Didst form of my good spirit long ago.
Maria (to the Guardian):
Thou knowest well, who hast been guardian
Of this realm’s threshold since the world began
What beings need to cross the threshold o’er
Who to thy kind and to thy time belong:
So too with men, who meet thee at this gate
If they do come alone, and cannot show
That they have done true spirit-good they must
Go back again from here to life on Earth.