INTERLUDE.
And then unsensed by the sleepers, but clear to the vision of the miserable Mystic a sudden, luminous cloud appeared, grew and gathered in intensity. It appeared a few feet from the floor, close to the dynamo, within the radius of its attraction.
Steadily the brightness increased until the electric lights were as candles burning at noonday.
From the midst of this increasing splendor was gradually shaped a majestic figure, the face and form of an unearthly being, a man, yet a man so transcendent in presence, so lofty in pose, so dazzling in vestments, so celestial in expression as to separate him—almost wholly—from the little beings who run to and fro upon the earth, calling themselves men.
The wise man—late of India—looked, shuddered, moaned, closed his eyes and bent his head.
The Radiant One paused an instant, and then spoke,—saying:—