mine own soul's powers.
  • From out my chaos, in the soul's domain?
  • To be in touch with Strader's soul, although
  • Reveal himself unto the souls of men.
  • But thou, sun-ripened soul of Strader, thou
  • And with strong thought reveal the light of soul