[Messer Marco Polo by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne]@TWC D-Link bookMesser Marco Polo CHAPTER VII 5/6
And many's the young man will dream dreams, and many's the old man will see visions, and they reading the book by the golden candle-light; and many's the young girl will give you love, and you dead for centuries.
But for this you must keep your dream. "Now you'll think it's the queer pope I am to be telling you things like this instead of demanding converts.
But the wisdom that surpasses wisdom comes to you with the Annointing of the Oil.
'I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago,' writes Saint Paul, '(whether in the body I cannot tell, or whether out of the body I cannot tell.
God knoweth.) "'How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which is not lawful for a man to utter.' "Now you see there is a wisdom surpassing wisdom, and it is out of this fount of wisdom I am drawing when I speak to you these words. "Child, I will not keep you any longer.
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