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The father superior or the patron in danger?" The Princess replied calmly, but with feeling: "It is not a supposition, Sergius." Though surprised, he returned: "Without it I could not have your decision first." "Thou, Sergius, art the distressed neophyte." He held his hands out to her: "Give me thy judgment." "The Hegumen of the St. James' is the accuser." "Be just, O Princess!
He feels the passionate curiosity of the neophyte. He is smitten with the zeal of the hermetical philosophy. He would learn more than Rosicrucian lore. That is a vision soon dispelled. But the earnest curiosity changes into esprit du corps, and the mischief is that the secrecy and the society feeling are likely to take precedence of the really desirable motives in college.
It is recorded that a priest once presented to Saint Teresa a young girl who wished to become a Carmelite nun, and who, according to him, had angelic qualities. Saint Teresa, accepting the neophyte, replied: "See, my father, our Lord has given this maiden devotion, but she has no judgment, and never will have any; and she will always be a burden to us."
He indicated his forehead with a long forefinger. "Quite right, too and worth one's while. If rumor is to be believed, you have ordinarily more than your labor for your pains. You have taught me something already.... Ah, well!" she sighed, "I suppose I may as well acknowledge my inferiority as neophyte to hierophant. Master!" She courtesied low.
All should reverence the altar; none should insult the humblest neophyte. Mrs. Whyland indulgently overlooked his reckless use of names and liked him none the less; and the little lady who had suffered on a similar occasion, though in a different role, gave him a glance of thanks. "I know the type," said Mrs. Whyland.
In the one the mind is tuned to inner meditation and religious awe; in the other the worshipper passes into a temple of the clear explicit faith as an initiated neophyte might be received into the meaning of the mysteries.
Never before had she left for two days unanswered letters which were to her as Sibylline leaves to some unquiet neophyte yearning for solutions to enigmas suggested whether by the world without or by the soul within.
"Of course she did they always do," declared the leader. "Isn't the fountain haunted? We know it is so." This was all said for effect, and to impress her, Ruth knew. But she tried to go to Helen. They held her back, however, and she could not speak. "Did the Neophyte go to the fountain?" demanded the leader, sternly. Helen, in spite of her tears, nodded vigorously.
"You are a divine creature, and I love you with all my heart." "So much the better. I give myself up to you; do what you like with me, on the condition that you think of my sister no more." "That will not cost me much. I promise that I will not think of her." I found Annette a perfect neophyte, and though I saw no blood on the altar of love next morning I did not suspect her on that account.
I began by advising narrative poetry for the neophyte, and I shall persevere with the prescription. I mean narrative poetry in the restricted sense; for epic poetry is narrative. Paradise Lost is narrative; so is The Prelude. I suggest neither of these great works. My choice falls on Elizabeth Browning's Aurora Leigh.
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