Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.].

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
1899
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Credit: Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is taught by Nature to her disciple if he seeks it in the right way. Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light she will make herself plain to us,” replied Zorastro. And so they journeyed through the day without further adventure, until evening brought them in sight of a broad river, which stretched like a silver streak away to the west. “There is the Danube,” remarked Zorastro, “ and yonder the tower of the Minster of Ulm,” as he pointed to a fine tower that appeared above the mists on the horizon. “ We shall rest to-night at the house of my old fellow- student and friend, the Count von Rosteine, who follows the study of alchemy, and is an adept of the highest order.” In about an hour’s time they were riding through the narrow streets of the fair city of Ulm, and on Zorastro inquiring for the house of the Count, they were directed through a narrow passage to an ancient stone building under the shadows of the grey minster. Feeling their way carefully, for it was now dark, they came at length to a narrow gothic