empty. After awhile Wavernee stood up and the young woman stood
up, too, and as she did so her rags fell from her and she was clothed
like Wavernee, and when I looked into her face I saw no difference
between them.
"The scene disappeared, but it was quickly replaced by another which
represented Wavernee and some other native workers clearing large tracts
of land. Then they ploughed and harrowed it. As fast as they prepared
one tract of land for the seed they commenced clearing another piece.
On the land that had been cleared I saw myself and some one else with me
that had a veil over head and face, so I could not see who the person
was; but we were both engaged in the same occupation of sowing seed,
each one of us having a large measure containing the seed. On the
outside of the measure was the word truth. We would sow one piece of
land and then go to another piece that had been cleared and sow that. On
the ground that I had sowed, a crop came up in the form of many men and
some women who were all out of bondage. They were free. Where the person
with me had sowed, there was a crop of many women and some few men who
were out of bondage. They were all free. I wish I could convey to your
mind how happy and joyful they all were.
"As this last scene disappeared the whole room became illuminated.
Wavernee looked at me with eyes of celestial love and said: 'Penloe,
thou hast seen all. What appeared before thy vision will convey to thy
mind more than any words of mine. Before you is a future that angels
might desire. Be true to thy highest light, then wilt thou realize what
thy eyes have seen. Your co-worker is one that I love. She knows me not,
but I know her, and when she becomes one with you in your life and work
of love, give her this ring (taking it from her finger and giving it to
me) with my love and tell her to accept it as a symbol of your union in
love and work.
"'This ring has a history. It was worn by a beautiful young Indian
princess who, after having been a wife to a prince for two years, became
disgusted with her life, and, weary of all the luxuries of the court,
she left one night in disguise, saying to herself: "I can live here no
longer, for I am a greater slave than the poorest of the Pariah women.
My nature cries out for freedom. I would rather be free in poverty than
be a slave in luxury. Give me freedom or give me death!" She lived for
many years in the realization of her own highest nature. She look
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