Preliminary drafts: Scenes not included in the drama
He is led into the dark world of the soul. From what he sees there, he realizes that humanity, in the knowledge it gains, consumes its originally given powers, so that it has no further powers to live what it recognizes. Knowledge would only be true if the powers for its realization did not have to die through this knowledge. Thus, the work on earth is destroyed so that Lucifer cannot achieve his goal.
Read this passage in another edition
DEoriginalENEnglish