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- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Introduction
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- materialize everything, thus hindering true spiritual growth and freedom.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Interlude
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- to attend to something for the children.
- whenever anything stirs me deeply.
- entirely familiar to me long before I knew anything at all about what
- art: but other things also create a similar feeling in me. It
- You are really talking. of something that nowhere exists. No true
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Prelude
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- estranged from those things in life that seem to me worth while.
- something in me that rebels against your view of life.
- But for one thing, I should admit even that. And that is, that
- you call things in art which deny the spirit, as I conceive it,
- I will say just one thing. I believe — nay I know — that
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 1
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- Dost find such emptiness in everything
- Thoughts are dim shadows, nothing more nor less:
- Blind souls of men with dogma's seething stream.
- This strange and mystic Something penetrates;
- This Something, which to such as I, who still
- It almost seems as if this Something found
- For I had read and learned of many things,
- Perceive our attitude towards these things.
- Nay, nay, one thing it is to recognize
- Until there are things shown to us which lie
- A thing that verily doth seem to me
- But this one thing alone I clearly know:
- Thou art a fleeting phantom, nothing more,
- Thought doth bring knowledge of things temporal,
- Of things that vanish in the course of time:
- One thing alone of all we here have heard
- A different thing; and if thou didst but know
- That I preferred things droll and humorous
- But now quite tasteless to me seem such things;
- A dreadful symbol of our nothingness.
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- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 2
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- Seems but indeed a little thing, when I
- And many things I am compelled to see,
- Did spring from very Nothingness itself,
- That out of that dread nothingness in me
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 3
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- Receptiveness for all the greatest things
- In all these things to stand unmoved, serene,
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 4
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- When he directeth it to outward things.
- The other may be found in everything.
- Thou art a fleeting phantom, nothing more,
- The spirit counterpart of things of sense.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 5
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- The spirits to release from things of sense,
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 6
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- In man, and therein many things are thought,
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 7
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- And many things besides have I beheld
- By other things, or whether mine own self
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 8
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- In every line, and many things besides,
- Thou dost paint ghostly things, Thomasius,
- Nothing all learning but illusory;
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 9
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- Their whispered breathing thrills my spirit-ear;
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 11
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- Yet one thing hath not yet been ta'en from me;
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 1
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- Nothing but pictures shadowy and dim
- And sink into the gulf of nothingness,
- Once did I reckon it an easy thing
- It is borne in on me that everything
- I too am crumbling into nothingness:
- Were nothing more than clever play on words.
- Perceive before thee many wondrous things,
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 2
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- But nothing hitherto hath clearly shown
- Already something is becoming clear
- Is nothing but the hunger of myself,
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 4
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- I made myself proficient in those things
- This was the third thing — thou hast spoken it
- Just as one bears the other things in life
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 5
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- Something of worth, to reason not opposed.
- For they regard mankind as nothing else
- Held converse in his soul with many things
- Who spoke to him about those things in which
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 6
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- For things might very well come to his ears
- That nothing can befall us without cause.
- And one thing then was manifest to me: —
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 7
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- We could implant the germs of things to come.
- Is something nowise inconceivable.
- The things he lacks are of a different mould.
- It cannot seem an easy thing for thee
- How canst thou wish, now that thou knowest these things,
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 8
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- And as things are, we feel ourselves compelled
- And such a state of things might have gone on
- The things thy noble teachings do reveal?
- Ye can have sight of things that are to be.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 9
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- Deaf ears at present for such things as these;
- I know how many things I can make clear
- I know I am a simple little thing,
- To mix with things they do not understand.
- Things have already come to such a pass
- How often do we hear a thing called wrong
- To do that very thing. Let's go our ways;
- In understanding everything he taught;
- And henceforth nothing shall divide us twain.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 10
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- They seem like real things. But no; all this
- From out life's needs they brought to being things,
- From nothingness to life, and back to nothingness —
- To empty Nothingness
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 12
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- Of things that only later can bear fruit.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Beings and Persons Represented
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- but as something which can only happen at a turning-point of time.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 1
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- And so 'twere surely best to shun each thing
- And working thus amidst the things of Earth
- In narrow factory rooms unlovely things.
- To hear about such things from men like us.
- Can be explained as things mechanical.
- And see what things lived in the souls of men
- Which I put into things mechanical?
- Nothing but meaningless and barren words.
- Not through the things the mystics offer us,
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 2
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- And truly were there anything besides
- To something evil, even though it were
- For things must come which will o'ershadow me
- With greed on anything that's in my work
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 3
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- Upon such things as ever come to pass
- I must transform thee, if the thing that's right
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 4
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- his table there are mechanical models; on hers things to do with
- How to reveal itself through certain things
- And yet it showed me nothing at that time
- That first I thought of thee as nothing else
- Yet thy soul could not show such things as these.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 5
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- Of Something strange, unknown, that threatened her
- Of things which are incomprehensible;
- And passeth by unnoticed all those things
- Of things that seem to come from spirit-realms
- There is but one thing he still notices.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 6
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- Each thing explains itself through something else.
- The soul begins to lose her grasp of things.
- In this place he will let me gaze on things
- When nothing of thy personality
- As things outside himself, e'en as the seer
- And manifest the light 'midst breathing men.
- The child who can bring light to breathing souls
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 7
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- Things full of meaning lie within its depths
- And memory of something he's just heard.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 8
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- That from this spirit we should hear good things?
- words they speak live in their souls, but they know nothing
- And he who fain would keep all things the same
- This leads to nothing on this Earth of ours.
- Perceives the things which here I bring to pass,
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 9
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- Which shows how on the Earth things come to pass
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 10
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- Through other things doth Lucifer appear
- 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.
- 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.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Persons, Figures, and Events
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- and tenth scenes) nothing merely symbolical is portrayed. They are genuine
- as convincingly as physical things present themselves to our bodily
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 1
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- Things happen constantly which bring to light
- To talk things over with thee; thou hast helped
- Whoever wills to introduce new things
- Must be content to let the old things die.
- A personal knowledge of the things to which
- The all-important thing, it seems to me,
- In things pertaining to this life on earth.
- As things are now it seems advisable
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 2
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- Seldom indeed could this thing be allowed;
- Far more than when they work on outer things
- From ever grasping things by reason's strength.
- Which hampers seership's power with earthly things,
- This view of cosmic things will give thee strength,
- All things by light upon its surface thrown
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 3
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- What outward signs can show him of these things
- Do not complain that they have done this thing,
- Thy shades — yet this thing could he scarcely do; —
- say something, but since the latter remains silent Felix continues.)
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 4
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- Upon the fashioning of things of sense
- Revealing things the senses cannot grasp.
- The way into the realm of earthly things.
- The thing which hath just happened in our group
- Which leads into the realm of earthly things.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 5
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- breathing from above.)
- One thing more will I waken in these souls:
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 6
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- Light up the things that are to be, but pass
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 7
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- One thing especially I deeply feel —
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 8
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- everything in readiness for the initiation of the Neophyte, who is
- As semblance in the cosmic nothingness.
- And folly strives in thee for distant things.
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 9
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- ‘One thing especially I deeply feel:
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 11
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- Because in thee those things were cowardice
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 12
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- Denying spirit, fashion spirit-things.
- For he must never understand the things
- Nothing at all, hath he not Strader's aid.
- For some time past I have done nothing else
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 13
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- On what can one rely, when nothing holds?
- The things this super-clever man hath shown.
- To whom life hath brought nothing but success?
- One cannot apprehend such things aright
- To spirit things alone was I alive.
- This can be nothing else than words of mine
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 14
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- Nothing in life but sad soul-loneliness,
- Within this state of things, though it involves
- Title: Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 15
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- For all things possible and purposeful,
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