“My darling husband, are you beside me—­are you where I can speak to you, and are we alone?”

Only by a gentle pressure of the hand could he respond, and, gently laying his right hand upon her brow, he assured her by this act of his presence.  She began speaking—­her voice was low, yet clear and distinct, “My Rathunor, my true-soul companion, I have returned with the knowledge I now impart to you.  While you so patiently and tenderly watched beside my frail and almost lifeless body, my soul was away gaining knowledge and experience in the soul-world.  There I learned who I am and my relation to you.  Do you know, O my Rathunor, that our souls sustain that divine relation to each other that makes us immortal, because of being complete?  The whole, the two rays of the Divine Ego, are joined and blended as one in our union.  Can you hear me further?”

The agitation of his grief began to assuage and he could now listen calmly and without emotion to her words.

“Yes, go on.  What you have already said has been indelibly burned upon my mind and soul.  Let me hear all you have to impart.”

“Know you that this body was Nu-nah’s and this soul that of Sarthia’s?”

It was here that only by a mighty effort of his will was he able to keep in abeyance the emotions of his heart, but the superior and God-like power of an invisible Presence sustained him.  The Princess took no heed of his silence and continued her revelations.

“Do you know that on the night of the full Moon, the solemn and sacred Rites performed over the unconscious bodies of Sarthia and Nu-nah in the Sacred Sanctuary of the Temple of Isis, our souls were transferred by the magical power of the High Priest and the invisible assistants?  Nu-nah’s soul was polarized in Sarthia’s physical temple and that of Sarthia’s in this of mine.  Both were prostrated, even to dissolution by the malefic influence of planetary arcs, and this method was resorted to, that both our lives might be spared to round out our necessary physical existence while yet in these bodies, and also for your sake was this undertaken by our Holy Father that you might have that love which you so much craved and the longings of your soul might be satisfied with the knowledge it thirsted for.  This will explain to you the great change observed at times in your Nu-nah, and the unnatural, dreamy moods that possessed me sometimes.  The brain was slow to respond to the wonderfully developed soul of Sarthia and it was at those times that the soul gained the supremacy, that the greatest change would manifest.  You now have the true devoted love of your soul companion and the lovely form of Nu-nah for your wife.  My Rathunor, are you satisfied?  If a pang of disappointment cross your heart, our darling child here may blot that out as he grows and learns our mystic lore and become also a soul companion of his fathers in climbing the ladder to higher wisdom and spheres than ours.”