Others were clothed in armour, shining like the colours of the rainbow, and carried flaming swords in their hands.

Each, at his master's nod, flew like lightning to accomplish his will.

All his servants--faithful, vigilant, bold, and ardent--were united in friendship, and could imagine no happiness greater than the favour of their master.

There were some, less elevated, who were still good, rich, and happy in the favours of their sovereign, to whom all his subjects were alike, and were treated by him as his children.
"Not far from the frontiers, the Great King possessed a desert island, which he desired to people and cultivate, in order to make it, for a time, the abode of those of his subjects whom he intended to admit, by degrees, into his _Heavenly City_--a favour he wished to bestow on the greatest number possible.
"This island was called _Earthly Abode_; and he who had passed some time there, worthily, was to be received into all the happiness of the heavenly city.

To attain this, the Great King equipped a fleet to transport the colonists, whom he chose from the kingdom of _Night_, to this island, where he gave them light and activity--advantages they had not known before.