I: "I hear a bird chirping! Is that you? Have you come back?"
Bird: "If you love the earth, you are hanged; if you love the sky; you hover."
I: "What is earth? What is sky?"
B: "Everything under you is the earth, everything above you is the sky. You fly if you strive for what is above you; you are hanged if you strive for what is below you."
I: "What is above me? What is beneath me?"
B: 'Above you is what is before and over you; beneath you is what comes back under you."
I: '~And the crown? Solve the riddle of the crown for me!"
B: "The crown and serpent are opposites, and are one. Did you not see the serpent that crowned the head of the crucified?"
I: "What, I don't understand you."
B: "What words did the crown bring you? "Love never ends"-that is the mystery of the crown and the serpent."
I: "But Salome? What should happen to Salome?"
B: "You see, Salome is what you are. Fly, and she will grow wings."