Four Mystery Plays

by Rudolf Steiner

Scene 11

The same meditation-chamber as in Scene 2. Maria, Ahriman.

Ahriman:

So Benedictus spun a cunning web

Of thought, whose pattern thou hast followed out,

And now thou art fast bound in error’s toils.

Thomasius too and e’en Capesius

Are victims of this same illusion’s spell.

For at the same time as thine eyes beheld