Having allowed me to rest awhile, he hurried me upwards a myriad miles,
until the sun appeared far beneath us; through the milky way, past
Pleiades, and many other stars of appalling magnitude, catching a distant
glimpse of other worlds. And after journeying for a long time, we come
at last to the confines of the great eternity, in sight of the two courts
of the vauntful King of Death--one to the right, the other to the left,
but very far apart from one another as there lay an immense void between
them. I asked whether I might go and see the court on my right hand, for
I observed that this was not at all like the other I had previously seen.
"Thou shalt perchance," said he, "see, somewhile, more of the difference
there is between them. But now we must proceed in another direction."
At that we turned away from the little world, and across the intervening
space we let ourselves descend into the Eternal Realm between the two
courts, into the formless void, a boundless tract, most deep and dark,
chaotic and uninhabited, at one time cold, at another hot, {69a} now
silent, now resounding with the roaring of cataracts falling and
quenching the fires, and anon of the fire bursting out and burning up the
water.
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