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Updated: May 23, 2025
What of the "Flower-crowned Wonder" of the Field of Ardath, strayed for a while out of her native Heaven? Does the world know her marvellous origin? Perhaps the mystic Heliobas knows, perhaps even good Frank Villiers has hazarded a reverent guess at his friend's great secret but to the uninstructed, what does she seem?
Impulsively he stooped forward, and with a tender awe pressed his lips on the pale forehead, but instantly started back with the smothered, exclamation: "O God! how cold!" At the sound of his voice Heliobas rose up erect, and the two men faced each other, Zara's dead body lying like a barrier betwixt them.
It is sufficient for me to strongly WILL him to do a certain thing, and I can convey that command of mine to his brain without uttering a single word, and he will obey me." I suppose I showed surprise and incredulity in my face, for Heliobas smiled at me and continued: "I will put him to the proof at any time you like.
"It would take too long to explain to you just now," said Heliobas gently; "but I can prove to you in a moment that a connection DOES exist between YOUR inner self, and MY inner self, if you wish it." "I do wish it very much," I answered. "Then take my hand," continued Heliobas, stretching it out, "and look steadily at me." I obeyed, half trembling.
In a word, you will not believe in the Soul." "I cannot!" said Alwyn, with a hopeless gesture. "Why?" "Science can give us no positive proof of its existence; it cannot be defined." "What do you mean by Science?" demanded Heliobas. "The foot of the mountain, at which men now stand, grovelling and uncertain how to climb? or the glittering summit itself which touches God's throne?"
He was amiable enough to present me with a little landscape scene; and the effect of light upon it is so powerfully done that you would swear the sun was actually shining through it." The fine sensitive mouth of Heliobas curved in a somewhat sarcastic smile. "Mere trickery, my dear sir a piece of clap-trap," he said lightly. "That is what would be said of such pictures in England at least.
"For certain secrets to be made known to the world which till now have been kept sacred," returned Heliobas, "You must understand that the chief vow of the Fraternity of the Cross and Star is SECRECY, a promise never to divulge the mysteries of God and Nature to those who are unfitted to receive such high instruction.
One would think that most people in these educational days knew the Greek word helios, and one would also imagine it as easy to say Heliobas as heliograph. But now to avoid mistakes, whenever I touch British territory and come into contact with British tongues, I give my Christian name only, Cassimir the result of which arrangement is, that I am known in this hotel as Mr. Kasmer!
He would fight any one who attempted to touch it with the ferocity of a hungry tiger, and there is no edible dainty yet invented that could tempt his appetite or coax him into any momentary oblivion of his duty. There is no more trustworthy or faithful messenger." "I suppose you have sent him to your friend his master," I said. "Yes. He has gone straight home to Heliobas."
Heliobas was silent he seemed engaged in deep and anxious thought, and he kept his steadfast eyes fixed on Alwyn's countenance, as though he sought there the clew to some difficult problem. "What do you know of the Nunc Dimittis?" he asked at last, with a half-smile. "You might as well say PATER NOSTER, both canticle and prayer would be equally unmeaning to you!
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