That which two earth-lives gave thee thou must feel. One, many years ago, slid gently by In earnest effort; later on thou hadst One by ambition soiled; which must be fed With strengthening grace descending from the first, That Jupiter's fire-souls may be revealed Within the circle of thy spirit-sight. Then shalt thou feel that wisdom strengthens thee. Then will the picture, which thou see'st afar Upon the borders of thy soul's expanse, Be set at liberty to come to thee. CAPESIUS' SOUL: I needs must be indebted to the soul That now prepares for being, since it shows A warning picture in my soul's expanse. ASTRID: Thou art indeed; but not as yet doth it Demand a payment in thy next earth-life. This picture serves to give thee powers of thought That thou as man mayst recognize the man Who shows his earthly future to thee here. THE OTHER PHILIA: The picture may indeed come closer yet But cannot penetrate thy very self. And so restrain its longing for thyself, That thou mayst find thyself on earth again Ere it can flow into thine inmost self. CAPESIUS' SOUL: I feel before what I shall owe to it When I shall will to bring it near to me, Yet can assert that I am free therefrom. From Philia's domain I now behold In picture-sequences the energy Which I shall gather from its near approach. PHILIA: When Saturn soon his many-coloured light Shall ray on thee, use well the favour'd hour. Then through his power in thy soul's vehicle That which in spirit is akin to thee Will plant the roots of thought, which will disclose The meaning of the cyclic life of earth When thou dost tread again this star thyself. CAPESIUS: Thy counsel shall become my monitor As soon as Saturn pours his light on me. LUCIFER: One more thing will I waken in these souls; The view of worlds whose light will cause them pain, Ere they can leave this sun-time fortified With powers for later life upon the earth. Pain must through doubt mature their fruit in them, So will I summon up those spheres of soul Which they have not the strength to look upon. (The souls of Benedictus and Maria appear in the middle of the region. Benedictus as a figure reproducing in miniature the configuration of the entire scenery. Below, his robe, becoming broader, shades into blue-green; around his head is an aura of red, yellow and blue; the blue blends into the blue-green of the entire robe. Maria on his right as an angelic figure; yellow shading into gold, without feet and with bright violet wings.) BENEDICTUS' SOUL: Thou dost weigh heavy on my cosmic task With these opaque earth-laden spheres of thine. If thou dost give thine own self further power Then wilt thou find that in this spirit-life Mine own sun-nature will not shine on thee. MARIA: