In the meanwhile thou mayest gaze for a brief space upon the majestic sphere which mortals dream of as Heaven.

Behold and see how fair is the incorruptible perfection of God's World!" I looked and trembled--I should have sunk yet further backward, had not Azul and my Angel-guide held me with their light yet forcible clasp.

My heart fails me now as I try to write of that tremendous, that sublime scene--the Centre of the Universe--the Cause of all Creation.

How unlike Heaven such as we in our ignorance have tried to depict! though it is far better we should have a mistaken idea than none at all.

What I beheld was a circle, so huge that no mortal measurements could compass it--a wide Ring composed of seven colours, rainbow-like, but flashing with perpetual motion and brilliancy, as though a thousand million suns were for ever being woven into it to feed its transcendent lustre.