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Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est. VIRG. AEn. vi. 126. The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return and view the cheerful skies; In this the task and mighty labour lies.

And as Louis wasn't it? said, we most of us think better than we do " They had reached the haze of the ballroom by this time. People sitting on the flour-bags sent up white auras which mingled with the dust and the smoke of strong pipes to make an effective screen. Kraill looked astonished. Marcella smiled. "They say Englishmen take their pleasures sadly," he whispered confidentially.

Thyrsis got a strange impression among these people, who were living upon their knees before the shrine of their own literary history. One was treading here upon holy ground; in these very houses had dwelt immortal writers their earthly forms had rested in these chairs, and their auras yet haunted the dim religious light of these drawing-rooms.

"I guess so, but I certainly hope that suit is all it is claimed to be. If it isn't well I'd rather not commit murder." "It'll work," said Arcot. "I'll bet my neck on that!" Suddenly he was surrounded by the faintest of auras, a strange, wavering blue light, like the hazy corona about a 400,000-volt power line. "Now try it." Fuller pointed the pistol at the floating man and pushed the trigger.

Rocks and minerals are very primitive, whereas plants have more developed auras. After thousands of years, the soul seeks an animal incarnation. Except in rare instances, enlightenment occurs through the human form only." I grinned and wiggled my thumbs, figuring I was already ahead of the game. "Humans in their early incarnations are responsible for many of the world's problems.

It is supposed to be "a combination of the most volatile auras or gases, diffused over the whole body, though traced in a more concentrate form in some organs than in others;" and it is described as "the very texture of that separate state of existence which the infallible page of Revelation clearly indicates will be ours."

"I have heard this sort of nonsense before," he said "I have even read in otherwise reliable scientific journals about the 'auras' of people affecting us with antipathies or sympathies for or against them. But it's a merely fanciful suggestion and has no foundation in reality." "Why did you wish me to explain, then?" asked Santoris "I can only tell you what I know, and what I see!"

"Too difficult a question." "Why's that? Gruyere or Stilton?" "Gruyere, please." "Better have Stilton. "Stilton. Because, though I don't believe in auras, and think Theosophy's only a halfway-house " " Yet there may be something in it all the same," he concluded, with a frown. "Not even that. It may be halfway in the wrong direction. I can't explain.

The divine dispersion of rays poured from an Eternal Source, blazing into galaxies, transfigured with ineffable auras. Again and again I saw the creative beams condense into constellations, then resolve into sheets of transparent flame. By rhythmic reversion, sextillion worlds passed into diaphanous luster; fire became firmament.

The marine productions which are commonly known by the names of "Corals" and "Corallines," were thought by the ancients to be sea-weeds, which had the singular property of becoming hard and solid, when they were fished up from their native depths and came into contact with the air. "Sic et curalium, quo primum contigit auras Tempore durescit: mollis fuit herba sub undis,"