(A stir among the GREAT JOYS, who draw nearer, with cries of "Light is here!... Light! Light!...")
THE JOY OF UNDERSTANDING (thrusting all the others aside, to come and embrace LIGHT) You are Light and we did not know it!... And we have been waiting for you for years and years and years!... Do you recognise me?... I am the Joy of Understanding, who have been seeking you for so long!... We are very happy, but we cannot see beyond ourselves....
THE JOY OF BEING JUST (embracing LIGHT in her turn) Do you recognise me?... I am the Joy of Being Just, who have besought you so long.... We are very happy, but we cannot see beyond our shadows.
THE JOY OF SEEING WHAT IS BEAUTIFUL (also embracing LIGHT) Do you recognise me?... I am the Joy of Seeing what is Beautiful, who have loved you so dearly.... We are very happy, but we cannot see beyond our dreams....
THE JOY OF UNDERSTANDING Come, sister, come, do not keep us waiting any longer.... We are strong enough, we are pure enough.... Put aside those veils which still conceal from us the last truths and the last happinesses.... See, all my sisters are kneeling at your feet.... You are our queen and our reward.
LIGHT (drawing her veils closer) Sisters, my beautiful sisters, I am obeying my Master.... The hour is not yet come; it will strike, perhaps, and I shall return without fear and without shadow.... Farewell, rise and let us kiss once more, like sisters lost and found, while waiting for the day that will soon appear....
MATERNAL LOVE (embracing LIGHT) You have been very good to my poor little ones....
LIGHT I shall always be good to those who love one another....
THE JOY OF UNDERSTANDING (going up to LIGHT) Let the last kiss be laid upon my forehead....
(They exchange a long kiss; and, when they separate and raise their heads, tears are seen to stand in their eyes.)