(After these words Lucifer's group is still and the thought-beings on Ahriman's side move and carry out dancing movements which make forms corresponding to his words. They have grey hair and are clad in indigo blue, being square in build, and in appearance distinguished more by force than beauty. After this the movement from both groups is carried on together.) LUCIFER: Within thy feeling cosmic forces play. (The thought-beings on Lucifer's side repeat their movements.) AHRIMAN: The cosmic forces are but mocking thee. (The thought-beings on Ahriman's side repeat their movements, then again both together.) LUCIFER: Within thy thinking cosmic thought doth live. (Repetition of the movements in Lucifer's group.) AHRIMAN: The cosmic thought doth but bewilder thee. (Repetition of the movements in Ahriman's group.) (The movements of each group are then repeated four times separately and thrice together.) (The thought-beings vanish left and right; Lucifer and Ahriman remain: Philia, Luna, and Astrid advance from the background, and speak together the words they spoke before with the following alteration.) PHILIA, ETC.: Thoughts hovered around Like weaving of dreams And built themselves in To souls that are here-- Then will that creates And feeling that stirs And thought that doth work The dreamer aroused-- (Philia, Astrid, and Luna vanish. Enter Capesius in astral garb, and after he has spoken a few words Maria joins him, though at first he cannot see her.) CAPESIUS: The soul lives out her life within herself: Believes she thinks because she does not see Thoughts all spread out in space in front of her-- Believes she feels, because the feelings show No flash like lightning leaping from the clouds; She sees this realm of space, and gazeth on The clouds above her ...; and were this not so, Supposing that the lightning were to flash, And not an eye looked up above to see, She needs must think the lightning was in her. She does not see how Lucifer springs forth From out her thoughts, and pours her feelings in, And so believes she is alone with them. Why doth delusion lead her captive thus? O soul, give answer to thyself ... yet ... whence? From out thyself? Ah, nay ... perhaps that, too, Were answered ... not by thee ... but Lucifer.... MARIA: And if it were; why then shouldst thou not seek? Go forth into the deep to find it there.... CAPESIUS: A being here, who hears the speech of souls? MARIA: Souls are not here divided each from each As when within the body they are pent. Here each soul hears itself in other's speech. So dost thou only speak unto thyself When I say: 'Seek thine answer in the deep.' CAPESIUS (hesitatingly): Ah, in the deep there threatens darksome ... fear. MARIA: