Julius and Mrs. LeVallon were no longer there beside me, but in their place I saw two solemn figures standing motionless and grave above a prostrate body. It lay upon a marble slab, and sunlight fell over the face and folded hands. The two moved forward. They knelt ... there was a sound of voices as in prayer, a powerful, drawn-out sound that produced intense vibrations, vibrations so immense that the motion in the air was felt as wind. I saw gestures ... the body half rose up upon its marble slab ... and then the blaze of some incredible effulgence descended before my eyes, so fiercely brilliant, and accompanied by such an intolerable, radiant heat ... that the entire scene went lost behind great shafts of light that splintered and destroyed it ... and an awful darkness followed, a darkness that again had pain and incompleteness at the heart of it.... One thing alone I understood--that body on the shining slab was mine. My absent soul, deprived of high glory elsewhere that was mine by right, returned into it unexpectedly, aware of danger. It had been used for the purposes of evocation. I had met the two Powers evoked by means of it midway: Fire and Wind.... The vision vanished. I was standing in the châlet room again, he and the woman by my side. There was a sense of enormous interval. * * * * * We were back among the present things again. I had merely re-lived in a moment’s space a vision of that Past where these two had sinned against me. The memory was gone again. We now resumed our present reconstruction, by means of which the balance should be finally restored. The same two elemental Powers were with us still. Summoned once again--but this time that they might be dismissed. “The Messengers of Wind and Fire approach,” Julius was saying softly. “Be ready for the Powers that follow after.” “But--there poured through me but a moment ago----” I began, when his face stopped my speech sharply. “That ‘moment’ was sixty centuries ago! Keep hold now upon your will,” he interrupted, yet without a trace of the vast excitement that _I_ felt, “lest they invade your heart instead of mine. The glory that you knew was but the shadow of their coming--as long ago you returned _and met them_--when we failed. Keep close watch upon your will. It is the Equinox.... The pause now comes with midnight.”