I mean to pass thee and to penetrate
To Theodora whom I know to be
Within the realm that o’er this threshold lies.
The Guardian:
Thomasius, think well what thou dost know.
What o’er this threshold lives is all unknown;
Yet dost thou know quite well all I must ask,
Before thou canst set foot within this realm.
Thou must first part with many of those powers
Which thou hast won when in thine earthly frame.