{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 44/01_02","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02","ga":"44","lecture":"01_02","lecture_number":null,"title":"Preliminary drafts: Scenes not included in the drama","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"passage_count":30,"word_count":2175,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":null,"book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA044/English/Dweller_01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"unit_kind":{"kind":"second_piece_same_name","base_unit":"GA 44/01","note":"Another piece with the same name as 01 in this volume; the suffix only separates the two."},"witnesses":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"first_passage":1,"last_passage":30,"passage_count":30,"word_count":1940},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"first_passage":1,"last_passage":30,"passage_count":30,"word_count":2175,"completeness":{"ratio":1.12,"band":"comparable","note":null}}],"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.12,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2175,"original_word_count":1940,"may_be_abridged":false},"passages":[{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p001","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p001","passage_number":1,"word_count":77,"text":"> The following scene images marked with an I, which were not included in the drama, the two scenarios, and the prose sketches of individual events form the content of a notebook to which Marie Steiner referred briefly in her preliminary remarks. She emphasizes that these are “meditative contents” that “serve as preliminary drafts for what was later transformed into dialogues or moving scenes in the drama.”\n> The actual drafts are summarized under II and III."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p002","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p002","passage_number":2,"word_count":2,"text":"#### I"},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p003","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p003","passage_number":3,"word_count":143,"text":"BENEDICTUS: How many more times will I have to enter this place, my soul filled with worry, unsure whether victory or defeat will be imposed on my will. It is my fate to fight for you, spirits of the world. You who incorporate the true mission of the earth into your path. As often as I crossed this threshold, I hoped that your victory would be decisive over those beings for whom earthly existence is worthless and who only interfere in the fate of earthly humans because they want to win them over for goals that lie in other worlds. Oh, how long will I still have to serve these powers myself? Only if my soul remains steadfast can my gods triumph over these enemies. The Father is already approaching; I can tell from his rays of power that he still feels undefeated."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p004","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p004","passage_number":4,"word_count":13,"text":"AHRIMAN: You have done a bold work in the course of human destiny."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p005","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p005","passage_number":5,"word_count":15,"text":"BENEDICTUS: But unfortunately I must admit that your powers were at work in my deed."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p006","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p006","passage_number":6,"word_count":11,"text":"AHRIMAN: Does good become evil because it springs from my power?"},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p007","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p007","passage_number":7,"word_count":15,"text":"BENEDICTUS: Whether good or evil, what I accomplish through you is as nothing to me."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p008","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p008","passage_number":8,"word_count":129,"text":"AHRIMAN: Consider these words and note how you have not yet removed the veil from your eyes, which you may wear over there, but which does not belong here. Over there in the earthly realm, reasons seem to decide what knowledge brews. Here, however, power and will decide. Here you stand, spirit against spirit. The words you speak over there must fall silent here. You show this yourself, whenever you appear here. For you would have to laugh at yourself if you wanted to speak to us with earthly reasons. Here, one does not refute. Here, one exchanges realities. And you always want to achieve realities when you approach us. Therefore, state your desire; you shall have it and continue to triumph in the earthly realm with our powers."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p009","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p009","passage_number":9,"word_count":15,"text":"BENEDICTUS: From your words, I recognize that you must give me this time as well."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p010","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p010","passage_number":10,"word_count":17,"text":"AHRIMAN: You seem particularly strong this time; but let us leave appearances aside; what do you demand?"},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p011","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p011","passage_number":11,"word_count":2,"text":"*Prose draft*"},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p012","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p012","passage_number":12,"word_count":70,"text":"From the speeches given among the people, it appears that Thomasius has had a far-reaching influence through his exposition of spiritual truths. He has gained countless followers. Among the people appears the leader of a spiritual community who celebrates this victory of human science. He speaks of this as a victory more significant than the military victories of the past. A time of the most hopeful spiritual development lies ahead."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p013","passage_number":13,"word_count":38,"text":"Strader in conversation with Theodora, who has become his wife. He talks to her about what Thomasius' spiritual success means for humanity. And how he himself has gained new courage and new hope for life as a result."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p014","passage_number":14,"word_count":98,"text":"Maria with Thomasius, whom she believes she can approach again because he has reached a high point in his life. However, from his conversation with her, it becomes clear that he himself has lost all reason for his spiritual work at the very moment when the rest of humanity has been conquered for her. He recognizes the powerlessness of his spiritual work. And in her, the powerlessness of all human striving. He first senses that he has had to work on the basis of destructive forces. This sense comes before his soul in the form of a vision."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p015","passage_number":15,"word_count":74,"text":"He is led into the dark world of the soul. From what he sees there, he realizes that humanity, in the knowledge it gains, consumes its originally given powers, so that it has no further powers to live what it recognizes. Knowledge would only be true if the powers for its realization did not have to die through this knowledge. Thus, the work on earth is destroyed so that Lucifer cannot achieve his goal."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p016","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p016","passage_number":16,"word_count":68,"text":"Benedict initiates Maria into his secrets. He tells her how he had to purchase from Ahriman the powers he had placed in Thomasius' soul. He had to give part of his own soul powers as a pledge for these powers. These would be forfeited if Thomasius remained in his powerlessness. Only Mary could bring salvation if she herself led Thomasius into the realm of the dark soul world."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p017","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p017","passage_number":17,"word_count":334,"text":"THE GUARDIAN OF THE THRESHOLD:  \nIf your heart can decide,  \nTo cross this threshold,  \nThen let it be so.  \nBut know that in this realm you will find  \nWhat the fruits of your life will help you achieve.  \nYou do not know  \nThe powers that allowed these fruits to ripen.  \nI cannot reveal them to you.  \nFor my spirit can never see  \nWhat the princes of the world plant in human hearts.  \nI never desired to see  \nIn this prince's ominous workshop.  \nBut I see in your being,  \nInto which my gaze can penetrate,  \nWhat of your life's content  \nMust fall away like dry leaves from trees,  \nIf you want to enter the realm,  \nOf which I am appointed guardian.  \nI look into your soul,  \nHow it wants to preserve its self.  \nHere this self will disappear into nothingness,  \nAnd you may only be a member  \nIn the life of a higher being.  \nIn earthly life you cherished  \nThe saying that promises miraculous power,  \nKnow thyself.  \nHere live only beings  \nWho serve other selves  \nAnd act from other thoughts.  \nI recognize your self only as a being  \nThat I must crush  \nWhen it approaches my being.  \nAnd you have learned  \nThrough many earthly lives  \nTo direct your gaze  \nInto realms that meet the gaze  \nWith their glistening light of revelation.  \nIt is my duty to walk in misty haze  \nEverything you could ever see,  \nAnd only backwards may  \nYour soul look  \nInto the root powers of its being.  \nThere were never times  \nWhen spirits like me saw differently.  \nWhatever you ever thought beautiful and great,  \nYou must abandon it.  \nThis sword of flame  \nMust, upon your entry,  \nErase from your memory  \nThat from which you often drank joy,  \nIn which you revelled in bliss.  \nAnd what will seem hardest to you:  \nThere will be no change in events  \nThat will satisfy your soul's desire.  \nThe unchanging existence of eternity  \nWill, stripped of birth and death,  \nAlways stand before your eyes in the same way."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p018","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p018","passage_number":18,"word_count":39,"text":"THOMASIUS:  \nSo everything that I am will be taken from me,  \nAnd everything I have ever acquired for my soul will be erased from it?  \nAnd even the memory of my experiences,  \nWill that also be erased from me?"},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p019","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p019","passage_number":19,"word_count":54,"text":"THE GUARDIAN OF THE THRESHOLD:  \nHow far your memory can remain,  \nI do not know.  \nBut I see in your soul  \nThat everything that remains to you  \nMust cause annoyance  \nAnd anger in our realms.  \nThe peace that you must rob here  \nThrough such behavior,  \nCan only fall as bitterness  \nUpon yourself  \nFor eternity."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p020","passage_number":20,"word_count":2,"text":"THOMASIUS: ..."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p021","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p021","passage_number":21,"word_count":204,"text":"THOMASIUS:  \nSublime ruler in the splendor of beauty,  \nWho shines with a dignity  \nThat reveals in the sun's eye  \nThe deepest reasons of the world  \nWhich reveals in the sun's eye  \nThe deepest reasons of the worlds  \nAnd needs nothing for your revelation  \nBut only the essence of your own will:  \nNo commandments speak from your lips,  \nWhich seem to be a duty to follow.  \nWithin, the soul must stir,  \nWhich turns to you in understanding,  \nIn freedom, every impulse,  \nTo be like yourself.  \nFor such a being becomes  \nAn image of inner perfection.  \nHere, where the murkiness of the earthly veil  \nIs taken from me,  \nI understand your true nature for the first time.  \nIn human confusion,  \nYou must show yourself differently  \nThan you truly are.  \nThere, your instincts seem to oppose  \nThe higher nature of human beings,  \nAnd life seems worthy  \nOnly when it fights against  \nWhat comes from you.  \nBut when these instincts are transformed  \nInto precious metal,  \nAs they appear here in your true form  \nThey form the highest in the world.  \nThey secure for the beings  \nWho possess them a noble radiance of light,  \nSo that the beauty of the worlds  \nIn its own power  \nMay join it worthily."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p022","passage_number":22,"word_count":96,"text":"LUCIFER:  \nIf you recognize me thus  \nAnd produce as fruit within you  \nWhat you see in me,  \nYou will establish my realm of dominion  \nIn the spheres of humanity  \nAnd with my victory  \nSecure your own victory for yourself.  \nFor know that I do not want to make you  \nA servant of myself  \nOr a member of another being.  \nI am the free son of the mighty prince of the world  \nAnd need nothing for the completion of my own being  \nBut the sight  \nOf beings who, through their own desire  \nResemble me in my nature."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p023","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p023","passage_number":23,"word_count":40,"text":"THOMASIUS:  \nI feel how the wisdom  \nThat is inherent in my human nature  \nMust slander you.  \nI feel myself here in clear essence  \nAnd know that I can belong to myself  \nThrough nothing  \nOther than the imitation of your being."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p024","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p024","passage_number":24,"word_count":89,"text":"LUCIFER:  \nSuch feeling gives me the strength  \nTo lead you before my elder brother's throne.  \nI am not bound to him As on earth The son is bound to the father  \nOr the brother to the brother.  \nWe have found each other in the universe  \nBecause the special nature of the One  \nWhen it reveals itself in full splendor  \nGives perfection to the other.  \nWhen it reveals itself in full splendor,  \nGives perfection to the other.  \nSo follow me to him,  \nWho calls himself the true offspring of chaos."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p025","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p025","passage_number":25,"word_count":166,"text":"AHRIMAN:  \nSo I roll in the eternal course  \nThe fiery wheels of human life  \nUp the steep slope.  \nI feel within myself  \nHow human souls rejoice  \nWhen I lift the element uphill.  \nThe sound of festive jubilation resounds within me  \nWhen human spirits, progressing  \nFeel themselves being led from stage to stage.  \nBut no matter how often I have now  \nBegun the work and believed it complete,  \nIt has always been nothing But the beginning of a new creation.  \nSo I feel uncertainty tormenting me,  \nWhether a goal can ever be found.  \nAnd I can know only one thing:  \nThe end will be reached,  \nIf in just ONE human soul,  \nTitanic work, accomplished through me,  \nJust one spark is ignited,  \nWhich can then continue to blaze there.  \nAs great as my work is,  \nThis spark is needed,  \nIf it is to reach its goal.  \nMany have already made the decision,  \nBut soon extinguished its spark of fire  \nThe fear of those worlds,  \nThat keep me bound."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p026","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p026","passage_number":26,"word_count":65,"text":"THOMASIUS:  \nHere stands the man,  \nIn whom the spark is to be kindled.  \nWho, like me, in human existence  \nHas learned how destruction  \nmust be the fate of the strongest earthly spirit,  \nmust be free of fear and terror,  \neven when faced with the image  \nof eternal terror.  \nI will work in your sphere  \nand, in doing so, complete your brother's image  \nin the universe."},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p027","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p027","passage_number":27,"word_count":4,"text":"MARY from afar:  \n*Thomasius*"},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p028","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p028","passage_number":28,"word_count":28,"text":"THOMASIUS: Oh, what does this sound mean?  \nIt does not merely sound, it compels.  \nIt presses into the depths of my being.  \nIt tears me from existence.  \n(Eclipse)"},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p029","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p029","passage_number":29,"word_count":2,"text":"*Thomas. Mary:*"},{"locus":"GA 44/01_02/p030","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p030","passage_number":30,"word_count":265,"text":"MARY:  \nIt was, John, the hardest journey of my life,  \nWhich now led me to you.  \nI needed the help of all good beings,  \nTo whom Benedictus' wisdom had ever connected me,  \nTo overcome all resistance,  \nThat stood in my way.  \nWhat I ever felt as weakness,  \nWhat I could desire in the course of my life,  \nIt broke away from my being  \nAnd became its own entity.  \nSo I stood before thousands of souls,  \nWhom I had to fight.  \nThey did not fight as enemies,  \nThey lured as seducers;  \nThey promised bliss,  \nAnd when I turned away from them,  \nThey darkened the light of my thoughts,  \nSo that my memory would fade  \nOf everything that had become mine from the sources of wisdom,  \nTo extricate myself  \nHad become mine, to extricate myself  \nFrom the enemies' own essence.  \nThey could not wrest from me  \nMy guide's noble gifts.  \nSo I always found myself  \nIn the best part of my being  \nAnd was able to find your soul.  \nIn that part of my being  \nI had to grasp it,  \nWhich can indeed be lost,  \nBut in loss  \nIs consecrated to eternal death.  \nI had to save it for you.  \nYou could have ignited that spark,  \nWhich sleeps in every human being,  \nIn the terrible realm of chaos,  \nBut you would have  \nYou would have withdrawn it forever from the world,  \nFor which you received it.  \nAs soon as you find yourself here again,  \nIt is impossible for you to think  \nThat you detach yourself from your origin  \nAnd consecrate yourself to the construction of other worlds."}]}