Eurythmy Performance

The point is that in this “mystery drama” there appears a person, Johannes Thomasius, who undergoes an inner spiritual development that leads him higher and higher into the spiritual world through various stages of inner spiritual experience, who thus leads such a spiritual life. Then, dear audience, in the course of this inner development, he comes to attain true self-knowledge. This true self-knowledge gives him a pictorial view of his own being. His double appears before him. I do not mean anything symbolic or allegorical by this. Both abstract symbolism and straw allegory are inartistic. What is at stake here is not symbolism or allegory, but a real soul experience that can occur before the soul if it only creates the inner possibilities for it to do so, [if it] appears before the soul like the outer sensory world. This is how Johannes Thomasius experiences his own being, his present being, as his doppelganger.