There was no more sound.

Around me was illimitable light--illimitable silence.

But a strange scene unfolded itself swiftly before me--a sort of shifting dream that was a reality, yet so wonderfully unreal--a vision that impressed itself on every portion of my intelligence; a kind of spirit-drama in which I was forced to enact the chief part, and where a mystery that I had deemed impenetrable was made perfectly clear and simple of comprehension..