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:—