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I had followed the speaker's words with fascinated attention, but now I said: "Dying, Heliobas? There is no death"

"True!" he answered, with hesitating slowness "But there is e call death--transition--and it is always a parting"

"But not for long!" I exclaierness of my lately instructed soul "As worlds are absorbed into the Electric Circle and again thrown out in new and ed into shapes of perfect beauty, having eyes that are strong and pure enough to look God in the face The body perishes--but what have WE to do with the body--our prison and place of experience, except to rejoice e shake off its weight for ever!"

Heliobas sh lesson well," he said "You speak with the assurance and delight of a spirit satisfied But when I talk of DEATH, Iasunder of two souls who love each other; and though such separation may be brief, still it is always a separation For instance, suppose--" he hesitated: "suppose Zara were to die?"

"Well, you would soon ht live many years after her, still you would know in yourself that those years were but minutes in the realms of space--"

"Minutes that decide our destinies," he interrupted with solemnity "And there is always this possibility to contemplate--suppose Zara were to leave h to live out ain? And if not then Zara's death would h perhaps I oal"

He spoke so ht him impervious to such a folly as the fear of death

"You are melancholy, Heliobas," I said "In the first place, Zara is not going to leave you yet; and secondly, if she did, you know your strongest efforts would be brought to bear on your career, in order that no shadow of obstinacy or error ht obstruct your path Why, the very essence of our belief is in the strength of Will-power What we WILL to do, especially if it be any act of spiritual progress, we can always accomplish"

Heliobas took my hand and pressed it warmly