Chapter 43

He paused for a few seconds, as if to put his thoughts or words in order, then began to explain his thoughts and his intentions, and he spoke very carefully and always seemed to remember that some of us who had listened were ignorant of the very and the root and nature of some of the things he touched on, and he explained them to us as follows:

"The experiment before us is to try to see whether or not there was any power or any truth in ancient magic and there could be no conditions more suitable for testing, and I desire to do everything possible to make the original design effective and I believe there is some such current power In which I believe fervently, and it may not be possible to create, arrange, or organize such a force in our present time, but I consider that if in ancient times such a force existed, it might have some extraordinary survival. After all, the Bible is not a myth; and we read there that the sun stood firm at the command of the man, and that the ass di