Attaining, as Black forecasted, to knowledge and power as yet undreamt of.—Author, chap. i.
The established routine of steps by which, under the tutelage of our new friend and fair sister Venus, we attained to the language of that Higher Life, into which we had now entered, is such an old and well-known story as to need no time-wasting attention here. I shall pass at once, therefore, to the new world of science and business to which our grand discovery had introduced us. The new tide that then flowed in upon us took two main directions: first, that of research into the past aspects of our earth; second, that of intercourse with systems and worlds outside of us. Later on, we entered into a third section of progress, by our success in rendering the duplication of the cross available to return to us photographs of outside scenes and worlds. In this way we secured pictures, magnifiable, even to life-size, of outside planetary and satellite scenery of some of the orbs of
