The adept of Galilee Author:Cyril Scott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE STORY There is, to the north of Arabia, and bounded by the Mediterranean on the west, a land of verdure and flowers and beauty and colour, where for ten l... more »ong months of the year, a resplendent sun, planted in an unfathomable turquoise oversea, rays forth its magical brilliance on stretches of desert, on mountains and valleys, on lakes and forests, and on every variety of Nature's loveliness. For it is as if the Deity had reflected, when projecting the Universe from out His infinite Heart : ' I will take one small corner of the world: and will concentrate therein all the possibilities of My powers in the way of beauty ; for I will show grandeur and majesty, in the form of high mountains, and austerity in the form of wasteland and deserts, and bountifulness in the form of the richest profusion of flowers and fruits, and gracefulness in the form of hillside curves and meandering streamlets, and energy in the form of rushing torrents and seas breaking forth into sudden storms : and over all this blending of qualities I will pour the light of My Sun-body in a radiant Blessing of warmth and peace, calling forth in response as it were, everyvariety of colour and shade and hue, so that mankind will marvel for evermore.' And here, almost in the heart of this beauty-intoxicated country, and in an abandoned corner of a quarter named Galilee, rests a village of such exquisite comeliness, that one well might say the very semblance of a dream of some little sequestered recess of heaven had fallen to earth in a hollow on the mountain side : for its houses, rising in tiers under the rock, resemble white cubes, scattered about in a forest of pomegranate, vine and fig-trees, while around it floats the pure mountain air, in which innumerable doves are to be seen hovering against the limpid blu...« less