How hast thou followed my admonitions! Are these the scenes in which the Aspirant for the Serene Science thinks to escape the Ghastly Enemy?
Do the thoughts thou hast uttered--thoughts that would strike all order from the universe--express the hopes of the sage who would rise to the Harmony of the Eternal Spheres ?' "'It is thy fault,--it is thine!' I exclaimed.

'Exorcise the phantom! Take the haunting terror from my soul!' "Mejnour looked at me a moment with a cold and cynical disdain which provoked at once my fear and rage, and replied,-- "'No; fool of thine own senses! No; thou must have full and entire experience of the illusions to which the Knowledge that is without Faith climbs its Titan way.

Thou pantest for this Millennium,--thou shalt behold it! Thou shalt be one of the agents of the era of Light and Reason.

I see, while I speak, the Phantom thou fliest, by thy side; it marshals thy path; it has power over thee as yet,--a power that defies my own.

In the last days of that Revolution which thou hailest, amidst the wrecks of the Order thou cursest as Oppression, seek the fulfilment of thy destiny, and await thy cure.' "At that instant a troop of masks, clamorous, intoxicated, reeling, and rushing, as they reeled, poured into the room, and separated me from the mystic.