Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... That is enough. And thou wilt set thyself In vain against me, even if the power Which I myself have won upon the Earth Should not fulfil the estimate which thou Didst form of my good spirit long ago. Maria (to the Guardian): Thou knowest well, who hast been guardian Of this realm's threshold since the world began What beings need to cross the threshold o'er Who to thy kind and to thy time belong: So too with men, who meet thee at this gate If they do come alone, and cannot show That they have done true spirit-good they must Go back again from here to life on Earth. But this man here hath been allowed to bring That other soul unto thy threshold now Whom fate hath bound so closely with his own. Thou hast been ordered by high spirit powers To keep back many men from here, who would Try to approach the gateway of this realm And would but bring destruction on themselves If they should dare to pass the threshold o'er. Yet thou may'st throw it open unto those Who through their inmost personality Are in the spirit-realms inclined to love, And to such love can cling as they press through, As hath been foreordained them by the gods Before to battle Lucifer came forth. Standing before his throne my heart hath vowed With strictest oath, that in Earth's future times It would so serve this love that Lucifer, When he gives knowledge of it to men's souls Can do no harm. And those who listen well For the revealing of this love divine With earnest minds, as once they strove to grasp The knowledge given forth by Lucifer, They must inevitably find themselves. Johannes in his earthly form doth now No longer listen to my voice, as once, When in an earthly life long since passed by I was enabled to reveal to him That which had been entrusted to myself In holy...