"Is he not like unto this fire before
us, a 'living fire', as it were?"
Si'Wren frowned at this new idea. Then, after a long hesitation, she
finally wrote on her clay tablet, 'It is possible', and tilted the face
of the tablet so the fire itself could illuminate it.
"Then, is not the Invisible God the same thing as our very own Sun
God?" asked Emperor Euphrates quickly, as if pouncing on the winning
point of a most cleverly-worded argument.
'Not so', wrote Si'Wren, without hesitation.
She showed this to Emperor Euphrates. Then she turned the tablet
towards herself, and wrote further upon it. Finally, she turned it
towards Emperor Euphrates again.
'The Invisible God,' Si'Wren had now written, 'in Whom, like water, all
things are reflected, is the Creator of all things. But if He made all
things, then He must be higher than all things or idols.'
"I see," said Emperor Euphrates, when he had read this. "Tell me, then,
shall we see this Invisible God, when we die?"
Si'Wren thought at length, and finally, without writing anything more,
turned her tablet to him and indicated, using her ivory writing stick
as a pointer, her earlier line wherein she had written, 'It is
possible'.
Emperor Euphrates regarded the line for a long moment, and finally, he
said quietly, "So.
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