Such effort truly binds the soul more firm
To sense-existence than a daily life,
Dull human dream existence following.
And when Thomasius could view all this
Before his soul as being his own state
He gave himself with vigour to that power
Which could not lie to him although as yet
’Twas but revealed in picture, for he knew
That Lucifer himself is really there
E’en if he can but show his pictured form.