Subsequent remarks, fragmentary

Benedictus has experienced within himself how the forces are distributed between Ahriman, Lucifer, and their opponents in the human soul. He knows that a unified organism is to be created through the world of human beings, in which love can have a unifying effect. The world plan is to make Lucifer the force that acts as individual lights in this world. There would be an original light in every human being. And this light would serve love. Ahriman was to represent the power of resistance and contradiction in this world; he was to be a serving anvil. This plan cannot be realized at first because Lucifer does not want to make his light a servant, but wants to keep it independent. He wants to be worshiped for his own sake; in Thomasius, he has succeeded in establishing a world of pure spiritual light — this breaks away from it and falls into its power — human souls strive toward it — the former farmers and farmwives turn their mistrust toward the mystical brotherhood and accuse it of having misled Thomasius in his own deed and of having brought Capesius into spiritual darkness — Ferdinand Reinecke represents this opinion; those who were already on his side agree enthusiastically, the others become uncertain.

The mystical brotherhood must calmly accept that their current intention to bring light to humanity through Thomasius's deed has been thwarted by Lucifer for the time being; Benedictus shows how this will cause the powers of humans to grow; even more power will have to be unleashed to force the light into the service of the good world. He points out how Thomasius and Maria are still there as fighters, how Capesius carries so much good within himself that he cannot access the kind of light that is already there. In addition, there are Strader and Felix Balde, who seek consecration through the temple — Strader has lost Theodora; through his previous sufferings, he has gained the strength to bear this — now he wants to devote himself solely to his work = he wants to belong to this work — but in doing so, he sacrifices his work to the spirit that the temple of consecration serves = thus he may be accepted — Felix Balde has preserved the inner strength of the human soul; he is free from all that the consecration temple itself could not be free from — he enters as an advisor because his certainty inspires confidence. Maria will break Lucifer's power through her vow; Ahriman could not harm her because, when she defeated him, she was able to confront him as a human being with the power of light; after his defeat, she can renounce this power; she will thereby become ready to redeem Theodora to redeem Theodora — The Guardian of the Threshold will release Capesius when the time has come — so Maria may say, because Theodora's soul power is already working in her — The Temple realizes that this is thanks to Benedictus — who threw himself into the abyss — to carry love into the realm of Lucifer and Ahriman. — Thomasius is to blame for...