Angels and Women (1924)

GREATER CHANGE 137and this was the hour of tranquillity in Balonia--thecapital city of the gods.Nature was also in repose. Too calm andsilent seemed the morning’s dawn. Nozephyr lifted the drooping leaves; no chirpof bird or insect disturbed the broodingsilence. A gray haze hung over the sleepingcity, an ominous hush pervaded the valley.I paused to listen. I sat upon the earth andleaned my head upon a projecting rock. DidI feel a tremor coming from the bowels ofthe earth, the parturient throes of an unbornearthquake? I looked up into the deeps ofthe soft sky. Could I not discern in the faroffmist the smothered tumult of generatingelements, the struggles of a chained tempest?I spoke--Aldeth wondered at mystrange words; I myself wondered.I rose and hastened on until a short turnin the pathway brought me directly in frontof the building called Tebah. Here was animation.The smoke of early sacrifice slowlyfloated heavenward, and the Prophet with