26 Shadowings 



as bodily fitness makes the foundation of mental 

 and of moral power, they are not apt to choose 

 ill. Nevertheless they are sometimes strangely 

 cheated. They have been known to want beings 

 that could never help ghost to a body, hollow 

 goblins. . . ." 



Fr. VI 



. . . "The Animulae making the Self do not 

 fear death as dissolution. They fear death 

 only as reintegration, recombination with the 

 strange and the hateful of other lives : they 

 fear the imprisonment, within another body, of 

 that which loves together with that which 

 loathes. ..." 



Fr. VII 



..." In other time the El-Woman sat only in 

 waste places, and by solitary ways. But now 

 in the shadows of cities she offers her breasts to 

 youth ; and he whom she entices, presently goes 

 mad, and becomes, like herself, a hollowness. 

 For the higher ghosts that entered into the making 

 of him perish at that goblin -touch, die as the 



