He will with ease believe that ill-success
Is due not to his thought but outward acts.
And Strader’s case is surely pitiable;
Had such a man as he shunned mystic snobs,
And made fit use of his fine intellect,
His great endowments surely would have borne
Much fruit and profit for humanity.
Ahriman:
Now see to it that thou art shrewdly armed.
This is thy task: Thou art to undermine