53. Eurythmy Performance

So we see how the doppelganger demonstrates the spirit of John's youth, how John comes more and more to himself, but how at the point where John is able to live into the inner world, how he must be confronted by that which can be shaped in such a way that it looks like a kind of guardian before the spiritual world. The world of the human soul is just as rich as the outer world can be, but the human being can give himself over to deceptions. Self-love, illusions, fantasy - all sorts of things confront man when he is to get to know his own inner life.