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"Have I been long away?" I asked, as I raised

"I sent you fro at noon," replied Heliobas "It is now Friday evening, and within a fewalar; and you resisted an to fear you would never come back at all"

"I wish I had not been coretfully

He seneral complaint Will you stand up now and see how you feel?"

I obeyed There was still a slight sensation about , and otherwise I felt singularly strong, bright and vigorous I stretched out h whose scientific power I had gained h!" I said earnestly "I dare say you know so, but not all," he replied "Of course I knoorlds and systems you saw, but as said to you, or what special lessons were given you for your co while it is fresh upon me," I returned "I feel that I lad I arateful I am to you"

I then related the different scenes through which I had passed, o no detail Heliobas listened with profound interest and attention When I had finished, he said: "Yours has been a most wonderful, I may say almost exceptional, experience It proves to me more than ever the omnipotence of WILL Most of those who have been placed by , have consented to it sione beyond the pure ether, where, as in a sea, the planets swim Cellini, for instance, never went farther than Venus, because in the atmosphere of that planet he met the Spirit that rules and divides his destiny Zara--she was daring, and reached the outer rili froht of till you had fulfilled it How true are those words: 'Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you'! It is not possible," and here he sighed, "that amid such wonders you could have remembered me--it were foolish on my part to expect it"