The Measure of Life

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The Measure of Life
Frances Dean Morgan Campbell
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Its waters are dark and harsh on the lip as we set out for the light above. And perhaps nectar is sweeter among the stars. How shall we know, who have never tasted aught but bitterness here ?
The ancient Magus who set out on the Hidden Way began with a forty days' fast and purification. Afterwards he lived as the very poorest bread and fruit and water were his fare. He bathed winter and summer before dawn ; regulated his hours of sleep, lest sloth should lay hold upon his soul in its absence fr
...om the body. He had to be scrupulously clean in person and clothing, to speak seldom, and to be in penitence. He was warned to choose his points of contact with the world, and to concentrate his energies within him on the thing he sought to achieve. Knowledge came without warning when he was prepared for it and he saw the way.
It was but a dream, that Elixir of Life, that wonderful stone. No mortal might ever find them, 76 The Height of the Stars because they are not in the scheme of things. They belong to a step higher, a time when we have reached the heights, and they are no longer necessary, or even desirable.


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