I. I was certain of it. I was certain that my anticipations would be fulfilled. And now have patience with me and answer me yet one more question, best of teachers! Those who have thus appeared⁠—no one knows whence⁠—and have returned⁠—no one knows whither⁠—have they also contracted their sections and vanished somehow into that more Spacious Space, whither I now entreat you to conduct me?

Sphere (moodily). They have vanished, certainly⁠—if they ever appeared. But most people say that these visions arose from the thought⁠—you will not understand me⁠—from the brain; from the perturbed angularity of the Seer.

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