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introduction

Love meets Faith in the fourth act, after the latter has managed to escape from the Terrorress’s clutches following the Skullman’s conjurations. It was, indeed, the yogini Hail Vishnu who succeeded in counteracting the spell, and she, too, has been busy organizing Intuition’s forces in the struggle against Magnus Nescience. Intuition, for his part, weakened by the run-up to war, has retreated to Radha—the hometown of Egoismo—in Bengal, where, practicing austerities, he prepares himself for union with Upanishad. He calls upon those among his forces who are most capable of defeating Nescience’s greatest warriors: Analyst is to vie with Lust, Patience with Anger, and Contentment with Greed. Each is called upon in turn to explain the means for victory at their disposal. The troops assembled, they set out for battle. Intuition mounts his chariot and flies off for an aerial view of the rout of Nescience’s armies in Varanasi. In the concluding portion of the act, he offers homage to Vishnu at the chief shrine in the holy city.

Although Intuition and his forces are now victorious, the war, like that of the “Maha·bharata,” has been waged among siblings. The joy of success, therefore, is dampened by grief at the fate of one’s closest relations, much as it is in the hero Arjuna’s laments in the first canto of the “Bhagavad·gita.” Faith articulates this in the first lines of act five, and hastens to meet Hail Vishnu, to whom she is to report the events of the battle. She finds the goddess in conversation with her daughter, Peace. Joining them, she describes what has taken place.

After the armies had gathered, Intuition dispatched Reason as his messenger to Nescience, with the ultimatum that ______

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