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And I thought in my dream that by the mere3 desire of my being, expressed in waves of electric warmth that floated downwards4 from me to the earth I possessed5, my garden was suddenly filled with men, women and children, each of whom had a small portion of myself in them, inasmuch as it was I who made them move and talk and occupy themselves in all manner of amusements. Many of them knelt down to me and prayed, and offered thanksgivings for having been created; but some of them went instead to the little star, which they called a sun, and thanked that, and prayed to that instead. Then others went and cut down the trees in the garden, and dug up stones, and built themselves little cities, where they all dwelt together like flocks of sheep, and ate and drank and made merry with the things I had given them. Then I thought that I increased their intelligence and quickness of perception, and by-and-by they grew so proud that they forgot everything but themselves. They ceased to remember how they were created, and they cared no more to offer praises to their little sun that through me gave them light and heat. But because something of my essence still was in them, they always instinctively6 sought to worship a superior creature to themselves; and puzzling themselves in their folly7, they made hideous8 images of wood and clay, unlike anything in heaven or earth, and offered sacrifices and prayer to these lifeless puppets instead of to me. Then I turned away my eyes in sorrow and pity, but never in anger; for I could not be wrathful with these children of my own creation. And when I thus turned away my eyes, all manner of evil came upon the once fair scene — pestilence9 and storm, disease and vice10. A dark shadow stole between my little world and me — the shadow of the people’s own wickedness. And as every delicate fibre of my spiritual being repelled11 evil by the necessity of the pure light in which I dwelt serene12. I waited patiently for the mists to clear, so that I might again behold13 the beauty of my garden. Suddenly a soft clamour smote14 upon my sense of hearing, and a slender stream of light, like a connecting ray, seemed to be flung upwards15 through the darkness that hid me from the people I had created and loved. I knew the sound — it was the mingled16 music of the prayers of children. An infinite pity and pleasure touched me, my being thrilled with love and tenderness; and yielding to these little ones who asked me for protection, I turned my eyes again towards the garden I had designed for fairness and pleasure. But alas17! how changed it had become! No longer fresh and sweet, the people had turned it into a wilderness18; they had divided it into small portions, and in so doing had divided themselves into separate companies called nations, all of whom fought with each other fiercely for their different little parterres or flower-beds. Some haggled19 and talked incessantly20 over the mere possession of a stone which they called a rock; others busied themselves in digging a little yellow metal out of the earth, which, when once obtained, seemed to make the owners of it mad, for they straightway forgot everything else. As I looked, the darkness between me and my creation grew denser21, and was only pierced at last by those long wide shafts22 of radiance caused by the innocent prayers of those who still remembered me. And I was full of regret, for I saw my people wandering hither and thither23, restless and dissatisfied, perplexed24 by their own errors, and caring nothing for the love I bore them. Then some of them advanced and began to question why they had been created, forgetting completely how their lives had been originally designed by me for happiness, love and wisdom. Then they accused me of the existence of evil, refusing to see that where there is light there is also darkness, and that darkness is the rival force of the Universe, whence cometh silently the Unnamable Oblivion of Souls. They could not see, my self-willed children, that they had of their own desire sought the darkness and found it; and now, because it gloomed above them like a pall25, they refused to believe in the light where still I was loving and striving to attract them still. Yet it was not all darkness, and I knew that even what there was might be repelled and cleared away if only my people would turn towards me once more. So I sent down upon them all possible blessings26 — some they rejected angrily, some they snatched at and threw away again, as though they were poor and trivial — none of them were they thankful for, and none did they desire to keep. And the darkness above them deepened, while my anxious pity and love for them increased. For how could I turn altogether away from them, as long as but a few remembered me? There were some of these weak children of mine who loved and honoured me so well that they absorbed some of my light into themselves, and became heroes, poets, musicians, teachers of high and noble thought, and unselfish, devoted27 martyrs28 for the sake of the reverence29 they bore me. There were women pure and sweet, who wore their existence as innocently as lilies, and who turned to me to seek protection, not for themselves, but for those they loved. There were little children, whose asking voices were like waves of delicious music to my being, and for whom I had a surpassing tenderness. And yet all these were a mere handful compared to the numbers who denied my existence, and who had wilfully30 crushed out and repelled every spark of my essence in themselves. And as I contemplated31 this, the voice I had heard at the commencement of my dream rushed towards me like a mighty32 wind broken through by thunder:
“DESTROY!”
A great pity and love possessed me. In deep awe33, yet solemn earnestness, I pleaded with that vast commanding voice.
“Bid me not destroy!” I implored34. “Command me not to disperse35 into nothingness these children of my fancy, some of whom yet love and trust to me for safety. Let me strive once more to bring them out of their darkness into the light — to bring them to the happiness I designed them to enjoy. They have not all forgotten me — let me give them more time for thought and recollection!”
Again the great voice shook the air:
“They love darkness rather than light; they love the perishable36 earth of which they are in part composed, better than the germ of immortality38 with which they were in the beginning endowed. This garden of thine is but a caprice of thy intelligence; the creatures that inhabit it are soulless and unworthy, and are an offence to that indestructible radiance of which thou art one ray. Therefore I say unto thee again — DESTROY!”
My yearning40 love grew stronger, and I pleaded with renewed force.
“Oh, thou Unseen Glory!” I cried; “thou who hast filled me with this emotion of love and pity which permeates41 and supports my existence, how canst thou bid me take this sudden revenge upon my frail42 creation! No caprice was it that caused me to design it; nothing but a thought of love and a desire of beauty. Even yet I will fulfil my plan — even yet shall these erring43 children of mine return to me in time, with patience. While one of them still lifts a hand in prayer to me, or gratitude44, I cannot destroy! Bid me rather sink into the darkness of the uttermost deep of shadow; only let me save these feeble little ones from destruction!”
The voice replied not. A flashing opal brilliancy shot across the light in which I rested, and I beheld45 an Angel, grand, lofty, majestic46, with a countenance47 in which shone the lustre48 of a myriad49 summer mornings.
“Spirit that art escaped from the Sorrowful Star,” it said in accents clear and sonorous50, “wouldst thou indeed be content to suffer the loss of heavenly joy and peace, in order to rescue thy perishing creation?”
“I would!” I answered; “if I understood death, I would die to save one of those frail creatures, who seek to know me and yet cannot find me through the darkness they have brought upon themselves.”
“To die,” said the Angel, “to understand death, thou wouldst need to become one of them, to take upon thyself their form — to imprison51 all that brilliancy of which thou art now composed, into a mean and common case of clay; and even if thou couldst accomplish this, would thy children know thee or receive thee?”
“Nay, but if I could suffer shame by them,” I cried impetuously, “I could not suffer sin. My being would be incapable52 of error, and I would show these creatures of mine the bliss53 of purity, the joy of wisdom, the ecstasy54 of light, the certainty of immortality, if they followed me. And then I would die to show them death is easy, and that in dying they would come to me and find their happiness for ever!”
The stature55 of the Angel grew more lofty and magnificent, and its star-like eyes flashed fire.
“Then, oh thou wanderer from the Earth!” it said, “understandest thou not the Christ?”
A deep awe trembled through me. Meanwhile the garden I had thought a world appeared to roll up like a cloudy scroll56, and vanished, and I knew that it had been a vision, and no more.
“Oh doubting and foolish Spirit!” went on the Angel —“thou who art but one point of living light in the Supreme57 Radiance, even THOU wouldst consent to immure58 thyself in the darkness of mortality for sake of thy fancied creation! Even THOU wouldst submit to suffer and to die, in order to show the frail children of thy dream a purely59 sinless and spiritual example! Even THOU hast had the courage to plead with the One All-Sufficing Voice against the destruction of what to thee was but a mirage60 floating in this ether! Even THOU hast had love, forgiveness, pity! Even THOU wouldst be willing to dwell among the creatures of thy fancy as one of them, knowing in thy inner self that by so doing, thy spiritual presence would have marked thy little world for ever as sanctified and impossible to destroy. Even THOU wouldst sacrifice a glory to answer a child’s prayer — even thou wouldst have patience! And yet thou hast dared to deny to God those attributes which thou thyself dost possess — He is so great and vast — thou so small and slight! For the love thou feelest throbbing61 through thy being, He is the very commencement and perfection of all love; if thou hast pity, He has ten thousand times more pity; if THOU canst forgive, remember that from Him flows all thy power of forgiveness! There is nothing thou canst do, even at the highest height of spiritual perfection, that He cannot surpass by a thousand million fold! Neither shalt thou refuse to believe that He can also suffer. Know that nothing is more godlike than unselfish sorrow — and the grief of the Creator over one erring human soul is as vast as He Himself is vast. Why wouldst thou make of Him a being destitute62 of the best emotions that He Himself bestows63 upon thee? THOU wouldst have entered into thy dream-world and lived in it and died in it, if by so doing thou couldst have drawn64 one of thy creatures back to the love of thee; and wilt65 thou not receive the Christ?”
I bowed my head, and a flood of joy rushed through me.
“I believe — I believe and I love!” I murmured. “Desert me not, O radiant Angel! I feel and know that all these wonders must soon pass away from my sight; but wilt thou also go?”
The Angel smiled and touched me.
“I am thy guardian66,” it said. “I have been with thee always. I can never leave thee so long as thy soul seeks spiritual things. Asleep or awake on the Earth, wherever thou art, I also am. There have been times when I have warned thee and thou wouldst not listen, when I have tried to draw thee onward67 and thou wouldst not come; but now I fear no more thy disobedience, for thy restlessness is past. Come with me; it is permitted thee to see far off the vision of the Last Circle.”
The glorious figure raised me gently by the hand, and we floated on and on, higher and higher, past little circles which my guide told me were all solar systems, though they looked nothing but slender garlands of fire, so rapidly did they revolve68 and so swiftly did we pass them. Higher and higher we went, till even to my untiring spirit the way seemed long. Beautiful creatures in human shape, but as delicate as gossamer69, passed us every now and then, some in bands of twos and threes, some alone; and the higher we soared the more dazzlingly lovely these inhabitants of the air seemed to be.
“They are all born of the Great Circle,” my guardian Angel explained to me: “and to them is given the power of communicating high thought or inspiration. Among them are the Spirits of Music, of Poesy, of Prophecy, and of all Art ever known in all worlds. The success of their teaching depends on how much purity and unselfishness there is in the soul to which they whisper their divine messages — messages as brief as telegrams which must be listened to with entire attention and acted upon at once, or the lesson is lost and may never come again.”
Just then I saw a Shape coming towards me as of a lovely fair-haired child, who seemed to be playing softly on a strange glittering instrument like a broken cloud strung through with sunbeams. Heedless of consequences, I caught at its misty70 robe in a wild effort to detain it. It obeyed my touch, and turned its deeply luminous71 eyes first upon me, and then upon the Angel who accompanied my flight.
“What seekest thou?” it asked in a voice like the murmuring of the wind among flowers.
“Music!” I answered. “Sing me thy melodies — fill me with harmonies divine and unreachable — and I will strive to be worthy39 of thy teachings!”
The young Shape smiled and drew closer towards me.
“Thy wish is granted, Sister Spirit!” it replied. “The pity I shall feel for thy fate when thou art again pent in clay, shall be taught thee in minor72 music — thou shalt possess the secret of unwritten sound, and I will sing to thee and bring thee comfort. On Earth, call but my name — Aeon73! and thou shalt behold me. For thy longing74 voice is known to the Children of Music, and hath oft shaken the vibrating light wherein they dwell. Fear not! As long as thou dost love me, I am thine.” And parting slowly, still smiling, the lovely vision, with its small radiant hands ever wandering among the starry75 strings76 of its cloud-like lyre, floated onward.
Suddenly a clear voice said “Welcome!” and looking up I saw my first friend, Azul. I smiled in glad recognition — I would have spoken — but lo! a wide immensity of blazing glory broke like many-coloured lightning around me — so dazzling, so overpowering, that I instinctively drew back and paused — I felt I could go no further.
“Here,” said my guardian gently —“here ends thy journey. Would that it were possible, poor Spirit, for thee to pass this boundary! But that may not be — as yet. In the meanwhile thou mayest gaze for a brief space upon the majestic sphere which mortals dream of as Heaven. Behold and see how fair is the incorruptible perfection of God’s World!”
I looked and trembled — I should have sunk yet further backward, had not Azul and my Angel-guide held me with their light yet forcible clasp. My heart fails me now as I try to write of that tremendous, that sublime78 scene — the Centre of the Universe — the Cause of all Creation. How unlike Heaven such as we in our ignorance have tried to depict79! though it is far better we should have a mistaken idea than none at all. What I beheld was a circle, so huge that no mortal measurements could compass it — a wide Ring composed of seven colours, rainbow-like, but flashing with perpetual motion and brilliancy, as though a thousand million suns were for ever being woven into it to feed its transcendent lustre. From every part of this Ring darted80 long broad shafts of light, some of which stretched out so far that I could not see where they ended; sometimes a bubbling shower of lightning sparks would be flung out on the pure ether, and this would instantly form into circles, small or great, and whirl round and round the enormous girdle of flame from which they had been cast, with the most inconceivable rapidity. But wonderful as the Ring was, it encompassed81 a Sphere yet more marvellous and dazzling; a great Globe of opal-tinted light, revolving82 as it were upon its own axis83, and ever surrounded by that scintillating84, jewel-like wreath of electricity, whose only motion was to shine and burn within itself for ever. I could not bear to look upon the brightness of that magnificent central World — so large that multiplying the size of the sun by a hundred thousand millions, no adequate idea could be formed of its vast proportions. And ever it revolved85 — and ever the Rainbow Ring around it glittered and cast forth86 those other rings which I knew now were living solar systems cast forth from that electric band as a volcano casts forth fire and lava87. My Angel-guide motioned me to look towards that side of the Ring which was nearest to the position of the Earth. I looked, and perceived that there the shafts of descending88 light formed themselves as they fell into the shape of a Cross. At this, such sorrow, love, and shame overcame me, that I knew not where to turn. I murmured:
“Send me back again, dear Angel — send me back to that Star of Sorrow and Error! Let me hasten to make amends89 there for all my folly — let me try to teach others what now I know. I am unworthy to be here beside thee — I am unfit to look on yonder splendid World — let me return to do penance90 for my sins and shortcomings; for what am I that God should bless me? and though I should consume myself in labour and suffering, how can I ever hope to deserve the smallest place in that heavenly glory I now partly behold?” And could spirits shed tears, I should have wept with remorse91 and grief.
Azul spoke77, softly and tenderly:
“Now thou dost believe — henceforth thou must love! Love alone can pass yon flaming barrier — love alone can gain for thee eternal bliss. In love and for love were all things made — God loveth His creatures, even so let His creatures love Him, and so shall the twain be drawn together.”
“Listen!” added my Angel-guide. “Thou hast not travelled so far as yet to remain in ignorance. That burning Ring thou seest is the result of the Creator’s ever-working Intelligence; from it all the Universe hath sprung. It is exhaustless and perpetually creative; it is pure and perfect Light. The smallest spark of that fiery92 essence in a mortal frame is sufficient to form a soul or spirit, such as mine, or that of Azul, or thine, when thou art perfected. The huge world rolling within the Ring is where God dwells. Dare not thou to question His shape, His look, His mien93! Know that He is the Supreme Spirit in which all Beauty, all Perfection, all Love, find consummation. His breath is the fire of the Ring; His look, His pleasure, cause the motion of His World and all worlds. There where He dwells, dwell also all pure souls; there all desires have fulfilment without satiety94, and there all loveliness, wisdom or pleasure known in any or all of the other spheres are also known. Speak, Azul, and tell this wanderer from Earth what she will gain in winning her place in Heaven.”
Azul looked tenderly upon me and said:
“When thou hast slept the brief sleep of death, when thou art permitted to throw off for ever thy garb95 of clay, and when by thine own ceaseless love and longing thou hast won the right to pass the Great Circle, thou shalt find thyself in a land where the glories of the natural scenery alone shall overpower thee with joy — scenery that for ever changes into new wonders and greater beauty. Thou shalt hear music such as thou canst not dream of. Thou shalt find friends, beyond all imagination fair and faithful. Thou shalt read and see the history of all the planets, produced for thee in an ever-moving panorama96. Thou shalt love and be beloved for ever by thine own Twin Soul; wherever that spirit may be now, it must join thee hereafter. The joys of learning, memory, consciousness, sleep, waking, and exercise shall all be thine. Sin, sorrow, pain, disease and death thou shalt know no more. Thou shalt be able to remember happiness, to possess it, and to look forward to it. Thou shalt have full and pleasant occupation without fatigue97 — thy food and substance shall be light and air. Flowers, rare and imperishable, shall bloom for thee; birds of exquisite98 form and tender voice shall sing to thee; angels shall be thy companions. Thou shalt have fresh and glad desires to offer to God with every portion of thy existence, and each one shall be granted as soon as asked, for then thou wilt not be able to ask anything that is displeasing99 to Him. But because it is a joy to wish, thou shalt wish! and because it is a joy to grant, so also will He grant. No delight, small or great, is wanting in that vast sphere; only sorrow is lacking, and satiety and disappointment have no place. Wilt thou seek for admittance there or wilt thou faint by the way and grow weary?”
I raised my eyes full of ecstasy and reverence.
“My mere efforts must count as nothing,” I said; “but if Love can help me, I will love and long for God’s World until I die!”
My guardian Angel pointed100 to those rays of light I had before noticed, that slanted101 downwards towards Earth in the form of a Cross.
“That is the path by which THOU must travel. Mark it well! All pilgrims from the Sorrowful Star must journey by that road. Woe102 to them that turn aside to roam mid103 spheres they know not of, to lose themselves in seas of light wherein they cannot steer104! Remember my warning! And now, Spirit who art commended to my watchful105 care, thy brief liberty is ended. Thou hast been lifted up to the outer edge of the Electric Circle, further we dare not take thee. Hast thou aught else to ask before the veil of mortality again enshrouds thee?”
I answered not, but within myself I formed a wild desire. The Electric Ring flashed fiercely on my uplifted eyes, but I kept them fixed106 hopefully and lovingly on its intensely deep brilliancy.
“If Love and Faith can avail me,” I murmured, “I shall see what I have sought.”
I was not disappointed. The fiery waves of light parted on either side of the spot where I with my companions rested; and a Figure — majestic, unutterably grand and beautiful — approached me. At the same moment a number of other faces and forms shone hoveringly out of the Ring; one I noticed like an exquisitely107 lovely woman, with floating hair and clear, earnest, unfathomable eyes. Azul and the Angel sank reverently108 down and drooped109 their radiant heads like flowers in hot sunshine. I alone, daringly, yet with inexpressible affection welling up within me, watched with unshrinking gaze the swift advance of that supreme Figure, upon whose broad brows rested the faint semblance110 of a Crown of Thorns. A voice penetratingly sweet addressed me:
“Mortal from the Star I saved from ruin, because thou hast desired Me, I come! Even as thy former unbelief, shall be now thy faith. Because thou lovest Me, I am with thee. For do I not know thee better than the Angels can? Have I not dwelt in thy clay, suffered thy sorrows, wept thy tears, died thy deaths? One with My Father, and yet one with thee, I demand thy love, and so through Me shalt thou attain111 immortal37 life!”
I felt a touch upon me like a scorching112 flame — a thrill rushed through my being — and then I knew that I was sinking down, down, further and further away. I saw that wondrous113 Figure standing114 serene and smiling between the retiring waves of electric radiance. I saw the great inner sphere revolve, and glitter as it rolled, like an enormous diamond encircled with gold and sapphire115, and then all suddenly the air grew dim and cloudy, and the sensation of falling became more and more rapid. Azul was beside me still, and I also perceived the outline of my guardian Angel’s form, though that was growing indistinct. I now recalled the request of Heliobas, and spoke:
“Azul, tell me what shadow rests upon the life of him to whom I am now returning?”
Azul looked at me earnestly, and replied:
“Thou daring one! Seekest thou to pierce the future fate of others? Is it not enough for thee to have heard the voice that maketh the Angel’s singing silent, and wouldst thou yet know more?”
I was full of a strange unhesitating courage, therefore I said fearlessly:
“He is thy Beloved one, Azul — thy Twin Soul; and wilt thou let him fall away from thee when a word or sign might save him?”
“Even as he is my Beloved, so let him not fail to hear my voice,” replied Azul, with a tinge116 of melancholy117. “For though he has accomplished118 much, he is as yet but mortal. Thou canst guide him thus far; tell him, when death lies like a gift in his hand, let him withhold119 it, and remember me. And now, my friend — farewell!”
I would have spoken again, but could not. An oppressed sensation came over me, and I seemed to plunge120 coldly into a depth of inextricable blackness. I felt cramped121 for room, and struggled for existence, for motion, for breath. What had happened to me? I wondered indignantly. Was I a fettered122 prisoner? had I lost the use of my light aerial limbs that had borne me so swiftly through the realms of space? What crushing weight overpowered me? why such want of air and loss of delightful123 ease? I sighed restlessly and impatiently at the narrow darkness in which I found myself — a sorrowful, deep, shuddering124 sigh . . . . and WOKE! That is to say, I languidly opened mortal eyes to find myself once more pent up in mortal frame, though I retained a perfect remembrance and consciousness of everything I had experienced during my spirit-wanderings. Heliobas stood in front of me with outstretched hands, and his eyes were fixed on mine with a mingled expression of anxiety and authority, which changed into a look of relief and gladness as I smiled at him and uttered his name aloud.
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