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;Two spheres contend with one another,bearing down close, flying apart;this grappling is the splendid brakethat curbs and guides their onward course.Down thunders that one, striking fearin all who view it from afar;but in its bosom multitudesfind happiness and gentle peace.How humbly this one bears itself:in time to come — the Star of Love;may it be nurtured tenderly,a solace to the earthly race.Out there, new worlds, as yet unborn;in here, the tombs of dying ones:an admonition to the vain,a comfort to the faint of heart.In riot and in disarraya monstrous comet hurtles down;but, lo! it hears the Lord's commandand sets its crooked path in order.Come here, dear youthful spirit, comeand bring your irridescent globecloaked in white or verdant veilsof alternating dark and light.Heaven's great blessings be with you!Go onward, brave and undismayed;within your tiny boundariesgreat ideas will struggle and clash.Though smiles and tears, the fair and uglywill take their turns like spring and winter,these lights and shades will constitutethe Lord's anger, the Lord's favor.(The guardian spirits of the stars withdraw.)Archangel Gabriel: You, who circumscribed unending spaceby increating matter in the void;who generated with a single wordall distances and magnitudes,hosanna to you, Wisdom.(Prostrates himself)
Archangel Michael: You, who yoked the changeless to the changing,creating everlastingness and time,individuals and generations,hosanna to you, Power.(Prostrates himself)Archangel Raphael: You, who radiate beatitudeand summon matter to self-consciousness,you, who consecrate the universecommunicant of your transcendent wisdom,hosanna to you, Goodness.(Prostrates himself)(An extended pause)The Lord: And you, Lucifer, standing silent, self-sufficient?Have you nothing to say in praise of me?Or can it be my work displeases you?Lucifer:And what should I be pleased with? That a fewsubstances, clad with certain propertiesthat you perhaps knew nothing oftill they revealed themselves to you— or if you did, you could not alter them —should now be kneaded pell-mell into globesthat tug and push and jostle one another,wake to self-awareness in a few worms,till all of space is filled, till all is cooled,and only the indifferent slag is left?If man can con your trick, he too, some daywill bring this off inside his laboratory.You, for your part, placed man in your large kitchenand now indulge his bungling clumsiness,his godlike posturings, his botched concoctions;but when he comes to spoil your cookeryyou'll flare up in a rage — by then, too late.Yet what do you expect of such a dilettante?Then again — to what end, this whole creation?To glorify yourself you wrote a poem,
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