Four Mystery Plays (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Rudolph Steiner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330245407 ISBN 13: 9781330245408

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Four Mystery Plays

Scene 1: The ante-chamber to the rooms of the Mystic League. The reincarnated country folk have been invited to attend a meeting here.

Scene 2: The same. Thomasius is invited to join the league and receive the blessing of the Rosy Cross. He declines on the ground that he has undertaken other work inconsistent with the objects of the league.

Scene 3: The kingdom of Lucifer.

Scene 4: The house of Strader and his wife Theodora. (Lucifer at work.) Theodora's painful vision of Thomassius.

Scene 5: The house of the Baldes. Strader's vision of his wife Theodora who has recently died. Capesius as a medium.

Scene 6: The groves of Lucifer and Ahriman and their creatures who dance. Dame baldes's fable.

Scene 7: The Guardian of the Threshold.

Scene 8: The kingdom of Ahriman. The reincarnated country folk come here unconsciously at night. Strader comes consciously.

Scene 9: The home of Benedictus, overlooking a factory town. The law of number.

Scene 10: The Temple of the Mystic Legue. The admission of Thomasius and others.

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Rudolf Steiner (18611925) was born in the small village of Kraljevec, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Croatia), where he grew up. As a young man, he lived in Weimar and Berlin, where he became a well-published scientific, literary, and philosophical scholar, known especially for his work with Goethe's scientific writings. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he began to develop his early philosophical principles into an approach to systematic research into psychological and spiritual phenomena. Formally beginning his spiritual teaching career under the auspices of the Theosophical Society, Steiner came to use the term Anthroposophy (and spiritual science) for his philosophy, spiritual research, and findings. The influence of Steiner's multifaceted genius has led to innovative and holistic approaches in medicine, various therapies, philosophy, religious renewal, Waldorf education, education for special needs, threefold economics, biodynamic agriculture, Goethean science, architec

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330245407
• ISBN 13: 9781330245408
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 305