Stage: blue and purple light upper stage, red and yellow the lower half.
The divine Sophia stands centre stage, resplendent and sparkling in white. Seven spirits of wisdom arrayed in gold kneel with heads bowed in a circle around her. At the perimeter of this circle twelve spirits of time arrayed in blue, dance, holding incense burners)
The Sophia speaks
SOPHIA:
Oh man!
Made from Saturn’s wisdom-warmth
Sun’s light flaming forges thee
Silver waves of Lunar dwells
In thine own being
The seed of knowing
SPIRITS OF WISDOM:
We contemplate the sacrifice
We venerate the pouring forth
We ponder well the essence of
Cosmic wisdom’s flowing love
SPIRITS OF TIME:
We dance the chanting of the Sun
We sing down songs of radiance weaving
The fire of love moves in our hearts
For man’s created being
(enter Spirits of Space weaving in and around the spirits of wisdom and the spirits of time)
SPIRITS OF SPACE:
How swift the spheres in splendour circuit
Round radiant paths are burning
Their movement flows with Far- flung force
Lengths widths and breadths of Cosmic learning
There is a bright light and Michael Appears from the right.
SOPHIA:
My son!
Thine countenance is radiant
With light-reflecting Sun
Thine sword-iron defiant
Thine steady heart compliant
Toward thine heavenly role
It is time that thou must yield
What thou hast held with heart-fast will
Cast forth intelligence below
In freedom’s will within man’s soul
Will shine thought’s mighty force-filled glow
MICHAEL : (gesturing downwards with grave and solemn expression)
O mother!
When wisdom’s light flames free
From world creative will
And tumbles toward the earth
My sacrifice is sealed
The intelligence of gods
I hereby liberate
What I’ve held fast for aeons now
Is man’s to contemplate
(In a puff of smoke enters Lucifer and Satan, immediately the spirits form a protective circle around Sophia and Michael steps forward brandishing his sword.
MICHAEL:
Who requests your presence!
LUCIFER:
It is the essence of what you speak
That calls our spirits forth
From our abodes above and below
We come to see if there is sport
In what to man you have bestowed
SATAN:
You place such hopes upon these beasts
I really must decry!
Thoughts in their heads
As good as dead
Corpses cold and dry,
LUCIFER:
And as for feeling
Man is lacking
Any studied care
He swings from sadness
To joy and gladness
From laughter to despair
SATAN
In his will, he is fast sleeping
Habit drives his every move
It would not be daunting
Or even demanding
To lead him about in a noose
LUCIFER:
Shall we make thee a wager?
We are at your pleasure
Perhaps it is not so secure
SATAN:
He will take your intelligence
And make it material
LUCIFER;
He will use it for means
Sinful and serial
SATAN:
He will throw in the mud
What you hold so dear
LUCIFER:
Like pearls to a swine
It will not take a year!
MICHAEL:
Away, away! You deplorable ghosts
I trust in the power of spirit inherent
In every man though he may be aberrant.
Error is good when it brings about learning
Inside every man the right question is burning!
SATAN:
He will not ask it!
LUCIFER:
He will look past it!
MICHAEL:
I believe that intelligence leads
To inquiry,
That is my creed.
LUCIFER AND SATAN TOGETHER (to one another):
The sons of earth will ne’er see heaven
Once they’ve tasted of our leaven.
Come let us go to your place and to mine...
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