The wild bird and the wild beast have theirs; and my mastery over the malignant tribes of terror can banish their larvae from the path that shall lead her upward, till the air of eternity fits the frame for the elixir that baffles death." "And thou hast begun the initiation, and thou art foiled! I know it.
Thou hast conjured to her sleep the fairest visions; thou hast invoked the loveliest children of the air to murmur their music to her trance, and her soul heeds them not, and, returning to the earth, escapes from their control.

Blind one, wherefore?
canst thou not perceive?
Because in her soul all is love.

There is no intermediate passion with which the things thou wouldst charm to her have association and affinities.

Their attraction is but to the desires and cravings of the INTELLECT.

What have they with the PASSION that is of earth, and the HOPE that goes direct to heaven ?" "But can there be no medium--no link--in which our souls, as our hearts, can be united, and so mine may have influence over her own ?" "Ask me not,--thou wilt not comprehend me!" "I adjure thee!--speak!" "When two souls are divided, knowest thou not that a third in which both meet and live is the link between them!" "I do comprehend thee, Adon-Ai," said Zanoni, with a light of more human joy upon his face than it had ever before been seen to wear; "and if my destiny, which here is dark to mine eyes, vouchsafes to me the happy lot of the humble,--if ever there be a child that I may clasp to my bosom and call my own--" "And is it to be man at last, that thou hast aspired to be more than man ?" "But a child,--a second Viola!" murmured Zanoni, scarcely heeding the Son of Light; "a young soul fresh from heaven, that I may rear from the first moment it touches earth,--whose wings I may train to follow mine through the glories of creation; and through whom the mother herself may be led upward over the realm of death!" "Beware,--reflect! Knowest thou not that thy darkest enemy dwells in the Real?
Thy wishes bring thee near and nearer to humanity." "Ah, humanity is sweet!" answered Zanoni.
And as the seer spoke, on the glorious face of Adon-Ai there broke a smile..