Four Mystery Plays

Scene 5: The Spirit World.

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This scene needs careful meditation and some knowledge of the author's system. Attention should be given to the indications of the planetary spheres--Mercury, Venus, Sun, Jupiter, and Saturn--to which in turn we expand after death. Heed should be paid to the warning given by the Guardian of the Threshold.

Lucifer here appears as a beneficent guide, so, too, the other Philia.