I
determined to use my power for the good of the people. The sensation
caused by the return of Lyone to life had stirred all Atvatabar with
feelings of the profoundest awe and loyalty. Vast crowds of people
came as pilgrims to see their queen and offer congratulations.

Had the old creed, with its worship of Lyone and Harikar, not fallen
with the success of our arms, Lyone would undoubtedly have been
worshipped anew as goddess more devotedly than ever; but the
revolution being founded on antagonism of the old faith to social
welfare and the laws of nature, a new creed must necessarily take its
place.

The new creed of one body and one soul was based on order, truth,
justice, benevolence and temperance. This I styled the Remeliora, or
better thing to that which had gone before. The new creed gave the
soul mastery of its feelings, and love was measured by a regular
throb. Souls becoming stronger and more masculine were the better able
to bear the pulsations of joy and despair. They could sustain their
emotions with a cordial enthusiasm, and passion, no longer a frantic
flame, became a soft and abiding fire.

I appointed the grand sorcerer Pontiff of Remeliorism, giving him
authority to formulate a code of ethics that all could adhere to. With
such a code as a solid foundation, I hoped in time to establish a
purer faith than that possessing only the human soul for its deity.

Not many days after our coming to Calnogor, and while still engaged in
settling the government of the kingdom, we received a visit from
Hushnoly and Zooly-Soase. It was with feelings of pain that we heard
the object of the supreme general's visit.

With a voice softened with emotion Hushnoly told his story. In
carrying out the reforms at Egyplosis made necessary by the success of
the army of the late goddess, a great difficulty presented itself. It
was found that, notwithstanding the fact that all of the priests and
priestesses had fought for Lyone and the new faith, as against the old
order of things, nearly one-half of the twin-souls were still at heart
as great devotees of Harikar and hopeless love as ever, while the
remaining half had renounced the practices of Egyplosis in common with
their queen. It was found impossible to change the faith of the entire
priesthood in a moment, so to speak, and many still believed that the
old faith possessed fruits of self-sacrifice, culture, spirit-power,
and the ideal life, such as the new state of thin