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"They are all born of the Great Circle," iven the power of co them are the Spirits of Music, of Poesy, of Prophecy, and of all Art ever known in all worlds The success of their teaching depends on how much purity and unselfishness there is in the soul to which they whisper their divine rams which must be listened to with entire attention and acted upon at once, or the lesson is lost andtowardssoftly on a strange glittering instruh with sunbeaht at its misty robe in a wild effort to detain it It obeyed my touch, and turned its deeply luel who accoht

"What seekest thou?" it asked in a voice like theflowers

"Music!" I answered "Sing me thy melodies--fill me with harmonies divine and unreachable--and I will strive to be worthy of thy teachings!"

The young Shape sranted, Sister Spirit!" it replied "The pity I shall feel for thy fate when thou art again pent in clay, shall be taught thee in minor music--thou shalt possess the secret of unwritten sound, and I will sing to thee and bring thee comfort On Earth, call butvoice is known to the Children of Music, and hath oft shaken the vibrating light wherein they dwell Fear not! As long as thou dost love , the lovely vision, with its ss of its cloud-like lyre, floated onward

Suddenly a clear voice said "Welcolad recognition--I would have spoken--but lo! a wide i around , that I instinctively drew back and paused--I felt I could go no further

"Here," said ently--"here ends thy journey Would that it were possible, poor Spirit, for thee to pass this boundary! But that aze for a brief space upon the majestic sphere which mortals dream of as Heaven Behold and see how fair is the incorruptible perfection of God's World!"