Chrissalyn liked them and was finally persuaded to let them enter Planchette’s charmed arena, on condition that they tell it not in Goth nor whisper it in Askalon. Their very first experience was convincing beyond doubt or question. All they had joyed in before was as nothing to the joy they found in the knowledge that came to them through the little board. In spite of their pleasure-loving natures and phenomenal optimism, they belonged to the thinking fraternity; and now that their outlook was extended beyond the boundaries that so far had hedged them in, they saw ahead an endless life of Joy, and that intensified and ennobled the joys of the present. They had been happy always, but now they were secure in their happiness--nothing could take it from them. CHAPTER XIII. THE TONGUES OF ANGELS. “When by suffering thou hast learned not to suffer--by passion learned calmness; Then shalt thou know what I am to thee--then shalt thou be A clean mirror where I am reflected--a face with a splendor which burns not! Past all pain, seeing Me thou shalt know Me--the Strength and the Truth of Thyself.” --_Voltairine DeCleyre._ Being may be called the poorest, but it is at the same time the most marvelous concept of our whole mind. It is the _sine qua non_ of all we are, we see, we hear, we apprehend and comprehend. It is not our body, nor our breath, nor our life, nor our heart, nor what is most difficult to give up--our mind and intellect. It is simply that in which all these reside--that, in fact, in which we move and have our being. --_F. Max Müller._ The truth of being and the truth of knowing are one. --_Bacon._ Cartice and Chrissalyn permitted the Joys to join them in their investigations at certain times, but for the most part they pursued their study of psychic life alone. As they went on, their experiences became more interesting and convincing. In the new world opened to them they made new friends. To be sure they could not see these friends, but they learned to know them well, to love them, and to distinguish one from another as readily and certainly as though they were of the visible part of creation.