Scene 1: A debating room. Theodora’s vision of the coming Christ.
Scene 2: Johannes’ meditation among the mountains: ‘Know thou thyself.’
Scene 3: Meditation chamber. Maria’s separation.
Scene 4: The Spirit of the Elements. The Soul-world.
Scene 5: The subterranean rock temple. The consultation of the hierophants.
Scene 6: Continuation of Scene 4. Felicia: her First Fable. Germanus.
Scene 7: The Spirit-world. Maria and her soul powers. Theodora’s vision of the past incarnation of Maria and Johannes. The scene ends with Benedictus’ great mystic utterance.
An Interlude
Scene 8: The portrait of Capesius by Johannes. Strader’s bewilderment.
Scene 9: Johannes’ second meditation among the mountains three years later than Scene 2. ‘Feel thou thyself.’