Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
Suddenly the face of all things changed . A loud and pier
there is but this plank betwixt thee and eternity !—swear me fealty , or it snaps , and down the bottomless pit thou descendest !" — " Never ! " 1 cried , while the blood crept from the crown of my head to the sole of my foot * Instantly it snapt ; and I fell with terrific velocity , whirling round and round with deadly and sickening speed ; and my sight swam from me as on a rapid river ; and my blood boiled , and my brain spun like a whirlpool , and the sweat rolled from me like
rain . Presently the gyrations and rotatory motion ceased , and I was propelled headlong with incredible speed ; swifter than ball from cannon ' s mouth ; increasing in ratio with time and distance , and tripling every second . Fierce heat kept pace with speed , until my blood became as molten fire , and dissolving away into the elements from whence I came , I again electrically condensed .
But my organization was now so exquisite and complete in all its parts and appointments , that the most subtle , refined , and sensitive of earth ' s sons were dull and lethargic to that vitality , as it were a sublimation of the five senses at every pore . And
thus was my agony made terrifically acute , for I sped headlon g through the vortex-like amphitheatres of doomed souls and demons ! And they shot forth clouds of poisoned barbs upon me as I passed ; and every shower brought the death-throes , the death-swoon , the resuscitation !
It seemed many thousand years si nee that plank had snapped ; and onward I still sped headlong , seemingly for ever , for ever ! Between each Vortex of the Doomed there was but a few minutes respite , and then again came the death-throes !—the death-swoon ! - —the resuscitation !—with the cry from above—*
" Room , room ! make clear the way ; room for the damned r "and the response from below— " On ! on ! there is way etrougW " —with the sudden cataract-like shock of voices , laughing in chorus-laughs of thunder , with the multiplied echoes throughout
the limitless vaults of Space ! I had now reached the Universal Centre ; and the Tempter again stood beside me , and said : — " Dost thou yield ?"—" Never , " I cried , " through eternity !" At this moment I descried a weapon suspended in the air , flashing like elemental diamond , and on its blade the burning syllables 9
" Accomplish !*—Breathing a short cjuick prayer— God of veiled-mysteries nerve my spirit to this great deed !" - —my arm
