Rien ne répondit suivant leurs attentes. Le ciel s’obscurcit. Les nuages s’alourdirent. Le sol se déroba et devint comme de l’encre. Les matières inertes se chargèrent d’une vie souterraine. Les plantes devinrent monstrueuses et carnivores, alors que la vie, telle qu’ils la connaissaient, la vie consciente, la vie qui se développe et se nourrit de l’esprit, devint chaque jour plus proche des matières stagnantes.

Nothing answered according to their expectations. The sky darkens. Clouds grew heavy. The ground shied away and became as some ink. The sluggish materials took of a subterranean life. Plants became monstrous and carnivores, while the life, such as they knew it, the conscious life, the life which develops, nourishing itself from the spirit, became every day closer to stagnant materials.