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Updated: May 3, 2025
As I did so, I lost sight of Aselzion of the chapel and of all those who watched my movements, and found myself surrounded on all sides by darting points of light which instead of scorching and withering me like a blown leaf in a storm, were like cool and fragrant showers playing all over me! Amazed, I went on and as I went grew bolder.
Aselzion, if the God you serve is half as wicked as the men He made, then Heaven itself is Hell!" He spoke deliberately, yet with passion. Aselzion silently regarded him. The fiery Cross and Star blazed with strange colours like millions of jewels, and the deep stillness in the chapel was for many minutes unbroken. All at once, as though impelled by some irresistible force, he sank on his knees.
As in a dream I heard a kind of murmuring behind me and suppressed exclamations from the students or disciples of Aselzion who were all assembled in the chapel but I paid no heed to this my whole soul was set on fulfilling the last task demanded of me. Step by step I went on I passed Aselzion with a smile "Good-bye!" I murmured "We shall meet again!"
"I cannot give you death," continued Aselzion-"You can take what is called by that name for yourself if you choose you can by your own action, sudden or premeditated, destroy this present form and composition of yourself for just so long as it takes the forces of Nature to build you up again an incredibly brief moment of time!
My fate seemed in a balance, but I left it to Aselzion, who, if his power meant anything, could read my thoughts better than I could express them. He rose from his desk and paced slowly up and down, absorbed in meditation. Presently he stopped abruptly in front of me. "If you stay here," he said "you must understand what it means.
THEY seemed to speak! to call me to draw me to them and I went hardly knowing why, yet feeling that I MUST go! and then " Aselzion pressed my hands gently. "Then the Light claimed its own," he said "and courage had its reward! The door of your recess in the chapel was opened by my instructions, I wished to see what you would do.
I exclaimed, suddenly, and with passion "I love him with all my soul! I will never lose him again!" Aselzion looked at me questioningly. "How do you know you have not lost him already?" he said. At this a sudden wave of despair swept over me a chill sense of emptiness and desolation.
And I watched, knowing that the picture must fade, -as it slowly did, vanishing like a rainbow in a swirl of cloud. "It is indeed a 'Dream'!" I said, smiling faintly, as I turned again to Aselzion "I pray that love itself may never be so fleeting!"
I had no desire to move or to speak, every trouble, every difficulty had passed from my mind, and I watched Aselzion dreamily as he brought a chair to the side of my couch and sat down then, taking my hand in his, felt my pulse with an air of close attention. I smiled again. "Does it still beat?" I asked, finding my voice suddenly "Surely the great sea has drowned it!"
He did so obediently, without another word, pulling his cowl closely about him so that none of his fellow-brethren might see his features. Another man then stepped forward and addressed Aselzion. "Master" he said, "would it not be better to die than to grow old? If, as you teach us, there is no real death, should there be any real decay?
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