"One whom you loved and whom you lost." "Then you think that we live again upon this earth ?" "Again and yet again, until the time comes for us to leave the earth for ever.

Of this, indeed, I am sure, for that knowledge was part of the secret wisdom of my people." "But you were not dead.

You only slept." "The sleep was a death-sleep which went by like a flash, yes, in an instant, or so it seemed.

Only the shell of the body remained preserved by mortal arts, and when the returning spirit and the light of life were poured into it again, it awoke.

But during this long death-sleep, that spirit may have spoken through other lips and that light may have shone through other eyes, though of these I remember nothing." "Then that dream of our visit to a certain star may be no dream ?" "I think no dream, and you, too, have thought as much." "In a way, yes, Yva.