To tell the vision seen within the flame.

That woman doth the youthful mystic seek,

Whom my sight saw without my sympathy.

(Maria appears as a thought-form of Johannes.)

Maria:

Who thought of thee before the sacred flame?

Who felt thee near initiation’s shrine?

Johannes, wouldst thou tear thy spirit-shade

From out the magic kingdoms of the soul;

Live then the aims that it will show to thee;