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Drafts, Fragments and Paralipomena to the Four Mystery Dramas
GA 44

Translated by Steiner Online Library

Voice of the Spirit in the Third Scene

Image not included in the drama

[Voice of the mind]
His thoughts rise
To primordial depths.
What he thought as shadows,
What he experienced as phantoms,
Floats away from the world of forms,
From whose abundance
People thinking
Dream shadows,
From whose abundance
People seeing
Live phantoms.

Geistesstimme im dritten Bild

Nicht in das Drama aufgenommenes Bild

[Geistesstimme]
Es steigen seine Gedanken
In Urweltgründe.
Was als Schatten er gedacht,
Was als Schemen er erlebt,
Entschwebt der Gestaltenwelt,
Von deren Fülle
Menschen denkend
Schatten träumen,
Von deren Fülle
Menschen sehend
Schemen leben.