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singing flower grows, and the talking light descends, and fragrant

colors shine! I wear the seal of Solomon; I am a fairy; I cast my



orders to the wind which, like an abject slave, fulfils them; my eyes

can pierce the earth and behold its treasures; for lo! am I not the



virgin to whom the pearls dart from their ocean depths and--"

"--who led me safely to the summit of the Falberg?" said Minna,



interrupting her.

"Thou! thou too!" exclaimed the strange being, with a luminous glance



at the young girl which filled her soul with trouble. "Had I not the

faculty of reading through your foreheads the desires which have



brought you here, should I be what you think I am?" she said,

encircling all three with her controlling glance, to David's great



satisfaction. The old man rubbed his hands with pleasure as he left

the room.



"Ah!" she resumed after a pause, "you have come, all of you, with the

curiosity of children. You, my poor Monsieur Becker, have asked



yourself how it was possible that a girl of seventeen should know even

a single one of those secrets which men of science seek with their



noses to the earth,--instead of raising their eyes to heaven. Were I

to tell you how and at what point the plant merges into the animal you



would begin to doubt your doubts. You have plotted to question me; you

will admit that?"



"Yes, dear Seraphita," answered Wilfrid; "but the desire is a natural

one to men, is it not?"



"You will bore this dear child with such topics," she said, passing

her hand lightly over Minna's hair with a caressing gesture.



The young girl raised her eyes and seemed as though she longed to lose

herself in him.



"Speech is the endowment of us all," resumed the mysterious creature,

gravely. "Woe to him who keeps silence, even in a desert, believing



that no one hears him; all voices speak and all ears listen here

below. Speech moves the universe. Monsieur Becker, I desire to say



nothing unnecessarily. I know the difficulties that beset your mind;

would you not think it a miracle if I were now to lay bare the past



history of your consciousness? Well, the miracle shall be

accomplished. You have never admitted to yourself the full extent of



your doubts. I alone, immovable in my faith, I can show it to you; I

can terrify you with yourself.



"You stand on the darkest side of Doubt. You do not believe in God,--

although you know it not,--and all things here below are secondary to



him who rejects the first principle of things. Let us leave aside the

fruitless discussions of false philosophy. The spiritualist



generations made as many and as vain efforts to deny Matter as the

materialist generations have made to deny Spirit. Why such



discussions? Does not man himself offer irrefragable proof of both

systems? Do we not find in him material things and spiritual things?



None but a madman can refuse to see in the human body a fragment of

Matter; your natural sciences, when they decompose it, find little



difference between its elements and those of other animals. On the

other hand, the idea produced in man by the comparison of many objects



has never seemed to any one to belong to the domain of Matter. As to

this, I offer no opinion. I am now concerned with your doubts, not



with my certainties. To you, as to the majority of thinkers, the

relations between things, the reality of which is proved to you by



your sensations and which you possess the faculty to discover, do not

seem Material. The Natural universe of things and beings ends, in man,



with the Spiritual universe of similarities or differences which he

perceives among the innumerable forms of Nature,--relations so



multiplied as to seem infinite; for if, up to the present time, no one

has been able to enumerate the separate terrestrial creations, who can



reckon their correlations? Is not the fraction which you know, in

relation to their totality, what a single number is to infinity? Here,



then, you fall into a perception of the infinite which undoubtedly

obliges you to conceive of a purely Spiritual world.



"Thus man himself offers sufficient proof of the two orders,--Matter

and Spirit. In him culminates a visible finite universe; in him begins



a universe invisible and infinite,--two worlds unknown to each other.




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