Everyone leaves, and Pablo invites Hermine and Steppenwolf into the Magic Theater. They enter a sparse room with a blue light where Pablo gives them cigarettes and drinks laced with mind-altering substances. Pablo tells Steppenwolf that the "elixir" will allow him to see "the world of your own soul that you seek. Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long." Pablo holds up a small mirror and Steppenwolf sees two beings in the mirror: a "self-tormented" broken man and a "beautiful, dazed wolf with frightened eyes that smoldered now with anger, now with sadness."
The theater contains an endless number of boxes, each one a "pretty cabinet of pictures." Pablo tells Steppenwolf that he can only enter the theater and participate if he leaves his "valuable personality" behind. This requires "a trifling suicide." In order to abandon his self, Steppenwolf must look into the small mirror and laugh at himself. He does so, and the mirror turns black and opaque. Pablo applauds Steppenwolf and instructs him to look in the large mirror on the wall. Steppenwolf sees countless images of himself at all ages. Some of the Harrys jump out of the mirror, while others go off in different directions. A fifteen-year-old Harry jumps through the door labeled, "ALL GIRLS ARE YOURS. ONE QUARTER IN THE SLOT."
Steppenwolf enters the door "JOLLY HUNTING. GREAT HUNT IN AUTOMOBILES." Inside, a war is raging between humans and machines. Steppenwolf's old friend Gustav arrives. He is a theologian, but he discards his occupation in order to participate in the war. He does not care which side he fights on, but he chooses to fight against the manufacturers. He and Steppenwolf hide in a tree house and begin firing on every car that passes by. Gustav kills the attorney general after a spirited discussion about duty, but he spares a pretty stenographer for Steppenwolf. A man walks by and loots one of the cars. He is spared because his behavior is deemed "harmless and peaceable and childlike." Gustav and Steppenwolf are ashamed of their actions.
