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I looked and trembled--I should have sunk yet further backward, had not Azul and ht yet forcible clasp My heart fails me now as I try to write of that tremendous, that sublime scene--the Centre of the Universe--the Cause of all Creation How unlike Heaven such as we in our ignorance have tried to depict! though it is far better we should have a mistaken idea than none at all What I beheld was a circle, so huge that noco with perpetual h a thousandwoven into it to feed its transcendent lustre Froht, some of which stretched out so far that I could not see where they ended; so out on the pure ether, and this would instantly forreat, and whirl round and round the enorirdle of flame from which they had been cast, with thewas, it encoreat Globe of opal-tinted light, revolving as it were upon its own axis, and ever surrounded by that scintillating, jewel-like wreath of electricity, whose only motion was to shine and burn within itself for ever I could not bear to look upon the brightness of thatthe size of the sun by a hundred thousand millions, no adequate idea could be formed of its vast proportions And ever it revolved--and ever the Rainbow Ring around it glittered and cast forth those other rings which I kneere living solar systems cast forth from that electric band as a volcano casts forth fire and lava My Angel-guidewhich was nearest to the position of the Earth I looked, and perceived that there the shafts of descending light formed themselves as they fell into the shape of a Cross At this, such sorrow, love, and shame overcame me, that I knew not where to turn I el--send me back to that Star of Sorrow and Error! Let me hasten to make amends there for all my folly--let me try to teach others what now I know I am unworthy to be here beside thee--I am unfit to look on yonder splendid World--let s; for what ah I should consu, how can I ever hope to deserve the slory I now partly behold?" And could spirits shed tears, I should have ith rerief