Professor--You will now honor me with your attention while I shall read the result of some recent researches into records written in a language of ancient times. It is related by Tsohûta that during the ofen ryzo entevah (seventh century) succeeding the establishment of our holy religion, Zēnano Yod[a:]s, a very learned man, but of a perverse nature, who feared neither Andûman[a:] or the vengeance of the gods, sought to gain a knowledge of forbidden things. Through the aid of some strange device he professed that he had learned the mystery of the realms of Astranol[a:], which he blasphemously averred had no existence, and that neither did Andûman[a:] dwell in Diafon ēvoih[a:] (the Sun), but was an ever active, all pervading, intelligent, unknowable personality or principle. That there were neither gods nor goddesses. He also dared to declare, and what was, if possible, more sacrilegious, that Andûman[a:] had not created Ento, which was in a sense self-created. With utmost seriousness he declared that in man was an essence which was his life, and that at death of the body this essence, which was intelligent, took form and somewhere continued to exist. That these essences, not the gods, peopled space, and that, under certain conditions, he had even seen these essences in form, had conversed with them, had been touched by them, and, most incredible of all, he claimed to have recognized in certain forms, friends and loved ones who had gone into the silence. Of course these assertions were the ravings of one of lost mind or the hallucination of one who irreverently sought to gain knowledge of things known only to the Deific Ones. We who continually mourn for our loved ones who have gone into the silence, whither, reluctantly, our footsteps also tend, can well understand that Zēnano Yod[a:] may have been bereft of his dearest ones and in his despair became so disturbed in mind as to really have thought the vagaries of a diseased imagination were realities. It is well known that similar cases have been and are treated in our retreats for mental illness. Certainly no man mentally whole would have dared to be so impious as was he, and only one of unbalanced senses could have imagined a thing so strangely preposterous as that the life essence continued to exist after the form which had contained it had been wholly consumed and whose ashes---- De L'Ester--Now, Gentol[a:], speak to Prince Dano. Gentola--Emano, Ento noan ist[a:] parû tenû. Efon analos esto par[a:] com bano Earth. Andûman[a:] esti com banû ēlos tissim[a:]. De L'Ester--Springing to his feet in great excitement, he cries aloud: "Zēnano Yodas, est[a:] pûrv[a:]. Zēnano Yodas, esto pûrv[a:]. Emanos, Emanos, Efon val[a:] genist[a:] tima. Ah, camano ûfan tsi non ist[a:] valo? Camano ûfan tsi non ist[a:] valo?"