Time

But I did not tell him that which, heavier and yet heavier, weighed upon me as time elapsed, the secret affair with Lolix.

As time went on I began to query my position.

Walking amidst such scenes by the side of her who was so dear, is it strange that my soul was at such times eased of something of its burden of sin and woe?

Anzimee had postponed the time of her examination until the year in which I was to graduate, and hence the festivities which always followed the examination as a mark of rejoicing over the success of those who received diplomas included her in the honorable list, for she had passed with high credits.

Several times I found Gwauxln looking intently at me—I sat not far from him—and once, as he passed me after the feast, he murmured sadly:

Conscience had not slept; it had never been existent; it was yet to be born and grow in a later time.

It was the not being true to the ideal at that time gained, true with all my soul, that did the mischief, just as in the myth of Lot's wife, she had never been turned to salt had she obeyed, not curiosity, but the higher injunction.

Having set the time for the momentous inquiry, I sought Anzimee.

During this time, Zailm also reflects on the moral complexities of human nature, particularly the tendency of people to be lenient toward real criminals and harsh toward victims.

Ganje - A location where a Poseid commissary is stationed, where the Saldee general spends his time.

Whether Menax designed these words for the purpose of arousing me to a sense of my duties in the premises or not, I had at the time no idea.

Perhaps I was not grateful to Incal; perhaps I never thought a second time, in these days of prosperity, of the prayer of the moneyless and unknown youth upon Pitach Rhok.

At the time the commissary was busy, and promised to do as requested on the morrow.

This little experience was the beginning of a longer one which, while very sweet for a length of time, culminated in anguish there in Atlantis and, phoenix-like, arose from the ashes of the dead centuries, only a few short years ago.

They reach their destination, the grand city of Caiphul, in time for breakfast, reflecting on their adventures and the majesty of their homeland.

Enhanced Durability: Atlanteans were able to temper copper so that it could maintain a sharp edge for extended periods of time, requiring very little sharpening or maintenance.

Isthmus of Panama: Described as much broader in the time of Atlantis, connecting Central and South America.

Lake Ui (Great Salt Lake): A large freshwater lake in Utah, vastly larger than its present size in Atlantean times.

Yellowstone Region: Mentioned as part of the same expedition that explored the Three Tetons (Pitachi Ui), discovered in modern times.

Our course was again eastward, although now farther south, for we did not propose to visit Suernis this time but intended to proceed instead to our American colonies, as in the original route we had planned to do after leaving Suemis.

In that olden time, the Amazon river ran within dykes across the continent, and the trackless sylvas of Brazil were then drained areas of tilled soil, such as the adjacent territory of the Mississippi is today.

All things move in cycles, but the circle is that of the screw-thread, ever around and around on a higher plane each time.

But that time when these things shall come to pass, and no man be able to say nay, is yet far away on the horizon of time future, as far as is the grand recession of the Amazon on the horizon of the past.

I am reminded that he has decided from evidence afforded by erosion and weathering of the rocks in that amazing region, that while the Arizona lake was undoubtedly a lake or a seabed since the Paleozoic time when it was the site of a shallow ocean, nevertheless that lake was certainly "of an age older than the Pliocene, being probably in the Cretaceous epoch." My friend, no.

Those gorges and stupendous canyons are not merely the gradual product of time, water, and weather.

And the geologist seems to have admitted the claim, and placed the lake time far back, in order to allow a sufficient term for the execution of the gigantic work.

I did not sleep for some time, as the excitement of the day had not worn off.

Professor Hayden, having arrived at the base of these lofty peaks, succeeded, after indefatigable toil, in reaching the top of the greater peak, and made the first ascent known to modern times.

After taking counsel among ourselves, we decided not to make the farther northern trip, for every one of us had seen the Arctic icefields at least once, while some of us had been there several times.

It is no more the "Union of lakes and union of lands" that it was in that olden time.

That is, we would head our vailx southeast for the Necropan coast, then southwest for Caiphul, and though the extra distance would be several thousand miles, the increased speed attained would allow us to reach our destination in time to take our breakfast at home.

Xioquithlon – A specific time or festival marking the new year.

I will go back to the mountains with my husband, he whom thou knowest not, a good man, a lover ere I married thy father, and whom, having wedded this morning, the notice of it hath doubtless by this time been published abroad.

Her manner—spare me details of this last meeting and the last time I ever saw my Poseid mother.

At the appointed time, my invited guests assembled at the palace, from the roof of which we were to take our departure.

Prince Menax, seated in a deck chair by my side, looked over the rail at the surface more than three kilometers beneath, then he drew his heavy fur cape more closely about his shoulders, looked back over the hundred kilometers, more or less, of our course already covered in the half hour, and remarked that the other vailx was rapidly gaining on us."Shall I give orders to the vailx-man to increase speed, that we may enjoy a race?" I asked of the company, which clad in arctic clothing, was occupying the passing time in sightseeing round about us on the open deck."Nay, not so, my son," said Menax.

This was the first time I had ever seen any exhibition of occult power on the part of Gwauxln; indeed, I never saw many examples of his power, notwithstanding his high adeptship.

Hence, Gwauxln was not averse to allowing me to witness his power at times.

Over three times the height of a tall man, it stood, a mysterious manifestation of Incal, as all spectators believed.

The day of the "Dismal Prophecy" had been looked for as the decades passed into centuries, but its time was not yet come, and though many alarmists set days when it would surely come, it came not, and the Unfed Light continued.

But even as thou shalt fail, so then shall thy time be shortened.

These men were the Theochristic or Occult Adepts of that olden age, the Yog-Vidya of their time.

It is only now, after twelve thousand years have slipped into eternity through the back door of time that I have come to know how much Mainin had to do with those events, and how wholly in the dark concerning his real character was Gwauxln and every other Son of the Solitude.

"Zailm," he began, "I hardly know why I called thee this night; why I waited not for a time.

Many a time have I gone to the Xioquithlon to note thee at work in thy studies.

Always have the summonses thou hast received at divers times to attend at this astikithlon had for their prompting motive sight of thee!

"Few have passed days that I have not at some time seen thee, either personally or by naim; yes, I have gone at night and stood by thy window, that I might gladden my heart with the sound of thy voice as thou hast sat reading to thy mother.

all the song of praise which fills my breast for Thy blessings to me." Here he dropped the hands that had touched together for the first time and lifted his own to heaven.

All this time, while considering the situation, I was reserving as a choice sensation the pleasure of examining what was the kind of love I felt for her who was my sister, by adoption only, it is true, but who, herself the pet of inner circles, and the adored of the people of Caiphul, would appear before the world as my sister the moment Rai Gwauxln should officially approve his brother's course.

As the attendant conducted me before the prince and prior to my presence being announced, I had time sufficient to notice a group of officers and ladies gathered about a woman of such exceeding grace and beauty that even her evident sorrow and distress, together with the distance of the corner where she sat, could not wholly conceal it.

The brief duty completed, thou mayest remain there such time as thou desirest, or go whither fancy may beckon."

There were those who philosophized over the spirit of the times, Poseid theorists, and these drew a prognostic picture of Atlantean destiny.

Then this fact was put side by side with the fact that the mysterious powers of the Suerni and Necropani owed their existence to this same occult realm, and the conclusion was that in time we also would grow careless of material progress and devote our energy to occult studies.

A burned child fears the fire, and in times past we had sought to conquer these nations and failed disastrously.

Zailm is left to ponder whether the prophecy is true or false, with time being the only thing that will reveal the truth.

First hour of the first day in the fifth month (Relative time in the narrative, no specific calendar date given).

11,160 (Time period in the narrative, indicating the year).

1886 (Mentioned in contrast to the ancient time period).

From this hour in the last day of each week until the end of the twenty-fourth hour in the following, or first day in the next week, all business was suspended, and the time devoted to religious worship, such observances being enforced by the most rigid of all laws, custom.

With the first hour, however, an enormous and very sweet-toned bell pealed forth with an intense, reverberant boom, two strokes, paused a moment, then rang four times more.

It was even so in the populous colonies of Umaur and Incalia, the difference in time being calculated, and one man in the great temple of Incal in Caiphul attended to this sweetly solemn duty.

Upon meeting him now, the current of my thought was altered, and I determined not to go home at once, but to remain in the city for a time, perhaps all night.

When I neared the spot where my meeting had occurred with the white-turbaned stranger, this time in a car, which I checked from running overfast, I saw his commanding figure standing in full view in the bright light of the tropic moon.

It was quite a part of my expectations thus to see him, and this time I inclined my head in courteous recognition.

Time will satisfy thy curiosity, my reader, as it did mine.

It was in the time of the annual respite from study that I made my advent to the capital city.

In this vacation, the Xioqua and the Incala participated, the majority seeking their homes first, for a season, but generally soon returning to the capital in order to enjoy the special pleasures of the resting time.

Its authorship was lost in the night of time.

He had, in that time, created mankind and, as the Poseidi were evolutionists, that word, "mankind," embraced all the lower animals too.

In course of time, beings of the genus homo were evolved, one man and one woman, and then Incal had placed woman spiritually highest and above man, a position which she had lost through an attempt to enjoy a fruit which grew on the Tree of Life in the Garden of Heaven.

But I will say that humanity's new conception of the Eternal Cause will be more lofty, more sublime, purer, wider, and more of an approach to boundlessness, than anything of which the long-gone aeons of time have ever dreamed.