Take then a single example of meditation.
"Come unto Me, all ye that are weary and heavy laden, and I will refresh you."
The Quakeress took these words into meditation, repeating each phrase over and over again, until its meaning deepened, broadened out, and filled her, until she saw the golden aural light of other worlds, until she entered that Peace which passeth all understanding and looked out with the eyes of the Spirit upon the Plains of Heaven.
But the story must leave this holy woman, and follow the adventures of her son.
The boy's body lay at her feet, but Bill himself had stolen away to the frontier which is between Dreamland on the one side and Fairyland on the other. There were certainly fairies about, for as he came into the glade between the birch woods he hears them ringing the bellflowers, weaving thin fine threads of blended melodies into one rhapsody. The birch fairies, within their native trees, were swaying to the air of the carillon. The flower fairies peeped from within their blossoms, and several squirrels ran chattering down the path ahead of him to say that he was coming, to tell his Dreamland comrade, Rain, that he was on his way to keep his tryst with her.
He found Rain kneeling on a tuft of moss, an arrow set in her bow for aiming practice, and at his coming she sighted directly at his heart.
"Stand!" she said.
He stood quite still.
"Stupid!" she said.
"Why?"