This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. THE HORIZON WIDENS. Hieroglyphics old, Which sages and keen-eyed astrologers Then living on the earth, with labouring thought Won from the gaze of many centuries: Now lost, save what we find on remnants high Of stone, or marble swart; their import gone, Their wisdom long since fled. Keats--Hyperion. Nirman and I walked quietly to Dolphinton, chatting together about the Stantons, whom he had known ever since he was a boy. "You know that Harriet and I are engaged," he said; "but it will probably be some years before we can marry; perhaps not at all. We have both work to do, and responsibilities which we cannot shirk, which make it out of the question to think of marriage for an indefinite time." "Am I right in supposing that what you allude to is connected with your interest in these occult studies?" I asked. "You are right," he replied. "Wo are both pledged to the Great Quest, as that to which all other matters in our lives are subservient. But the bond between us is one which no earthly union could make any stronger, nor any earthly loss sever. Friendships and affections, and that deeper bond which is a true union of souls, spring from causes generated in past incarnations. The new personality does not disguise from the inner sight the individuality of the one loved long ago. The everchanging forms of death and birth hide from our mortal eyes those causes in our lives which bind us to our fellows, in loves and hates, likes and dislikes, good friends or bad. Yet to the sight of the true Ego which watches far above and unentangled in this world of sense, all these lie open. Yon must learn to live consciously on the higher plane before you can transcend the illusions of the senses. There are many people who can accept as a...