'
'Men read that which they wish. He is a learned Cabalist.'
'But what we wish comes from above.'
'So they say. We make our fortunes, and we call them Fate.'
'Yet the Voice sounded, the Daughter of the Voice that summoned Samuel.'
'You have told me strange things; I have heard stranger solved.'
'My faith is a rock.'
'On which you may split.'
'Art thou a Sadducee?'
'I am a man who knows men.'
'You are learned, but different from Jabaster.'
'We are the same, though different. Day and Night are both portions of
Time.'
'And thy portion is----'
'Truth.'
'That is, light.'
'Yes; so dazzling that it sometimes seems dark.'
'Like thy meaning.'
'You are young.'
'Is youth a defect?'
'No, the reverse. But we cannot eat the fruit while the tree is in
blossom.'
'What fruit?'
'Knowledge.'
'I have studied.'
'What?'
'All sacred things.'
'How know you that they are sacred?'
'They come from God.'
'So does everything. Is everything sacred?'
'They are the deep expression of his will.'
'According to Jabaster. Ask the man who prays in yonder mosque, and he
will tell you that Jabaster's wrong.'
'After all, thou art a Moslem?'
'No.'
'What then?'
'I have told you, a man.
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