The Country of the Blind

“And now,” said God, as he shook us out of his sleeve upon the planet he had given us to live upon, the planet that whirled about green Sirius for a sun, “now that you understand me and each other a little better,...try again.”

Then he and his great angels turned themselves about and suddenly had vanished…

The Throne had vanished.

All about me was a beautiful land, more beautiful than any I had ever seen before—­waste, austere, and wonderful; and all about me were the enlightened souls of men in new clean bodies…