About the strengthening mine own soul’s powers.
But thereupon the spirit disappeared.’—
There are a few more words,—but I cannot
Decipher them—a chaos covers them
By weaving in a veil of active thought.
(Ahriman appears; Benedictus sees him.)
(There is no longer any illusion about Ahriman. His form is much more inhuman; his right arm is bone, his right hand a claw, and he has a cloven hoof.)
Benedictus:
Who art thou, who dost take a shadowed life,