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But I, though so expressed by my master,

yet had an unaccountable conviction that here was so bad So I

resolved to be keenly on the watch for what should follow

Suddenly a great star, like a sun, appeared high in the air over the

te arose fro round and round the building, now receding

to the end, and now approaching, down the other side, the place where we

stood For so, and the next

to the, so that it crept onwards with

gradations produced by changes which could not theing ceased at the sa paused; and I saw a company of six of the white-robeda youth gorgeously attired

beneath his robe of white, and wearing a chaplet of flowers on his

head

I followed the their slow progress with my eyes, I was able to perceive

more clearly what took place when they arrived at the other end I knew

that ht was so ood reason to suppose I should see more than the rest could, at such a

distance At the farther end a throne stood upon a platfor priests To this platforin to ascend, apparently by an inclined plane or gentle slope The

throne itself was elevated again, on a kind of square pedestal, to the