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Updated: May 3, 2025
I was confronted by the tall commanding figure of a man wearing the same white garments as those of my guide, a man whose singular beauty and dignity of aspect would have enforced admiration from even the most callous and unobservant and I knew that I was truly at last in the presence of Aselzion. Overpowered by this certainty, I could not speak I could only look and wonder as he drew near me.
I did not feel disposed to sleep, and I resolved to write down from memory all that Aselzion had told me while it was fresh in my mind. The white veil I had been given still clung about me, I now took it off and carefully folded it ready for further use if needed. Sitting down at the little table, I took out pen, ink and paper, but somehow I could not fix my attention on what I intended to do.
Was not my very journey to the House of Aselzion a testimony of my own doubting attitude? for I had come, as I now admitted to myself, first to make sure that Aselzion really existed and secondly, to prove to my own satisfaction that he was truly able to impart the mystical secrets which Rafel seemed to know.
I do not believe one word you have said against Rafel Santoris or against Aselzion I love the one, and I trust the other! let me go my own way in peace!" Hardly had I spoken these words when both the old man and woman threw themselves upon me and seizing me by force, endeavoured to drag me away with them.
If I could only know the truth, I thought! if Aselzion would only come and tell me the worst at once! In a kind of stupor of unnameable grief I stood in the little purple-hung shrine so suddenly opened to me, and began to dreamily consider the unkindness and harshness of those voices! Ah! so like the voices of the world!
"You are pleased at what you cannot realise," he said, slowly "If you go to the House of Aselzion and I see you are determined it will be a matter of such vital import that it can only mean one of two things, your entire happiness or your entire misery.
As he thus spoke, I, looking from my little hidden recess, saw a movement among the seated brethren; one of them rose and descending from his place, walked slowly towards Aselzion till he was within a few paces of him then he paused, and threw back his cowl, showing a worn handsome face on which some great sorrow seemed to be marked too strongly to be ever erased.
And the evening will close on a day of peace and happiness, one of the many unwearying, beautiful days which, like a procession of angels, bring us new and ever more perfect joy! More than a year has elapsed since my 'Probation' in the House of Aselzion, since we, my Beloved and I, knelt before the Master and received his blessing on our eternal union.
For the rest I leave you to decide you will go to the House of Aselzion and perhaps you will remain there some time, at any rate when you depart from thence you will have learned much, and you will know what is best for yourself and for me. My beloved, I commend you to God with all my adoring soul and am Your lover, Rafel Santoris
I believed, and I think I was right in my belief, that I should have found every door open, and every facility offered for a cowardly retreat had I chosen to make it. And then everything would have been at an end! I should have probably had to leave the House of Aselzion and perhaps I too should have been marked with a black cross as a failure!
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