Strives to perfection in the spirit-world.

And we, who, in this hour so big with fate,

May stay awhile on consecrated ground,

Shall be the first who, uninitiate,

Shall see the torch of God from spirit-heights

Leap down into the depths of human souls.

Mary Dauntless:

Thomasius, indeed, needs not the shield,

The Rose-Cross Brothers have in mind for him,

If in an earnest scientific way