Etidorhpa – The Last Farewell
My mysterious guest, he of the silver, flowing beard, read the last word of the foregoing manuscript, and then laid the sheet of paper on the table, and rested his head upon his hand, gazing thoughtfully at the open fire. Thus he sat for a considerable period in silence. Then he said: ” You have heard part of my story, that portion which I am commanded to make known now, and you have learned how, by natural methods, I passed by...
Etidorhpa – The End of the Earth
[postpic=center]100014[/postpic] At length I perceived, in the distance, a crescent-shaped ring of silver luster. It grew broader, expanding beneath my gaze, and appeared to approach rapidly. ” Hold; cease your desire for onward motion,” said the guide; ” we approach too rapidly. Quick, wish with all your mind that you were motionless.” I did so, and we rested in front of a ridge of brilliant material, that in...
Etidorhpa – Tell Me, I cried in alarm, Is This to Be a Living Tomb?
” If you will reflect upon the condition we are now in, you will perceive that it must be one of unusual scientific interest. If you imagine a body at rest, in an intangible medium, and not in contact with a gas or any substance capable of creating friction, that body by the prevailing theory of matter and motion, unless disturbed by an impulse from without, would remain forever at absolute rest. We now occupy such a position....
Etidorhpa – The Earth’s Shell Above Us
Continued my companion: ” We have just now crossed the line of gravitation. We were drawn downward until at a certain point, to which I called your attention at the time, we recently crossed the curved plane of perfect rest, where gravity ceases, and by our momentum are now passing beyond that plane, and are now pressing against the bond of gravitation again. This shell in which gravity centers is concentric with that of the...
Etidorhpa – The Straggling Ray of Light from those Farthermost Outreaches
[postpic=center]100011[/postpic] ” Confronting mankind there stands a sphinx- the vast Unknown. However well a man may be informed concerning a special subject, his farthermost outlook concerning that subject is bounded by an impenetrable infinity.” ” Granted,” I interrupted, ” that mankind has not by any means attained a condition of perfection, yet you must admit that questions once regarded as...