[The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Jewel of Seven Stars CHAPTER XV 9/26
That she may have held before her a definite time for making her effort is not only possible but likely.
I shall not stop now to explain it, but shall enter upon the subject later on. With a soul with the Gods, a spirit which could wander the earth at will, and a power of corporeal transference, or an astral body, there need be no bounds or limits to her ambition.
The belief is forced upon us that for these forty or fifty centuries she lay dormant in her tomb--waiting.
Waiting with that 'patience' which could rule the Gods of the Under World, for that 'love' which could command those of the Upper World.
What she may have dreamt we know not; but her dream must have been broken when the Dutch explorer entered her sculptured cavern, and his follower violated the sacred privacy of her tomb by his rude outrage in the theft of her hand. "That theft, with all that followed, proved to us one thing, however: that each part of her body, though separated from the rest, can be a central point or rallying place for the items or particles of her astral body.
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