Third Act, partly prose

BENEDICTUS: Lucifer wants to turn the beautiful work we have accomplished to his own advantage. He has bound Johannes to himself through the powers of the heart. But Johannes has almost outgrown him. His heart wants to make a covenant with his spirit. Then the work that Johannes has done in a good sense will also have a good effect in the Third Picture. And what he has accomplished will come to the spirit world, whose opponent is Lucifer. However, if the bearer of light succeeds in transforming his love for Mary into another passion, then John must transform what he has accomplished as good into something evil for the earthly world.