New Britain herald., 1930-10-01

eyes meet his.
 'I do not know it's purpose" she answered, but to me you seem to give peace" If l read your note correctly" he fingered the envelope she had sent him-'you craved wisdom, not peace"
 Aren't they the same?"
 "Yes and no, child. There is the wisdom of destruction-and in i that there is no peace. And there i3 the wisdom of rightness, which brings to those who follow it the peace that your Christ said 'passeth understanding.
 You know Christi" she asked curiously.
 q know all teachers who have taught the Way"
 "And what is the Way?"
 "The Path of Righteousness, im- notation of self, my daughter. Lao Tze, Confucius, Buddha, Christ, they all and lesser teachers point ed the path l follow. What does r. matter how a man is called or the color of his skin, if he says: DO this because it is right. For get Self in the Oneness of all.'"
 "Is that what you told Blaine Howard 2" Dagger inquired.
 You are not the wife he fled from ?"
 No. And yet" Dagger added honestly, "he fled from me-"
 "A just man. You were fortunate i'll loving him, my daughter"
 'Is it fortunate to love one you never possess" ?" Dagger demanded somewhat bitterly What is possession? What is love? Is it physical? Is it a thing O. clay and passion? Or is it, in it's finest essence, the distillation of the hunger of two souls for what is beautiful?"
 But is there no more?" she ex- claimed
 More? There is all'
 How can there be more for me? How car I have all? He is dead"
 "No no, my daughter" said Ghulam Bulk. There is no such thing as death. Nothing that is of the spirit dies"
 'Ts that why I think of~Blaine as if he lived?" she asked.
 'If you think so, you are in touch with life," he said.
 He cannot be alive" she pro- | tested.
 q said you were in touch with life" corrected Ghulam Bulk. T did not know, until you told me, material clay which hold the imma- terial light of the spirit. And if he has suffered that loss, any daughter. perhaps still he will come to you | again."
 How could he?" "Who am I to say what shall and shall not be? You people of the West have plucked the lightning out of the air, and speak words which ride the winds. Would it be more
 
 ally dead, and immaterially immor- tai, returned? Your friend, who was my friend, strove to follow the Way I think that you, too, seek it. That is sufficient"
 Then I do no wrong if I con- tinue to seek after him, if I follow the Way he trod?" Dagger ques- tioned eagerly. Wrong? My daughter, you jus tify him and yourself. In seeking lies happiness"
 The bell-like quality of the dis tant voice fascinated her.
 But he is surely gone from me?" she suggested.
 His eyes blazed so that his an- cient face was lit up by the flame ot his conviction.
 No one is dead. who has sought the Right, who has forgot himself in the Oneness of all. Seek on, my | daughter At the end of seeking lies wisdom, and he who has found the wisdom of rightness has found peace"
 Dagger was touched by awe. 1 You have found peace-father? she asked.
 His smile acknowledged the title she had given him.
 'I have found peace" he assented. But theN seeking was not easy. so be not discouraged if the Way proves stony"
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