"
"I see. You were not expecting the Jarados."
"Not yet, my lord. The coming of the Jarados shall be close to the
Day of the Judgment. But it could not be so soon; there were to be
signs and portents. We were to solve the problem first; we were to
know the reason of the shadow and the why of the spirit. The
wisdom of the Rhamda Avec told that the day approaches; he had
opened the Spot of Life and gone through it; but he had NOT sent
the fact and the substance." Watson smiled. There was just enough
superstition, it seemed, beneath all the Rhamda's wisdom to make
him tractable. However, Chick asked:
"Tell me: as a learned man, as a Rhamda, do you believe in the
prophecy implicitly?"
"Yes, my lord. I am a spiritist; and if spiritism is truth, then
the Jarados was genuine, and his prophecy is true. After all, my
lord, it is not a case of legend, but of history. The Jarados came
at a time of high civilisation, when men would see and understand
him; he gave us his teaching in records, and imposed his laws upon
the Thomahlia. Then he departed--through the Spot of Life."
And the Rhamda Geos went on to say that the teachings of the
Jarados had been moral as well as intellectual. Moreover, after he
had formulated his laws, he wrote out his judgment.
"What was that?"
"An exhortation, my lord, that we were to give proof of our
appreciation of intelligence.
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