Fragmentary drafts for the first, second, fifth, seventh, eighth, and tenth images

STRADER: One should recognize from Professor Capesius's difficult fate what Thomasius has done. Unfortunately, salvation came too late for my old friend. He, who was a luminary of science and at the same time a seeker of the ways of the soul, could still see how people were seized by the pursuit of spiritual light; he himself was powerfully carried away by this pursuit, and already he stood on the threshold of the sphere of the spiritual world. He was granted wonderful insights. But his strength was too weak to reconcile these insights with the habits of his previous thinking. Overwhelmed by what he was allowed to see and at the same time paralyzed by his own powerlessness, he now broods over his existence, as if bound by his own soul forces, which on the one hand powerfully urge him into the spiritual realm and at the same time make him tremble when he has to take the decisive steps.