Part 30 (1/2)
”Because his knowledge tells him that Sleep and Death are not the same, as you, in your foolishness, believe, for there Bastin is wiser than you Because for all his wisdoht of Life is blown out by the breath of Fate That is why he fears to die and why he talks with Bastin the Preacher, who says he has the secret of the future”
”And do you fear to die?” I asked
”No, Huently ”Because I think that there is no death, and, having done no wrong, I dread no evil I had dreams while I was asleep, O Humphrey, and it seelanced at where she knew theupon my breast
”Now,” she continued, after a little pause, ”tell es, of what happens there, for I long to know”
So then and there, assisted by Bickley, I began the education of the Lady Yva I do not suppose that there was ever a in with, she was better acquainted with every subject on which I touched than I was myself; all she lacked was infore ended two hundred and fifty thousand years ago, at which date, however, it would seeher water-mark than it has ever since attained
Thus, this vanished people understood astronoravity, steaathered, the lighting of their underground city was to be attributed
They had s and statues showed; they could fly through the air better than we have learned to do within the last few years
More, they, or some of them, had learned the use of the Fourth Dimension, that is their s, as well as over them, up into them and across them
This power these possessed in a two-fold forrate their bodies at one spot and cause theain at another, or they could project what the old Egyptians called the Ka or Double, and modern Theosophists name the Astral Shape, to any distance Moreover, this Double, or Astral Shape, while itself invisible, still, so to speak, had the use of its senses It could see, it could hear, and it could re to the body, it could avail itself of the experience thus acquired
Thus, at least, said Yva, while Bickley conte eye She even went further and alleged that in certain instances, individuals of her extinct race had been able to pass through the ether and to visit other worlds in the depths of space
”Have you ever done that?” asked Bickley
”Once or twice I dreamed that I did,” she replied quietly
”We can all dream,” he answered
As it was e and uncanny power at a later date, I will say no more of it now
Telepathy, she declared, was also a developed gift a the Sons of Wisdoes
Only, in their case, the sending and receiving stations were skilled and susceptible hus ent on duty for so ence was transmitted with accuracy and despatch Those who had this faculty were, she said, also very apt at reading the minds of others and therefore not easy to deceive
”Is that how you know that I had been trying to analyse your Life-water?” asked Bickley
”Yes,” she answered, with her unvarying s whether ry if he knew that you had taken the water in a little flask” She studied hi, first, whether I did not see you take the water frouess the purpose, and, secondly, whether perhaps Bastin did not tellwith it e met in the sepulchre”
”Look here,” said the exasperated Bickley, ”I ad are possible to a certain li that you possess those powers, as I think in English, and you do not know English, how can you interpret what is passing in lish all this while without knowing it, Bickley In any case, it ht, not the language hich it is clothed The thought comes from your mind to mine--that is, if I wish it, which is not often--and I interpret it in lad to hear it is not often, Lady Yva, since thoughts are generally considered private”
”Yes, and therefore I will read yours no more Why should I, when they are so full of disbelief of all I tell you, and sos about myself which I do not seek to know?”
”No wonder that, according to the story in the pictures, those Nations, whom you named Barbarians, made an end of your people, Lady Yva”
”You are mistaken, Bickley; the Lord Oro ainst h
Then Bickley departed in a rage, and did not appear again for an hour