He said that they live many times and in many shapes, though not always on this world, and that between each life there is a wall of darkness." "If so, of what use are lives which we do not remember after death has shut the door of each of them ?" "The doors may open again at last, Prince, and show us all the chambers through which our feet have wandered from the beginning." "Our religion teaches us, Ki, that after death we live eternally elsewhere in our own bodies, which we find again on the day of resurrection.

Now eternity, having no end, can have no beginning; it is a circle.

Therefore if the one be true, namely that we live on, it would seem that the other must be true, namely that we have always lived." "That is well reasoned, Prince.

In the early days, before the priests froze the thought of man into blocks of stone and built of them shrines to a thousand gods, many held that this reasoning was true, as then they held that there was but one god." "As do these Israelites whom I go to visit.

What say you of their god, Ki ?" "That _he_ is the same as our gods, Prince.