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INTRODUCTORY PREFACE. 
 
 In this little pamphlet will be found an authorised Trans- 
 lation—however imperfect—of a series of highly important 
 and instructive articles which appeared a few years ago in 
 that profoundly erudite French Monthly, “Revue Cosmique,” 
 and which now that so-called ‘‘Occultism” is interesting the 
 minds of many, will perhaps meet with favour from a few 
 thoughtful people. The study of Tradition is bighly profit- 
 able and it is not altogether useless or credulous to despise 
 the counsel of the ancient Hebrew writer who says: 
 
 ‘*Remember the days of old, 
 Consider the years of many generations; 
 Ask thy Father and he will shew thee, 
 
 Thy Ancients and they will tell thee. 
 Deut XXXII 
 
 The terms ‘‘Brothers,’’? ‘‘Fathers’’ had two different 
 meanings with the ancient Sages; one being the Hierar- 
 chic Chiefs, and the other those who were the direct and 
 more highly developed descendants of the representative 
 men who were the intermediaries between men and the 
 more Rarefied Beings of good will towards men. As to the 
 ‘‘Ancients,” they are mentioned in Revelations iv, 10. The 
 Readers of our Morning Star will have but little difficulty 
 in understanding most of the matters treated upon, being 
 already somewhat familiar with the Cosmic Philosopy, and 
 the Footnotes will elucidate the more difficult passages. 
 The ‘‘Lords of the Tempests’’ are no mere chimera as 
 many would suppose; the ancient Indian Vedas makes 
 many clear allusions to the Aarts or Gods of the Tempests, 
 and Jesus is represented as ‘‘rebuking the winds and the 
 sea.’’ It is also rather significant that the ‘‘devils’’ (?) be- 
 sought him that he ‘‘would not command them to go out 
 into the deep.”’ 
 
 Relative to the sinking of Atlantis, in the Book of Enoch 
 will be found many passages referring thereto, only one of 
 which I need copy : 
 
 “In these days Noah saw the earth became inclined, 
 And that destruction approached. 
 . The earth labours and is violently shaken.” 
 Book of Enoch Sect. xi, Chapter Ixiv. 
 
IV INTRODUCTORY PREFACE. 
 
 This Book must have been familiar to the disciples of 
 Tesus, for according to the Epistle of /ude, the brotber of 
 James, it is written: ‘‘And Enoch also the seventh from 
 Adam, prophesied of these, saying: Behold the Lord com- 
 eth with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment 
 upon all,’’ (v. 14,15.) this passage being taken word for 
 -word from Chap. ii of that book. The ancient Kabalis- 
 tic book, the Zohar also speaks of the Book of Enoch asa 
 genuine book of great antiquity. It says: ‘*The Holy and 
 the Blessed One, it is said, raised him (Enoch) from the 
 world to serve Him, as is written: For God took him, From 
 that time a book was delivered down, which was called the 
 Book of Enoch.’’? Nimrod says the Egyptians commemora- 
 ted the magnificence of Enochia orEnoch’s land in their 
 legend of Atlantis, (iv, 302) and Enoch sent Priests and 
 Initiates over the earth. Fabricius gives twenty different 
 authors who refer to this book. 
 
 In zekiel Chapters xxvili and xxxi will be found an 
 ancient account of the submergence of Atlantis. His In- 
 ner God spoke to him, saying: ‘J am a God (the £go 
 being our God, our Resurrection and Life) I sit in the seat 
 of God in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a Man... 
 Thou hast been in Eden... thou wast upon the Holy 
 Mountain of God,” for every nation had its places of Initia- 
 tion and Holy Mountains, as some stil] continue to have. 
 Futhermore, Ezekiel says: ‘*They shall bring thee down to 
 the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in 
 the midst of the seas. (v,1, 8, 13, 14.) The latter portion of 
 the Atlanteans were addicted to Sorcery and they were also 
 accused of breeding with a lower race of creatures. In an- 
 cient Mythology we read of the strange amours of Poseidon, 
 who became a dolphin to win Amphitrite; a horse to seduce 
 Ceres; a ram to deceive Theophane, etc. The word 
 ‘‘Atlantean’’ includes quite a number of races. and 
 nations and not one single race or nation only, just as when 
 we speak of the ‘‘Americans,’’ ‘‘Asiatics,”’ etc. 
 
 The Druid Priests—who originated in Atlantis—called 
 by Pliny the ‘‘Magi of the Gatils’ and Britons,” in perfect 
 
INTRODUCTORY PREFACE. Vv 
 
 agreement with the Hindus, Greeks, Romans, Chaldeans 
 and Egyptians, fully believed in the succession of worlds, 
 in the seven ‘‘creations’’ or rather ‘'Classifications,’’ ours 
 being the seventh; Peter alludes to the destruction of At- 
 lantis—although our Theologians and the interpreters falsely 
 make the prophecy refer to the Creation, the Flood, 
 etc.—by subterranean fires and inundations. In his Sec- 
 ond L£fistle (Chap. ii, 3-14) he says: ‘‘The heavens were of 
 old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the 
 water; whereby ¢he world that then was, being overflowed with 
 water, perished.”’ 
 
 There are earnest and solitary students and Sages for 
 whom the ‘‘almighty Dollar’’ finds but very little interest ; 
 who, living in obscurity and far from ‘‘the businessworld,”’ 
 guardtheir sacred records which have been treasured up for 
 ages; precious legends and traditions well known to Solon, 
 Pythagoras, and Plato, traditions which have passed with the 
 utmost care from one Master to another. Those veritable 
 Men &xow that Atlantis isno myth, but that at various times 
 in the remote past, huge islands and continents existed 
 which are now peacefully lying under the ocean depths; as 
 also that at a remote age one could cross that which at 
 present is the Atlantic Ocean by boats from one Island to 
 another, there having then been narrow straits between 
 them. The names, rites, ceremonies and traditions amongst 
 the ancient Mexicans and Babylonians are _ identical, 
 which is a convincing proof that America must have been 
 peopled by those who found their way across the Atlantic, 
 for the Atlantic legend is no fiction. The truth of many 
 of those old legends, as well as their exactness, testified to 
 by such gigantic intellects as those we have just mentioned, 
 begin to dawn upon the minds of several of our scientists, 
 just as what is called the ‘New (but really very Old) 
 Thought’”’ is now dawning upon such Theologians as the 
 Rev. Mr. Campbell of London, etc. 
 
 As that learned Frenchman, M. Jacolliot says, speaking 
 of the aborigines of the Sandwich Islands, New Zealand, 
 etc: 
 
VI INTRODUCTORY PREFACE. 
 
 “They had never known nor heard of each other until the arrival of the 
 Europeans; yet each of those people maintain that their island had at one 
 time formed a part of an immense land which extended towards the West, 
 on the side of Asia. Allspoke the same language, had the same usages, 
 customs and religious belief. To the question: Where is the cradle of 
 your race? for sole reply, they extended their hand towards the setting 
 
 sun.” 
 
 The perfect identity of the religious rites, traditions and 
 even the names of their Deities, amongst the Mexicans, 
 ancient Babylonians and Egyptians are quite ample proofs 
 of South America having been peopled by persons who had 
 in a mysterious manner found their way across the Atlan- 
 tic. History issilent as to this but the Atlantis legend 
 tells the story, and the ancient Aztecs resembled the ancient 
 Egyptians in civilisation and refinement. 
 
 The Priests of Phrygia and Asia Minor agree perfectly 
 with the Priests of Sais, when they revealed to Solon the 
 history and fate of Atlantis. ‘‘The transactions of this our 
 city of Sais, are recorded in our sacred writings during a 
 
 *? says Plato in Zimaus. Futher- 
 
 period of 8,000 years, 
 more, he says: ‘‘Great changes have taken placein the 
 days of old in heaven and on earth, and present things are 
 one of the results.’’ In Critias he says: ‘‘Nine thousand 
 years have elapsed since the War of Nations and according 
 to the statement made by the Egyptian Priests to Solon, 
 9,000 years have passed away since the destruction of the 
 last portion of Atlantis. The name Ad/anta could never 
 have originated with Plato for it is no Greek name and has 
 nothing Grecian about it. In every case when Plato in- 
 forms us respecting Atlantis there exists agreement both in 
 architecture, sculpture, navigation, engraving, writing, 
 priesthood, worship, etc. Homer, who preceded Plato by 
 many centuries, in his Odyssey, speaks of the Atlantes 
 (Atlanteans) and of their island. 
 
 As to the ancient Sa 
 
 ges having command over the Forces 
 of Nature, 
 
 Priests of a oat are. ample. | HY 0h ae oo 
 pees aan os aay ores of thunder and lightning 
 ee sae rs who, with Xerxes and Brennus, fled with 
 
 » Upon no less than three different occasions, 
 
INTRODUCTORY PREFACE, Vil 
 
 when they attempted to rob their Temple? In a fragment 
 of Ossian, the sword of Oscar is distinguished by the epith- 
 et Druv lanach, the flame of the Druids, and in the country 
 of the Gauls every flash of lightning is even yet called: 
 “The Flame or Fire of the Druids.’’ Numa the King- 
 Philosopher knew the secret of ‘‘forcing Jupiter the Thun- 
 derer to descend upon earth,’’ and Titus Livy and Pliny 
 tell us that Tullus Hostilius found in the Book of Numa in- 
 structions regarding the secret sacrifices offered Jupiter Eli- 
 cius; also that he committed an error and ‘twas struck by 
 lightning and consumed in his own palace.’ (77, Ziv. Lib. 
 i, Chap. xxxi.) Pliny says: ‘‘Having performed the rite 
 imperfectly, he perished, struck by thunder.’’? (Vat. Hist. 
 mab. xxviii, C. ii) 
 
 Referring to the above Etruscan secrets he further says: 
 
 “Impetrare fulmen, cogere fulmen,” 
 
 the first denoting an afpea/, the second the projection of the 
 lightning. In Agathias, de redus justin, Lib, v, C. 4, we 
 read of lightning projected upon the house of Zenon; in 
 Sozomen’s Feclesiastical History, Lib. ix, C. 6, there is an 
 account of the Etruscan Sacerdotal Corporation defending 
 the town of Narnia by lightning, against Alaric; those 
 same Priests offered to the Christians of Rome to protect 
 theirtown in like manner, but the latter attributed the 
 knowledge of the Priests to the ‘‘Devil’’?!—the old, old 
 story—and Rome wastaken. In Levit. x, 1-7; Deut. iv, 33, 
 36, will be found an account of this Empyrean as Orpheus 
 termed it; Horace speaks of it as belonging to certain Mys- 
 teries, and Moses tells us it emanates from ‘‘the Height of 
 Heaven.” The Zend-Avesta says: ‘‘Evoke and compre- 
 hend the Celestial Fire’? and the Oupnekhat adds: ‘‘To 
 know the real nature of Fire, of the Light of the Sun, of 
 Magnetism, and the Moon, the Atmosphere and Telluric 
 Electricity, is three-fourths of the Science of the Magi.”’ 
 
 Servius says: *‘the ancient Priests never lighted a fire upon 
 their altars—their sacred prayers brought down and made 
 appear the Fire of Heaven.’’ 
 
 Did not Hesiod believe that the winds were ‘‘the sons of 
 
INTRODUCTORY PREFACE. 
 
 the giant Ty pheus,”’ who were bound and unbound by 
 Rolus? were not the Greeks warned to listen to the oracle 
 of Delphi and ‘‘sacrifice to the winds’’ at the approach of 
 Xerxes and his fleet; didnot Elijah seek the Lord in the 
 ‘“oreat strong wind and earthquake?’’ If Jupiter in olden 
 times hurled forth his lightnings and thunderbolts, did not 
 the Lord send out his arrows (thunderbolts) and scatter 
 Saul’s armies with lightning? (II Sam. xxii, 14, 15) since 
 He ‘maketh his clouds his chariot; who walketh upon the 
 wings of the wind: Who maketh his Angels Spirits; his 
 Ministers a flaming fire.”? (Psalms civ, 3, 43 Il Sam. xxii, 
 9g, 11.) Did not the Emperor Constantine sentence Sopa- 
 trus, the philosopher, to death, fer loosing the winds and 
 keeping back the ships loaded with grain to stop the famine? 
 did not Pausanias see men who by a few prayers and in- 
 
 Vill 
 
 cantations stopped a hailstorm? 
 
 Upon page 24 of this pamphlet Mouchir and Agil are 
 represented using a double crystal as a Telescope, but 
 at an early period this instrument seems to have been 
 known. The Druids, as an old writer says ‘*brought the 
 moon near to the earth,’’ and according to Hecateus, a 
 very old author, as given by Diodorus Siculus. (Zz. iii, 
 C. ll) they had discovered mountains in the moon. He 
 says: ‘‘And which is the more remarkable, they could shew 
 the moon very near them and discover therein mountains 
 and heaps of rocks, which the telescope only can do.”’ 
 
 In Dupaix’s Monuments, plate xiii, there is a man hold- 
 ing something like a telescope to his eye. The ancients 
 eye een ane of small stars, there- 
 aid of telescopes. The Pharos, a a pene Ba 
 
 ce in ee ve . r ‘‘miraculous tower”’ as - 
 Nee tevin jen < bes ar rates, wae nearly 400 feet 
 eer eae ee opt Soars huge mifror of polished 
 before they were rwisible i the eye i cae a eas ee 
 scope. This tower was aie oe "ALncay ee 
 achicuies yed, as Abulfeda relates, by 
 
 As to the grandeur and richness of some of the dwellings 
 
INTRODUCTORY PREFACE. IX 
 
 of the Atlanteans, this is no myth, for even at a recent date 
 as compared with those prehistoric times, we might well 
 ask, who carved the massive columns of Elephanta, ancient 
 as the Pyramids; or who formed Carli and the Caves of 
 Kenari and Serendib; the palaces of the Thebaid and Iran; 
 the jabyrinth of 1,500 chambers, glittering with precious 
 stones, frescoes and gold; the sepulchre of Osymandias, a 
 palace of gold, marble and painting; Babylon in its splen- 
 dour, a square of 60 miles, with brazen gates and marble 
 towers; the eight-storied tower of Belus, based upon a 
 square of one mile, containing Temples decked with statu- 
 es of beaten gold; the Temple of the Tyrian Hercules at 
 Gades, with gold and emerald pillars, jewelled gates of 
 ivory and silver, containing golden olive trees bearing 
 smaragdine fruit within the shrines, with an altar of the 
 precious metal, one hundred feet high, the walls and ceil- 
 ings overlaid with plates of gold, clustered with diamonds, 
 emeralds and rubies; the marble fane of the Great Goddess 
 at Hierapolis, with doors, roofs, altars and ornaments of 
 gold, rich with jewellery, a rainbow of precious gems round 
 her waist, diamonds on her head, with a lamp by her side 
 which shone like solar fire, lighting up the whole Temple— 
 not such as men now possess, but belonging to the times of 
 old, when men were ‘‘savages,’’ as many modern Priests 
 and Parsons pretend! 
 
 In conclusion we hope that our modest efforts, as Trans- 
 lator, may encourage a few earnest readers to aspire to- 
 wards their soul perfection, by vanquishing the deceitful 
 machinations of the Hostile, or as Paul expresses it; wrest- 
 ling against the Evil Principalities and Powers, the Rulers 
 of the Darkness of this world, the Spiritual Beings from the 
 Nervous Region of the Hostile, (pes. vi, 11, 12) who are 
 incessantly trying to possess our earth and its inhabitants. 
 This aspiration towards soul progress practically carried out 
 by the Readers will therefore be considered as an ample 
 reward for those humble endeavours of their well-wisher 
 
 Loudsville, Ga. U. S. A., 
 
 12TH Nov., 1907. THe TRANSLATOR. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Scene opens in Ceylon. Jalavat the young Initiate Hierarchually rests 
 under a palm. Two Sages Pravaga and Maha-Paksha Bree from the 
 Sacred City of the Himalaya mountains. The latter has lived through 
 centuries ‘Balavat has power over the three Heavens. His dream. The 
 Occidental beautiful Passive. Divination by the Seventh Wave. Balavat 
 leaves Ceylon in search for his Duality. The two Sages advise him. Brah- 
 man prophecy relative to the Daughter of Vellah (Venus). Maha-Paksha 
 has for the first time left his home in the Himalayas to guide her. The 
 Sacred Isle of the West described. Aryama the Daughter of Vellah bears 
 the Silver Sickle and what it means. She enters the Temple Cave, places 
 her foot on the Sacred Stone. She receives the Hierarchic solemn rite. 
 She stands by the sea and invokes the Seventh Wave. The Fiery Cloud. 
 Aryama falls senseless on the beach. Her rescue by Balavat. The tutor of 
 the High Priestess (Aryama) and Balavat, the tutor’s care over Aryama. 
 Transformation of Balavat to Pavaka through Black Magic. Aryama throws 
 Magical cup of milk upon Pavaka. Its weird results. Pravaga strangely 
 but suddenly appears. Flames burst forth from the Temple. The Mys- 
 tical Oarsmen. Aryama’s Evocation to Vishnu. Her mystical emblem 
 the one horned fish. Seventh Wave brings boat to the vessel. Kings of 
 the Tempests wroth because Seventh Wave has been stained with blood 
 from a wounded fish. Storm increases. The Fiery Cloud of the Lord of 
 the Region of Fire. Aryama again invokes the Lords of the Tempest: 
 Dream of Aryama relating to the Phantom Vessel which hurries towards 
 the West. Two Adepts confer together. Power of Invisibility belongs only 
 to Duality. Atlantis described. Cave Palace of Archpriestess and Queen 
 of Atlantis. Enclosed Garden guarded by leopards, tigers and serpents. 
 Queen Dain the Archpriestess is welcomed. The strange Coral Carver 
 who seeks work in Atlantis. A striking Magical scene. The Island Queen 
 describes some vf her diabolical doings to Aryama, the Phantom Vessel, 
 etc. Royal Palace of Auantis with its Perpetual Lamps described. Dain 
 asleep in Palace. Coral Carver confers with her. His grand object. Other 
 striking scenes of Black Magic. Aoual comes and awakens Pavaka. Power 
 
 of Aoual over Dain. The Chant of Dain (or Sheba-el-Ma) to Aoual. 
 Aoual’s object threefold, viz., 
 
 first, to remove from the incarnation of She- 
 ba-el-Ma the form she had ta 
 
 ken as Aditya (Aryama); second to cause the 
 Queen to repose under his protection; lasuy, to force the Lord of the Fire 
 from the body which he had appropriated in his likeness. Pavaka conceal- 
 ed from Aditya his intention of entering the Enchanted Palace of Dain. 
 ae puts her to sleep. When she awakens she finds not Pavaka. Premo- 
 nitions of danger, A fierce tempest overthrows a large tree before her 
 dwelling. . Aditya sets out amidst the storm to find Pavaka. Every year 
 Aoual Visits a solitary Isle of the West on the anniversary of the day when 
 
CONTENTS. XT 
 
 TZere, ancient Queen of the Isles, refused to follow him. He laments with 
 Tzere whose voice mingles with the ocean. The Seventh Wave brings 
 the voice of a Daughter of Vellah (Adity2) who is in danger and lies sense- 
 less near the uprooted tree. Aoual’s Invocation to the Kings of the Tem- 
 pests. Aditya sleeps. Pavakaa prisoner in the Enchanted Palace. fle 
 reposes. Aditya enters. Charm of Love breaks all others. Aditya conse- 
 crated Queen of the Isles. Dain asleep in boat at the Isle of Oaks. 
 A Powerful Being appears to her who tells her that her only liberty 
 depends upon her invoking the King of the Region of Fire. ‘The plot 
 deepens. Dain jealous of the new Queen of the Isles. Dain is to be as- 
 sisted by the Being upon one condition only, viz., that she must come to 
 the Region of Fire. Dain again put to sleep by Aoual. Aditya warns the 
 peop'e to get their boats ready. Dain’s Chant to Agnishut. Fire from 
 heaven strikes the tower, the earth violently shaken. Dain suddenly dis- 
 appears. The Hierarchy of Atlantis enter the boats. Atlantis sinks. 
 Aditya, Pavaka and new Sacred Hierarchy of Atlantis reach the little 
 Isle of the Sea, Mona. They evoke Tzere. Aoual stands upon the 
 beach. The Sacred Hierarchy who preserve the Dvaada is established. 
 The Prophetic future of Mona. 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES: 
 A LEGEND OF THE ISLES OF THE SEA 
 
 PREHISTORIC TIMES. 
 
 It is the new moon of the sixth month. In the Isle which 
 is the Pearl of the South Sea and the sacred place of the 
 Central Country,* the young Chief Balavat reposed in the 
 shade of a wide-spreading palm tree, the most beautiful and 
 fruitful in all the vast palm grove which extended all 
 around. No man is visible, but behind the large trunks of 
 the palms, to the east and west, north and south, four times 
 four men watch so that nothing hurtful can come near him, 
 whilst he reposes. He is very precious as being the greatest 
 in Power in all the Hierarchy. Thus the guardians, each 
 group of whom is capable of distinguishing one of the Phy- 
 sical, Nervous, Psychic, or Mental Rarefactions, watch to- 
 gether at the four sides of the square, whilst Balavat rests 
 under the large palm, passing from Rest to Rest. 
 
 As the sun goes down and the shadows of the trees length- 
 en, two venerable men arrive from the east and enter within 
 the square, by passing between the watchers who silently 
 welcome them. They are two of the most esteemed Sages 
 of the Sacred City of the northern mountains covered with 
 perpetual snow.t One is Pravaga, Pravaga who loves soli- 
 tude for the better evoking of the remembrances of the re- 
 mote past; the other is Maha-Paksha, whose numerous 
 disciples always follow, for his delight is to be with the 
 sonsof men. They are seated within a stone’s throw of 
 Balavat and converse together in a low voice. 
 
 *At present the Isle of Ceylon. 
 +The Himalaya mountains. 
 
2 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 Maha-Paksha.—You who have lived through the ages, 
 you who remember so many former existences, and who 
 consequently understands better than any other the nature 
 of existence, tell me what you think of Balavat! Is it he 
 whom we seek and wait, he who will bethe Illumination 
 of the world? 
 
 Pravaga.—Balavat, in comparison with the Illuminator 
 after whom we sigh, is like one of the four satellites of the 
 Queen of Planets,* by the side of the great ancestor of the 
 earth, Szvius.t Balavat will have power in the three 
 heavens which surround the earth, {t but the Illuminator will 
 have power in the fourteen heavens.§ Nevertheless we 
 know only the limit of the gradations where he can ascend 
 alone, but those which he can reach in Duality of Being 
 that he seeks at thistime, who can foretell them until she 
 for whom he is destined calls and desires him? 
 
 M. P.—That is true. Just as the union of certain con- 
 stituents by heat produce gold, so the union of two beings 
 by the fire of Love can produce that which is of great value. 
 Unfortunately, at present, although two souls formed for 
 earthly Duality may be incarnated at the same time upon the 
 same sphere, it may happen that they never meet, one may 
 be born in a palace and the other in a cottage, one may be 
 amongst the Illuminee and the other amongst those who are 
 yet in the densest obscurity. Thus for want of develop- 
 i li ee 
 
 *The Planet Jupiter. 
 
 tSirius is one of the stars nearest to the earth and consequently to our 
 oun. : Our Sun was originally mingled with Sirius and had been detached 
 from it, just as the earth later on had been separated from its centre. That 
 the centre of rotation is Sirius, as our sun is the focus of motion for out - 
 planet, is clearly explained in Tradition; the Sun is first detached from 
 Sirius, then contracted; the earth is afterwards detached from the Sun, af- 
 terwards condensed; the same with the moon which is separated from the 
 earth.— Fditor, 
 
 {The question here is of the Nervous, Psychic and Mental States which 
 = emia 2: the Physical. They often designate under the name of 
 
 =vens i symbolic language, the different States of Matter. 
 
 i he seven States of the Materialisms and the seven States of the Ether- 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 3 
 
 ment of Sensitives,* who ought to be able, by Intuition or 
 Predilection to find those with whom they are one, many 
 existences are lost without profit or utility. 
 
 Whilst the two Sages thus conversed together, Balavat 
 rose and approached them. ‘‘Very wise and venerable 
 Masters,”’ said he to them, ‘‘whilst I reposed under the palm 
 tree consecrated by the presence of a Royal Draada.t Ihad 
 a dream or vision which I beg, with your permission, to 
 make known to you.”’ 
 
 M. P.—We shall listen to you. 
 
 Balavat.—In my dream I saw the leaves of the palms 
 agitated by the north-west wind. A fog soon extended over 
 the grove and drops of rain fell everywhere around me, but 
 none fell upon me, Afterwards in the fog a small cloud of 
 a reddish colour formed above me as if the rays of the set- 
 ting sun had coloured it. I was astonished because the 
 sun had been set for some time, and the sky was veiled in 
 mist. Then drops of rain ceased falling upon the trees and 
 the ground around me, but they fell upon my face, hands 
 and feet which were not covered with my clothing, throw- 
 ing me intoa kind of drowsiness. My clothes were soon 
 soaked by that rain, like as the clothes of a shepherd 
 who watches over the flocks by night are soaked with the 
 dew. At length the little cloud floated towards the north- 
 west, although the wind blew always from the same direc- 
 tion, I asked myself : by what force can this cloud go against 
 the wind. Whilst it floated on pursuing its way, its colour 
 became clearer, more luminous, and assumed a fiery colour. 
 I then said to myself: assuredly this cloud is permeated by 
 that which is from the Rarefaction of the region of the Soul 
 of the Senses. Perhaps it is that which protects our souls 
 before we descend to earth, which causes this cloud to pass 
 towards the place where the being of my being dwells. 
 
 *The word “Sensitive” is employed to denote a Man or Woman pos- 
 sessing other senses than the five which are evolved in the generality of 
 humanity—Zuiitor. 
 
 tThe Draada are the Passives of the Nervous Degree whose place of 
 rest is in the sap of the large Oaks.— Zid. 
 
4 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 A short time afterwards I heard the noise of a great mass 
 of water, whose waves broke with such a noise as I had 
 never heard the like of in our Isle. They were like the 
 roaring of a lion mingled with thunder. The little cloud 
 passed over the Great Ocean and stopped above an oak for- 
 est. I afterwards saw a very beautiful Passive* who leaned 
 against the rough trunk of one of the largest of those ven- 
 erable trees. She wore a blue dress, hemmed with richly 
 wrought golden embroideries. Her hair, the colour of ripe 
 wheat which shoots forth upon the mountain slopes, was 
 loose and floated behind over her garment, like a wavy silk 
 mantle. Ihave never seen anything so beautiful as that 
 young Passive. Her figure was tall and supple, her count- 
 enance full of grace and gentleness, her large eyes—fringed 
 with a crown of dark eyelashes—were blue, like clear 
 and deep water, and her lips were red like coral. She held 
 a hazel wand in her right hand, with which she beat time, 
 as is done in music. Six times she beat time by following 
 the shape of a triangle, and at the Seventh beat she pointed 
 her hand towards the ocean, whose waves were heard be- 
 hind the rocks which separated it from the forest. Upon 
 seeing this, I listened attentively, and I understood how the 
 sound of every Seventh Wave was more sonorous and pow- 
 erful than that of the other six. I afterwards remembered 
 that it is registered in Zradition that in the remote past there 
 were persons who divined the future by the breaking of the 
 Seventh Wave of the ocean upon the shore, and who un- 
 derstood the voices of the great waters. 
 
 Pravaga.—Centuries have come and gone since Divina- 
 tion was practiced by the Seventh Wave, the marvellous 
 and powerful Incantation by the Seventh Sign of the Chal- | 
 deans. Who then can that beautiful Passive of the forest 
 of oaks be, who beat the measure with her hazel wand, by 
 following the rhythm of the ocean waves, and who pointed 
 it towards the Seventh Wave when it broke upon the shore? 
 
 Balavat.—Truly Ido not know, but I sha know, for as 
 
 = ; , 
 
 = A Fe word ‘Passive’ is generally employed to denote a woman, a “Sen- 
 4 ” 
 
 sitive Passive” denotes that the Sensitive is a woman.—£d, 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 5 
 
 soon as day breaks I will set out for the eastern shores of 
 the Western Ocean, and I will have no rest until I find her 
 whom I love. 
 
 M. P.—Wait, my son, until the young girl calls you, for 
 if she does not call you, it may be that she does not desire 
 to unite her life with yours. 
 
 B.—If this is the case, why should I have had this vision 
 whilst I rested under the sacred palm? 
 
 M. P.—Who knows? Perhaps you have not found favour 
 with the Draada; maybe some personal Divinity who is 
 from Siva* drives and pushes you towards adversity and 
 loss, maybe I am deceived and that the child of the Seventh 
 Wave wants you. 
 
 B.—-It must certainly be that it is so, and since I am free, 
 having climbed the Six Grades, I can prove for myself the 
 truth of my vision, for there will never be for me any other 
 Passive like that beautiful girl of the oak forest. 
 
 M. P.—Mistrust, my son, mistrust those who conceal 
 themselves in mists and clouds, for the Kingdom of the 
 Divine Friend of man is within our Ego, andall that influen- 
 ces us from without, that which is felt only through its veil, 
 ought at least, to be attentively observed. 
 
 B.—Pardon my question, great Sage: Do you main- 
 tain that no friend of man, of a more rarefied degree, can 
 appear to bim and communicate with him? Do you deny 
 the existence and efficiency of those who thus come with the 
 object of helping us? 
 
 M. P.—That would be to run counter to the experience of 
 all people and ages. 
 
 B.—What do you wish me to understand? 
 
 M. P.—That the friends of man never appear like inte- 
 rior non-stationary beings, such as the dove or elephant, the 
 eagle or lion, or even the dog, nor like fire nora cloud, or 
 any other inhuman form, but only in the form and likeness 
 of Man. 
 
 Pravaga.—I confirm the saying of Maha-Paksha, and if 
 
 *Siva, an Ethiopian God the same as Baal.—Zd. 
 
6 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 this can save you in anywise, I would advise you to stay in 
 the midst of us and watch. But you are free to go any- 
 where you please, and I know with what ardour the blood 
 flows in your veins; I know that when the seventh new 
 moon will have risen and set, you will have crossed the 
 Great Ocean of the West, in search of the pretty Passive, 
 of her with whom is found the wisdom of the Ancient Sci- 
 ence, the knowledge of the voice of the Seventh Wave. 
 
 Upon saying those words Balavat withdrew and disap- 
 peared in the palm forest. 
 
 M. P.—Certainly Balavat has not within him that which 
 could evolve him into one of the highest of the Sons of 
 Brah-Ma, still less that which could develop him as far as 
 the mission of the Redeemer or Restorer of Man. Never- 
 theless by the science of Numbers, which never deceives, 
 he whom we await must be now incarnated upon earth. 
 
 P.—That is true, but so great is the confusion of existence, 
 so deteriorated is our perception, that we might search for 
 him in vain. Alas! the signs of the cloud, of fire, of be- 
 ings less developed than man appear always, but the signs 
 of the luminous stars of the evening and morning, the be- 
 ings who are sent by the friends of man, who are attracted 
 towards his Aura by Pathetic Force, become more and 
 more rare, Therefore the vision of Balavat gives us a rea- 
 sonable hope of finding the Expected One—(apart) and 
 who knows if I have not already found him? 
 
 M. P.—How so? 
 
 P.—A prophet of the remote past, a true Brahmarichi* 
 has said: *‘The time of each intellectual dawn of day is 
 marked by the number 5, the symbol of the Passive, who 
 is veiled by the Quaternary and who is the centre of the 
 square, that isessential for all perfection. At the advent 
 of the near dawn of Intellectual day, that Passive will be 
 seen in an oak forest, upon the eastern bank of the Western 
 Ocean, and she will be known by this sign: She will hold 
 a wand in her hand with which she will beat the measure of 
 
 *A Brahman of the highest degree. 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 7 
 
 the waves, whilst they break upon theshore. She is the first 
 amongst the Daughters of Vellah* and no one can be com- 
 pared to her in virtue and beauty.”’ 
 
 M. P.—I remember that prophecy, and if I am not mis- 
 taken, it is followed by this advice and warning: ‘‘Let the 
 Illuminees watch over and protect that Daughter of Vellah 
 from the inmate of the cloud of fire and concealed in the 
 fog.”’ I would follow Balavat to recall to him this saying, 
 and if itis possible to dissuade him from setting out towards 
 the Western Ocean, for fear that some misfortune happen 
 to him or her whom he seeks. 
 
 P.—Can the voice of reason be heard where the fire of 
 passion prevails? Balavat has already departed, afraid that 
 some one may be opposed to his design, and if he was still 
 here, he would no doubt reply to you: It is I and no other 
 one who will preserve her from the cloud of fire and the 
 children of the mists. 
 
 Thus spoke Pravaga and he retired towards the palms. 
 
 M. P.—The lover of solitude whose home isin the town 
 of perpetual snows leaves for the first time perhaps, if my 
 memory does not deceive me, the Central Country, in order 
 to find means to guide that Daughter of Vellah, for fear 
 that she take the light of the cloud the colour of fire for one 
 of the three Sacred Fires, for fear that the child of White 
 Light become not Agni Karana.+ 
 
 * 
 * * 
 
 At a certain place upon the eastern shore of Europe extend 
 towards the west, within the Atlantic, three rocky promon- 
 tories. To the south of one of those promontories which is 
 more to the south than the others, is still found another 
 promontory which stretches further south, and between 
 them opens a bay inthe form of acrescent. It isa summer 
 
 *The “Daughters of Vellah” are mentioned in the Chronicles of Chi as 
 being conceived and dwelling under the most powerful influence of Vellah 
 (Venus), it is upon the history of the Daughters of Vellah that is based 
 the vulgarised legend how the Sons of God saw that the Daughters of Men 
 were pretty. (Gez. vi, 2.) 
 
 t Sacrifice by Fire. Agni is the God of Fire in the Vedic tradition. 
 
8 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 night. Above the ocean, forests and steep rocks which sepa- 
 rate the world of waters and that of the trees, extends the 
 cloudless expanse of sky, of a deep blue, by reason of its 
 ozonised immensity, in which in majestic order move innu- 
 merable starry worlds, as they already moved before the 
 fixed had been divided from the plastic, before the earth 
 bad sprung from the ocean of waters. 
 
 All is apparently motionless, except the waters, whose 
 surface is wrinkled with feeble undulations, and Hesperus, 
 the Evening Star. which crosses the heavenly vault, as if it 
 followed the sun in itscourse. All is apparently silent, ex- 
 cept the monotonous rhythm of the waves which enter, rol- 
 ling into the bay, and break upon the shore. Even the 
 gulls and flocks of wild doves, who have their nests in the 
 crevices of the rocks, sleep. The waters of the rising tide 
 have almost reached their ordinary height, which marks a 
 line in the form of a crescent, with shells and sea-weed. 
 Upon the eastern side a path descends in a steep slope 
 across the rocks down to the shore. This is the side of one 
 of the countries sacred to the Initiates. It emerged long 
 ago from the Central Country. Some time ago they salu- 
 ted with solemn rites the new moon, which rose and set 
 above the sea, like a thin silver crescent. As the night be- 
 came darker, the Evening Star shone with a more intense 
 radiance. They call it a point of living light, one of the 
 tears of Lakshmi* suspended between heaven and earth, a 
 drop of luminous dew, whose radiance casts a trail of splen- 
 dour over the waters. A stone is detached from the rocks 
 and falls upon the beach. At this noise the birds who 
 watch over their families as vigilant sentinels, send forth in 
 a semi-voice their warning cry. Then all is again silent, 
 except the monotonous rhythm of the waves. 
 
 At the top of the rocky path which goes down towards 
 the shore, there is seen shining the form of a crescent which 
 reflects the light of Hesperus. It is a silver Sickle. She 
 ce Seb 
 
 *The Passive or Feminine counterpart of Vishnu; the Venus Aphrodite 
 of the Greeks.— Za. 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 9 
 
 who carries ‘it is a slender and graceful young girl, of ex- 
 quisite figure. Her face of a delicate oval presents the 
 type of beauty of Aoual* and her long and silken hair, 
 loose, in sign of virginity, falls upon her raiment, like a man- 
 tle of undulating gold. She wears no ornament save a thin 
 crown of oak leaves, in the centre of which is astar with 
 seven points, in precious brilliants, whose lustre is hidden 
 by the oak leaves. She slowly descends the path and ad- 
 vances to the edge of the waves. The sentinel birds have 
 uttered no cry during her passage, for they well know whose 
 hand throws seeds to them when the winter stretches his 
 snowy and icy mantle over the forest. 
 
 It is the Passive elected by the Guardians of the Draada, 
 Aryama, the beautiful, pure and merciful. Atthe rising of 
 the new moon, she enters within the grotto which serves as 
 a Temple, and placing her foot upon the Sacred Stone, she 
 pronounces the words consecrated since zons of time: ‘‘The 
 All-Penetrating is without Form. Integral formation is the 
 manifestation of that which is to clothe.’”’? Then before the 
 assembled Hierarchy she receives with solemn rites the Sil- 
 ver Sickle with the crown of oak leaves, and the Chief says 
 to her: ‘‘To you, Aryama, to you, Elect, belongs the Sil- 
 ver Sickle, symbol of the crescent moon,—the moon which 
 has power over the waters—until, in Duality of Being, you 
 receive the Golden Sickle, symbol of the Germinative Es- 
 sence, where the formative power resides which has pow- 
 er over the Cosmos of being in permanent form.’’ Then 
 the harpers strike their golden harps, and the singers sing: 
 ‘‘Who is like the Elect Passive? Who can be compared 
 with Aryama?’’ and all the Initiates respond in one voice: 
 ‘*We knowof no one.’’ Afterwards the Chief Harpist re- 
 sumes the rhythm of the waves which break upon the beach : 
 ‘*Like Hesperus amongst the Stars, like a rare pearl amongst 
 precious stones, like a lily amongst the flowers of the field, 
 is the well-beloved Elect amongst all our young girls.”’ 
 
 *Aoual is the First Emanation of Brah, the Attribute of Justice of the 
 Cosmic Cause.—£Zd. 
 
10 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 * ¥ x 
 
 Motionless like a statue Aryama stands upon the beach, 
 until six waves have rolled and broken at her feet. At the 
 moment when the Seventh, more powerful than the others, 
 approaches, and comes to bathe her naked feet, she lays 
 aside her Silver Sickle, stretches her hands over the waters, 
 and sings in a very ringing voice, clear and melodious, the 
 Pan of Invocation, that the waves of the descending tide 
 accompany, and whose Seventh Wave which breaks into 
 foam upon the shore, marks the strange rhythm : 
 
 ‘*From the Ocean beach, I invoke thee, Oh! Kaoahe, 
 
 Oh Kaoahe!* listen to me, lend an ear to my supplication, 
 Marvellous and mysterious is the voice of the deep waters, 
 When they break upon the beach the waves speak silently, 
 
 And without words they unveil many mysteries, 
 
 But more marvellous still is thy Seventh Wave, Oh Oceanus! 
 Oceanus, monarch of the waters, son of the Earth and lower Air. 
 
 From thy depths arise the mountains 
 
 Whose summits ascend to the limits of aerial sustentation, 
 Ascend to the regions where dwell the Nervous Beings; 
 This is why thy Seventh Wave proclaims secrets, 
 
 Secrets which come from the more Rarefied Heavens. 
 
 From the Ocean beach, I invoke thee, Oh Kaoahe! 
 
 Oh Kaoahe! thou art one wit the Lord of the Lunar Empire, 
 The first of the sons of Earth who was stripped of his clothing, 
 Oh Kaoahe! listen to me, lend an ear to my supplication, 
 
 See how I follow the waters, when they fall back. 
 
 My feet are all bathed with the Seventh Wave. 
 
 Tell them to reveal to the Virgin Aryama 
 
 Who is he that is seen in her vision, 
 
 He who shews himself to her in the country of dreams. 
 Open my ears, I supplicate thee, Oh Kaoahe! 
 
 Thou whose voice unites with that of the sonorous waves, 
 How can I know the blessed place of his dwelling! 
 
 I follow the motion of the waves and I invoke thee, Oh Kaoahe! 
 Oh Kaoahe! Queen of the Nervous Sphere, Queen of Oceanus, 
 Open my eyes so that the tufts of foam 
 
 That the Seventh Wave leaves upon the sand of the beach 
 
 May tell me the home of him whom my soul sighs after.”’ 
 
 _ *Kaoahe was the Passive of Kaoah (Biblical Cain,) both having been re- 
 jected by Devo, the Hostile Chief, upon Wud (the Moon,) so called be- 
 cause it wanders around the earth, hence it will beseen why Aryama in- 
 voked Kaoahe who has power over ¢he waters,—Editor. 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 11 
 
 Whilst Aryama chanted her Invocation upon the rhythm 
 of the waves and followed the ebb of the sea which now 
 fell back, the crimson War Planet appears above the rocks 
 which rise between the forest and the ocean, and almost at 
 the same time a grey and cold fog slowly descends, until it 
 rests above the world of waters, concealing the moving 
 waves, hiding the stars. Then above the young girl ap- 
 pears, as if it was formed of mist, a fiery coloured cloud. 
 Slowly this cloud descends until it rests above her. The 
 grey and dense fog stifles the voice of the waves, the Song 
 of Invocation becomes more and more feeble, the steps of 
 Aryama become slower and slower. She afterwards ceases 
 to sing, but she still follows with slow steps the sea, which falls 
 back. At lengththe sea stops at its level, and Aryama, 
 exhausted and cold, overwhelmed by an undefined fear, 
 sinks down upon the sand unconscious. 
 
 * 
 * * 
 
 The flux is returned, a strong wind from the north-west 
 has dissipated the fog and hurls the waves forward with a 
 roar likethunder. Quickly their white foam crests approach 
 the motionless form of Aryama; the Seventh Wave, which 
 has taken the colour of the fiery cloud, kindles above her, 
 leaps forward, as if it was hurrying to possess itself of its 
 human prey. But from behinda projecting rock proceeds 
 a runner strong and agile, who seizes the light form upon 
 the sand, and leaps back sufficiently quick to escape from 
 the giant wave, which retires with a fierce roar. He after- 
 wards quickly climbs up the rocky path, passes the forest, 
 and carries Aryama, at the first glimmer of dawn, within 
 the depths of acave. Here, he takes off his long woollen 
 tunic, spreads it upon the ground, and places upon it the 
 inanimate form of the young girl. He dries her long golden 
 hair with his sash, rubs her hands and feet to reanimate 
 them, and placing his hand upon her heart, he feels a slight 
 pulsation. He afterwards stands up hastily and exulting- 
 ly cries: ‘‘She lives, my adored, my Queen of the Seven 
 Waves, she lives, and it is I who am the Elect that 
 
12 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 the Illuminees of all countries await. Through her I will 
 find the secret of perpetual life, and in the glory of my 
 knowledge, and riches I will live through the centuries.’’ 
 
 ‘‘Who'are,your’’ At this question pronounced in a low 
 and solemn voice, Balavat turned round and found himself 
 opposite a venerable man, of majestic presence, behind 
 whom, at the entry of the cave, stand a group of other men. 
 The blood mounts quickly to his deep olive countenance 
 and descends again leaving his lips pale. But he surmounts 
 this first angry movement and replies: ‘‘I am a travelling 
 student from the Sacred Isle of the Central Country.”’ ‘By 
 whose authority, or by what right, have you brought this 
 young girl here who is a Brahmana?”’ 
 
 Balavat.—Wandering along the shore of the southern bay 
 I found this young girl stretched out upon the sand, lifeless 
 to all appearance. The tide ascended and the wind from 
 the north-west raised the waves like veritable mountains. 
 At the risk of my own life I saved her and bore her to the 
 nearest shelter, to try to reanimate her. How couldI do 
 otherwise? In my turn lask you: Who are you who thus 
 questions me? 
 
 ‘‘T am the tutor of the Archpriestess, orphan and Elect.” 
 ~ Balavat.—‘And I am the principal Elect of the Sacred 
 Isle of the Central Country. I left the island for the first 
 time to seek her who might be in Duality with me. Since 
 you are her tutor, tell me, what you will accept in return for 
 this beautiful Zakhari”’ ?* ‘Are you ignorant that our Brah- 
 mana is beyond all value? that according to the eighth and 
 highest form of marriage, the Passives like her give them- 
 selves only to him whom they have chosen, without money 
 and without price? Are you ignorant that those Passives 
 are of the family of the White Pedmat and that the Lakhari 
 does not belong to the Passives of the eighth form of mar- 
 riage?’’ 
 
 (Whilst the venerable Chief thus spoke, the fiery colour- 
 ed cloud descends and conceals the face of Balavat.) 
 
 *Lakhari, a kind of white eatable lily. 
 tWhite Lotus. 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. ji} 
 
 Balavat.—No, no, Ihave not spoken so that, because if 
 that pretty child was mine by the eighth rite and if some 
 misfortune happened to me, she should offer herself as Agni 
 Prevasa,* in such a manner that together we might enter 
 into the Region of Fires. But am I a demon, to run the 
 risk of sacrificing a similar Passive by Agni Samskara,t 
 should I prepare a bowlof Soma for her? The Daughters 
 of the Moon do not fear the sacrament of Fire; still much 
 less does a Daughter of Vellah fear it! (Whilst Balavat 
 thus spoke his face was transformed into that of a blond 
 adolescent of rare spiritual and intellectual beauty.) Do 
 not separate her from me, I beg of you, for if I had not 
 saved her, the ocean had chanted for her the song of eter- 
 nal rest. 
 
 Tutor.—That is true, we shall await the decision of Ary- 
 ama. The Brahmana is free. Upon saying this the Chief 
 poured between the lips of Aryama a cordial, whilst all 
 watched in silence. Aryama soon opened her eyes and 
 looked around her with astonishment. ‘*Where am 1?” 
 she said. Balavat then moves forward and bends over her. 
 She rises. 
 
 Aryama.—Ah! Kaoahe has heard my Invocation! she 
 has brought me into the presence of him who appears to me 
 in visions by day and dreams by night, in presence of him 
 whom my soul calls and desires. (Balavat supporting her with 
 
 his right arm.) Are you now convinced? who would dare to 
 separate the Brahmana from him whom her soul desires? 
 
 The Chief, Samtava.—Who indeed? (apart) and yet my 
 mind is full of doubts. (To Aryama:) Are you certain 
 sure, my child, that you are not deceived? are you quite sure 
 that this man is really him whom you have seen in your 
 dreams and visions? 
 
 Aryama.—Who can be compared to him? The Chief 
 amongst thousands, the perfectly beautiful! 
 
 Samtava.—A veil, I might say of fire, conceals his face 
 from me. 
 
 *Voluntary death by Fire. 
 +The Sacrament of Fire. 
 
14 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 Aryama.—lIt does not hide him from me. 
 
 Samtava to Balavat.—If you are Initiated in the three 
 principal actions of a Brahman; the sacrifice of self, the 
 study of the Vedic philosophy and Charity, permit me to 
 bring this child to the home of her infancy. There you will 
 go to seek her and you will thus give proof of your high 
 caste. 
 
 B.—I shall not stir from here by the desire of any man, 
 but Aryama is free to choose between us. 
 
 ye shall dwell only with him whom my soul loves. 
 
 Samtava, turning round with sadness.—Farewell my 
 child, farewell.- May it be that the veil—like fire which 
 conceals from me the face of him whom you have chosen, is 
 not the fiery cloud of a Son of Siva. 
 
 The Initiates proceeded one by one through the narrow 
 entrance of the cave. Next addressing himself to them, he 
 said: ‘‘Let four amongst you return noiselessly and con- 
 ceal yourselves in the niches of the rocks, upon the sides of 
 the cave, so as to be within reach, if Aryama has need for 
 you.’’ The four men returned and placed themselves in the 
 niches of the rocks. 
 
 * * * 
 
 Balavat (exulting). Mine! mine for ever! No power 
 of Heaven or the Infernal, still less of Earth, can separate 
 us. I shall live! I shall live through the centuries. 
 
 As he thus proclaims his victory and approaches Aryama 
 the fiery cloud which enveloped him became more luminous, 
 he felt himself oppressed by an irresistible drowsiness, and 
 he tried to rise to his feet which became like lead. Little 
 by little, upon his left, between him and Aryama, a kind 
 of oval fog assumed the form and figure of the young ado- 
 lescent that Aryama declared having seen in her vision and 
 dreams. Balavat lost his forces rapidly and fell unconscious 
 upon the floor of the cave. The Being withdrew his Ner- 
 vous Vitality, with which he clothed himself and entered 
 into his body which he transfigured in his own likeness. 
 The Being thus addressed himself to Aryama: “Do notcall 
 me Balavat, but Pavaka, for I alone am pure and holy.”’ 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES, 15 
 
 Aryama.—This is what I anticipated, I am _ blessed 
 amongst all women. 
 
 Pavaka.—Rest, my beloved, I shall return very soon. 
 
 He afterwards goes down the length of the cave holding 
 in his left hand a small lamp, which throws a fiery colour- 
 ed halo, like the mist of his Aura. He stops before the 
 niches where the four disciples of Samtava are concealed, and 
 directs upon each of them the light of his lamp. ‘‘Sleep 
 spies,’’ says he, ‘‘as Kahi slept when his Passivity was 
 withdrawn from him.’’* Afterwards returning to Aryama, 
 he says: ‘‘Rise, my beloved, and let us depart.”’ 
 
 Aryama.—lIs it to your home, in the Central Country? 
 
 Pavaka.—No, but rather to the home of your childhood. 
 It is not proper that you be carried away by a stranger, as if 
 you were a foundling. Freely, and of your own will, be- 
 fore the assembly of the Guardians of the Draada of the 
 forest of oaks, I will receive you from the Grand Chief, 
 your tutor, without money and without price. Come, the 
 tempest is past and the starry worlds will give us welcome. 
 
 They departed from the cave. 
 
 * * * 
 
 A majestic Temple in the midst of the oak forest. The 
 magnificent vault of the long avenue, which leads to the 
 entrance of the Temple, is supported by high and massive 
 stone pillars, covered with marble of various colours richly 
 sculptured, which bear sacred devices, and are decorated 
 with paintings representing either sacred rites and ceremo- 
 nies, or striking scenes in the life of the Draada and their 
 Guardians, 
 
 An imposing procession directs itself towards the entrance 
 of the Temple, whose doors are open. It is led by the 
 vocalists. Behind them come the musicians, then a swarm 
 of young virgins who strike their cymbals, and afterwards 
 the harpists bearing their light silver harps. Those are fol- 
 
 *The Biblical legend represents God as having caused a “‘deep sleep to 
 fall upon Adam” during which He made the woman (Gev. i, 21-23), whereas 
 Tradition relates that it was Devo—the Hostile Chief—who withdrew 
 the Passivity from Kahi, that Passive Being having been called Kahie.—Z¢. 
 
16 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 lowed, in order, by the Neophytes of the various Grades, 
 and lastly by the Initiates, equally in order, in whose midst, 
 under a crimson canopy, placed upon four golden pillars, 
 and carried by four of the Chiefs, marches Pavaka, dressed 
 in a long white tunic covered with a crimson robe, wrought 
 with gold. Ata short distance came a covered chariot, 
 drawn by four white horses, in which is seated the prin- 
 cipal harpist who plays an old strange melody, where each 
 seventh measure resembles the monotonous voice of the 
 ocean in repose. But he pronounces not asingle word, and 
 before touching the golden harp, each time the sound of a 
 trumpet resounds, and the musicians and singers preserve 
 silence. The chariot of the principal harpist is followed by 
 the children of the Initiates. The boys bear in their left 
 hand leaves of oak in honour of Aryama. The girls carry 
 in their right hand white water-lilies in honour of the 
 Sacred Pedma* of the country of Pavaka. Lastly, behind 
 the children marches a company of noble matrons who sur- 
 round Aryama clothed in a fine white robe and an azure 
 blue mantle floating over her shoulders, In the Sanctuary 
 before the Holy Place, he whose office it is leads Pavaka to 
 the Hierarchic Chief, the tutor of Aryama. 
 
 Pavaka.-—To the Hierarchic Chief, for whom she is as 
 daughter, and before this great assembly, I demand the 
 Elect Virgin of the sacred race, Aryama, so that she be 
 mine, I demand her without money and without price. 
 
 Samtava.—If the Elect Virgin wishes, let her come 
 here and place her hand in yours. 
 
 Aryama then left the matrons and advanced towards the 
 Sanctuary, which is elevated four steps above the great hall 
 of the Temple. Pavaka turned round, as if to go to meet 
 her. 
 
 S.—Turn your face towards me and remain where you 
 are. Such is our rule, for fear that the Virgin may chance 
 to be under some Magical Sorcery, or under the abnormal 
 influence of him who desires her. 
 
 *The Sacred Lotus flower.—Zuv. 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. be 
 
 P.—(In a discontented tone.) This is a whimsical rite, 
 and under this circumstance altogether ridiculous, since 
 the Virgin has already in the cave recognised and claimed 
 me. 
 
 S.—Solemn rites consecrated by time can never be 
 changed. 
 
 When Aryama ascended the first of the four steps which 
 led to the Sanctuary, he whose office it was presented a 
 white lotus flower to her, carved from the tusk of a sacred 
 elephant, and incrusted with brilliants which sparkled like 
 morning dew. When she ascended the second step another 
 presented to her an egg made from white gold. When she 
 ascended the third step, another presented a girdle to her, 
 to which were attached twelve golden bells, whose clappers 
 bore at their ends precious amethysts. Finally, when she 
 ascended the fourth step, a crimson onyx cup was offered 
 her. She suspends the girdle upon her left arm, she attach- 
 es the precious white lotus flower to her crown of oak leaves, 
 she holds the white golden egg in her left hand and stretch- 
 es out her right hand to take the cup. As she receives it, 
 the hand of him who presented it to her touches hers, and 
 at this contact all her being trembles with an unknown 
 happiness. She raises her eyes and sees him who appeared 
 to her in her visions and dreams, but now a mist seems to 
 vanish away before her eyes, and upon looking towards the 
 place where Pavaka stands facing the east, she sees an Aura 
 of fire around him. A great trembling seizes her and 
 she stops at the entrance of the Sanctuary, she then casts a 
 glance at the contents of the cup, and sees that it contains, 
 ‘‘Fear not and be not troubled,”’ 
 says the one who presented the cup to her, ‘‘advance in 
 Stetue which is strength, and when you will be near the 
 Being who awaits you, throw the contents of the cup upon 
 him. Thus you will be saved from the Region of Fire.” 
 
 She advances, accompanied by a solemn melody from the 
 principal harpist, the seventh measure of which resembles 
 the noise of the ocean waves at rest, and directs her steps 
 towards Samtava. But in passing near to the Being who 
 
 not red wine but milk. 
 
18 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 awaited her, she turns and throws the cup of milk upon 
 him. All are astonished at her action, when a hoarse cry 
 proceeds from the lips of the Being, whose bespattered body 
 suddenly sinks down, and the Seers perceive a Being of 
 wild beauty enter within a fiery cloud, which hovers over 
 the entrance of the Sacred Enclosure, and which carries him 
 rapidly towards the west. The Initiates hasten round the 
 body and those who had accompanied Samtava to the cave 
 recognise that it is that of Balavat. In the meantime the 
 stranger who had offered the crimson onyx cup to Aryama 
 advances towards Samtava. He takes off his dust coloured 
 garment and appears clothed in a long tunic of coarse white 
 cloth. He says to Samtava; ‘‘From the Sacred City of 
 perpetual snows Iam come to demand from you the ratifi- 
 cation of my union with the Elect Virgin.”’ 
 
 Samtava.—How can you pretend to that union, seeing 
 that your clothes indicate you to be only a Neophyte? 
 
 The stranger in reply touched the white cord which form- 
 ed his girdle. 
 
 Samtava.—I see indeed that your girdle is made of four 
 strands, and that within each of them is found a golden 
 thread, a thread the colour of sapphire, one of rose colour 
 and another of crimson. This is the sign of the Expected 
 One this long while, the sign of the Illuminee. But I have 
 been deceived once already, and since no Seer has been 
 capable of discerning the subterfuges of the Enemy, who 
 knows if I may not still be deceived? Who will be respon- 
 sible for you? 
 
 “I will,’ says Pravaga, who appeared suddenly in the 
 midst of the assembly, ‘I, dear friend of former times. 
 Since the day when we brought the Elect as a little child 
 found in the snow, I have shunned the dwelling of men, to 
 be able to watch over him, to protect and serve him, for 
 it is he who is the true Pavaka.’’* 
 
 Whilst Samtava and Pravaga exchange the kiss of peace 
 and welcome, Aryama places the onyx cup and white gol- 
 rer Eo 
 
 *Pure, bright, holy. ‘ 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 19 
 
 den egg upon the ground at the feet of Samtava, and goes 
 to place her hand in that of thestranger. But immediately 
 flames burst forth from all sides of the Temple and even in 
 the Sanctuary. All run away frightened, followed by Pra- 
 vaga and Samtava. Pavaka alone remains and holding the 
 hands of Aryama in his own, says to her: ‘‘Fear not, bring 
 me one of the sacred vases.” Aryama brought him a silver 
 vase full of pure water. He passes his right hand above 
 the water, and the water is changed into fresh milk. He 
 next goes up to the entrance of the Holy Place, and taking 
 in his hands the milk from the jar that Aryama holds out to 
 him, he sprinkles the flames, which have encroached upon 
 the Sanctuary. The flames are quickly extinguished. He 
 next goes with Aryama towards each of the places of the 
 Temple where the fire had broken out, and he sprinkles 
 them in the same manner with milk from the jar. Thus 
 the fire is extinguished and the danger exorcised. 
 
 As soon as Samtava and Pravaga have been able to calm 
 the panic caused by the sppearance of the flames, they re- 
 turn to the Temple, and they see that Pavaka has extin- 
 guished the fire so well, that even the smell of burning re- 
 mains not upon any sacred thing. They afterwards go out 
 with Pavaka and Aryama, and upon reaching the gate they 
 find the avenue filled with Initiates, who await their de- 
 parture. Samtava relates to them how Pavaka transformed 
 water into milk, in the silver jar, how he dominated and 
 extinguished the flames with that milk, and as all marvelled 
 and returned thanks to Pavaka, he added: ‘‘In rememb- 
 rance of the marvel which has this day been executed by Pa- 
 vaka, liere is the rule which you will observe from generation 
 to generation ; to the sacrifice of fire in the morning and even- 
 ing you will make an offering of new milk from a white heif- 
 er,which has brought forth her first-born ; this is why the heif- 
 er—and because of her the bull—the cow and the ox will 
 be sacred to you.”’ 
 
 Then with one voice the assembly sounded the praises of 
 Pavaka, and they all begged him to dwell in the midst of 
 them. But he replied to them: ‘‘I have work to do that 
 
20 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 you know not.’’ He afterwards bade them adieu, and when 
 Samtava had presented the Golden Sickle to Aryama, 
 Pavaka covered it and they both left the forest and proceed- 
 ed to the bay where Aryama had gone the night after the 
 festivalof the new moon. Like as upon that night, the 
 stars sparkle with fiery clearness in the blue immensity, and 
 Hesperus shines, like a drop of luminous dew, a spark of 
 living light, above the swelling sea. Pavaka and Aryama 
 descend together the rocky path which leads to the shore of 
 the bay. 
 
 Pavaka.—The vessel with the white sails which is moored 
 here below, in the deep waters, awaits us to carry us far 
 from here. Nevertheless if it is your wish to remain within 
 your home in the forest of oaks, I will dwell there also. 
 
 Aryama.—Did you not say, when the Initiates of the for- 
 est begged you to stay with them:—J have a work to do 
 which you know not? 
 
 P.—At this time the ship’s boat which approaches the 
 shore will carry us quickly towards our dwelling across the 
 ocean. 
 
 A.—Look! look! (placing her hands upon the arm of 
 Pavaka) what is that? As she thus spoke, a man and 
 woman, in their likeness, entered into the boat, the oarsmen 
 saluted them respectfully, placing themselves at their oars, 
 and the boat glided rapidly across the waves, like a black 
 speck, towards the vessel with the white sails. 
 
 The eyes of the Illuminee are overrun with deep tender- 
 ness, and with a voice full of pity he replies to her: ‘‘Our 
 work has begun, even before I had time to bring you to our 
 home across the ocean, dearly beloved, and now if you 
 wish it, I shall go to lead you upon the battle field, where 
 those who have struggled through zons of time against dis- 
 equilibrium, know only the suffering which is found there. 
 Now since you have chosen me, you are for me before all 
 the rest.’’ 
 
 A.—Being one, is not our work one? What is your 
 pleasure? 
 
 P.—That we reach the vessel before the boat in which are 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES, 21 
 
 those who have assumed our likeness, or if this is impossible, 
 that we go with all haste. But how? there are boats, 
 it is true, drawn high upon the beach, and even a small 
 boat which is still moored, but although you doubtless may 
 be an able rower, can we reach the vessel before those 
 who have taken our likeness have given orders for its 
 departure? 
 
 Upon hearing those words Aryama enters into the small 
 moored boat. ‘‘Have you forgotten,’’ said she, ‘‘that you 
 have chosen a child of the Seven Waves? Enter quickly 
 and all will be well.’’ Pavaka enters the boat, Aryama 
 takes a silk ribbon which she wore around her neck, and to 
 which is suspended a small fish with one horn, engraved in 
 gold, which terminates by a sapphire. She leans over the 
 north side of the boat, saying: ‘‘By the power of this AZan- 
 tra- Yantra,* by the fish with one horn and by the words of 
 the formula: Oh! Vishnu,+ Lord of the Plasticity, grant me 
 thy aid and rapidly bring our boat to the vessel.” 
 
 She thus spoke, and the Seventh Wave, which came to 
 break upon the beach, reached the boat and brought it to- 
 wards the vessel. Upon the crest of the wave floated a fish 
 with silvery scales. At the moment when they passed the 
 other boat where the two were found in their likeness, the 
 man launched an arrow which touched the fish, and the 
 water, tinged with blood, sprinkled Aryama. ‘‘Look !’’ she 
 says, ‘‘I am consecrated by water and blood.” ‘This is 
 the consecration,’’? replied Pavaka, ‘‘of those whose work 
 is the restitution of the multiplicity of the deep waters.”’ 
 In the meantime the waves augment: ‘‘Look,’’ resumed 
 Aryama, ‘‘the Marutst are angry because the Seventh Wave 
 
 is stained with blood.’’ 
 Ne eee ee 
 *Amulet and Magical formula. 
 +Vishnu, life of all earthly being, who “hovered over the waters”’ before 
 the earth was fashioned, which waters became his habitation, hence it is 
 that Vishnu is represented as a fish in his first incarnation. The first type 
 of animal life was the fish. Elohim says: “Let the waters bring forth 
 
 abundantly the moving creatures that hath life... and God created great 
 whales... which the waters brought forth abundantly. (Gez. i, 20, 21.) 
 —Ed. 
 
 tThe Kings of the Tempests. 
 
22 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 Pavaka then lights a lamp with a bluish light which illu- 
 mines the sea. This isa signal to which the vessel replies and 
 which comes to meet them at full speed, whilst the storm 
 increases. When they get near, the officers and crew wel- 
 come them with cries of rejoicing and the sound of joyful 
 music. ‘Before leaving the boat,’ said Aryama, ‘‘I would 
 like that some one would bring me a vase fit for containing 
 water.” A sailor brought her a large silver vase. She 
 filled it with sea water and put the wounded fish therein. 
 
 Pavaka (to the sailor). ‘‘Carry this fish—which floated 
 before uson the Seventh Wave since the Invocation to 
 Vishnu, the Lord of Plasticity— to our cabin.’’ They 
 ascend the vessel to the sound of music; songs and welcome, 
 and also to the roaring of the tempest. 
 
 Pavaka (to the Principal Officers.) Do you see over 
 there that dark spot upon the water, above which floats a 
 cloud the colour of fire. It is the Lord of the Region of Fire 
 and a Grand Passive is with him. Let us hasten then in all 
 quickness towards the Great Isle which is our destination, 
 
 Aryama, holding the amulet which she wears around her 
 neck above the stern of the vessel, says: ‘‘Listen, Maruts, 
 and pay attention to my words. Lash the ocean with fury, 
 behind our vessel, but leave the sea calm before it, and do 
 not rise above the waters, for fear that the thunderbolt from 
 the fiery cloud which hovers over there, strike you.”” The 
 waters soon became still before the vessel, like the waters 
 of a lake, and the planet Jupiter appeared above the south- 
 ern horizon. ‘‘Salute,’’ says Pavaka, ‘‘the Queen of the 
 planets, whose principal moons are to the number of four.”’ 
 He afterwards retires to his cabin with Aryama. All the 
 crew gather upon the deck and chant : 
 
 “Tail! hail! Royal Planet 
 Surrounded by your four Chiefs 
 
 And thy twelve satellites! 
 
 Blessed be the Brahmarishi 
 
 Blessed be the pure Brahmana 
 
 Who will be able to say: our oldest son 
 Was conceived, when in thy splendour 
 Thou influenced the earth and heavens. 
 Hail! hail! Royal Planet.” 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 23 
 
 In the meantime the vessel skips silently under the starry 
 sky upon the calm waters of the ocean, and the melody of 
 the harpists loses itself in the distance, 
 
 The fourth morning after departure, Pavaka stood upon 
 the deck of the vessel, as if he awaited some one. Aryama 
 went up in her turnupon the deck, at the time when the 
 sun rose. She turned towards the King of Day and looked 
 at him silently. Pavaka came towards her. ‘*Why does 
 my well-beloved look at the sun rising so thoughtfully? 
 Does she chance to dream with some regret, of the forest of 
 oaks, the rocky coast and ocean beach, from whence I have 
 led her four days ago?’’ said he. 
 
 Aryama.—No but only because of a dream I had last 
 night. 
 
 P.—What dream? 
 
 A.—I dreamt it was the hour of sunrise, and that sudden- 
 ly, whilst I contemplated the golden glory of the Star of 
 Day, a mist red as blood veiled my eyes, then... . 
 
 P.—You become pale; your hands tremble? then what? 
 
 A.—Then I saw a phantom vessel pass by the side of our 
 vessel in the same direction. The vessel, the sails, the 
 clothes of the men of the crew, all were as black as a winter 
 night without moon and stars, and upon the bridge, appear- 
 ing to look at our vessel, stood he who bent over me in the 
 cave, he upon whom, at your word, I threw the new milk, 
 in the Temple. I know not why, but something in his look 
 frightened me, to such a degree even, that I had no more 
 strength to call you by your name, that now when the mor- 
 ning light plays upon the world of waters, I even tremble 
 from the very recollection. 
 
 P. (taking her hands in his own)—Henceforth let fear 
 be unknown to my ‘‘Aditya’’ for ever. For I feel that you 
 not only belong to the Lunar heavens and that you are, like 
 them, endowed with power over the waters and the Multi- 
 plicities, but also that the Sun of Intelligence rises in you. 
 Be strong, be strong. Are you nota Daughter of Vellah? 
 and are we not upon the eve of a great struggle? Fear is 
 the most enervating of all enemies. 
 
24 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 A.—You have given me the power of expelling it, but. 
 look! look! the phantom vessel! the black warrior which I 
 saw 1n my dream! 
 
 As she spoke thus, about one hundred yards away there 
 indeed passed a black vessel which glided silently over the 
 waves, without any other sound than a sort of dull hissing, 
 which appeared to proceed from the dark light of its Aura, 
 No living being was visible on board this vessel, which 
 rapidly outsails them in the direction which they follow. 
 
 P.—Those who have assumed our likeness will reach the 
 Isle of the West before us. 
 
 A.—Who knows? have you not now the power to conceal 
 usin invisibility?* Send the men below, my beloved, and 
 tell the principal officers to place upon the sea a single boat. 
 
 * * * 
 
 The Great Atlas—Two men, Mouchir and Agel stood 
 upon a rocky height. Agel looks through a crystal to- 
 wards a distant isle. 
 
 Mouchir.—What do you see by means of the double crys- 
 tal which brings objects and sounds near which are far 
 away? 
 
 Agel.—I see and hear nothing outside the natural per- 
 ception of my eyes and ears. There is evidently something 
 in the Aura of Atlantis which renders powerless the effi- 
 cacy of the crystal. 
 
 M.—That is much to be regretted for us who seek to 
 know that which is, more especially as the descriptions giy- 
 en of Atlantis, given by Auditives or Clairvoyant Seers, 
 have excited profound interest in us. 
 
 A.—Holding myself purely to the study of the Ner- 
 vo-Physical Degree of the Physical State, by Nervo-Physi- 
 cal perception, I know nothing of the descriptions of which 
 you speak. 
 
 M.—According to those descriptions, the Island of Atlan- 
 tis is evolved beyond all that we can conceive of in art and 
 science. Its ways are not our ways. Its inhabitants, with 
 an 
 
 *In true Duality of Being the power of Invisibility is possible-—£d. 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 20 
 
 their cave-dwellings, their clothing and their ornaments, its 
 architecture, flora, fauna, surpass in splendour and beau- 
 ty all that which is now known. And yet we have reason 
 to believe that this Island is the special seat of disequilibrium. 
 
 A.—This is nowise astonishing. What earthly forma- 
 tion equals the beauty and utility (for themselves) of the 
 world of insects? 
 
 M.—That is true. 
 
 A.—Upon looking again through the crystal, I at last see 
 something in the distance, and I hear harpists who play 
 upon their instruments. The crystal therefore remains 
 doubly effective; I am full of gladness. 
 
 M.—What do you see? 
 
 A.—I see a majestic vessel with white sails, which ap- 
 proaches the Island of Atlantis, coming from the north- 
 west. Upon the prow of the vessel stand hand in hand, a 
 man and a woman whose Auras form perfect whiteness. 
 
 M.—Watch well and tell me if you consider that light of 
 the Aura as that of a whited sepulchre, or as a radiation of 
 pure light. 
 
 A.—It looks to me like pure light, like a solar ray 
 undivided. 
 
 M.—Continue to look through the crystal, so that we 
 understand, if possible, this strange vision. 
 
 A.—The man and woman are no longer upon the deck. 
 The principal officers have let down something upon the 
 water alongside the vessel, at least their movements seem 
 to indicate this, but I cannot see what they have let down. 
 
 M.—Doubtless it is a boat, that some one on board has 
 veiled with invisibility. Have you seen any other Passive 
 than her whom you spoke of ? 
 
 A.—No other. 
 
 M.—Then it is doubtless those who have left the deck who 
 have concealed the boat. 
 
 A.—Why? 
 
 M.—Because it is admitted this power can only be exer- 
 cised in Duality. Watch, watch always! 
 
 A.—The man and woman reappearupon the deck. They 
 
26 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 seem to come from the inside of the vessel. Their hair is 
 as black as the wing of acrow. Their complexion is similar 
 to that of the inhabitants of the tropics, that the sun bron- 
 zes. They are clothed in poor garments like those who 
 labour for their bread in the oak forests upon the western 
 side of the northern continent. The man carries a basket 
 of carved coral and carving tools. The woman carries a 
 little basket in which something is found covered with dry 
 and pressed oak leaves, They go down the rope ladder in- 
 to that which has been lately let down, and they also be- 
 come invisible to me, except their white Aura which is 
 veiled with violet. 
 
 M.—This is sufficient for this time. Doubtless it is some 
 one who has been Hierarchically chosen and who ventures, 
 at the price of his life or liberty, within the fortress of 
 disequilibrium. 
 
 * * * 
 
 Atlantis, the Island of Oceanus, as large as a continent, 
 in the shape of an apple a little lengthened at the top and 
 with a short stem; from the point of the summit to the ex- 
 tremity of the short stem, that is to say from the west-north- 
 west to the south-south-east, its length isH. H. H. H., and 
 from the north-north-east to the south-south-west, its length 
 is H. H. H.* The island is of volcanic origin and a little 
 elevated above the sea level at the time of high tides when 
 the moon is full. All its surface, except the parts where 
 rises the rocky chain which crosses it, is covered with trees 
 sufficiently scattered, so that the light of the sun freely pen- 
 etrates everywhere; in the gardens under the fruit trees ex- 
 tends a carpet of thick verdure, of exquisite plants with 
 flowers of many colours. 
 
 In the vast forest, amongst the venerable trees of different 
 kinds, there are found only those which exist in that Island 
 of Atlantis, trees whose bark shines with unequalled 
 brightness, like the shell of the prettiest scarabzuses ; whose 
 leaves appear covered with a dust of precious stones, made 
 
 *Sign of Septenary Passivity. 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES, ATi 
 
 with diamond, sapphire, ruby, emerald, rose and blue 
 topaz powder. Around some of those trees, which rise 
 above all the others, climbing plants intertwine, whose stems 
 resemble serpents with brilliant scales and changing colours, 
 whose leaves have the tint of the rainbow and appear pow- 
 dered with precious gems, whose creamy or glossy flowers 
 perfume the air with sweet and varied fragrance. Other 
 trees have branches which bend down until they take root 
 in the ground, thus forming a series of arches. Their trunks 
 resemble large pillars of polished silver, and their innumer- 
 able arches are full of hanging flowers of all colours. 
 
 Here and there in certain glades are found trees of rest, 
 each of which forms a pavilion. 
 
 Their branches bend towards the ground like those of the 
 weeping willow which grows upon the banks of pure 
 streams, but their foliage is as brilliant as that of the scarlet 
 maple, and their violet flowers, in the form of a trumpet, 
 from which hang branches of white stamens, disengage a per- 
 fume similar to the mingled odours of the large white pop- 
 py and heliotrope. Inevery season those flowers expand, 
 and at every time those who lie down under the shade of 
 that pretty tent rest in deep sleep. 
 
 Amongst the fruit trees, there is as much difference to be 
 seen as amongst the others. Certain trees bear fruits which 
 excite the various passions and give birth to irresistible 
 impulses. Others drive to crime; others inspire those 
 persons who eat of their fruits in the exercise of the virtues 
 of every kind with which they are in active or passive affin- 
 ity. Lastly, others produce mental alienation, from sim- 
 ple wrong, temporary loss of memory, to complete idiotcy 
 or furious madness. 
 
 The trees which produce those effects are not scattered 
 throughout all the country indiscriminately, but confined 
 within the part of the island which forms the short stem of 
 the apple, and which is found to the south-south-west. Here 
 they are like as ina garden, enclosed with such an effective 
 barrier that no one can enter without special authority. 
 This garden, in which they are looked after and protected, 
 
28 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 is situated in the part of the stem which touches the apple. 
 The other end of the stem, which stretches out into the 
 ocean, is formed by a reef of low rocks, no part of which 
 exceeds one hundred feet high. 
 
 Those strange fruit trees grow upon the borders of the 
 stem, upon each side. The centre is planted with venerable 
 trees of all kinds, under which extends a carpet of shining 
 verdure, sprinkled with flowers of balmy fragrance, several 
 of which are of rare beauty. As to the front of the reef of 
 rocks, they are covered with climbing plants, so thick, that 
 they leave nothing visible but acentral arch, which appears 
 as if Nature had excavated it from the solid granite. Upon 
 this arch, at the two extremities, stand two enormous dra- 
 gons, each having four paws armed with claws. Their 
 tails and hind paws touch the ground, whilst their fore- 
 paws meet in the middle of the arch. Their heads which 
 are about a yard from one another, look down, so that their 
 large eyes appear to look at those who approach the arch. 
 
 Those dragons are of solid gold, their heads are ornament- 
 ed with opals, and their red eyes are luminous in them- 
 selves. Some of the inhabitants of the Island say that they 
 owe their luminosity to perpetual lamps, whose clearness 
 augments and becomes pale alternately. Others affirm that 
 they are the eyes of living creatures. 
 
 The central arch is the entrance to the Cave Palace of the 
 Archpriestess and Queen of Atlantis. No one knows 
 whence or when she came to the Island, but popular legends 
 say that she sprang up with the Island, when the latter 
 suddenly emerged one day from the ocean depths. During 
 long periods of time she dwelt alone in her Palace, and no 
 being in human form penetrated within the enclosed garden, 
 that beautiful male leopards with speckled hair, superb male 
 tigers elegantly striped, and serpents with bristling crests, 
 covered with splendid scales guarded. Afterwards, from 
 time to time, she left Atlantis and returned after a more or 
 less lengthened absence, with a chosen ;companion, whom 
 she proclaimed High Priest and King with her. 
 
 After each of those journeys, she generally entered into 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 29 
 
 her kingdom, in a different likeness, newly assumed. But 
 those who watch altogether the human and non-human 
 watchers recognise her by her Aura, which reminds one of 
 the colour of dark mother-of-pearl, or of the rainbow seen 
 through a slightly dark fog. When she returns with her 
 companion, there is great rejoicing in the Island during a 
 whole year and a day, the longest known period that any 
 companion has passed with her. During this time the 
 spotted leopards and striped tigers leave the enclosed gar- 
 den and prowl through the forest. When the companion 
 has disappeared, they return to the garden. The serpents 
 with the splendid scales never leave the garden. 
 * * * 
 
 A moon has passed since the inhabitants of all ranks 
 have left their cave-dwellings to come to pay welcome to 
 the High Priestess and Queen, upon her return with her 
 new companion. Whilst the ship with the ebony mast and 
 black sails enters within the port, an immense crowd presses 
 and approaches as far as it can, owing to the fiery coloured 
 Aura which surrounds the companion. In the crowd is 
 found a Coral Carver who has recently come to the Island 
 of Atlantis, to seek work. He is poorly but becomingly 
 clothed and has the swarthy complexion of a man that is 
 bronzed by the sun. He stands in the midst of the crowd 
 without making any effort to approach. His dust colour- 
 ed cloak entirely covers him and his hood partly covers 
 his face. But no person is astonished, because they 
 believe he is come from the South Sea, where coral reefs 
 rise, where the air, warmed by the sun, is always warm, 
 even at night. 
 
 At the instant when the High Priestess and Queen puts 
 her foot upon the ground, closely followed by her compan- 
 ion, a cry arises from the crowd, like one single voice: 
 “Dain! Dain! the Immortal!’’? and a murmur of admira- 
 tion is heard at sight of the marvellous beauty of Dain, who 
 has taken the form and likeness of Aditya, whose whole 
 being breathes excitement and fascination, instead of the 
 repose and calm strength of holiness. She wears a short 
 
30 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 tunic, sleeveless, formed of extremely fine shells, similar to | 
 pearls, which reminds one of the scales of fishes the colours _ 
 of the rainbow, which are found in the warm waters of the 
 South Sea. At each movement those shells shine and sparkle 
 like phosphorescent water, when it is struck by the oars of the 
 rowers, in a calm summer night without a moon. 
 
 Her hair, raised in thick rolls above her well-poised head, 
 is sprinkled with moonstones, and bears at the top a small 
 crown of superb opals, from which issue upon the front 
 gold spirals, upon which are placed three spheres or balls 
 the colour of rubies. Those balls appear to be self-luminous, 
 and shine with a living intense light. Her sloped tunic 
 allows her long and graceful neck to be seen, surrounded 
 with a collar which represents a serpent with changing 
 scales like those of her tunic, but still more flashing. The 
 eyes of the serpent also shine with a living red light. Her 
 feet are encased in sandals, where straps alike bear shells 
 like pearls, and cross one another, around the leg, from the 
 instep to the knee, where the tunic hides them. Those 
 sandals are higher behind, to protect the heel, and are ador- 
 ned in that part, with four scintillating wings, which have 
 the form of the wings of the moth and the brightness of the 
 scarabeeus. 
 
 Dain, (to her companion who is in the likeness of Pava- 
 ka): Pass before me, Demoth, 
 
 The companion.—Why? 
 
 Dain.—So that I may see if you are in the likeness of 
 Pavaka. 
 
 Companion.—Do not call me Demoth, and beg me not to 
 pass before you, for I would like that even in your thoughts 
 I should be Pavaka, and itis not proper that I should pass 
 before you in your own Kingdom. 
 
 D.—Come then, place yourself upon my right. I do not 
 wish that a Lord of the Region of Fire should stand hidden 
 behind me. (He takes the place that Dain indicates to him.) 
 
 Since you reject the name of Demoth, by what name do you 
 wish to be known? 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 31 
 
 C.-—Under the name of Karayati because with you I| will 
 force the Hierarchy of the Illuminated to disperse. 
 
 D.—Be it so. Why do you look at the crowd so curiously? 
 
 Karayati.—Because I perceive that there is not amongst 
 all those men neither horse, dog, nor any other animal; 
 how is this? 
 
 D.—When I awakened the sleepy subterranean fires, and 
 caused this Island, my Kingdom, to emerge from the midst 
 of the waters, I said to myself: ‘‘Being Immortal, what 
 need have I for animals other than man?’’ 
 
 As she thus spoke, they enter within the depths of the 
 forest, and the leopards and tigers approach them, they 
 gambol around the feet of Dain uttering roars of welcome. 
 
 K.—From whom then are those formations? 
 
 D.—They are formations from Arg-Baruch who came 
 here for some time, and who before leaving, said to me: 
 “Since you will accept no benefit from my hand, I am 
 going away, but I leave you as protectors non-human be- 
 ings, so that your fascinating beauty may cause no quarrel 
 And yet those beings appear 
 to possess instincts almost human, since, although they may 
 
 9? 
 
 nor division amongst them 
 
 not do harm to my companion because it was my wish that 
 brought him here, at his coming they leave the enclosed 
 garden of the Palace and go into the forest. 
 
 K.—Have you then no more protection at this time, save 
 the non-human? 
 
 D.—Oh! no. Knowing the nature of man, when Dhak 
 came here, I profited from the strength of his fiery Aura to 
 attract my first formation, who had left my Kingdom upon 
 the arrival of my first companion, and who lives since upon 
 the ocean. Then having carried him by stratagem under a 
 tree of rest, whilst he lay in deep sleep, I utilised our Duality 
 to form serpents with brilliant scales and superb crests. 
 Those remain always undoubtedly within the enclosed gar- 
 dens, for their blood differs from that of tigers or leopards, 
 which approaches much more that of man. Now the bloods 
 are the natural classifiers. 
 
$2 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 K.—Are human beings and those reptiles therefore the 
 only earthly formations, which inhabit your Kingdom? 
 
 D.—Not quite. When the serpents had been formed and 
 I had breathed into them the breath of life, I formed two 
 large dragons. But when their eyes, which were the most 
 developed, had received my Divine insufflation, which had 
 only yet but partially penetrated their heads and the upper 
 part of the vertebral column, I was interrupted in my work 
 by the announcement of the sudden arrival of Dhak, so that 
 I had only time to send my human aid to the sea, and of 
 making the two monsters, half vitalised, take their position 
 upon the entrance of the palace, before the arrival of Dhak. 
 
 K.—Dismiss those beasts, I beg of you. They caper and 
 gambol at your feet, but at every movement I make, they 
 look at me, and several times already I have felt upon my 
 left foot the touch of a rough tongue, as if they wished to 
 taste my blood. 
 
 D.—Assuredly, he whose blood they will taste, will be 
 obliged to shed it entirely for their satisfaction. Go for- 
 ward by a way as direct as you can, and enter into the 
 enclosed garden, whilst I play with the tigers and leopards 
 in the forest. When you will be in safety, blow the silver 
 horn three times which is suspended near the gate. 
 
 K.—I have no desire to leave you. 
 
 D.—Do you prefer that nothing remain of you except the 
 more rarefied states of your being? We have used all our 
 care to form a body for you, do you wish the beasts to tear 
 and devour it? Do you not see the eyes of the tigers look like 
 fire, do you not hear the dull roaring of the leopards? 
 Hasten to leave here, before it be too late, for truly they have 
 never hated one of my companions as they hate you. 
 
 Karayati goes away towards the enclosed garden by the 
 direct path that Dain pointed out to him, whilst she turned 
 to enter into the depths of the forest, with the tigers and 
 leopards which play around her. 
 
 D.—(To the leopards and tigers.) At length I am alone 
 and I ask myself: What foolish work I do! It is a moon 
 since I was exteriorised by leaving my earthly permanent 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES, oo 
 
 form under the protection of the crystallised waters which 
 fall drop by drop from the arch of stalactites under my 
 Palace. Concealed in the waters of the ocean, I have been 
 carried towards the eastern shores, and there I saw the 
 most beautiful mortal virgin I have ever seen. Now my 
 object in quitting my Palace and enclosed gardens is the 
 following. Ina vision, during one of my rare times of 
 rest, I have seen a Being towards whom all my being res- 
 ponds with all its strength. He was not only more beauti- 
 ful than the sons of men, but prettier than any Immortal | 
 have ever known, except Arg-Alif,* who is I know not 
 where. This is why I was determined to go to search for 
 him, if by chance he was incarnated upon the earth. 
 
 The waters bore me towards the shore of a bay in the 
 northern continent, and I saw there the beautiful young girl 
 who descended from the rocks. I soon said to myself: 
 Here is she in whose form I will reincarnate myself. 1 
 pushed her on then to follow the descending tide, and when 
 she had fallen, cold and feeble, upon the sand, at the in- 
 stant when the flux returned, I prepared to take possession 
 of her inanimate form. But a vigorous man carried her 
 away suddenly before I had time to put my design in exe- 
 cution, andI then knew that the being of my vision in 
 repose was also revealed to hes, 
 
 Rage at seeing that I could not t 
 me into such a gush of anger, 
 
 yg the man, who quickly bore 
 
 ake possession of this 
 
 young Passive had thrown 
 that I was incapable of pursuit 
 How terrible is this fury, which blinded me! 
 ards, (she is seated at the foot of 
 a gigantic tree with numerous leaves) lie down before me 
 (they lic down). When coolness returned to me, I deter- 
 mined to form two bodies from the most radiant and rare- 
 fied earthly material at my disposal. Whilst I floated upon 
 the piibace of the ocean, the thought that Vishnu hadin 
 
 her away. 
 Listen, my tigers and leop 
 
 *Arg Alif is the Chief of the Free Intelligences. The Free ee 
 are the first formations of Elohim, the veritable Workmen soe outa’ = 
 the Cosmos; the Demiurgii, the nearest to wee region of the Fre 
 Intelligences is the Scriptural Seventh Heaven.—Ed. 
 
 us; 
 
34 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 times of old violently agitated the waters of the sea, until 
 they were white like milk, in order to prepare an immortal 
 covering for the Divine Lakshmi, comforted me. I called 
 once more to my help my first formation, whom I had 
 formed in Atlantis, and whilst she slept, I fashioned two 
 bodies, one of which was in the likeness of the being of my 
 vision in repose, and the other in the likeness of the young 
 mortal that the vigorous man had carried away. 
 
 I afterwards clothed myself with this last body, and trans- 
 ported the other out of reach of the waves, within a niche 
 in the bank of rocks which stood between the sea and the 
 forest. Next, turning myself towards the west and east, 1 
 evoked the being who appeared in that likeness. Listen, 
 my tigers and leopards! Whilst I thus evoked, a luminous 
 cloud the colour of fire appeared in the heavens already 
 charged with heavy dark clouds. But in this cloud I could 
 discern nothing, not being yet assimilated to the form in 
 which Ientered. I then said to myself: Now I am going 
 to rest in the Rest of Assimilation!* Do not come too near 
 me, my tigers and leopards, to protect me. (One of the 
 tigers places his paw upon her knee.) Do not touch me, 
 because your paws are wet with the dew of the herbs of the 
 forest, and although my dress of changing pearls will not 
 be hurt, yet we may perhaps find ourselves together some 
 day when I will be clothed with finer garments. Now hab- 
 it is a second nature. (She removes the paw of the tiger.) 
 
 When I awoke, the new companion was bending over 
 me. Irose and we went together to the shore of the bay, 
 where I first saw the beautiful mortal virgin whose form I 
 had taken. Then we entered into a boat which was moored 
 close to the beach, and we set out towards a vessel with an 
 ebony mast, which awaited us in the deep waters. But at 
 this time I observed to the north of our vessel a white light 
 
 *There are different Rests or Sleeps. This is the sleep of the being 
 formed to assimilate the forces which have been infused therein. Every 
 time that we enter within a different region from that in which we dwell, 
 we must first undergo a period of Rest or Repose, during which we assimi- 
 fate to the new condition.—Zd. 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 35 
 
 slightly tinged with a shade of sapphire. I said tomy com- 
 panion: What is that Auraised object that I see over there? 
 if you know or can guess its nature, tell me. But he did 
 not reply. 
 
 Whilst we crossed the ocean, I again saw the same Aura 
 near to us, and I was troubled with a passionate envy for 
 I knew not what, for this material body, which is so pre- 
 cious when it is assimilated paralyses meat present by dead- 
 ening my perceptions. I tell you this, my tigers and leop- 
 ards, because when I left the vessel I experienced the same 
 feeling, and even now it is still strong even to oppression. 
 
 Pavaka (concealed under the shade of the trees and look- 
 ing at Dain whilst he soliloquises).—How strangely does 
 that fascinating Queen resemble Aditya and yet how much 
 different from my beloved, whom If have veiled in invisibil- 
 ity until now, so that no person can see her, which is her 
 safety ! 
 
 Dain.—It is strange that Karayati has transformed the 
 body which I prepared for him, into a body of such mar- 
 vellous beauty, a beauty which is certainly not from his 
 conception. Whence then has he taken his model? 
 
 Immediately the beasts skip forward and upon looking in 
 that direction, Dain perceives a man, poor to all appearance, 
 who stands under the shade of a tree, covered with a dust- 
 coloured cloak, whose hood conceals a portion of his face. 
 
 Dain.—Flee to save your life, fool that you are, climb up 
 some near tree, plunge into the stream, do as best you can, 
 if you wish to save your life. 
 
 Pavaka.—I am not afraid at tigers and leopards for they 
 
 s, and as he comes forth from the shade, 
 
 will not hurt me, he say 
 the beasts come and lie down caressing at his feet, afterwards he 
 
 turns back the hood of his cloak. 
 D.—Ah! it is you then who are the original upon the 
 
 model of which I fashioned a covering for my companion. 
 But upon taking it, he has disfigured your beauty. You 
 are he whom in one of my rare Rests, I have seen, and for 
 whom I left my Palace, to try to find you. Come with me, 
 
36 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 my beloved, come with me to my garden of delights where 
 there are springs of pure water and fruits of all kinds. 
 
 Upon saying this she advances towards Pavaka, but he 
 gradually conceals himself in invisibility, so that he disap- 
 pears from her sight. 
 
 D.—Alas! the Being of my vision is not incarnated. 
 Scarcely have I seen him face to face, than he disappears 
 like the morning mist, and with him my hopes of satisfac- 
 tion. And yet lam sure that he is not the product of my 
 thought only, as a possible entity in the future; I am sure 
 that he exists veritably and in fact. 
 
 She stands motionless, absorbed in her thought. The 
 rays of the sun which pass through the multi-coloured foli- 
 age cause her dress of changeable pearls to sparkle, along 
 with the triune spheres of her diadem. Then she resumes: 
 Listen, my tigers and leopards, and you dragons at the en- 
 trance, you superb and subtle serpents who never leave 
 my garden of delights, tell me, what is the crown of equi- 
 librium and what is the crown of disequilibrium? You 
 preserve silence, very well! I will tell you: Zhe crown of 
 equilibrium is Passivity satisfied; the crown of disequilibrium ts 
 Passivity unsatisfied, (She laughs with sarcastic laughter.) 
 Passivity! Passivity! we, Women, Passives! what illu- 
 sion! Mortals or Immortals; we are only the leaven of the 
 Cosmic wheat! 
 
 * * * 
 
 The Cave Palace of the enclosed gardens, the Royal Pal- 
 ace of Atlantis, consists of a vast natural cave, which has 
 been enlarged by excavations made by the hand of man, 
 and which extends pretty far towards the west. This cave 
 is ornamented everywhere with white and shining stalactites, 
 which cover the walls with a thousand fantastic shapes, 
 and which hang to the rounded arches in a clear and brill- 
 lant fringe like needles of new ice. The divisions of the 
 cave and the excavation walls made by the hand of man are 
 covered with a coating of pure rock crystal. Large steps 
 lead from one chamber to another, because the floor of the 
 cave is gently sloped; they are alike made of pure crystal, 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. idl 
 
 in which are inserted rubies, emeralds, sapphires and vel- 
 low topazes. The floors are of fine mosaic in crystals of va- 
 rious colours. 
 
 To the heavy fringe of stalactites are suspended, in the 
 centre arch, lamps of different colours. The roof of each 
 chamber is lighted only by a light of one single colour, and 
 the chambers are named according to that light: the sap- 
 phire, the ruby, emerald, yellow topaz, amethyst, carbuncle, 
 or turquoise chamber. As to the tapestries which fall over 
 the entrance of each chamber, they are made of heavy gold 
 or silver tissues, richly ornamented with embroideries in 
 silk of many colours. In each chamber recesses or niches 
 of different sizes are formed, cut in the rock, or formed 
 naturally. They are covered with thick carpet and silk 
 cushions of rich colours, so asto form luxuriant couches. 
 Upon the floor are thrown small carpets, thick and soft, the 
 colouring of which is cleverly combined. But however 
 beautiful they may be, they grow pale in comparison with 
 the mosaic of crystal, of such rare beauty. 
 
 The lamps are never extinguished and their light is perpetu- 
 al, like the heavenly light of thestars. No night is known in 
 the Royal Palace of Atlantis. This is why its inhabitants, 
 when they wish to repose in the shade, let down before 
 their poueh of rest curtains of different thicknesses, which 
 vary in shade from light fleecy clouds to the deepest dark- 
 ness. Everywhere is heard the murmur of the ocean, the 
 murmur of ite powerful voice which has resounded and will 
 resound through the ages, since and towards the Timeless. 
 And this murmur finds an echo in the precious stones, the 
 crystals and fringes of stalactites which reply to it in gentle 
 harmonies, so clearly that people believe they hear the aige 
 of Aoual Himself, chanting in alow voice the mysteries of 
 the past and the future which are the perpetual prenene. 
 From time to time a light breeze agitates the air and diffu- 
 ses every where the most exquisite fragrance. — Every object 
 : nt that the inhabitants of 
 is pleasant to those who touch it, Be Hi 
 the Royal Palace experience a feeling of dninterupys E 2 
 sical comfort. The respirable air is vitalised by the inftu- 
 
38 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 sion of nourishing ethers, proceeding from the four rarefac- 
 
 tions, so that for those who repose, to breathe is to live in 
 
 the fullness of Mental, Psychic, Nervous and Physical life. 
 * % * 
 
 In the ruby chamber. Jts walls of pure crystal are in- 
 crusted with scarlet passion-flowers delicately chased, whose 
 petals are rubies, and whose long stamens terminate ina 
 round gem of great value. The floor is covered with a fine 
 mosaic of white and crimson crystals, and the thousand 
 ever-burning lamps, which shine amongst the ten thousand 
 sparkling stalactites cast a blood-red light. Upon the cush- 
 ions of crimson silk, within one of the very sunken recesses 
 of the crystal,wall, Dain is stretched out. Her dark blue 
 eyes ure closed, and the long fringes of dark hair which 
 border,her eyelids almost touch her cheeks. Her rounded 
 arms are crossed behind her head, which rests upon. the 
 palms of ber small white hands. Her abundant wavy hair, 
 the colour of pale gold, reaches to the thin ankles of her 
 nuked feet, delicately arched. She is clothed only ina 
 tunic, without sleeves woven of unspun silk, fine asa spider’s 
 web. 
 
 She is asleep, and her respiration gently rises and falls, 
 raising and lowering her round bust. A fresh and perfum- 
 ed breath proceeds from her half-open lips which have the 
 colour of the pomegranate arrived at maturity. Her upper 
 lip in a graceful curve, is raised, as if she smiled in her sleep 
 and exposes little white and pointed teeth, like pearls. Before 
 the couch upon which she reposes, upon a carpet of various- 
 ly combined and harmoniously tinted colours, thick. like 
 beds of moss which adorn the sides of the fountain in the 
 enclosed garden, a superb tiger and leopard are stretched 
 out. Their heads rest upon their black round paws. Their 
 eyes are half-closed and their light snore mingles in feeble 
 echoes with the great voice of the ocean. 
 
 Suddenly the massive curtains of crimson tissue embroid- 
 ered with gold are removed, and a man of gigantic stature 
 enters noiselessly, but the; tiger and leopard pay no atten- 
 tion to him; it is Akohine, the chief eunuch of the Palace. 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 39 
 
 He stands near to the foot of the couch, motionless as a 
 statue. Dain now opens her fringed eyelids and asks: 
 Why are you here? : 
 
 Akohine.—I am here by order of the Queen. The stran- 
 ger who carves the coral, such as no person has ever seen 
 carved, awaits at the garden gate, with his merchandise. 
 
 Dain.—Allow him to enter. 
 
 Akohine.—Has the Queen forgotten that the tiger and 
 the leopard are there who guard? If the stranger enters 
 here they will tear him in pieces. 
 
 Dain.—What matter, since they will not swallow the 
 box of carvedcoral. Men abound. It is true that a workman 
 such as the one you speak of is rare. Butif this Carver is 
 brave, if he fights boldly like a well trained wrestler, per- 
 haps it may be that I shall be pleased to remove the beasts 
 and spare his life. 
 
 Upon saying this Akohine retires with a serious 
 countenance. 
 
 Dain.—I believe my companion delays. If Lam not mis- 
 taken, he fears encountering with my guardians, for fear 
 that some evil happens to this pretty body which I prepar- 
 ed and of which he has taken possession. It is even per- 
 haps a thing he fears to lose, still more that the human form 
 by meansof which he can remain a man amongst the sons 
 of men, and that thing is Dain, the Passive, who not only 
 understands the form but also the nature of man. 
 
 Pavaka enters within the little vestibule which leads to 
 the ruby chamber. He is only separated from it by the 
 crimson and gold curtain, half drawn. 
 
 Pavaka (speaking to himself.) —My object in coming 
 here is threefold. First, I wish to remove from that incar- 
 nation of Sheba-el-Ma* the form which she has taken in 
 the similitude of Aditya. Next, I would like to obtain 
 over this Queen of the Island such an influence, that she 
 can repose under my protection, Lastly, my wish 1s to 
 
 A ee 
 
 *Sheba-el-Ma (or Dain,) a Being of the remote past, her power came to 
 
 her from the waters.—£d. 
 
40 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 force the Lord of the Fire to abandon the body which he 
 has appropriated in my likeness, But the will is not al- 
 ways the power. 
 
 Dain.—I hear a slight movement in the vestibule. It 
 must be the Coral Carver. My guardians ought to see him 
 when he enters, for it is when they are the sharpest that 
 they seem to sleep, I also. 
 
 She lies down upon the cushions, her eyes closed, breath- 
 ing softly like a sleeping person. The leopard and tiger 
 are also stretched out, their eyes closed, as if they were 
 asleep. Pavaka removes the curtains and enters into the 
 chamber, after having removed his sandals. The hood of 
 his cloak is lowered over his face, so that one sees only a 
 dark beard. 
 
 Pavaka.—To the Archpriestess health and satisfaction. 
 I have brought carved corals, as her Majesty commanded by 
 the mouth of her principal eunuch who awaits outside. 
 May it please the Queen to condescend to look as my handi- 
 work ? 
 
 No person replies, neither the beasts nor Dain give any 
 signs of life, except by their calm respiration. ‘+All asleep 
 then,”’ says Pavaka, ‘‘why should not I Sleep likewise ?’’ 
 He deposits his box of corals in a niche of the crystal wall, 
 and drawing his hood still further down over his face, he 
 stretches himself out upon one of the deepest sunk couches 
 the curtains of which he lets down, so as not to be seen 
 by any person. He next directs his power over the beasts 
 which sleep heavily. No sound breaks the silence save the 
 stifled murmur of the ocean and the slight harmonies which 
 resound now and again in the chamber, 
 
 Dain.—This silence and inaction are wearisome. Go, my 
 spotted and striped guardians, stir up and amuse me! But 
 how is this? they do not stir! for the first time they ans- 
 wer not my voice. (She places her hand upon the head of the 
 leopard which makes no movement, she sits half up and looks at 
 the animals asleep at the foot of the couch) this sleep is not simu- 
 lated, it is a real, deep sleep. Who then is this new comer 
 who has power to put asleep the beings of my formation 
 
 i al Same 2 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES, 4] 
 
 and who are under my particular influence? or rather do 
 they chance to sleep? No, this is not a common Coral 
 Carver come into my Island to gain his daily bread, 
 who coolly takes possession of a couch and draws the cur- 
 tains over him to conceal himself, as this man has done. 
 Listen, yes, his deep and regular respiration denotes that 
 he is asleep. All is well. 
 
 (She rises, crosses the chamber and approaches the couch 
 where Pavaka is extended, she cautiously removes the cur- 
 tains.) This bold Coral Vender sleeps profoundly, as pro- 
 foundly as my tiger and leopard. Nothing is visible but 
 the end of a dark beard which is not interesting. (She 
 touches the beard gently.) Ah! this beard wants vitality, 
 it is not made from hair sprung from bulbs, it is false. 
 Decidedly this adventure becomes interesting! Who knows 
 if the sleep of the sleeper is not also false? But I go to do 
 it in reality, and perbaps a reality which will be eternal, for 
 I do not like ruses and deceptions, at the home of others! 
 (She makes passes over Pavaka and sings in a low voice :) 
 Sleep, stranger, sleep and hear no more any other voice than 
 that of thecharmer; sleep, stranger,sleep. (Pavaka gradu- 
 ally ceases to breathe and lies motionless and silent.) 
 
 Dain resuming.—All will be well. (She lifts the hood 
 and touches the short fringe of dark hair which conceals his 
 forehead.) Just as I suspected, this is false also. (She re- 
 moves thestrip of hair and then raises the curtains com- 
 pletely, so that the crimson light falls fully upon the face 
 of Pavaka; she trembles and draws back) what does this 
 signify? this is the demi-god of my vision, it is he, in the 
 likeness, of whom I fashioned the body which my present 
 companion has taken possession of ! 
 
 Whilst she stood thus, with hands interlaced, contempla- 
 ting the motionless form of Pavaka, a stifled cry similar to 
 that of a night bird, resounds in thesilence. It is the war- 
 ning cry of the principal eunuch. But Dain, too much 
 absorbed in her thoughts, has not heard it. Thecurtains at 
 the entrance of the chamber are turned aside and the com- 
 panion appears Seeing that the beasts are asleep he en- 
 
42 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 ters without noise and with precaution. But he sees Pava- 
 ka, stretched out, motionless, upon the couch, and Dain 
 who looks at him in silent transport. Then uttering a fe- 
 rocious cry of rage and jealousy, he casts himself upon Dain 
 and surrounding her with his rightjarm, he puts his left hand 
 upon her mouth, so as to prevent her from calling for help. 
 Surprised and troubled Dain loses her coolness and defends 
 herself only asa woman can do. But he pushes her bru- 
 tally towards the couch that she had left, when immediately, 
 he feels her form get heavy, as if life abandoned it. He 
 utters a foolish cry and lets go his prize. The form falls 
 heavily upon the groud. Karayati repulses her with his 
 foot. This is but a shell thinks he, whose core has been 
 Swept away. Dain has rejected it as she would have done 
 an outer garment. And he surrounds the body with his 
 fiery Aura until it is entirely consumed. 
 
 Pavaka (in sleep) : Thus is accomplished my first design. 
 
 Whilst Karayati is absorbed looking at the division and 
 molecular transformation of the body, as by a hot fire, from 
 the vestibule bursts forth an iridescent tinted ray which 
 crosses the chamber and concentrates itself upon the destroy- 
 er. When his work of death is terminated and the impulse 
 of passion appeased within him, he suddenly turns round, 
 and seeing again Pavaka, whom he had forgotten, he utters 
 an exclamation of surprise and defiance and draws from his 
 sash a dagger. He advances to strike him, but it isin vain 
 that he tries to proceed from the iridescent light with which 
 he is enveloped, and in which he is finally constrained to 
 remain motionless. ‘Lost! lost!’’ hecries, ‘‘it is the light 
 of Aoual!’’ and his Nervous Being is gradually withdrawn 
 from its physical envelope. 
 
 In the meanwhile the tiger and leopard have awakened 
 and prowl around the rainbow light without entering there- 
 in, sometimes roaring, sometimes fawning. Immediately a 
 fiery cloud appears in the radiant dome of the chamber and 
 receives the Nervous Being of Karayati who becomes invisi- 
 ble. But his body, in the likeness of Pavaka, remains 
 nevertheless standing in the midst of the iridescent light. 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 43 
 
 Then a Nervous Form of superhuman beauty materialises in 
 the density of the ray which sprang forth from the vestibule, 
 enters in its turn into the light and permeates the form that 
 Karayati has been forced to abandon. At its arrival the 
 thousand lamps with red light have taken a rainbow tint, so 
 that the dome of the chamber appears like a series of rain- 
 bow circles, which throw a soft radiance upon the sparkling 
 fringe of stalactites. Then Aoual withdraws the light, 
 which gradually disappears, and rests a moment, lulled by 
 the melodious harmonies which mingle with the murmur of 
 the waves. He afterwards rises and goes towards the crys- 
 tal nichein which Pavaka reposes in profound sleep. ‘‘Pa- 
 vaka, Pavaka, awaken, awaken!’’ he saystohim. Pavaka 
 raises his eyes, heavy with sleep, and seeing standing by his 
 side the form in his likeness that Karayati had assumed, 
 tries to stand up, but he falls back, weakened by the drow- 
 siness, saying: ‘‘Thou hast found me, Oh! my enemy.’’ 
 
 Aoual.—I am not your enemy, wake up, wake up. 
 
 He puts his left hand upon the base of the brain and his 
 right hand upon the forehead of Pavaka, who awakens 
 gradually to full consciousness. 
 
 Pavaka.—Since I have been stretched out in this place 
 nothing of that which is past is clear to me. I thought or 
 dreamt that the lamps were the colour of rubies, and behold 
 they shed a rainbow and radiant light like a prismatic ray ; 
 I thought that the Queen of this strange domain rested upon 
 her couch, near to which stood a tiger anda leopard, and 
 behold the couch is empty. At last it seemed to me that 
 the Queen arose and approached me, as I did seem to sleep, 
 and that her hands touched my face. After that 1 remem- 
 bered nothing more. 
 
 Aoual.—That which has passed here is for yourself and 
 all the others, as if it never existed. Rise, Pavaka, return 
 home, and henceforth do not allow yourself to he carried 
 away by any motive, however pure and powerful 1t may be, 
 to put yourself in touch with Grand Passives, with ie ob- 
 ject of being able to utilise them, otherwise you will soon 
 cease to be Pavaka. This is an advice and not an order. 
 
44 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 All things are legitimate to us, but all things are not 
 advantageous. 
 
 Pavaka (rising.)—How can I thank you, Oh! my 
 Saviour. 
 
 Aoual.—Do not thank me, I did not come because of you. 
 
 Pavaka leaves the chamber followed by the leopard and 
 tiger which give a groan of satisfaction. Aoual stretches 
 Himself upon the couch that Pavaka left and rests as asleep 
 in the splendour of his rainbow light. Soon a tapestry is 
 lifted and Dain enters in the form in which she was exter- 
 iorised before leaving her Palace in her vision search. She 
 is a small dark woman, admirably made and of rare, fascin- 
 ating beauty. She still wears the crown with the three ruby 
 globes, self luminous, and her dress is of that same luminous 
 ruby colour, with sprinklings of dark pearls. ‘‘How beautiful 
 it is!’ she cries, “each hanging lamp is changed into a rainbow 
 globe, which the crystal reflects the brightness of. Very 
 marvellous is the power of him whom [ lulled to sleep, when 
 that Lord of the Region of Fire entered and, because of the 
 strange transformation that the presence of the Coral Car- 
 ver operated in me has been able to deceive and lord it over 
 me... may his name be forever—but what is the conse- 
 quence? behold my lips, which are however accustomed to 
 curse, refuse to pronounce here the word of malediction! 
 (She approaches Aoual and utters an exclamation of sur- 
 prise.) It is the same and yet not the same. It seems to 
 me that he who rests in sleep now, as compared with him 
 whom I left here, is like Sirius in comparison with the 
 moon. Is it possible that the change of outward form, by 
 which alone we are in relation with the outer world, chan- 
 ges at this period our Nervo-Physical feeling, or is it rather 
 because of the, evolution of this body that I have taken in 
 different renewals through eons of time, that I discern such 
 a ravishing beauty in this Coral Carver? How marvel- 
 lous his beauty! how exquisite are the harmonies which 
 are said to be the echoes from a concert of harpists in the 
 distance, when they lightly touch the strings of their golden 
 harps. Since I rocked him tosleep, he is become a thousand 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 45 
 times more beautiful, I will rock him into a still deep- 
 er sleep, I will rock him into sleep forever, my delight, my 
 all-beautiful, so that nothing can separate him from me!”’ 
 
 She then bends over Aoual and places her lips upon his 
 in along embrace, whilst the rainbow envelops her and 
 mingles with her Aura. She next sings sweetly : 
 
 “Sleep, stranger, sleep, 
 It is Sheba-el-Ma who rockest thee, 
 Sleep, stranger, sleep.” 
 
 Whilst she repeats this chant the rainbow light penetrates 
 her more and more, and she leans against one of the crys- 
 tal pillars which encircle the couch upon which Aoual ts 
 stretched. Soon her eyes are closed, and Aoual rises to 
 carry her to the couch that she had left to rock Pavaka to 
 sleep. At the same time he sings to her in a sweet and 
 melodious voice : 
 
 ‘*Repose, repose, child of the dark heavens, 
 Repose, repose, star of the dawn, 
 Thou art, alas! only a wandering star, 
 Although thou art from five and seven, 
 But itis because no man has had strength 
 To guide thy bounding steps 
 In the straight and white way which leads to equilibrium, 
 That the iridescent tints of the rainbow which penetrate thee 
 Come to mingle with the unsteady lights of thy gloomy Aura, 
 Rest thee. That which is is not that which might be. 
 The evening stars always await thee; they await their Queen.” 
 
 Dain (in Trance Sleep, placing her hand in that of Aoual.) 
 How sweet and refreshing this repose! Coral Sculptor, do 
 you love me? 
 
 Aoual.-—Profoundly, otherwise, why should I be there? 
 
 Dain.—It is true, at the risk of your life, you entered 
 into my Enchanted Palace, promise me never to leave it. 
 
 A.—You have justly guessed that lam not what I appear. 
 What would you say if we some day lett Atlantis together 
 to go away tomy own Kingdom, the Kingdom which I have 
 prepared for thee? 
 
 D.—It matters little if I am with thee. ; 
 
 A.—This is true, love is the Kingdom of the Passives, 
 
46 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 they would give all that they have to obtain it, and they 
 estimate there is nothing lost, if they arrive there. 
 
 D.—How strange is this repose! it is like a transforma- 
 tion! Where are my foolish passions, my ungovernable im- 
 pulses, my plans for the seduction, deception and fascina- 
 tion of man? Even the indifference which I experience at 
 times regarding him vanishes and I feel towards him, al- 
 most good will, at least within toleration. 
 
 A.—Rest, child of night. 
 
 D.—Those only can rest who are satisfied. 
 
 A.—It is true. 
 
 D.—I, Immortal, have taken the form of a mortal. 
 Amongst all mortals thou alone can satisfy me. Coral 
 Carver, carve my destiny, (to herself) until I carve thine! 
 
 * * * 
 
 When Pavaka had determined to enter into the Enchan- 
 ted Palace of Dain, he had concealed his intention from 
 Aditya, for fear that she might wish to accompany him, or 
 seek to dissuade him from his enterprise, for he said to 
 himself: *‘If Aditya accompanies me into that Palace, what 
 guarantee shall I have that Dain does not see her in her 
 proper surrounding and do her evil? The thought of the 
 danger that she might run would rouse all my coolness. 
 
 If upon the other hand Aditya tries to dissuade me from 
 my enterprise, which has for his object the accomplishment 
 of certain important works, I ought either to renounce my 
 purposes, or conscientiously act against her wish. It is 
 therefore preferable that I say nothing to her, and that I 
 place her in the Sleep of Repose until my return.” 
 
 Having done this, and after having put Aditya to sleep, 
 when he saw that she rested peacefully, he said to her: 
 ‘‘The sun is now in its meridian splendour. Do not awaken, 
 my beloved, untilit return to the height of its course in the 
 azure vault.’’ Pavaka did not dare to tell Aditya to sleep 
 until his return, for fear that, if some misfortune happened 
 to him, then no person would be capable of awakening her. 
 He then set out. 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 47 
 
 The next day, when the sun shone anew at the summit 
 of the heavenly vault, Aditya awoke calmly, and not find- 
 ing Pavaka near her at her awakening, according to her 
 custom, she rose and went into the outer chamber of their 
 little and poor dwelling, to prepare the mid-day meal, for 
 they lived like poor people, so as not to attract attention 
 and appear otherwise than those whe work for their daily 
 bread. Finding the chamber empty she took the fish roe which 
 she had prepared the day before, along with the flour of a 
 certain bean and other ingredients pre-eminent in nourish- 
 ment, and deliberately prepared the repast. Afterwards, 
 when all was ready, she awaited calmly, thinking that, as 
 the sea was calm he had perhaps gone to the boat to fish 
 with roe, which formed one of their most sustaining nour- 
 ishments, but then hours slipped past and Pavaka did not 
 return. 
 
 When the sun was set and the shadows of the evening 
 stretched over the waters, an undefined but ever growing 
 presage of danger took possession of Aditya. But she vent- 
 ured not to go out of her dwelling, for Pavaka had urgently 
 warned her never to leave it during his absence, for fear 
 that she might become visible, beeing too far away from 
 him, and that she might excite curiosity because of her great 
 beauty. She remained therefore near to the entrance of 
 their cave dwelling, waiting anxiously for the sound of 
 his footsteps. 
 
 When the last gleams of daylight had disappeard from 
 the western horizon, the wind suddenly arose and rapidly 
 increased. It raised the waves and shook the trees of the 
 forest with great roarings which reached unto the me 
 where Aditya watched, then lost itself in moanings in the 
 distance. Gfadually Aditya felt her courage abandon her 
 and great fear invaded her. 
 
 oe midnight, when a column of dark Hae oe 
 sprung up from the Palace gardens in the eae ne i; 
 the hour, a squall of wind uprooted a large tree w at ; 
 
 at f the cave dwell 
 with a terrible crash before the entrance Ott epee AS 
 ing. Aditya at this time dragged herself into 
 
48 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 chamber and lay down upon the couch where Payaka had 
 for the first time held her hand in his own, making every 
 effort to recover her composure and to discern what she 
 should do. Whilst she is thus lying very tranquil, with her 
 eyes closed, althoughcalmness has returned to her, she has 
 an increasing presentiment that Pavaka isin danger, and the 
 certainty that he has entered into the Enchanted Palace, 
 from which he cannot get out. She is determined to set out 
 in search for him, saying: ‘‘If I am capable of retaining 
 invisibility, I could perhaps enter into the Palace, find him 
 and save him! If I am discovered, I can at the most only 
 lose my two outer envelopes, for over my soul the Hostiles 
 have no power.”’ 
 
 In the meanwhile rising, she covers herself with a thick 
 cloak with a hood which she attaches firmly, then crossing 
 the outer chamber, she yoes into the dark forest although 
 filled with the roarings of the wind and waters, the moan- 
 ings and crackings of the giant trees, bent and broken by 
 the violence of the wind. Although she has never been 
 at the garden enclosure, yet she knows the direction in which 
 it lies, by the column of gloomy light which ascends at the 
 midnight hour, and she also knows that upon the north side 
 of a narrow belt of forest and thick bushes there lies a path 
 which leads to the southern enclosure of the garden. But 
 at the moment when she proceeds from the cave, a squall 
 of wind, more violent than the others, lifts her up and 
 throws her down upon the ground, where she remains 
 stunned close by the uprooted tree. 
 
 %* * * 
 
 Every year, at the anniversary of the day when Tzere, 
 Queen of the Isles, refused to follow Aoual, because of the 
 great grief which she felt when he called Maob the Immor- 
 tal to his aid,* Aoua! proceeds to a solitary Isle of the Sea 
 to lament with Tzere and hear her voice mingled with that 
 
 *Maob the Immortal is a Passive who derives her origin from Aoual, 
 and this origin goes back to a very remote past, a long time before this 
 our seventh classification of matter.—Zd. 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES, 49 
 
 of the ocean, if evoked. That custom he hus never missed, 
 for be said: ‘‘At the time when I was exhausted and very 
 much fatigued, the Queen of the Isles was my giver of 
 repose.’ t 
 
 To the north of the bay where Aditya had descended, at 
 the festival of the new moon, after she had received the 
 crown of oak leaves and the Silver Sickle, stands a small 
 Isle which is scarcely twenty miles long and seventeen 
 wide. Its beauty lies in its uninterrupted forest of venera- 
 ble oaks which entirely covers it, and descends unto the 
 coast of the Atlantic. Aoual is seated under an immense 
 oak with a gigantic trunk. He appears to listen attentive- 
 ly near to the side of the south-west beach, then he says: 
 
 “Thou hast brought me, Oh! Seventh Wave of Oceanus, 
 not the voice of Tzere, my Queen of the Isles, but that of a 
 Daughter of Vellah,{ who laments like a dove whose nest 
 has been ravaged by the birdcatcher. The voice of lamen- 
 tation comes from the direction of the Enchanted Isles, the 
 Kingdom of Reich Sheba Ma. Assuredly there is some 
 
 t*'T have never found thee insufficient,” said Aoual to Tzere. ‘No 
 person loves me so much as Tzere, Tzere who was my repose, at the time 
 of my greatest debility! . .. Iwill always love thee; my feelings towards 
 thee are those of complete gratitude, thou art forever free; when thou 
 wishest to return to earth, call me by the name thou gavest me; It will be 
 Tipheres (Aoual) who will respond to thee.” See 7radition. In order 
 that the Reader may better understand the above it is necessary to givea 
 few details. Lamkhialah was the Passive of Lamkhial whom he had 
 abandoned, and who by her own desire became united to the “3 irst Emana- 
 tion, Aoual, in human form, who under the form of Lamkbial resided ip 
 the /sles of the West. Lamkhial was disintegrated by Devo after ae seh 
 struggle. Devo tried to get possession of his body, but although the . 2 
 was separated from its more rarefied states, Its own V itality pean mR 
 powerful that he could not accomplish his design. Kahi aude ¢ 
 body of Lamkhial to his own dwelling and deposited it in the menerte 
 crystalisation, The Emanation, as already said, took possession © 
 
 of Lamknhial. : Ay 
 ae a time that Aoual and Lamkhialah are thus united cd ipeicrn 
 calls them by new names which indicate their actual state. The 5 iS 
 Emanation is henceforth called Tipheres, because of his rs oe Je 
 Passive of Lamkbial is named 7%ere because the /s/es became her dwelling. 
 —ELu. 
 
 tThe Daughters of Vellah are spoken 
 ing conceived and living under the powerful 1 
 it is upon the History of the Daughters of Vel! 
 vulgarised legend, relating how the Sons of Go 
 ters of Men were beautiful. (Ge. v1, 2.)—Ea. 
 
 of in Zhe Chronicles of Chi as be- 
 influence of Veliah (Venus); 
 ah that is established the 
 d saw that the Daugh- 
 
50 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 danger for that Passive who thus laments, not without 
 cause. Blow, Oh! wind from tie east, and carry me upon 
 thy rapid wings towards the Enchanted Isle; return quick- 
 ly, Seventh Wave and say to the Daughter of Vellah who 
 laments: ‘Thy help through knowledge will come to thee 
 carried upon the wings of the wind.’ ’’* 
 
 * * * 
 
 Aoual has descended near to the uprooted tree which had 
 fallen before the entry of the cave dwelling of Pavaka, and 
 by the side of which lies the senseless form of Aditya. 
 The tempest rages, the ground is strewn with leaves and 
 branches and at every moment large branches still fall, 
 violently torn, Aoual looks at Aditya: ‘*Thou art beauti- 
 ful,’’ says he, ‘like a Daughter of Vellah who has loved 
 and been loved. But alas! poor child, the man who sports 
 with temptation, who has been rocked to rest by Sheba Ma, 
 is rarely such as he was before. Yet I have no proof that 
 he to whom thou belongest dwells in the Enchanted Palace, 
 and I will not even take thy hand in mine to cause thee to 
 repose, for fear there may be confusion, until I know with 
 certainty that which I suppose.’”” He turns towards the 
 four quarters of the world, saying: 
 
 ‘Listen, Oh! Kings of the Tempests, Lords of the Inner 
 Air, increase the violence of the storm ten times more, if 
 you please, but allow not the slightest breeze to enter with- 
 in the Aura which surrounds that Passive. As for us we 
 shall enter into the garden enclosure and go to the Palace 
 of Dain. Rest, pretty Daughter of Vellah, rest, Aditya, 
 Queen of the Seventh Wave, rest and dream that thy most 
 cherished desire is realised, that thy most ardent wish be 
 accomplished, until either Pavaka or Aoual awake thee to 
 a different consciousness.’’ 
 
 * * * 
 
 Dain.—Thou hast satisfied me and I rest. 
 
 *“He rode upona Cherub as they fly. He is borne upon the wings of 
 the wind.” (Psalms xviii, 10.)—£d. 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 51 
 
 Aoual.—Rest, beautiful child of the evening and morn- 
 ing and awaken to Intellectual Illumination. 
 
 D.—Thy voice is melodious, rock me so that I sleep by 
 singing. 
 
 A.—Child of evening, rest, Ob! rest, until daylight ap- 
 pears and the shadows flee away. Thus only wilt thou be 
 of the Blessed intime andeternity. (As Aoual chants thus, 
 a sapphire ray is emitted from His rainbow Aura light and 
 envelops Dain while she sleeps.) 
 
 D.—I said, a short time ago: ‘‘thou hast satisfied me and 
 I repose,’’ but now an Intellectual thirst awakens in me, 
 If you wish that I rest, satisfy this thirst also. 
 
 A. (gaily)—Do you desire knowledge regarding the Co- 
 ral Carver? 
 
 D.—No, but rather upon the Isle of the Sea where the 
 corals have their dwelling, upon the Isle where pearls 
 abound, in short upon the Sacred Isle from which it is said 
 you come; or rather, if the mews is true, that you are from 
 the City of the Heights which form the roof of the earth; 
 tell me about that place. 
 
 A.—Whby do those places have such a great charm for 
 your 
 
 D.—Because that the Isle and the City, which men call 
 Sacred are, along with another Isle and City, the only 
 places where I have never been able to enter in material 
 form. 
 
 A.—Question me and I will reply to you. 
 
 D.—lIs it true that the principal formations in human 
 form, of the numerous eras, when the Formators tried to 
 establish their Kingdom upon earth, and consequently to 
 subdue us, are always incarnated in the Sacred Isle? 
 
 A.—No. 
 
 D.—Your reply is brief and categorical, But I detest to 
 be replied to in monosyllables. Satisfy me, or rather tell 
 me distinctly that you cannot or will not do so. 
 
 A.—Question me and I will reply to you. 
 
 D.—Do those formations take and leave their material 
 
 . + can, in invis- 
 envelope at pleasure, 1n such a way that they can, 1) inv 
 
52 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLEs. 
 
 ibility and under the protection of Ad-Ad,+ or Aba,t pre- 
 pare a straight way through my Kingdom for the accom- 
 plishment of the passage, which, according to the belief of 
 that which is called the Sacred Hierarchy, will be the sign 
 of the Restitution? 
 
 A.—You have guessed it. Reply to me in your turn. 
 Why, seeing that you have said that we were one hereafter, 
 do you speak of the Nervous State as being yours? Iam 
 a veritable Earthly Man, but I have the power of exterior- 
 ising myself at pleasure, not only unto the Nervous Degree 
 of the Physical State, but also unto the Nervous State it- 
 self. Upon your part, you have the power of taking at 
 pleasure a human body. Thus urited, for us the Nervous 
 and the Nervo-Physical States are one, as they ought to be, 
 in order, and ‘‘subjugation 
 ist for us. 
 
 ” or ‘‘conflict’? ought not to ex- 
 
 D.—This view of the question and situation is serious. 
 I shall reflect for a short time—(after a moment’s silence) 
 when you are therefore near to me, when you hold my hand 
 in yours, I feel that the powers of our Auras are rather 
 yours than mine. Gothen to the couch where I rocked 
 you to sleep and conceal it in shadow so that I no more feel 
 your Aura envelop me. 
 
 Aoual rose and returned towards the couch where Dain 
 lulled: Pavaka to sleep. He concealed it in shadow, but, he 
 did not conceal his Aura light from Dain. Dain closes her 
 eyes and remains absorbed in deep thought. At this time 
 Pavaka eénters the'vestibule and lightly raises the curtains 
 at the entrance of the chamber with precaution. Aoual, 
 
 {The Kingdom of Ad-Ad the Pre-eminent borders upon the region of 
 the Hostile. Ad-Ad is the Chief of the Free Intelligences, banished, re- 
 jected by their companions as partisans of individualism, at the time of the 
 formation of the state of Pure Spirit. Itis the name given by the Assyr- 
 ians to one of the Attributes of the Divinity.—Zd. 
 
 tAba, sometimes known as ‘‘The Strong by Right,” the “All Merciful,” 
 was the representative Man of the Sixth Formation, as Kahi was in the 
 Seventh, or our present Formation—the period of Cosmic Life where 
 we now are—and as Kahie was the Passive of Kahiso was Ama the Passive 
 of Aba.—£d. 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 53 
 
 seeing him, rises and rejoins him. ‘*Why,’’ says he to him, 
 ‘‘have you returned from the Enchanted Garden? Did we 
 not advise you to return to your own home?”’ 
 
 Pavaka.—I have been unable to get out of the enclosure. 
 Something stronger than I kept me back, It is not the 
 will that fails me, but the power. 
 
 Aoual.—Enter quietly into the chamber, and rest there 
 where I rested, in sleep, without dreams, until we awaken 
 you. 
 
 Pavaka lies down upon the couch which is veiled. 
 
 A. (approaching Dain).—I did not wish to put your 
 patience to the test, when I replied so briefly to you. Rise, 
 now, my beloved, rise and come with me. Come with me 
 to the Sacred Isle. There I will satisfy thee. 
 
 D. (quickly rising.) —Bring me out of this country, I 
 will follow thee in haste, (to herself) thus shall I be at least 
 in the midst of the Central Hierarchy, for what object? 
 who knows? (Aoual takes her right hand in his left and 
 they leave the chamber together. ) 
 
 Harmonious melodies resound sweetly through the cham- 
 ber. Immediately two large serpents with bristling crests 
 enter and glide through the vestibule. They approach the 
 couch upon which Pavaka reposes, and twist about hissing, 
 but they cannot enter within the rainbow Aura which sur- 
 rounds and protects him, and they go away crawling as they 
 came. Next it is the tiger and leopard which enter in their 
 turn within the chamber and come prowling around Pavaka, 
 
 roaring ferociously, But they can no more approach him 
 Melodies still resound 
 
 and they also leave the chamber. y 
 the sound of fifes and 
 
 in the air and with them is mingled 
 cymbals, accompanying a chorus which resounds like a song 
 
 of triumph: 
 
 “Thou art rocked in sleep, Pavaka, 
 
 Thou wilt awaken no mote, 
 For it is the chant of Dain which lullest thee, 
 
 By the charm that never fails.” 
 
 In the meantime the tapestries which close the entrance 
 
54 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 tothe chamber are removed and Aditya enters. She is 
 very pale and dressed in a light blue robe, with a rainbow 
 coloured scarfas a sash. At her entry the song of triumph 
 vanishes intoaconfused sound of lamentation and all is si- 
 lent, save the murmur of the sea. She kneels down before 
 the couch where Pavaka sleeps and takes his hand in hers 
 saying: “In the name of the First Formed who sent me, 
 awake, my true friend, awake.’’ 
 
 As Pavaka wakes up and rises, the serpents, tigers and 
 leopards fill the vestibule by hissing and roaring. **Alas!”’ 
 says he, ‘‘my beloved, it is too late, it is too late! Look, 
 there are the two monsters which defend the gate of the 
 Enchanted Garden, when I tried to return to thee. In this 
 chamber we are protected by the light of Aoual, but once 
 we wlll have left it, we will be torn to pieces by those fe- 
 rocious beasts. Alas! how can I save my dearest one from 
 the jaws of those monsters?” He grasped Aditya in his 
 arms to protect her. But he felt then that the last effect of 
 the charm of Dain was dissipated: ‘‘My beloved, my be- 
 loved,’’ he cried, ‘tthe charm of Love can break all other 
 charms.”’ 
 
 As he spoke thus, the end of the chamber opens and lets 
 the calm sea appear, enlightened by the moon, along with 
 the narrow belt of coast which separates the cave from the 
 ocean. Pavaka and Aditya soon prepare to leave the 
 chamber, but at this time a small boat with sails the colour 
 of the rainbow comes near the shore. In this boat Dain is 
 lying in deep sleep upon cushions, and Aoual stands at the 
 prow. He makes a sign to them not to advance, and they 
 stop under the entrance vault of the cave. Aoual then says 
 to Pavaka: ‘‘Do not leave Atlantis. When I was in 
 the Isle of Oaks to listen if I could hear the voice of Tzere, 
 the Queen of the Isles, but as I heard the lamentation of 
 Aditya, I consecrated the latter the Queen of the Isles 
 whence the voices from the Daughters of Vellah came to 
 me, viz: the Isle which is as the penenim of the South Sea 
 and the little Isle of Oaks. Asa gift of consecration, I give 
 to you with her who are as one single being, dominion over 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 5d 
 
 this vast Island of Atlantis, which has been heaved up 
 from the depths of the ocean by the subterranean fires ex- 
 cited to activity by the Fire Kings. It is with you: to pre- 
 serve equilibrium in yourself, so that you can equilibrate 
 the formations of this kingdom from disequilibrium.” 
 
 Pavaka.—Are we capable of doing this, if so, by what 
 means can this great work be accomplished? 
 
 Aoual.—The cause of disequilibrium is excess. It is for 
 you to furnish to that which is feeble that which is awant- 
 ing, and to clear away that which is excess, where necessary. 
 You will thus arrive at the just balance of formations and 
 to the evolution which will result from it. 
 
 P.—But what will happen, if, whilst, 1 develop others 
 towards equilibrium, I myself fall into disequilibrium? 
 
 A.—The love which can break the charm of Dain the 
 Enchantress, as a lion breaks a string which binds it, is your 
 safeguard. Watch so that every cave dwelling, great 
 or small, is opened towards the ocean, so that the voice of 
 the Seventh Wave can put those who have ears to hear in- 
 to relationship with Aditya the Queen of the Isles, Aditya 
 the Diviner of the Seventh Wave. 
 
 Thus spoke Aoual and the boat slowly left the shore. 
 But a gust of wind raised his cloak, which fell upon the 
 shoulders of Pavaka. At this time the iridescent lamps 
 of the cave paled in the clearness of the rising sun. 
 Only one lamp upon the summit of the vault still shines 
 with a pure white light which even surpasses in splendour 
 the star of day. 
 
 Pavaka (bringing back Aditya into the cave.)—All oth- 
 er earthly lights turn pale before the radiance of the sun 
 which is the symbol of intelligence, but the light of Duality, 
 which comes from Pathetism, can never become pale, even 
 before the sun. 
 
 Aditva.—Look, in proportion as the rays of the sun enter 
 eeithin the cave, so each crystal shines with the rainbow 
 light from the light of the Aura of Aoual; listen also to 
 the Seventh Wave which speaks from the shore. 
 
55 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 P.—And what does it say, this voice of the Seventh 
 Wave? 
 
 A.—**Man for man. The Immortals for the Immortals.”’ 
 
 P.—1 do not understand the meaning of the speech, see- 
 ing that we are all equally human. 
 
 A. (to herself) —That is true, but have we not both rest- 
 ed under the influence of the Immortals? 
 
 There is a warning in the voice of the Seventh Wave. 
 
 * * * 
 
 Acalm night in summer. The sky is hidden by mist. 
 The boat, in which Dain is asleep, is moored to the shore 
 of the Isle of Oaks, where Aoual had heard the lamenta- 
 tion of Aditya. Aoual sleeps under the branches of a lurge 
 oak. A fiery light gradually penetrates the mist around 
 the boat, and from that light issues forth a Being in human 
 similitude, who takes form in the Nervous Degree of being 
 and enters the boat, 
 
 The Being.—Reich Sheba Ma! 
 
 Who calls me from the region of repose? 
 
 Being.—He who, since you beard him, is more powerful 
 than him who has lulled you into this fatal repose. 
 
 D.—Why fatal? 
 
 Being.—Because you are not, as you are made believe by 
 enchantment, under the influence of the Coral Carver that 
 you can shake off at pleasure, as your tigers and leopards 
 extricate themselves from the meshes of a spider’s web. 
 Under what influence do you think you repose? 
 
 D.—What does it matter when it gives me rest? 
 
 Being.—W hat matter! isit really Sheba Ma who speaks! 
 What matter, when her only object in her incarnations is 
 to place herself in relation with mortals, although she be in 
 relation with an Immortal! What matter, when instead of 
 influencing, it is she who is influenced, when instead of 
 impressing, it is she who is impressed! 
 
 D.—(opening her eyes and rising half up). Impressed! 
 I! What foolishness is this? 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 57 
 
 Being.—Try to leave the boat and you will judge for 
 yourself if I speak foolishly or not. 
 
 Dain rises hurriedly and tries to leave the boat, but she ts stop- 
 ped by an Invisible Power. 
 
 Being.—Utter no exclamation, for fear that your jailer 
 awaken and that all may be lost. Your only hope of liber- 
 ty is in the Evocation of the King of the Regions of subter- 
 ranean Fire. 
 
 D.—I do not wish even to have liberty to go down into 
 that Region, and pass from light to darkness. I will not 
 make that Evocation. I want to rest myself, whatever be 
 the consequence. 
 
 Being.—Before you decide to repose here, I beg of you 
 to listen to me yet a moment. You will afterwards have 
 time enough for your wished-for rest. 
 
 D.—Speak then and make haste. 
 
 B.—She that you saw dragged to the flux of the sea, who 
 advanced to be swallowed up, she whose likeness you took, 
 is one in Duality of Being with Pavaka, the pretended 
 Coral Sculptor. They have both entered into the Island 
 which, according to your wish, we heaved up from the 
 depths of the ocean, for you to makea lasting Kingdom of, 
 upon which you will have absolute dominion, and from 
 which you can influence the earth and man. 
 
 D.—Ah! and with what object? 
 
 B.—To be able, with the assistance of Aoual, who dur- 
 ing your absence from the ruby chamber, has taken the 
 envelope rejected by your companion, to entrance you and 
 banish you from Atlantis. It is not Pavaka, but indeed 
 Aoual who now sleeps over there under the oak with the 
 
 large branches. 
 D. (to herself.) —Have I not observed in fact the increase 
 
 of beauty and power of him that I evoked to sleep! But 
 they lie so often, with every appearance of truth, those 
 Hostiles to earth and man. Nevertheless the fact that I 
 cannot without help leave this boat gives to the sasnaes of 
 that Being some semblance of truth— (in a high voice) and 
 the true Pavaka, the Coral Carver? 
 
58 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 Being.—He rules with Aditya, that Aoual has made sleep 
 under his influence and that he has consecrated Queen of 
 the Sacred Isles, over your Island of Atlantis, so as to de- 
 feat your work, to subjugate your subjects, and to make of 
 Atlantis a new Sacred Island. 
 
 Dain (angrily.)—This shall never be! Listen, Kings of 
 the Powers of the Air, the Earth, the subterranean Fires, 
 I, Sheba Ma, the Immortal, I, Dain, the Queen of Atlantis 
 evoke you! Let him who is greatest in power, the most hos- 
 tile to the Sacred Hierarchy, respond to my Evocation! 
 
 As she thus spoke, in a slow and scanned rhythm, the sky 
 was suddenly covered with heavy clouds from which burst 
 forth lightnings; the thunder growled and the wind shook 
 the large oaks of the forest. 
 
 A voice from the depths of the earth.—\ have heard your 
 Evocation, Queen of Enchantment and Sorcery, and my 
 wish is to come to help you. But we cannot materialise 
 because of the power of him who rests over there beneath 
 the oak and who, indeed is Aoual, the First Formed. 
 
 Serve me in such a manner as you please, provided that 
 your help is efficacious. 
 
 The Voice.—Upon one condition, and only one, we will 
 aid you. 
 
 D.—I will make no conditions with any person. 
 
 All is then silent. The Being with whom Dain has con- 
 versed, vanishes in the fog, and the mist disperses under the 
 wind which increases, Aoual rests motionless, his eyes 
 closed, apparently indifferent to all that which is outside. 
 
 The Voice resuming.—We will aid you under one sole 
 condition. 
 
 D.—I never accept conditions. 
 
 Voice.—We are different, we always do. 
 
 D.—Be it so, between you and me rises a wall of separa- 
 tion. (then she listens, but all becomes silent, and the dark- 
 ness always augments; she resumes.) In this cursed boat I 
 can see nothing, hear nothing, feel nothing! I would give 
 worlds to know if that which is said to me of Atlantis, my 
 own Kingdom, the seat of my power, is true! 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES, 59 
 
 Voice.—Ask Aoual. he who has imposed no condition 
 upon you, by whom you are a prisoner, 
 
 D. (passionately.)—Lord of the subterranean Fires that I 
 have evoked, and that I still invoke, tell me the condition 
 you require, so that I may see if Ican accept it or not. 
 
 Voice.—Our condition is that you come to our Kingdom 
 of Fire, where we have need for a developed and immortal 
 Passive. This condition granted, there is nothing that the 
 Great Enchantress can claim from us, but what we shall do 
 all in our power, cost what it may, to give her. 
 
 D.—And if I refuse to accept that condition? 
 
 Voice.—We will leave you to the mercy of Aoual, and 
 Tradition will relate how the First Formed, who, in the 
 sixth classification, had already transformed his Great 
 Grandmother into a white bear, imprisoned her in a boat 
 in the seventh classification, after having entranced her, 
 and driven her away by ruse from her own Kingdom. 
 
 D.—And if I accept your services? 
 
 Voice.—Exteriorise and leave only your outer envelope 
 +n the boat. Descend in Nervous Being to the Regions of 
 Fire, there we will reclothe you. In the same manner as 
 into the springs and deep waters we cannot enter freely, so 
 Aoual cannot enter into the Fiery Regions. But you are 
 free, free to remain the slave of Aoual, or to reign all-pow- 
 erful in the Region of Fires. 
 
 D.—Better rule in the Fire than serve in the White Light, 
 
 (a prolonged silence) only the murmur of the waves are 
 
 heard. (With anger) : May all the Sons of Light be cursed! 
 I can no more execute my own will, I can- 
 not exteriorise! Lam imprisoned, not only in the boat, but 
 in my own body! Aoual, if you are him truly, or ot 
 Sculptor, whoever you may be, render, me my liberty ° | 
 Aoual rises and enters into the boat which becomes radiant with 
 rainbow light.—\ have heard you pron 
 here lam. What do you desire? 
 ty =| ad a passionate desire, 
 me repose. I ask nothing of you but make me rest. 
 
 Aoual.—Repose. 
 
 cursed for ever! 
 
 ounce my name, and 
 
 but it is forgotten. Make 
 
60 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 Dain lies down upon the cushions at the feet of Aoual.— 
 How beautiful thou art, Son of the Morning, thou who art 
 Man, and who art more beautiful than any child of man. 
 
 Aoual.—Repose, Daughter of Night. Thou art more 
 powerful than the daughters of men. Who can be compar- 
 ed with thee in subtlety and in bewitching beauty. Listen, 
 I will make thee sleep by lulling thee by my song which 
 will accompany the murmur of the waters. 
 
 He commenced a low and monotonous chant, without 
 words, which followed the murmur of the waters. Dain 
 stretched herself out upon the cushions in the boat and 
 slept. A dull rumbling, like the rolling of distant thunder 
 resounds in the meantime under the earth, followed soon by 
 a trembling of the ground: ‘‘The King of the Fires,” says 
 Aoual, ‘‘is filled with anger, because I have baffled his plans, 
 and this rumbling is as a voice of warning.”’ 
 
 * * * 
 
 Pavaka and Aditya are seated under the vault of the 
 chamber which is open towards the ocean. 
 
 P.—No man can be evolved against his will. Notwith- 
 standing all our efforts, there are only a few of the inhabi- 
 tants of Atlantis who have consented to open their cave- 
 dwellings towards the sea. The great majority stands to 
 its ancient custom, and prefers the caves lighted by lamps, 
 to the brightness of the sun, moon and stars. 
 
 A.—Yet they are sufficient to form our Hierarchy. 
 
 P.—That is true, there are the four who were the first to 
 open their dwellings to the light, then the twelve who fol- 
 lowed and the multiples ef twelve until twelve times twelve, 
 a total of 940. We have thus the double enclosure and the 
 sign of plasticity. 
 
 A.—That is good. But I would like that all would open 
 their habitations. 
 
 P.—Evolution, even with the aid of man, is slow. Per- 
 haps with time most people will one day be lovers of the 
 light. 
 
 A.—With time! with time! Who knows whether suffi- 
 cient time may yet remain for them to realise that evolution. 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 61 
 
 P.—Why does my beloved thus speak so sadly? 
 A.—Last night I had a dream which haunts me. 
 P.—What dream? 
 
 A.--I dreamt that I heard the voice of him who saved 
 us; you from the power of Dain and I from the Spirits of 
 the Tempests of the forest. 
 
 P.—And what said the voice? 
 
 A.—The voice, which addressed itself to you and not to 
 me, said: ‘Warn all those who have opened their habita- 
 tions towards the sea, to get the boats ready, near to the 
 entrance of the dwellings so that if necessary they can 
 enter them.’’ At the same time I felt a presage of danger. 
 
 As she finished speaking they heard a dull underground 
 noise andthe earth shook beneath them. At this time the 
 four who first opened their dwellings to the light, landed 
 ashore and approached Pavaka. ‘*You are always wel- 
 come,’ he said to them, ‘‘but doubly so at this time. Go 
 quickly towards all those who listened to our voice, who 
 opened their dwellings towards the sea, and say to them : 
 Thus speaks Pavaka; Let each moor his boat near to the 
 entrance of his habitation. Tell them also that they per- 
 suade those over whom they have any influence to open 
 their dwellings towards the sea and also to get the boats 
 ready, in which they can enter if need be. It is no more 
 than four hours to sunset, it is necessary that all be ready 
 before the mantle of night extend itself over the earth and 
 
 sea.’’ 
 
 * * * 
 
 It is night. Only the light of the stars enlightens the 
 Island of Atlantis and the calm waves of the ocean. Pava- 
 ka and Aditya watch at the entrance of the chamber which 
 is open towards the sea. Pavaka grasps the hand of Aditya 
 in his own. 
 
 P.—Your hand trembles my beloved. 
 
 A.—lIt is not for fear, but an undefinable presentiment of 
 some frightful calamity. Not only the subterranean thun- 
 der continues without stopping, not only the ground trem- 
 
62 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 bles under our feet, but the waters moan and sob as if in 
 lamentation and the winds sob as in supplication. 
 
 Whilst she thus speaks, the tigers, leopards, serpents and 
 all the other animals approach with signs of intense fear 
 and take refuge in the Palace. 
 
 P.—Listen! What is that noise that we hear? one would 
 say it was the cries of a crowd driven to anger. 
 
 At this time the whole Hierarchy flock together. 
 
 One of the four.—Fly! fly before it is too late! 
 
 P.—What has happened? 
 
 One of the four.—The People, with whom we have spo- 
 ken as you told us, rise up as one man and declare that the 
 Queen is not Dain and that it is she who has brought them 
 misfortune. They have all sworn they will tear her in 
 pieces. 
 
 A.—Fear not and be not uneasy. Enclose yourselves on- 
 ly in Hierarchic Order and all will be well. 
 
 At his voice, the four take their places in each of the 
 cardinal points, and those who have opened their dwellings 
 to the light form the circle, in order, around them. Never- 
 theless the crowd advances in great uproar, and sends forth 
 cries of anger and malediction. But when it arrives at a 
 short distance from the Hierarchy, it falls back as if it was 
 repulsed by an invisible power. 
 
 P.— (tothe crowd.) Do not act so foolishly, but return 
 to your own homes. Open them towards the sea and pre- 
 pare the boats, so that you may stand out to sea, if it is 
 necessary. But they listened not, the cries and maledic- 
 tions became more and more violent, and this threat domi- 
 nated all the others: ‘‘Death to her who has deceived us, 
 death to the enemy of Dain, we shall not depart from here 
 until we have torn her in pieces !’’ 
 
 When the turmoil was at its height, it suddenly changed 
 and a confused murmur, next a cry of joy and exultation 
 rent the air. At the same time the ground trembled so 
 violently that many of those who stood outside the crowd 
 staggered and fell. 
 
 Pavaka and Aditya stood motionless, their faces turned 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 63 
 
 towurds the western waters. But the four who followed the 
 direction of the attention of the crowd saw that above the 
 high triangular tower, which arose to the south of the En- 
 chanted Palace hovered a brown fog in the shape of an 
 egg. That fog appeared animated with an interior motion 
 similar to water which boils violently; whilst they gaze 
 upon it, it opens from top to bottom, and from the crowd 
 immediately proceeds this cry, as from one single voice: 
 “Dain! Dain!” 
 
 li is the Queen of Enchantment, in fact the founder of 
 Atlantis, who stands in the fog. She bends down her head 
 like some one who looks towards the ground very attentiv- 
 ely, and does not occupy herself with the cries of the peo- 
 ple, who have forgotten their anger against Aditya, their 
 oaths of vengeance. and they proceed in a swarming mas 
 towards the south. 
 
 P.—Listen! Above the tumult of the crowd rises the 
 voice of Dain, but I do not understand the meaning of her 
 words. 
 
 A.—It is the chant of Agnishuf* alternated with a solemn 
 Evocation to the Lord of the subterranean Fires. 
 
 P.—Look! flames burst out from the tower which be- 
 comes her elevated funeral pile. 
 
 A.—An Agnidht ascends the steps without minding the 
 flames and offers her the bow! of Somat She rejects it and 
 lets it fall from her hand with violence. She doubtless 
 wishes to offer herself as an Agni Pravana|| and she desires 
 to suffer in full consciousness. 
 
 P.—Dain rejects the bowl of Soma, not as Holocaust, but 
 as Evocatrice. Look! now she raises her head and makes 
 a sign to another Agnidh to approach. She takes from him 
 the bowl of Soma and drinks it to the bottom. I doubt 
 not but that her Evocation has been heard and that it has 
 
 been replied to. Look! the flames shoot forth towards the 
 ere eet ee 
 *Sacrifice by Fire. 
 tFire Priest. 
 tSacrifice. 
 {Voluntary death by Fire. 
 
64 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 dark sky, flames which have not been lighted by human 
 beings. 
 
 Dain.—Where is your power of retaining me, Aoual? 
 where is your usurped Kingdom, Pavaka? Listen, Oh! my 
 people, you whom I formed, and you who assemble around 
 me at this supreme hour, let the cowards who wish, in the 
 shape of man or beasts, crowd into the ships of Aoual w hich 
 come to save the traitors and usurpers. As for me and my 
 faithful we shall go together to the Region of Fire, from 
 whence we shall avenge ourselves by tormenting man, by 
 every means. 
 
 Pavaka.—No, no, you only hasten the time for the resto- 
 ration to the respirable air of that which is imprisoned in 
 the concretions under the earth.* By the will of Aba 
 the All-Merciful all things must necessarily work together 
 for good. Evoke the All-Merciful, Divine and Human, 
 before it is too late. 
 
 D.—I! call my enemies to my aid! Never! May myself 
 and all my formations rather disappear from the face of the 
 earth, and even from the spherical empire. (Turning her- 
 self towards the south and stretching out her hands towards 
 the ground which trembles.) Attractme! I come to you! 
 
 *The greater part of the missing constituents of the respirable air — 
 such loss having been caused by Devo the Hostile—certain precious min- 
 eral constituents, are now underneath the surface of the earth, which 
 Tradition terms the Concretions. At first the atmosphere contained all the 
 constituents which were alone sufficient for life. The power of nourish- 
 ing oneself with the respirable air is not lost but only diminished. The 
 liberation of those constituents will have for one of its affects the prolon- 
 gation of life. The subterranean perturbations, or earthquakes—at pres- 
 ent so disastrous—liberate certain of those components which in due time 
 will be utilised towards the restitution of the respired air. 
 
 Towards the centre underneath the Concretions and the stratum where 
 they have been formed are found ‘the waters under the earth,” and below 
 those is found the World of Fires. The immediate cause of the blank be- 
 tween the Nervo-Physical and Nervous Degree of the Physical State, 
 which prevents free relationship between them, is buried in those Concre- 
 tions, hence the Nervous Beings generally depend upon the Auras of Men 
 to manifest to our perception. —Zd. 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 65 
 
 Whilst she spoke thus, she disappears asif she was drawn 
 into the earth through the triangular tower, and the 
 crowd send forth howlings of rage and lamentations: 
 
 ‘‘Let us turn towards the usurpers,”’ 
 
 Says a voice, ‘‘and 
 tear to pieces those enemies of Dain.’’ They try to return 
 towards the chamber of the Palace, at the entrance of which 
 Aditya and Pavaka stand, surrounded by the Sacred Hier- 
 archy of Atlantis. But they are enveloped in a fog the 
 colour of fire, through which they are incapable of passing. 
 The earth is violently shaken, and from subterranean depths, 
 rising above the cries and groans of the multitude is heard 
 the voice of the Enchantress, who says: ‘‘Rather rule in 
 the Fire than serve in Heaven. I call to all the Cosmos of 
 Being, who will bear me witness; that of my own will I 
 descend to the Region of Fire! lam free! I am free!” 
 * * * 
 
 P.—The tide advances rapidly! never have I seen the 
 waters so near to the entry of the chamber. 
 
 A—No, look, the tide is still ebbing; it is the Island 
 which sinks. Soon Atlantis will disappear under the ocean 
 waves. 
 
 At this moment a ship with iridescent sails approaches 
 the Island, and a raft comes drifting towards the land. 
 Many animals swim towards the raft which continues 
 to drift towards the South. ‘‘Let us enter the 
 boats,’”’ says Pavaka, ‘‘and go towards the ship, the ship 
 
 whose iridescent sails are a proof that it is sent by Aoual.”’ 
 
 * 
 * 
 
 * 
 
 Pavaka and Aditya sail across the ocean which has be- 
 come calm. Aditya sleeps, but Pavaka watches anxiously. 
 At length Aditya opens her eyes and rises, she turns her- 
 self towards the north. 
 
 P.—The Seventh Wave has carried us very far forward 
 upon the vessel, as if it wanted to carry us towards the 
 special coronation of Oceanus. Take your place at the 
 helm and go towards the ship’s boat. 
 
 At those words Aditya steered towards the north, and the 
 boat glided rapidly over the surface of the waters until it 
 
66 THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 
 
 reached, at sunrise, a small Isle covered with a forest of 
 oaks which descends towards the sea. 
 
 Aditya. 
 féctions, little Isle of the Sea. In thee will repose the per- 
 
 Thou art the dwelling of the quaternary per- 
 
 fection of Passivity the symbol of which is 5. Here the 
 sons of the quaternary will guard the Passivities, even 
 the most perfect Draada. This is why thou wilt be the 
 foremost amongst the Sacred Isles of Oceanus. 
 
 P.—I understand. The sign of the four perfections is M 
 or 40; the sign of perfection of the Passivity is N or 50, 
 pre-eminence is symbolised by A ot 1. This is why, 
 little Isle of the Sea towards which the Elect of the Initi- 
 ates has directed us, thy name is MONA. 
 
 x x * 
 
 The boat which carried Pavaka and Aditya, followed ata 
 distance by the ship which brought the New Sacred Hier- 
 archy from Atlantis, has touched the shore where Aoual 
 evokes Tzere. Aotal stands upon the beach whilst the 
 hew comers land. 
 
 Aoual to Aditya.—Be welcome, beautiful Queen of the 
 Isles, Mona, the Sacred Island, is fortunate in receiving 
 you. The benediction of Aoual is with you, through pa- 
 thetic affection for yourself, and for love of Tzere, my 
 Queen of the Isles, who gave me repose at the time of my 
 exhaustion. (Heenters into one of the boats upon the 
 point of sailing) and now adieu Aditya, adieu Mona, 
 
 Pavaka.—You who are our saviour, why do you thus 
 leave us? I feel we shall never more see your face upon 
 earth. 
 
 Aoual,—It is best that it be so. ‘‘Mortals for Mortals, Im- 
 mortals for Immortals.’’ In this manner there is no confusion. 
 (Apart) My wish isthat Aditya remember meno more, and 
 that the remembrance of Sheba Ma be effaced from the book 
 of life of Pavaka. But who can guarantee that forgetfulness? 
 
 Aditya to Pavaka.—We enter, we and ours, within the 
 Sacred Isle, the Isle of Oaks, to establish the Sacred Hier- 
 archy that will preserve thé Draada. During exons upon 
 wons of time we shall prevail, and we shall drag thousands 
 
THE QUEEN OF THE ISLES. 67 
 and tens of thousands from the Hostile. Nevertheless, I 
 feel that, although Mona ought to be the last refuge of our 
 Sacred Order, a day will come when the power of the Hos- 
 tile will prevail against us. 
 
 the vowe of Dain below the earth—You have guessed it, 
 usurpatrice of the mystic power of the Seventh Wave. In 
 seven thousand Solar Cycles, seven Lunar Cycles and seven 
 days, the agents of the Personal Gods will drive from the 
 forest of oaks the last guardians of the Draada.* 
 
 Aditya.—The Seventh Wave brings me the voice of 
 Aoual, 
 
 P.—What does it say? 
 
 A.—It says: ‘‘Fear not Queen of the Holy Isle, the time 
 will never come when the harp of the Chief of your Bards will 
 not answer to the Seventh Wave, when at the festival of the 
 new moon it will come to break upon the beach of Mona. 
 When twice seven hundred Solar Cycles are passed, the 
 guardians of the Draada will dwell in the little Isle of 
 the Sea in safety, for naught will have the power to pre- 
 vail against them. It is only when the Draada and the 
 Maadaf will be reincarnated upon earth, that they will 
 rest from their labours, and their rest will be glorious.”’ 
 
 When the wave, which had brought the message from 
 Aoual to the Queen of the Sacred Isle, withdrew, something 
 glittered at the Queen’s feet; it was a Golden Sickle. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 *See the destruction of the Sacred College in the Isle of Oaks in the 
 Chaldean, which will be published at an early date.—Zd. 
 
 ¢It must be borne in mind that the Draada are the Passives of i 
 Nervous Degree who have their place of rest in the trunk of the large is s 
 which support them with their living sap; the Maada are the Nervous 
 Beings of the separated who have their habitation in the waters. 
 
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