Schiller, with his thinking, grasped the idea of a way forward. Goethe transformed it through phantasy into the feeling life of pictorial imagination. Rudolf Steiner transforming the Fairy Tale into a Mystery Drama, performed on the stage; he brought it into the will."

"Concerning the question of how the soul can attain freedom and create healthy social forms, Schiller, with his thinking, grasped the idea of a way forward. Goethe transformed it through phantasy into the feeling life of pictorial imagination. Rudolf Steiner completed this trilogy by transforming the Fairy Tale into a Mystery Drama, performed on the stage; he brought it into the will."

 See the full article about Goethe's fairy tale The Green Snake and The Beautiful Lily by Tom Raines, first published in the Summer 2003 issue of New View [1] magazine, at http://www.newview.org.uk/green_snake.htm

 David Newbatt