Within the Temple of Isis

d had fully recovered its philosophic tone and she proceeded about her customary routine of duties, calm and firm, and, as is of

nt and High Priest, what, at any other time, would have seemed a most mom

an atmosphere of genial warmth and electrical-giving life which somehow emanated from the inn

s conscious that he was reading her inmost thought and motive like an open book, eve

, "are you ready for the grea

at seems to be the inevitable decrees of

ould pass to the spirit world immatured. Your young soul, like fruit plucked from the tree too soon, would ripen slowly, losing many of its flavors and nev

said many times that man is the arbiter of his own destiny and that the soul was the inheritor of God-like powers

ignorant. Are there such possibilities for my soul?" and somehow imperc

es, yet man, by forethought, can evade or trap and chain or otherwise overcome him. So my child, there are ways wherein man, assisted by his own knowl

evealed to you, for your soul is so alive that it has become almost unconscious of its physical expression and for this very reason the shock of dissolution would be all the greater when it did come; for example, witness your unexpected collapse yesterday morning.

are and preparation you can live years of experience in hours of physical time, and your soul thus equipped may courag

arthia, casting herself at the feet of the Hierophant and, wi

ntly raising Sarthia to his side and holding her trembling form in a firm clasp. "Happily, th

st attention. Know you the young Pr

ndition corresponds with your own, only that with you, as dissolution approaches, your soul grows brighter and more active, while hers becomes more and more latent;

performed initiatory to the soul's great change. You, also, my child, must bear her company. The same j

hat at a certain point the vibrations of the two will, for a single instant of time, be in unison. At that momentous instant the polarity of the two souls can be interchanged so that the s

she were there; while her soul in your body renders nil, by its very non-resistance, the influences which would be absolutely fatal were you still there when the evil descends. And thus do you evade

hange in your soul life, so indeed, perhaps, even appa

set in operation while passing the crisis. Then, Sarthia, our bright and well-beloved Vestal, will henceforth be

while this change is consciously made by you, Nu-nah will probably never know it until she passes finally to the spirit world. Her past life has already faded from memory

r will be required. Until then, fa