It is but an imperfect and new-born energy which will not suffer thee to repose.
As thou directest it, must thou believe it to be the emanation of thine evil genius or thy good.
"But woe to thee! insect meshed in the web in which thou hast entangled limbs and wings! Thou hast not only inhaled the elixir, thou hast conjured the spectre; of all the tribes of the space, no foe is so malignant to man,--and thou hast lifted the veil from thy gaze.

I cannot restore to thee the happy dimness of thy vision.

Know, at least, that all of us--the highest and the wisest--who have, in sober truth, passed beyond the threshold, have had, as our first fearful task, to master and subdue its grisly and appalling guardian.

Know that thou CANST deliver thyself from those livid eyes,--know that, while they haunt, they cannot harm, if thou resistest the thoughts to which they tempt, and the horror they engender.

DREAD THEM MOST WHEN THOU BEHOLDEST THEM NOT.