They have the control of all and everything which mortals may use, so the soul of Korinna revisiting these scenes may quite well have paid the ferryman with an obolus." "Then you know of it ?" asked Melissa in surprise; but the Magian broke in, saying: "Few such things remain hidden from him who knows, not even the smallest, if he strives after such knowledge." As he spoke he gave the girl such a look as made her eyelids fall, and he went on with greater warmth: "There would be fewer tears shed by death-beds, my child, if we could but show the world the means by which the initiated hold converse with the souls of the dead." Melissa shook her pretty head sadly, and the Magian kindly stroked her waving hair; then, looking her straight in the eyes, he said: "The dead live.

What once has been can never cease to be, any more than out of nothing can anything come.

It is so simple; and so, too, are the workings of magic, which amaze you so much.

What you call magic, when I practice it, Eros, the great god of love, has wrought a thousand times in your breast.

When your heart leaps at your brother's caress, when the god's arrow pierces you, and the glance of a lover fills you with gladness, when the sweet harmonies of fine music wrap your soul above this earth, or the wail of a child moves you to compassion, you have felt the magic power stirring in your own soul.