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DEMOGORGON
  All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil:
  Thou knowest if Jupiter be such or no.

ASIA
  Whom called'st thou God?

DEMOGORGON
  I spoke but as ye speak,
  For Jove is the supreme of living things.

ASIA
  Who is the master of the slave?

DEMOGORGON
  If the abysm
  Could vomit forth its secrets--but a voice
  Is wanting, the deep truth is imageless;
  For what would it avail to bid thee gaze
  On the revolving world? What to bid speak
  Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance and Change? To these
  All things are subject but eternal Love.

ASIA
  So much I asked before, and my heart gave
  The response thou hast given; and of such truths
  Each to itself must be the oracle.
  One more demand; and do thou answer me
  As my own soul would answer, did it know
  That which I ask. Prometheus shall arise
  Henceforth the sun of this rejoicing world:
  When shall the destined hour arrive?

DEMOGORGON
  Behold!

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