The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Jav bent low toward the ear of the Heliumite, looking fearfully about
before he spoke.
"Komal is the essence," he whispered. "Even the
etherealists admit that mind itself must have substance
in order to transmit to imaginings the appearance of
substance. For if there really was no such thing as
substance it could not be suggested--what never has
been cannot be imagined. Do you follow me?"
"I am groping," replied Carthoris dryly.
"So the essence must be substance," continued Jav.
"Komal is the essence of the All, as it were. He is
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