Desire's reflection dost them but behold
Which I allow to shine from my soul's sheath
Into thy sphere in loyal spirit-troth.
Fate's primal forces have appointed me
To be the means to give thee meekness here.
Thus souls in spirit do serve other souls.
Thy cold hard reason never could attain
Life's gift of sympathy without mine aid.
BELLICOSUS' SOUL: (Figure visible like that of Torquatus' soul,
but with blue-violet aura and blue-green wings.)
Make strong thy spirit-ear to understand
What says the soul who rays out meekness' light.
'Neath Saturn's beam souls can be brought to show
This gleam of noble spirit-blessedness.
THEODORA'S SOUL: (Angelic figure; white with yellow wings and
blue-yellow aura.)
My loyal spirit-comrade, pour on him
In softening glow the love that permeates
Thine own soul-sheath, for it will soothe for him
The all-consuming fire of solitude--
And do thou unto him direct thought-rays
From yonder shadow-souls who at this time
Do gather forces in the spirit-worlds
That their soul-bodies may thus gleam with life,
That so their gleaming, glowing life may serve
To strengthen in forthcoming lives on earth
Clairvoyant consciousness in human souls.
DAME BALDE'S SOUL: (To Felix.)
Feel me, thou spirit garbed as penitent.
O thou sun-soul, receive the power of stars.
Until thy spirit-sheath doth free itself
From Lucifer's dominion, I shall be
Beside thee in thy solitude to bring
Thee powers which I shall roam o'er cosmic space
From star to star to gather up for thee.
THEODORA'S SOUL:
Past thoughts of earth arise in glowing light
On yonder shore of souls. A human form.
I saw it when on earth; it follows here;
What once I heard is now re-echoed here;
(Lucifer appears with the soul of Johannes, who has the appearance of
an angel. His robes rose-coloured with lilac rose-coloured wings. No
feet.)
'From out God's being rose the human soul;
It can in death dive down to nature's depths;
In time it will set spirit free from death.'
THE OTHER PHILIA:
This sounding living picture-being brings
The force of noble brother-love to us
Which thou didst faithfully display on earth.
I'll change it into soul-power for thy use.
The message I direct unto thy soul
Absorbs the glimm'ring light of shadow-souls,
Who, during earth-life will arouse in thee
The thoughts they brood on through eternity.
And thou, the penitent of spirit-realms,
Direct thy soul-steps onward to the stars;
There nature-spirits long to use thy work
Wherefrom they will beam fantasy to souls
And so will fashion wings for life on earth.
DAME BALDE'S SOUL:
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