Manager:
It will be of more benefit to me
If I think over that which thou hast said.
(Exeunt Manager and Romanus. Johannes comes from another direction, deep in thought, and sits down on a boulder. Johannes is at first alone, afterwards appear his Double, the Spirit of Johannes’ youth, and finally the Guardian of the Threshold, and Ahriman.)
Johannes:
I was astonished when Capesius
Made known to me how my soul’s inner self
Revealed itself unto his spirit’s eye.
I could so utterly forget a fact
Which years ago was clear as day to me:—