# Temple, Fragment. Eleventh Image

BENEDICTUS:  
You can remain faithful to me  
Until the end of the world,  
Through your faithfulness  
You will enliven yourself and the worlds  
With wisdom.  
And what you are allowed to create,  
The brothers will preserve it.  
It stands before you,  
Who had to take from you  
What I gave you.  
But his taking is giving.  
He demands sacrifice,  
But sacrifice  
The worlds are becoming  
Seeds.

THEODOSIUS:  
I serve love.  
But love in me,  
It is in higher service,  
It must obey  
Justice.  
And the brother was allowed to give you  
Only for a short time,  
What I must give back  
To the being from whom I  
Took it.  
Mary must have her share.  
For in future times  
People must be there for each other  
And not one through the other.  
Thus the goal of the world will be achieved,  
When everyone is at peace within themselves  
And everyone gives to everyone else,  
What no one wants to demand.

MARY:  
Then you will not need me,  
Because you have killed such a need  
Within yourself.  
You will find certainty  
Through yourself.  
And I will give you  
What you do not demand.  
What you do not demand.  
Thus we will be united  
In serving the world goal.

ROMANUS:  
When you serve each other in this way,  
My willpower  
Can pour into you.  
And future powers  
Will reign within you.  
The pillars of this temple  
Will be the pillars of your own will  
And within you  
They will support earthly deeds.  
You will sow seeds  
That will ripen for eternity.

PHILIA:  
O Mary, I feel  
How within you  
The abundance of spiritual blossoms.  
I will carry them  
In times to come  
And follow you  
In your paths.

ASTRID:  
You, dear sister,  
Let me live in you,  
What your love  
Enters into.  
I will lend it  
To people who in distant times  
Will expand their service to the world.

LUNA:  
And I will carry  
Your deeds  
In people's hearts,  
So that at all times  
They may find themselves grown,  
To give themselves  
To the service of the world.

FELIX BALDE:  
Thus the sacrifice  
That I am ready to make  
Will bear fruit for the world.  
I was allowed to keep my light  
Hidden within myself  
Only as long as people were not compelled  
to permeate reason with wisdom.

MRS. BALDE:  
Once upon a time there was a being,  
That flew from depths to heights,  
Following the course of the spirit.  
It shone in the depths  
In all its beautiful splendor.  
And as it rose upward,  
All its splendor was lost.  
The being was filled with sorrow.  
It was comforted as it rose.  
Hope was given to it.  
It had to lose the splendor  
That was given to it from below  
In order to gain greater splendor.

THEODOSIUS:  
The death of sensual beauty Gives birth to spiritual beauty.

GERMAN:  
The person who does not kill  
The voice of goodness within themselves  
Finds the path to goodness.  
They feel the God  
Who works from dark depths,  
Who guides the earth and the sun.  
They follow him as long as they may,  
Who guides the earth and the sun.  
Follow him as long as he,  
As long as he may not follow himself.

ROMANUS:  
The will of the self  
Finds itself only in the will of the world.

THE OTHER MARY:  
Take me away.  
Where the other sister's  
star appears,  
mine willingly disappears.  
I have spoken from rocks,  
I have proclaimed life force from springs;  
Through people themselves,  
earthly light becomes human, I extinguish mine.

MACROCOSM:  
A good soul fades away,  
It shines out of the world.

BENEDICTUS:  
A knowledgeable person receives  
From this temple  
Wisdom that is rooted in  
What already exists.

THEODOSIUS:  
A hopeful person takes  
From this temple  
Faith that the  
Becoming will flourish.

ROMANUS:  
To one who acts flows  
From this temple  
Power to bring forth  
Being from nothingness.