ive there, in his
faculties and in his essence, the power to enjoy through Love, and the
gift of comprehending through Wisdom.

The scene which suddenly unveiled itself to the eyes of the two Seers
crushed them with a sense of its vastness; they felt like atoms, whose
minuteness was not to be compared even to the smallest particle which
the infinite of divisibility enabled the mind of man to imagine, brought
into the presence of the infinite of Numbers, which God alone can
comprehend as He alone can comprehend Himself.

Strength and Love! what heights, what depths in those two entities, whom
the _Seraph's_ first prayer placed like two links, as it were, to unite
the immensities of the lower worlds with the immensity of the higher
universe!

They comprehended the invisible ties by which the material worlds are
bound to the spiritual worlds. Remembering the sublime efforts of human
genius, they were able to perceive the principle of all melody in the
songs of heaven which gave sensations of color, of perfume, of thought,
which recalled the innumerable details of all creations, as the songs of
earth revive the infinite memories of love.

Brought by the exaltation of their faculties to a point that cannot
be described in any language, they were able to cast their eyes for an
instant into the Divine World. There all was Rejoicing.

Myriads of angels were flocking together, without confusion; all alike
yet all dissimilar, simple as the flower of the fields, majestic as the
universe.

Wilfrid and Minna saw neither their coming nor their going; they
appeared suddenly in the Infinite and filled it with their presence, as
the stars shine in the invisible ether.

The scintillations of their united diadems illumined space like the
fires of the sky at dawn upon the mountains. Waves of light flowed from
their hair, and their movements created tremulous undulations in space
like the billows of a phosphorescent sea.

The two Seers beheld the _Seraph_ dimly in the midst of the immortal
legions. Suddenly, as though all the arrows of a quiver had darted
together, the Spirits swept away with a breath the last vestiges of the
human form; as the _Seraph_ rose he became yet purer; soon he seemed
to them but a faint outline of what he had been at the moment of his
transfiguration,--lines of fire without shadow.

Higher he rose, receiving from circle to circle some new gift, while the
sign of his election was transmitted to each sphe