The Soul's Probation: Scene 13

Theodosius: This soul hath not been able hitherto To recognize himself in spirit-light That through sense-revelation is outpoured, To show the meaning of all earthly growth. He saw God's spirit stripped of nature's guise, And Nature's self estranged from deity. And so through many lives he had to pass And stay a stranger to the sense of life; He could but find such carnal tenements To carry out his individual work As barred him from the cosmos and from man. Now, in the temple he will gain the power Himself in other beings to behold, And so at length he will attain the force That leads from out the labyrinths of thought And points the way unto the springs of life.