# The Children of Lucifer

*by Edouard Schuré*

*Language adaptation by Rudolf Steiner*

*Play in five acts*

*based on an authorized translation by Marie von Sivers*

> Characters  
> THEOKLES, known as Phosphoros, citizen of Dionysia  
> KLEONIS, Christian virgin in Dionysia  
> DAMIS, PHRYGIUS, ANDROKLES, friends of Theokles  
> ALCETAS  
> LYKOPHRON, a soothsayer  
> HERAKLIDOS, hierophant in the temple of the unknown god  
> HARPALUS, proconsul of Asia  
> THE PONTIFEX OF BACCHUS  
> THE BISHOP OF DIONYSIA  
> A MONK  
> THE FATHER OF THE DESERT  
> AGLAE, CYTHERIS, MIMALONE, courtesans in Bacchante costumes  
> THESSALUS, an old slave  
> A SERVANT of Phosphorus  
> THE HERALD of the Proconsul  
> A CENTURION  
> TWO MOUNTAIN DWELLERS  
> YOUNG MAN, YOUNG WOMAN, OLD MAN, from the people of Dionysia  
> A GENIUS, in the form of Lucifer  
> THE VOICE OF THE SPARKLEING STAR  
> ROMAN LEGIONARIES  
> LIKTORE  
> YOUNG MEN OF THE DIONYSIA PHALANX  
> VIRGINS OF THE DESERT  
> PEOPLE

*The action takes place at the beginning of the 4th century of the Christian era, under the reign of Constantine the Great*

*Place of action: Asia Minor and Egypt*