Seven Shasta Scenes. Interlude. Ii : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], II On the old wagon road which existed ere ever iron rails linked Oregon's greatest city to the metropolis of the Golden West, there still stands, as for thirty years, not many miles from the State line...
Book Second. Chapter V. Human Life On Venus : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER V HUMAN LIFE ON VENUS "It is good to be at home again," said Mol Lang. "I love my home because here are my friends, and here is the congenial atmosphere of spirituality. I see about me the environs of my...
Book The First. Chapter Viii. A Grave Prophecy : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER VIII A GRAVE PROPHECY It was about the first hour of the first day in the fifth month which had passed since. I began attendance at the Xioquithlon, and as it was the week of Bazix, it was consequently...
Amanuensis' Preface : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], p. 13 AMANUENSIS' PREFACE. By permission of the Author, whose letter addressed to me, follows as his preface herein, and to meet the natural inquiry and satisfy, so far as any personal statement from me will...
Book The First. Chapter Xx. Duplicity : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], p. 183 CHAPTER XX DUPLICITY The year during which I was not permitted to study passed quickly and uneventfully, except that complications deepened on account of Lolix. My affection for Menax became almost...
Seven Shasta Scenes. Interlude. Iii : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], III Of the youth, what? A year later we find him suffering a violent fever, the "gold-fever," which yet lingers in that region of once famed mines; lingers, though it be now A. D. 1890. Away up on a mountain's...
Book The First. Chapter Iv. Axte Incal, Axtuce Mun : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER IV "AXTE INCAL, AXTUCE MUN" In their consideration of natural laws, the philosophers of Poseid had come to the conclusive hypothesis and working theory that the material universe was not a complex entity...
Book The First. Chapter Xv. A Maternal Desertion : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER XV A MATERNAL DESERTION On leaving my farm home that morning, I had told my mother all that had transpired, and said that she should have an escort to the palace, whither, after my recent change...
Seven Shasta Scenes. Interlude. Iv : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], IV Night. Otherwise the same scene. Our miner sits in his tent door, meditating on the novel beauty of the scene before, below him. A north breeze has rolled the smoky sea silently away and left no sign. Beneath...
Book The Third. Chapter Ii. Job Xxxviii.7 : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER II JOB XXXVIII:7 Contemplating the victory in us of the Father, we chanted a song in answer to that of the Sons of God who were our fellows. Perfect at last, in rapport with all the law fulfilled...
Book Second. Chapter Iv. Paying Life's Rewards : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER IV PAYING LIFE'S REWARDS "Phylos," said Mol Lang, "thou shalt now presently behold a man, all in a world of his own. He may not come to us, but we will go to him, and enter into perception of those...
Book The First. Chapter Vi. No Good Thing : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER VI NO GOOD THING CAN EVER PERISH As antedating the reign of Rai Gwauxln, attention is called to a period of time embracing four thousand three hundred and forty years, inclusive of the main events...
Seven Shasta Scenes. Interlude. Vii : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], VII Beside a roaring, dashing mountain torrent, failing in myriad cascades of foam white as drifted snow, interspersed with pools of quiet water, deep, trout-filled, blue, reflecting flowery banks and towering...
Book The First. Chapter Xi. The Recital : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER XI THE RECITAL "Mailzis," said the prince, "some spiced wine for us." In the enjoyment of this truly refreshing, because unfermented beverage, we listened to the following thrilling narrative: "Thou art...
Book The First. Chapter Ix. Curing Crime : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER IX CURING CRIME During the subsequent four years after my strange meeting with the tall and straight, white-haired old man who had prophesied concerning me, events, one after another shaped themselves...
Book The Third. Chapter Iv. The Fall Of Atlantis : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], p. 398 CHAPTER IV THE FALL OF ATLANTIS Again we looked over Atlantis, and saw many things else. The Zailm time possessed a peculiar interest. I saw that dim, distant past, a past old in the earth and ancient...
Book Second. Chapter I : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], p. 249 BOOK SECOND CHAPTER I "I have called you friends, for all things that I have of the FATHER I have made known unto you. With Chapter Twenty-four of Book First closed the last devachanic experience...
Book Second. Chapter Xi. Text. St. Matthew Iv : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER XI TEXT: ST. MATTHEW IV "To be, or not to be: that in the question." --HAMLET. That was indeed the question when I arose one morning, and knew that the event of the Crisis would that day decide whether...
Book The First. Chapter Xvi. The Voyage To Suern : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], p. 146 CHAPTER XVI THE VOYAGE TO SUERN Before us lay a pleasure trip during which we should travel many thousands of miles. We proceeded slowly when we came above the base of the huge bulk of Pitach Rhok...
Book Second. Chapter Ix. They Who Heed Have Peace : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], p. 360 CHAPTER IX THEY WHO HEED HAVE PEACE Once during the wanderings before my marriage, and while I was in Hindustan, I met an old man of unprepossessing figure, whose faded eyes no sooner rested on me than he...
Book The First. Chapter I. Atlantis, Queen : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], p. 24p. 25 BOOK THE FIRST. CHAPTER I. ATLANTIS, QUEEN OF THE WAVE. "Why not?" I asked myself, pausing amidst the snow on the mountain, there so far above the sea that the Storm King was ever supreme, even while...
Book The First. Chapter Xiv. The Adoption Of Zailm : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER XIV THE ADOPTION OF ZAILM When, according to request, I arrived at the Agacoe palace on the next morning, I proceeded directly to the private office there occupied by Prince Menax, expecting to find my...
Seven Shasta Scenes. Interlude. V : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], V Traveling, southward, miner no more, the youth bends his course. A year agone the golden phantoms died, the mine caved in, and "no man knows that sepulcher" in the wilds of Siskiyou. Winter wet had...
Book The First. Chapter Xxii. Zailm Proposes : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER XXII ZAILM PROPOSES My mind was filled with the question which I made paramount, how to phrase my proposal of marriage to Anzimee. Such occupation of thought is common to all lovers, of every race...
Book The First. Chapter X. Realization : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER X REALIZATION The government was accustomed to keep systematic track of the more prominent Xioqeni to whom it gave free tuition but the supervision was never irksome, indeed, was scarcely felt to be...
Book The First. Chapter Vii. Contain Thyself : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER VII CONTAIN THYSELF It was in the time of the annual respite from study that I made my advent to the capital city. In this vacation the, Xioqua and the Incala participated, the majority seeking their...
Book The First. Chapter Ii. Caiphul : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER II CAIPHUL The Atlantean people lived under a government having the character of a limited monarchy. Its official system recognized an emperor (whose position was an elective one, and not in any sense...
Book The First. Chapter Xii. The Unexpected : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER XII THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENS A very few steps took us into the great conservatory, or Xanatithlon, where bloomed all manner and species of flowers, p. 122 In the midst was a fountain whose three lofty jets...
Book Second. Chapter Ii. A Soul In Peril : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], p. 259 CHAPTER II A SOUL IN PERIL Many days I pondered that scene in the mountains, marveling over the wonderful power possessed by Quong over wild animals. Did he know how he exerted this control, or was it...
Book The First. Chapter Xxiv. Devachan : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER XXIV DEVACHAN Obedient to this command I slept. When I awakened I was yet in the prison, but all the suffering, all the tortures of hunger and thirst that I had endured were gone. Nothing seemed strange...
Book The Third. Chapter Iii. Fair Forms : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER III "FAIR FORMS AND HOARY SEERS OF AGES PUT, AN IN ONE MIGHTY SEPULCHER." For a little while yet Phyris and I were not wholly one entity. But we were come to retrospection. With arms clasping each other...
Book Second. Chapter Vii. The Desert Is Before : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER VII "THE DESERT IS BEFORE THY FEET" So the days passed. It was over two weeks of the local time that I had been in Hesperian environs. And during this interval the longing for the past life grew; the few...
Book The First. Chapter Xix. A Well Met Problem : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER XIX A WELL-MET PROBLEM Work awaited me upon my return to Caiphul, work to which I might attend without harm to my delicate health, in fact rather tending to its improvement, furnishing a proper degree p...
Untitled : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], p. 4 p. 5 INDEX
Book The Third. Chapter I. Ye Shall Reap : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], p. 394 BOOK THE THIRD CHAPTER I YE SHALL REAP AS YE HAVE SOWN. THE PERCEPTION Suppose the struggle had proven me wanting, and the verdict had been, "Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin"? 'Then my--our--fate would have been...
Seven Shasta Scenes. Interlude. Vi : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], VI Returned from the far south, and in camp. In camp at the timber line on Tchastel's side, awaiting the nightfall, and through the long afternoon gazing out over a wealth of scenery not in word power to paint...
Book The Third. Note : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], p. 414 NOTE BY THE AUTHOR Friends, thirteen years have become past time since the words of this book were dictated; purposely hath publication been delayed unto the end that statements then made might acquire...
Glossary : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], p. 11 GLOSSARY. Note:--Readers of "A Dweller on Two Planets" will please remember that in the Atlantean or Poseid language the word-terminations conveyed grammatical number and gender. Thus the singular w...
Title Page : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], p. 2 (SIGNATURE OF PHYLOS, IN ATLAN CHARACTERS.) PHYLOS, THE THIBETAN. (Otherwise named, in fulness, Yol Gorro, author of this book.) p. 3 A DWELLER ON TWO PLANETS OR THE DIVIDING OF THE WAY BY PHYLOS...
Seven Shasta Scenes. Interlude. I : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], p. 242 SEVEN SHASTA SCENES INTERLUDE BY FREDERICK S. OLIVER, AMANUENSIS I If there are "sermons in stones and books in the running brooks," then is "Tchastel's" craggy pile a noble library in veritas. In it...
Book The Third. Chapter Vii. The Transfiguration : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER VII THE TRANSFIGURATION I might give many more life scenes. Let these suffice. Turn now to our present. The reunion of the semi-egoii is one in which, after the mighty ordeal of the Great Crisis...
Book The First. Chapter Iii. Faith Is Knowledge : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER III FAITH IS KNOWLEDGE ALSO, AND IT GIVETH TO REMOVING MOUNTAINS There is a saying, whose origin is dim through lapse of time, to the effect that "Knowledge is power." Within well-defined limits this is...
Book The First. Chapter Xxi. The Mistake Of A Life : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER XXI THE MISTAKE OF A LIFE Comparison is good mental exercise. It is due to the reader and to myself, as well as to Anzimee and Lolix, to indulge a p. 187 present mood prompting me to make an analytical...
Book Second. Chapter Iii. Take Therefore : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER III TAKE THEREFORE NO THOUGHT FOR THE MORROW When I awoke, rich, delicate perfumes, and the low hum of voices greeted my still slumberous senses. On opening my eyes, I found that Quong was by my side...
Book Second. Chapter Vi. An Indirect Answer : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER VI AN INDIRECT ANSWER An eminent author has said that "literary themes are necessarily limited; that authors can not create as a fiction that which has no counterpart in fact." And this is absolutely...
Book The First. Chapter Xvii. Rai Ni Incal : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER XVII RAI NI INCAL--ASHES TO ASHES On a bier in front of the Holy Seat, by the eastern face of the Maxin-Stone in the Incalithlon, lay all that was of the earth, earthy of Ernon of Suernis...
Book The First. Chapter Xxiii. A Witness : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER XXIII A WITNESS BEFORE THE CRIMINAL States of mind, of feeling and of intuition are the only real things that exist. Jesus, although the Son of God, and John and Paul were all Sons of the Solitude; Hegel...
Book Second. Chapter X. After The Years, Return : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER X AFTER THE YEARS, RETURN Sparing details, what was the appearance of Phyris after the flight of the years? When I left she was a bright, beautiful maiden, in the budding days of womanhood, having...
Book The Third. Chapter V. Man's Inhumanity To Man : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER V "MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN" Again the dead past revealed another scene. I saw myself in the person of an ill-fed, ill-treated slave, ever hungry, wretched, too much so to feel resentment. I died hungry...
Book The Third. Chapter Vi. Why Atlantis Perished : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER VI WHY ATLANTIS PERISHED Looking along the line of life's yesterdays the reason became apparent why all the wondrous attainments of Poseid had ceased and left no sign, why Atla, which metaphorically held...
Book The First. Chapter Xiii. The Language : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER XIII THE LANGUAGE OF THE SOUL "Zailm, my son, thou heardst the narration of the Saldu, Lolix. As thou knowest, it is from things arisen out of the occurrences by her related that thou goest on a missi...
Book The First. Chapter Xviii. Le Grand Voyage : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER XVIII LE GRAND VOYAGE Rai Gwauxln directed me to attend at Agacoe ere resuming my vacation trip, although it was all arranged previously to the funeral of Ernon that my action in Suern was to his...
Book The First. Chapter V. Life In Caiphul : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], p. 67 CHAPTER V LIFE IN CAIPHUL The new life presented very many novelties to my mother and myself, coming into the midst of urban environments from the mountains, as we had so recently done. After learning more...
Maps : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], MAP OF ATLANTIS From "A Dweller on Two Planets " MAP OF ATLANTIS From "An Earth Dweller's Return " ATLANTEAN WORLD MAP From "An Earth Dweller's Return "
Book Second. Chapter Viii. Old Teachers Taught : * "A Dweller on Two Planets", by by Phylos the Thibetan (Frederick S. Oliver), [1894], CHAPTER VIII OLD TEACHERS TAUGHT OF GOD I awoke. The place was in one of the smallest rooms of the Sagum; it seemed not unfamiliar, although I had theretofore been only in the greater apartment. Mendocus sat by...