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The true occult scientist does not stand aloof from the world, but is a lover of reality, because he does not desire to enjoy the unseen in a remote dream-world, but finds his happiness in bringing to the world ever fresh supplies of force from the invisible sources from whence this very world is derived, and from which it must be continually fructified.
He had indeed been baptized then, but the recording angel could have borne witness that this second baptism fructified the first, and became the real herald of the new birth and the new creature. Justin Peabody silently closed the inner door, and stood in the entry with his head bent and his heart in a whirl until he should hear Nancy rise to her feet.
If, after he has taken his last survey of his treasures, and spent his last hour in that quiet library, where he has ever found his chief solace against the wear and worry of the world, the book-hunter has been removed to his final place of rest, and it is then discovered that the circumstances of the family require his treasures to be dispersed, if then the result should take the unexpected shape that his pursuit has not been so ruinously costly after all nay, that his expenditure has actually fructified it is well.
"Animal life, and human life also," we may suppose the alchemist saying, "are continued by the same method as that whereby the life of plants is continued; all life springs from seed; the seed is fructified by the union of the male and the female; in metals also there must be the two characters; the union of these is needed for the production of new metals; the conjoining of metals must go before the birth of the perfect metal."
And had he followed up the desire, he would have found its source in the idea that India was a region in which reflection and psychological experiment had been exhausted where if one appeared with a thought it turned old ere it could be explained where wisdom had fructified until there was no knowledge more where the teaching capacity was all there was remaining.
On the other hand, the ancient Peruvians were religious rather than warlike, more inclined to worship the sun than to fight great battles. Was Sacsahuaman due to the desire to please, at whatever cost, the god that fructified the crops which grew on terraces?
The full cause of this will appear in the mere title of the first of these half-attempted essays, viz: whereof my predication shall be simply and strictly nil. The next piece of serious study, as yet little more than a root in my mind, was to have fructified in the form of
This strange, unsympathetic, suspicious old woman, he would have had to call "Mother." What madness! What hypocrisy! And yet his hunger for happiness, which had not yet died, reminded him of all that might have been. A sea of warm, tender and unselfish love would have flooded him and fructified and vivified the desert of his soul.
Words delicate in courtesy and tentative in departure from formality passed between the two. And, as if in the expedient atmosphere of a real summer resort, an acquaintance grew, flowered and fructified on the spot as does the mystic plant of the conjuror. For a few moments they stood on a balcony upon which the corridor ended, and tossed the feathery ball of conversation.
The thought the small seed of thought that was responsible for the idea had been sown last night, as he leaned over the parapet fronting the Sacré-Coeur, looking down upon the city with its tangle of lights; and later, in the hours of darkness, when he had tossed on his heavy bed, too excited to lure sleep, it had fructified with strange rapidity, growing and blossoming with morning into definite resolve.
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