While to the world Nu-nah was a source of mystical wonder, to Rathunor she was his stay and comfort.  He needed no further evidence and assurance of Nu-nah’s love for him.  Too often had he experienced the response from within to her silent pleadings for light, truth and wisdom.  The attraction of the outer world was losing its fascination for him, the longings from within grew stronger and more clamorous for outward expression until, one day, he advanced the subject of astrology to the Princess Nu-nah.  For an instant, her whole being was illuminated by that mysterious light—­for a single moment the soul arose to the supremacy of the brain and found a faint glimmering expression that was visible to Rathunor’s ever-watchful eye.

“Astrology, my Rathunor, fascinates me with its name and the wonders and mysteries it is said to reveal.  Do you think those Astrologer Priests of the Temple know whereof they speak, and do they read the stars and gain from them the wisdom they are said to possess?”

Here was the first opportunity to present these sacred subjects to Nu-nah’s mind.  He tried to think and, feeling that the present excitement of the brain’s higher organs, was of a temporary nature, he was really at a loss what to say that would be most effective and impress itself indelibly upon her awakening brain.

“Yes, my dear Nu-nah, I believe they do possess the knowledge they claim and, I also am convinced that much of that wisdom and knowledge is gained through their understanding the laws of astrology.  Those celestial bodies in our heavens were not placed there by our Divine Creator without a purpose.  I believe they have an influence upon us that can be learned, defined and utilized by those who study and know this influence through astronomy and astrology.  Nu-nah what is that which produces the interior longings to know?  Is it not that there is something to know—­something that our common brains can not grasp and analyze?  Do you not think that silent, yet persistent, monitor which lies concealed somewhere within our being is excited to action from some source other than our outward selves, and that longing to go out must be accounted for by a something without that calls and attracts us to it?  May this not be the stars that we see twinkling and motioning to us as we gaze into the midnight heavens?”

He stopped, wondering what the effect of his words would be, when, to his amazement, there appeared a more vivid consciousness in her eyes and features than he had ever seen since her return to physical health and, taking new hope from this manifestation, he continued, “Do you love the social world longer?  Is there not that longing, too, within your bosom for something more real, more ennobling than the pastimes of worldly pleasures?”

At the mention of the worldly things, the light from her eyes died out and was gone.  Rathunor said no more but silently thanked God that he had for those few moments assisted the soul of Nu-nah to vibrate, too; and had set in motion the vitalizing currents to the spiritual portion of the brain and earnestly prayed that this might be the beginning of many opportunities that were to follow.