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The Mystery Dramas by Rudolf Steiner are about the initiation journeys of single, specific individual people dramatically presented in artistic form. Rudolf Steiner completed four Mystery Dramas, a fifth, which Marie Steiner wrote that the central event would take place at the Castalian spring at Delphi was already outlined in broad terms, but it came that with the outbreak of the First World War, no further elaboration of the draft was taken up by Steiner. Speculation has arisen that seven or possibly twelve Mystery Dramas would have been created in totality, in which flashbacks to earlier and earlier incarnations of the characters would be given, which would eventually result in a complete panorama of the spiritual and intellectual evolution of mankind.〔Hammacher (1995), p 112〕 The Mystery Dramas, (as Steiner himself repeatedly emphasized contain nothing consummate), represent a germ-like beginning, - a new start in artistic and dramatic possibilities on the one hand, where a powerful impulse to revitalize the world of theater could manifest, and pointing a way forward in bringing spiritual truths in very vivid and concrete forms to the audience, on the other. The titles of the four Mystery Plays of Rudolf Steiner are: *The Portal of Initiation (1910) - World premiere on the 15 August 1910, at the Schauspielhaus in Munich. *The Trial of the Soul (1911) - World premiere on the 17 August 1911, in the Gardener's Place Theatre in Munich. *The Guardian of the Threshold (1912) - World premiere on the 24 August 1912, in the Gardener's Place Theatre in Munich. *The Soul's Awakening (1913) - World premiere on the 22 August 1913, at the National Theatre in Munich. ==Introduction== Wolfgang von Goethe's Fairy-Tale as the basis of the Mystery Dramas: In 1907 at the Munich Congress, Rudolf Steiner had brought Édouard Schuré's reconstruction of the "The Sacred Drama of Eleusis" onto the stage. Two years later Steiner staged Schuré's "The Children of Lucifer". But something better in the artistic way spiritual truths were revealed, there was not time. Steiner was looking for a spiritual content and artistic form that could reflect the Consciousness Soul age. Initially he came up with Goethe's "Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily", which he wanted to bring to the stage in dramatized form, but the thing soon took on a life of its own. In the first draft of Goethe's Fairy-Tale as a play, the names of the characters involved are taken from the characters in the tale, but soon the fairytale characters gradually become independent stage personalities of flesh and blood, and other names had to be found, which should better emphasize their spiritual qualities. By itself, the action began to metamorphose, eventually resulting in a completely independent drama, but in which the reference to Goethe's fairy tale are still felt. On the left below, are the names from the Fairy-Tale, and on the right, the names in the first Mystery Drama: Lily - Maria Young Man - Johannes Thomasius 1st Irrlicht - Capesius 2nd Irrlicht - Dr. Strader King of the Will - Romanus (Bronze King) The old man with the lamp - Felix Balde King of Feeling - Theodosius (Silver King) Snake - The other Mary Wife of the old man - Felicia Balde 1st Maiden - Philia 2nd Maiden - Astrid 3rd Maiden - Luna Giant - Gairman (Gold King) Canary - Child Mixed King - Retardus The Hawk - Theodora In addition: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rudolf Steiner's Mystery Dramas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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