Angels and Women (1924)

i50 ANGELS AND WOMENlineament like men, though far more statelyand beautiful, but whose faces filled me withdismay.Upon each royal brow gleamed a starluminous as their eyes, and the trailing garmentswere of a shape and texture I hadnever before seen. From the taller andgrander of these figures emanated the lightningflash which had awakened me. Thelook of admiration he fixed upon my mother,whose transcendent beauty reflected the unnaturallight, was almost as dreadful as thescowl that alternated upon his features whenhe turned toward my father. I was certainthat they were Devas, the incarnate celestialsof whose existence I had recently becomeaware. He who was tall and bright atlength spoke in words I had never beforeheard, but which, by some new perceptionof sound, I well understood."More beautiful than Eve, and as true toher lord. The man must die. Prince of theWest, send forth your baneful fire." The