‘And he will go. And yet, think what you do. It is a fearful journey. They who travel it, even as they came naked out of their mother’s womb—even as they return thither, and carry nothing with them of all which they have gotten in this life, so must those who travel to my land.’
‘What? Tregarva? Is he, too, to give up all? I had thought that I saw in him a precious possession, one for which I would barter all my scholarship, my talents,—ay—my life itself.’
‘A possession worth your life? What then?’
‘Faith in an unseen God.’
‘Ask him whether he would call that a possession—his own in any sense?’
‘He would call it a revelation to him.’
‘That is, a taking of the veil from something which was behind the veil already.’
‘Yes.’
‘And which may therefore just as really be behind the veil in other cases without its presence being suspected.’
‘Certainly.’