Thus far it has lain dormant; it has been concealed under a thousand false and unnatural habits, arising from your strange native customs.

You have been brought up under some frightful system, where nature is violated.

Here among us your true humanity is unfolded, and with Almah you are like the Kosekin.

Soon you will learn new lessons, and will find out that there is a new and a final self-abnegation in perfect love; and your love will never rest till you have separated yourself from Almah, so that love can have its perfect work." The sea now opened wide before us, rising up high as if half-way to the zenith, giving the impression of a vast ascent to endless distances.

Around the shores spread themselves, with the shadowy outlines of the mountains; above was the sky, all clear, with faint aurora-flashes and gleaming stars.