Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-26

MAN WAS
 brain. The terror passed; an unfathom. able weight of sleep pressed me down. ] was dying. l was dying, and then was dead-nothingnes
 A change-life came back to me, but be. tween the new life and the life that had been was gulf and difference. Once more l stood in the darkness of the shrine, but it blinded me no more. It was clear as the light of day, although it was still black stood and yet 1t was not I who stood, but rather my spiritual part, for at my feet lay my dead self. There 1t lay, rigid and still, Q stamp of awful calm sealed upon its face while gazed on it.
 And as gazed, filled with wonder, was caught up on the Wings of Flame and whirled away! awayl faster than the light ming flash. Down I fell, through depths Of empty space, set here and there with gilt tering crowns of stars. Down for ten million miles and ten times ten million, till at length I lowered over a place of soft, un- changing light, wherein were Temples, Pal aces and Abodes, such as no man ever saw in the widest visions of his sleep. They were built of Flame, and they were built ot Blackness. Their spires pierced up and up; their great courts stretched around. Even as l hovered they changed continually tc the eye; what was flame became blackness, what was blackness became flame. Here was the flash of crystal, and there the blaze of gems shone even through the glory that rolls around the city which is in the Place of Death. There were trees, and their voice as they rustled was the voice of music; there was air, and as it blew it's breath was the sobbing notes of song.
 Shapes, changing, mysterious, wonderful, rushed up tQ meet mo and bore me down tn ct beA1
 "Who comes?" cried great voice.
 "Harmachis," answered the Shapes tina, changed continually. "Harmachis, who hath been summoned from the earth to look upon the face of Her, that Was, and Is, and Shall Be. Harmachis, Child ot Earthp'
 ':Throw back the Gates and open wide the Doors!" pealed the awful voice. .'Throw back the Hates and open wide the Doors Seal UP his lips in silence, lest his voice jar upon the harmonies of heaven; take away his sight, lest he see that which may not be seen, and let Harmachis, who hath been summoned, pass down the path that leads to the place of the Unchanging. Pass on, Child of Earth; but, before thou goest, look up that thou mayest learn how far thou art removed from earth.''
 l looked up. Beyond the glory that shone about the city was black night, and high on it's bosom twinkled one tiny star.
 Behold the world that thou hast left" said the voice. "behold and tremble."
 Then my lips and eyes were touched and sealed with silence and with darkness, SC that was dumb and blind. And the gates rolled back, the doors swung wide, and 1 Mag sWsRt ipte the city that is in the placs of Death Swiftly was swept know not Whither, till at length I stood upon my feet Again the same voice pealed.
 "praw the vail of blackness from his eyes, unseal the silence on his lips. that Harmachis, Child of Earth, may see, hear and understand, and make adoration at the shrine of Her, that Was, and Is, and Shall Be'
 And my lips and eyes were touched once more, 80 that my sight and speech came back >.u !A"Is
 Behold, stood within Q hall of blackest marble, so lefty that scarce even in the rosy ngnt" could my vision z reach the grea, groins or the roof. Music wailed about ;;i winged spirits tashionsa i'd llvihg flame. @ aSd such was fhe brightness of, their forms thai fcould not look thereon. In it's center. was was an altar, small and square, and stood be- oFied, ',''.A'' A a''' ''' ''- F''Ss
 "o fRou that hast been, art, and shalt be Thou who, having many names, art yet without name; Measurer of Time; Guar. dian of the Worlds, and tho Races that dwell thereon; Universal Mother born o1 | Nothlngness; Creatrix uncIeated; Living l splendor without form, Living Form with. 1 out Substance; Servant af tha Invisible l Ehlld ol Law: Holder of the Scales and | Sword of Fate; Vessel of Life, from whom all Life is, to whom it again is gathered: ! Recorder of Things Dong; E@acutor 6i l Decrees-hearl HarmachiJ, the Egyptian; I who by Thy will hath been summoned | from the earth. waits before Thine Altar, | and with an open heart. Hear and de soend! Descend, 0 Many -shaped De scend in Flame! Descend in Soundi De- scend In Spirit Hear and Descendl"
 The voice ceased and there was silence | presently, moved thereto-hv ..xnoyv moi | Uno< AhoW Aot -, .-lsed my eyes from between my hands wherewith I had covered them, and | l saw hanging over the altar a small dark | cloud, 1n aad out of which a fiery serpent climbed
 Then all the Spirits ciad in fiame fell upon | the marble floor, and with loud voice