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'Oinos '	A
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Pardon Agathos the weakness of a spirit new fledged with	B
immortality	C
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'Agathos '	-
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You have spoken nothing my Oinos for which pardon is to be	C
demanded Not even here is knowledge a thing of intuition	D
For wisdom ask of the angels freely that it may be given	D
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'Oinos '	-
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But in this existence I dreamed that I should be at once	E
cognizant of all things and thus at once happy in being	F
cognizant of all	G
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'Agathos '	-
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Ah not in knowledge is happiness but in the acquisition of	H
knowledge In forever knowing we are forever blessed but	I
to know all were the curse of a fiend	J
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'Oinos '	-
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But does not The Most High know all	G
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'Agathos'	E
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That since he is The Most Happy must be still the	K
one thing unknown even to HIM	L
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'Oinos '	-
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But since we grow hourly in knowledge must not at last	M
all things be known	N
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'Agathos '	-
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Look down into the abysmal distances attempt to force	E
the gaze down the multitudinous vistas of the stars as we	C
sweep slowly through them thus and thus and	O
thus Even the spiritual vision is it not at all points	E
arrested by the continuous golden walls of the	K
universe the walls of the myriads of the shining	F
bodies that mere number has appeared to blend into unity	C
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'Oinos'	E
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I clearly perceive that the infinity of matter is no dream	P
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'Agathos'	E
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There are no dreams in Aidenn but it is here whispered	Q
that of this infinity of matter the sole purpose is	E
to afford infinite springs at which the soul may allay the	K
thirst to know which is forever unquenchable within	R
it since to quench it would be to extinguish the	K
soul's self Question me then my Oinos freely and without	S
fear Come we will leave to the left the loud harmony of	H
the Pleiades and swoop outward from the throne into the	K
starry meadows beyond Orion where for pansies and violets	E
and heart's ease are the beds of the triplicate and triple	T
tinted suns	E
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'Oinos'	E
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And now Agathos as we proceed instruct me speak to	U
me in the earth's familiar tones I understand not what you	U
hinted to me just now of the modes or of the methods of what	I
during mortality we were accustomed to call Creation Do	U
you mean to say that the Creator is not God	V
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'Agathos'	E
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I mean to say that the Deity does not create	W
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'Oinos'	E
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Explain	X
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'Agathos'	E
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In the beginning only he created The seeming creatures	E
which are now throughout the universe so perpetually	C
springing into being can only be considered as the mediate	W
or indirect not as the direct or immediate results of the	K
Divine creative power	Y
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'Oinos '	-
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Among men my Agathos this idea would be considered	Q
heretical in the extreme	P
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'Agathos '	-
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Among the angels my Oinos it is seen to be simply true	U
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'Oinos '	-
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I can comprehend you thus far that certain operations	E
of what we term Nature or the natural laws will under	Y
certain conditions give rise to that which has all the	K
appearance of creation Shortly before the final	T
overthrow of the earth there were I well remember many	C
very successful experiments in what some philosophers were	Y
weak enough to denominate the creation of animalculae	T
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'Agathos '	-
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The cases of which you speak were in fact instances of the	K
secondary creation and of the only species of	H
creation which has ever been since the first word spoke into	U
existence the first law	T
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'Oinos '	-
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Are not the starry worlds that from the abyss of nonentity	C
burst hourly forth into the heavens are not these	E
stars Agathos the immediate handiwork of the King	F
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'Agathos '	-
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Let me endeavor my Oinos to lead you step by step to the	K
conception I intend You are well aware that as no thought	Z
can perish so no act is without infinite result We moved	A2
our hands for example when we were dwellers on the earth	B2
and in so doing we gave vibration to the atmosphere which	C2
engirdled it This vibration was indefinitely extended till	T
it gave impulse to every particle of the earth's air which	C2
thenceforward and forever was actuated by the one	D
movement of the hand This fact the mathematicians of our	Y
globe well knew They made the special effects indeed	D2
wrought in the fluid by special impulses the subject of	H
exact calculation so that it became easy to determine	D
in what precise period an impulse of given extent would	E2
engirdle the orb and impress forever every atom of the	K
atmosphere circumambient Retrograding they found no	F2
difficulty from a given effect under given conditions in	R
determining the value of the original impulse Now the	K
mathematicians who saw that the results of any given impulse	E
were absolutely endless and who saw that a portion of	H
these results were accurately traceable through the agency	C
of algebraic analysis who saw too the facility of	H
the retrogradation these men saw at the same time	G2
that this species of analysis itself had within itself a	K
capacity for indefinite progress that there were no	F2
bounds conceivable to its advancement and applicability	C
except within the intellect of him who advanced or applied	H2
it But at this point our mathematicians paused	I2
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'Oinos '	-
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And why Agathos should they have proceeded	J2
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'Agathos '	-
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Because there were some considerations of deep interest	K2
beyond It was deducible from what they knew that to a	K
being of infinite understanding one to whom the	K
perfection of the algebraic analysis lay unfolded	J2
there could be no difficulty in tracing every impulse given	D
the air and the ether through the air to the	K
remotest consequences at any even infinitely remote epoch of	H
time It is indeed demonstrable that every such impulse	E
given the air must in the end impress every	C
individual thing that exists within the	K
universe and the being of infinite	I
understanding the being whom we have imagined	O
might trace the remote undulations of the impulse	E
trace them upward and onward in their influences upon all	T
particles of all matter upward and onward forever in	R
their modifications of old forms or in other words	E
in their creation of new until he found them	L2
reflected unimpressive at last back from	M2
the throne of the Godhead And not only could such a being	F
do this but at any epoch should a given result be afforded	J2
him should one of these numberless comets for	N2
example be presented to his inspection he could have	O2
no difficulty in determining by the analytic	P2
retrogradation to what original impulse it was due This	E
power of retrogradation in its absolute fulness and	O
perfection this faculty of referring at all	T
epochs all effects to all causes is of	H
course the prerogative of the Deity alone but in every	C
variety of degree short of the absolute perfection is the	K
power itself exercised by the whole host of the Angelic	P2
Intelligences	E
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'Oinos'	E
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But you speak merely of impulses upon the air	Q2
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'Agathos'	E
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In speaking of the air I referred only to the earth but	I
the general proposition has reference to impulses upon the	K
ether which since it pervades and alone pervades all	T
space is thus the great medium of creation	D
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'Oinos'	E
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Then all motion of whatever nature creates	E
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'Agathos'	E
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It must but a true philosophy has long taught that the	K
source of all motion is thought and the source of all	T
thought is	E
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'Oinos'	E
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God	V
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'Agathos'	E
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I have spoken to you Oinos as to a child of the fair	Q2
Earth which lately perished of impulses upon the	K
atmosphere of the earth	B2
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'Oinos'	E
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You did	R2
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'Agathos'	E
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And while I thus spoke did there not cross your mind some	M2
thought of the physical power of words Is not every	C
word an impulse on the air	Q2
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'Oinos'	E
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But why Agathos do you weep and why oh why do your	N2
wings droop as we hover above this fair star which is	E
the greenest and yet most terrible of all we have	O2
encountered in our flight Its brilliant flowers look like a	K
fairy dream but its fierce volcanoes like the passions	E
of a turbulent heart	S2
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'Agathos'	E
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They are they are This wild	T2
star it is now three centuries since with clasped	U2
hands and with streaming eyes at the feet of my	V2
beloved I spoke it with a few passionate	I
sentences into birth Its brilliant flowers are	W2
the dearest of all unfulfilled dreams and its raging	F
volcanoes are the passions of the most turbulent and	O
unhallowed of hearts	E