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In silence Aselzion took me by the hand and led me through a low doorway out of the little hermitage into the open air, where we stood within a few feet of the sea. The moonbeams bathed us in a shower of pearly radiance, and I turned instinctively to look at my companion.
Then, as I gradually regained full knowledge of my own existence, I perceived a table in the room with a lamp burning upon it, and at the table sat no less a personage than Aselzion himself, reading.
Now, I recognised that everything is and must be subservient to this interior force which exists to 'replenish the earth and subdue it' and that nothing can hinder the accomplishment of its resolved Will. As I sat by the window thinking and dreaming, I began to wonder what would be the nature of that 'last fear' of which Aselzion had spoken?
He raised my hands lightly to his lips. "That is kind of you!" he said "and to-morrow you shall hear from me about Aselzion and the best way for you to see him. He is spending the summer in Europe, which is fortunate for you, as you will not have to make so far a journey."
And in my foolish pride I had voluntarily severed myself from him! was this my punishment? More talking began, and I listened, like a criminal listening to a cruel sentence. "Aselzion will tell her, of course. Rather a difficult business! as he will have to admit that his teachings are not infallible. And on the whole there was something very taking about Santoris I'm sorry he's gone.
Therefore it seemed necessary I should remove myself, moreover, I was resolved that all the years I had spent in trying to find the way to some of Nature's secrets should not be wasted I would learn, I too, what Rafel Santoris had learned in the House of Aselzion and then we might perhaps stand on equal ground, sure of ourselves and of each other!
It was the Master, Aselzion, Aselzion invested with such dignity and splendour as I had never thought possible to man. He might have posed for some god or hero, his aspect was one of absolute power and calm self- poise, other men might entertain doubts of themselves at the intention of their lives, but this one in his mere bearing expressed sureness, strength and authority.
Yet with my bravest effort I could not recover myself sufficiently to be quite at peace, and in my restless condition of mind I looked towards the turret door opening to the stairway which led to the little garden below and the seashore but it was fast shut, and I remembered Aselzion had locked it.
Live again love again!" "I!" and he who was thus spoken to threw back his cowl, showing a face wan and deeply wrinkled, yet striking in its fine intellectuality of feature "I! with these white hairs! You jest with me, Aselzion!" "I never jest!" replied Aselzion "I leave jesting to the fools who prate of life without comprehending its first beginnings. I do not jest with you put me to the proof!
I had come to the House of Aselzion of my own wish and will, and so far I had endured nothing difficult. Apparently Aselzion was willing to receive me in his own good time and I had only to wait the course of events. Gradually my blood cooled, and in a few minutes I found myself smiling at my own absurdly useless indignation.
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