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Amazon.com         There is a principle of the soul, superior to
all nature, through      which we are capable of surpassing the
order and systems of the      world. When the soul is elevated
to natures better than itself,      THEN it is entirely
separated from subordinate natures, exchanges      this for
another life, and, deserting the order of things with      which
it was connected, links and mingles itself with another.  "Adon-
Ai! Adon-Ai!—appear, appear!"  And in the lonely cave, whence
once had gone forth the oracles of a heathen god, there emerged
from the shadows of fantastic rocks a luminous and gigantic
column, glittering and shifting. It resembled the shining but
misty spray which, seen afar off, a fountain seems to send up on
a starry night. The radiance lit the stalactites, the crags, the
arches of the cave, and shed a pale and tremulous splendour on
the features of Zanoni.  "Son of Eternal Light," said the
invoker, "thou to whose