I am defeated .-- Not the less, I cannot open my hand." "Have you tried ?" "I am trying now with all my might." "I will take you to my father.

You have wronged him worst of the created, therefore he best of the created can help you." "How can HE help me ?" "He will forgive you." "Ah, if he would but help me to cease! Not even that am I capable of! I have no power over myself; I am a slave! I acknowledge it.

Let me die." "A slave thou art that shall one day be a child!" answered Mara.--"Verily, thou shalt die, but not as thou thinkest.

Thou shalt die out of death into life.

Now is the Life for, that never was against thee!" Like her mother, in whom lay the motherhood of all the world, Mara put her arms around Lilith, and kissed her on the forehead.