But this — well, I confess that I have a theory that is naturalistic; but so abstruse9, so difficult to make clear within the short confines of the space I have to give it, so dependent upon conceptions that even the highest-trained scientific brains find difficult to grasp, that I despair.
I can only say that the thing occurred; that it took place in precisely10 the manner I am about to narrate11, and that I experienced it.
Yet, in justice to myself, I must open up some paths of preliminary approach toward the heart of the perplexity. And the first path is the realization12 that our world WHATEVER it is, is certainly NOT the world as we see it! Regarding this I shall refer to a discourse13 upon “Gravitation and the Principle of Relativity,” by the distinguished14 English physicist15, Dr. A. S. Eddington, which I had the pleasure of hearing him deliver before the Royal Institution. 1
1 Reprinted in full in Nature, in which those sufficiently16 interested may peruse17 it. — W. T. G.
I realize, of course, that it is not true logic18 to argue —“The world is not as we think it is — therefore everything we think impossible is possible in it.” Even if it BE different, it is governed by LAW. The truly impossible is that which is outside law, and as nothing CAN be outside law, the impossible CANNOT exist.
The crux19 of the matter then becomes our determination whether what we think is impossible may or may not be possible under laws still beyond our knowledge.
I hope that you will pardon me for this somewhat academic digression, but I felt it was necessary, and it has, at least, put me more at ease. And now to resume.
We had watched, Larry and I, the frog-men throw the bodies of Yolara’s assassins into the crimson21 waters. As vultures swoop22 down upon the dying, there came sailing swiftly to where the dead men floated, dozens of the luminous23 globes. Their slender, varicoloured tentacles24 whipped out; the giant iridescent25 bubbles CLIMBED over the cadavers26. And as they touched them there was the swift dissolution, the melting away into putrescence of flesh and bone that I had witnessed when the dart27 touched fruit that time I had saved Rador — and upon this the Medusae gorged28; pulsing lambently; their wondrous29 colours shifting, changing, glowing stronger; elfin moons now indeed, but satellites whose glimmering30 beauty was fed by death; alembics of enchantment31 whose glorious hues32 were sucked from horror.
Sick, I turned away — O’Keefe as pale as I; passed back into the corridor that had opened on the ledge20 from which we had watched; met Lakla hurrying toward us. Before she could speak there throbbed33 faintly about us a vast sighing. It grew into a murmur34, a whispering, shook us — then passing like a presence, died away in far distance.
“The Portal has opened,” said the handmaiden. A fainter sighing, like an echo of the other, mourned about us. “Yolara is gone,” she said, “the Portal is closed. Now must we hasten — for the Three have commanded that you, Goodwin, and Larry and I tread that strange road of which I have spoken, and which Olaf may not take lest his heart break — and we must return ere he and Rador cross the bridge.”
Her hand sought Larry’s.
“Come!” said Lakla, and we walked on; down and down through hall after hall, flight upon flight of stairways. Deep, deep indeed, we must be beneath the domed35 castle — Lakla paused before a curved, smooth breast of the crimson stone rounding gently into the passage. She pressed its side; it revolved36; we entered; it closed behind us.
The room, the — hollow — in which we stood was faceted37 like a diamond; and like a cut brilliant its sides glistened38 — though dully. Its shape was a deep oval, and our path dropped down to a circular polished base, roughly two yards in diameter. Glancing behind me I saw that in the closing of the entrance there had been left no trace of it save the steps that led from where that entrance had been — and as I looked these steps TURNED, leaving us isolated39 upon the circle, only the faceted walls about us — and in each of the gleaming faces the three of us reflected — dimly. It was as though we were within a diamond egg whose graven angles bad been turned INWARD.
But the oval was not perfect; at my right a screen cut it — a screen that gleamed with fugitive40, fleeting41 luminescences — stretching from the side of our standing42 place up to the tip of the chamber43; slightly convex and crisscrossed by millions of fine lines like those upon a spectroscopic plate, but with this difference — that within each line I sensed the presence of multitudes of finer lines, dwindling44 into infinitude, ultramicroscopic, traced by some instrument compared to whose delicacy45 our finest tool would be as a crowbar to the needle of a micrometer.
A foot or two from it stood something like the standee of a compass, bearing, like it a cradled dial under whose crystal ran concentric rings of prisoned, lambent vapours, faintly blue. From the edge of the dial jutted46 a little shelf of crystal, a keyboard, in which were cut eight small cups.
Within these cups the handmaiden placed her tapering47 fingers. She gazed down upon the disk; pressed a digit48 — and the screen behind us slipped noiselessly into another angle.
“Put your arm around my waist, Larry, darlin’, and stand close,” she murmured. “You, Goodwin, place your arm over my shoulder.”
Wondering, I did as she bade; she pressed other fingers upon the shelf’s indentations — three of the rings of vapour spun49 into intense light, raced around each other; from the screen behind us grew a radiance that held within itself all spectrums — not only those seen, but those UNSEEN by man’s eyes. It waxed brilliant and ever more brilliant, all suffusing50, passing through me as day streams through a window pane51!
The enclosing facets52 burst into a blaze of coruscations, and in each sparkling panel I saw our images, shaken and torn like pennants53 in a whirlwind. I turned to look — was stopped by the handmaiden’s swift command: “Turn not — on your life!”
The radiance behind me grew; was a rushing tempest of light in which I was but the shadow of a shadow. I heard, but not with my ears — nay54 with MIND itself — a vast roaring; an ORDERED tumult55 of sound that came hurling56 from the outposts of space; approaching — rushing — hurricane out of the heart of the cosmos57 — closer, closer. It wrapped itself about us with unearthly mighty58 arms.
And brilliant, ever more brilliant, streamed the radiance through us.
The faceted walls dimmed; in front of me they melted, diaphanously, like a gelatinous wall in a blast of flame; through their vanishing, under the torrent59 of driving light, the unthinkable, impalpable tornado60, I began to move, slowly — then ever more swiftly!
Still the roaring grew; the radiance streamed — ever faster we went. Cutting down through the length, the EXTENSION of me, dropped a wall of rock, foreshortened, clenched61 close; I caught a glimpse of the elfin gardens; they whirled, contracted, into a thin — slice — of colour that was a part of me; another wall of rock shrinking into a thin wedge through which I flew, and that at once took its place within me like a card slipped beside those others!
Flashing around me, and from Lakla and O’Keefe, were nimbuses of flickering62 scarlet63 flames. And always the steady hurling forward — appallingly64 mechanical.
Another barrier of rock — a gleam of white waters incorporating themselves into my — DRAWING OUT— even as were the flowered moss65 lands, the slicing, rocky walls — still another rampart of cliff, dwindling instantly into the vertical66 plane of those others. Our flight checked; we seemed to hover67 within, then to sway onward68 — slowly, cautiously.
A mist danced ahead of me — a mist that grew steadily thinner. We stopped, wavered — the mist cleared.
I looked out into translucent69, green distances; shot with swift prismatic gleamings; waves and pulsings of luminosity like midday sun glow through green, tropic waters: dancing, scintillating70 veils of sparkling atoms that flew, hither and yon, through depths of nebulous splendour!
And Lakla and Larry and I were, I saw, like shadow shapes upon a smooth breast of stone twenty feet or more above the surface of this place — a surface spangled with tiny white blossoms gleaming wanly71 through creeping veils of phosphorescence like smoke of moon fire. We were shadows — and yet we had substance; we were incorporated with, a part of, the rock — and yet we were living flesh and blood; we stretched — nor will I qualify this — we STRETCHED through mile upon mile of space that weirdly72 enough gave at one and the same time an absolute certainty of immense horizontal lengths and a vertical concentration that contained nothing of length, nothing of space whatever; we stood THERE upon the face of the stone — and still we were HERE within the faceted oval before the screen of radiance!
“Steady!” It was Lakla’s voice — and not beside me THERE, but at my ear close before the screen. “Steady, Goodwin! And — see!”
The sparkling haze73 cleared. Enormous reaches stretched before me. Shimmering74 up through them, and as though growing in some medium thicker than air, was mass upon mass of verdure — fruiting trees and trees laden75 with pale blossoms, arbours and bowers76 of pallid77 blooms, like that sea fruit of oblivion — grapes of Lethe — that cling to the tide-swept walls of the caverns78 of the Hebrides.
Through them, beyond them, around and about them, drifted and eddied79 a horde80 — great as that with which Tamerlane swept down upon Rome, vast as the myriads81 which Genghis Khan rolled upon the califs — men and women and children — clothed in tatters, half nude82 and wholly naked; slant-eyed Chinese, sloe-eyed Malays, islanders black and brown and yellow, fierce-faced warriors83 of the Solomons with grizzled locks fantastically bedizened; Papuans, feline84 Javans, Dyaks of hill and shore; hook-nosed Phoenicians, Romans, straight-browed Greeks, and Vikings centuries BEYOND their lives: scores of the black-haired Murians; white faces of our own Westerners — men and women and children — drifting, eddying85 — each stamped with that mingled86 horror and rapture87, eyes filled with ecstasy88 and terror entwined, marked by God and devil in embrace — the seal of the Shining One — the dead-alive; the lost ones!
The loot of the Dweller!
Soul-sick, I gazed. They lifted to us visages of dread89; they swept down toward us, glaring upward — a bank against which other and still other waves of faces rolled, were checked, paused; until as far as I could see, like billows piled upon an ever-growing barrier, they stretched beneath us — staring — staring!
Now there was a movement — far, far away; a concentrating of the lambency; the dead-alive swayed, oscillated, separated — forming a long lane against whose outskirts90 they crowded with avid91, hungry insistence92.
First only a luminous cloud, then a whirling pillar of splendours through the lane came — the Shining One. As it passed, the dead-alive swirled93 in its wake like leaves behind a whirlwind, eddying, twisting; and as the Dweller raced by them, brushing them with its spirallings and tentacles, they shone forth94 with unearthly, awesome95 gleamings — like vessels96 of alabaster97 in which wicks flare98 suddenly. And when it had passed they closed behind it, staring up at us once more.
The Dweller paused beneath us.
Out of the drifting ruck swam the body of Throckmartin! Throckmartin, my friend, to find whom I had gone to the pallid moon door; my friend whose call I had so laggardly99 followed. On his face was the Dweller’s dreadful stamp; the lips were bloodless; the eyes were wide, lucent, something like pale, phosphorescence gleaming within them — and soulless.
He stared straight up at me, unwinking, unrecognizing. Pressing against his side was a woman, young and gentle, and lovely — lovely even through the mask that lay upon her face. And her wide eyes, like Throckmartin’s, glowed with the lurking100, unholy fires. She pressed against him closely; though the hordes101 kept up the faint churning, these two kept ever together, as though bound by unseen fetters102.
And I knew the girl for Edith, his wife, who in vain effort to save him had cast herself into the Dweller’s embrace!
“Throckmartin!” I cried. “Throckmartin! I’m here!”
Did he hear? I know now, of course, he could not.
But then I waited — hope striving to break through the nightmare hands that gripped my heart.
Their wide eyes never left me. There was another movement about them, others pushed past them; they drifted back, swaying, eddying — and still staring were lost in the awful throng103.
Vainly I strained my gaze to find them again, to force some sign of recognition, some awakening104 of the clean life we know. But they were gone. Try as I would I could not see them — nor Stanton and the northern woman named Thora who had been the first of that tragic105 party to be taken by the Dweller.
“Throckmartin!” I cried again, despairingly. My tears blinded me.
I felt Lakla’s light touch.
“Steady,” she commanded, pitifully. “Steady, Goodwin. You cannot help them — now! Steady and — watch!”
Below us the Shining One had paused — spiralling, swirling106, vibrant107 with all its transcendent, devilish beauty; had paused and was contemplating108 us. Now I could see clearly that nucleus109, that core shot through with flashing veins110 of radiance, that ever-shifting shape of glory through the shroudings of shimmering, misty111 plumes112, throbbing113 lacy opalescences, vaporous spirallings of prismatic phantom114 fires. Steady over it hung the seven little moons of amethyst115, of saffron, of emerald and azure116 and silver, of rose of life and moon white. They poised117 themselves like a diadem118 — calm, serene119, immobile — and down from them into the Dweller, piercing plumes and swirls120 and spirals, ran countless121 tiny strands122, radiations, finer than the finest spun thread of spider’s web, gleaming filaments123 through which seemed to run — POWER— from the seven globes; like — yes, that was it — miniatures of the seven torrents124 of moon flame that poured through the septichromatic, high crystals in the Moon Pool’s chamber roof.
Swam out of the coruscating125 haze the — face!
Both of man and of woman it was — like some ancient, androgynous deity126 of Etruscan fanes long dust, and yet neither woman nor man; human and unhuman, seraphic and sinister127, benign128 and malefic — and still no more of these four than is flame, which is beautiful whether it warms or devours129, or wind whether it feathers the trees or shatters them, or the wave which is wondrous whether it caresses130 or kills.
Subtly, undefinably it was of our world and of one not ours. Its lineaments flowed from another sphere, took fleeting familiar form — and as swiftly withdrew whence they had come; something amorphous131, unearthly — as of unknown unheeding, unseen gods rushing through the depths of star-hung space; and still of our own earth, with the very soul of earth peering out from it, caught within it — and in some — unholy — way debased.
It had eyes — eyes that were now only shadows darkening within its luminosity like veils falling, and falling, OPENING windows into the unknowable; deepening into softly glowing blue pools, blue as the Moon Pool itself; then flashing out, and this only when the — face — bore its most human resemblance, into twin stars large almost as the crown of little moons; and with that same baffling suggestion of peep-holes into a world untrodden, alien, perilous132 to man!
“Steady!” came Lakla’s voice, her body leaned against mine.
I gripped myself, my brain steadied, I looked again. And I saw that of body, at least body as we know it, the Shining One had none — nothing but the throbbing, pulsing core streaked133 with lightning veins of rainbows; and around this, never still, sheathing134 it, the swirling, glorious veilings of its hell and heaven born radiance.
So the Dweller stood — and gazed.
Then up toward us swept a reaching, questing spiral!
Under my hand Lakla’s shoulder quivered; Dead–Alive and their master vanished — I danced, flickered135, WITHIN the rock; felt a swift sense of shrinking, of withdrawal136; slice upon slice the carded walls of stone, of silvery waters, of elfin gardens slipped from me as cards are withdrawn137 from a pack, one by one — slipped, wheeled, flattened138, and lengthened139 out as I passed through them and they passed from me.
Gasping140, shaken, weak, I stood within the faceted oval chamber; arm still about the handmaiden’s white shoulder; Larry’s hand still clutching her girdle.
The roaring, impalpable gale141 from the cosmos was retreating to the outposts of space — was still; the intense, streaming, flooding radiance lessened142 — died.
“Now have you beheld,” said Lakla, “and well you trod the road. And now shall you hear, even as the Silent Ones have commanded, what the Shining One is — and how it came to be.”
The steps flashed back; the doorway143 into the chamber opened.
Larry as silent as I— we followed her through it.
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