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"I knew Heliobas as a child," the priest returned "I knew his father and mother before him; and I have been always perfectly aware of the ie, and the value of his discoveries If I were inclined to be sceptical on spiritual matters, I should not be of the race I am; for I am also a Chaldean"

I said noround the coffin in devout silence Again I looked at the fair dead forain All my impulses bade me rejoice Why should I be unhappy on Zara's account?--lories of the Central Sphere were yet fresh in my memory, and when I knew as a positive fact that her happiness was now perfect I left the chapel with a light step and lighter heart, and went to ht be in readiness for my departure on theI at once recognised--"The Letters of a Dead Musician" A card lay beside it, on which ritten in pencil: "Knowing of your wish to possess this book, I herewith offer it for your acceptance It teaches you a cheerful devotion to Art, and an indifference to the world's opinions--both of which are necessary to you in your career--HELIOBAS"

Delighted with this gift, I opened the book, and found my name written on the fly-leaf, with the date of the month and year, and the words: "La li Dei" (Music is the lament of love, or a prayer to the Gods) I placed this treasure carefully in a corner of"The Electric Principle of Christianity," and the valuables recipes of Heliobas; and as I did so, I caught sight ofmirror that directly faced litter of the electric gelowed like a star, and was really lovely--far more brilliant than the most brilliant cluster of fine diamonds I may here re this curious ornaeneral ie of the kind; it is sih on the shores of tropical countries, which has the property of absorbing a small portion of the electricity in a human body, sufficient to make it shine with prismatic and powerful lustre--a property which has only as yet been discovered by Heliobas, who asserts that the same capability exists in many other apparently lustreless stones which have been untried, and are therefore unknown The "healing stones," or amulets, still in use in the East, and also in the rehlands (see notes to Archibald Clerk's translation of 'Ossian'), are also electric, but in a different way--they have the property of absorbing DISEASE and destroying it in certain cases; and these, after being worn a suitable length of tiinally possessed, and are no longer of any use Stone amulets are considered nowadays as a ar and uneducated; but it must be remembered that superstition itself has always had for it a foundation soive a very curious explanation of the fore plants called soed in a "freak" of any kind! But I have neither time nor space to enter upon the subject now; indeed, if I were once to begin to describe the wonderful, ae that the wise Chaldean, who is still uide, has opened up and continues to extend beforevision, a work of twenty volumes would scarce contain all I should have to say But I have written this book merely to tell those who peruse it, about Heliobas, and what I o For, as, I observed in my introduction, I am perfectly aware that few, if any, of my readers will accept my narrative as more than a mere visionary romance--or that they will admit the mysteries of life, death, eternity, and all the wonders of the Universe to be simply the NATURAL AND SCIENTIFIC OUTCOME OF A RING OF EVERLASTING ELECTRIC HEAT AND LIGHT; but whether they agree to it or no, I can say with Galileo, "E pur si muove!"