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 Dream- 
 
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 to the Isles of the 
 Southern Sea 
 
 A Story for Children 
 by YLVA 
 
 Illustrations by the Author 
 
 THE ARYAN THEOSOPHICAL PRESS 
 POINT LOMA, CALIFORNIA 
 
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LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 TO THE ISLES OF THE SOUTHERN SEA 
 
Luz Star-Gye s 
 Dream -Journey 
 
 to the Isles of the 
 Southern Sea 
 
 H Story for Children 
 
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 Illustrations by the Hutbor 
 
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 Hryan Chcosophical press 
 point koma, California 
 
Copyright 1912, by Katherine Tingley 
 
 THE ARYAN THEOSOPHICAL PRESS 
 Point Loma, California 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM -JOURNEY 
 
 TO THE ISLES OF THE SOUTHERN SEA 
 
Luz Star-Eye s Dream- Journey 
 
 to the 
 
 Isles of the Southern Sea 
 
 HE Raja Yoga Academy rose like 
 a beautiful fairy castle, or a jew 
 eled crown, on the heights of 
 Lomaland by the peaceful west 
 ern sea. It was the home and 
 school of the Raja Yoga Children, who were 
 now playing on the sea-shore. They were 
 the children who were learning to live " for 
 the Benefit of the People of the Earth and 
 all Creatures." 
 
 No wonder that the nymphs of sea and 
 land shyly ventured back from their hiding 
 places; that the little fairies of trees and 
 flowers felt a new joy in living; and that 
 the tiny elves and brownies peeped out from 
 
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 2 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 everywhere, wondering if those human child 
 ren had anything for them to do. 
 
 The lady Rosalinda, one of the children s 
 dearest teachers, sat on the sand looking 
 out over the endless ocean, and at the child 
 ren playing on the shore. The words of the 
 great world-teacher and foundress of this 
 school rang clear in her mind : " Here in 
 this school the child will have been taught 
 the divinity of its own soul. The child will 
 be imbued with the strength of its higher 
 nature." And: " Let the lives of the little 
 ones be molded so that they will be better 
 citizens than you or I. Let us cultivate a 
 higher spirit of patriotism, a higher spirit 
 uality, and a greater spirit of brotherly love." 
 
 As she sat thinking these solemn thoughts, 
 a pair of little arms were thrown about her 
 neck and a sweet voice said : " I love you 
 so much! I am going to be like you when 
 I grow up." 
 
 "Ah! You surprised me, Luz," said the 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 3 
 
 lady Rosalinda with a kiss on the little girl s 
 cheek. 
 
 " I am going to be a Raja Yoga Teacher," 
 declared Luz earnestly. 
 
 " That is a happy choice/ said Rosalinda, 
 " but you will find many difficulties and ob 
 stacles in the way of becoming one, my child ; 
 and you will need a great deal of courage 
 and perseverance." 
 
 " Oh, but I shall study so hard in school, 
 you shall see," said Luz. 
 
 " Good, you will need all the knowledge 
 you can obtain. Still, if you had all the 
 knowledge of all the schools of learning in 
 the world, and knew every book in the world 
 by heart, that alone would not make you 
 a Raja Yoga teacher." 
 
 " I know," said Luz, " I must be good and 
 obedient also." 
 
 " Yes. Still, not even that added would 
 make you a real Raja Yoga teacher. You 
 see, little comrade," said the lady Rosalinda 
 
4 LUZ STAR-BYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 with a kind smile in her deep eyes, " you 
 would not only teach the children in your 
 care out of books, but also how to be happy 
 and noble characters, and call forth in them 
 the strength of their divine souls ; you must 
 be yourself what you are teaching your pu 
 pils, and you must be wise in the things 
 which are deeper than book-learning." 
 
 Luz listened to every word with big earn 
 est eyes. " I am going to try," she said. 
 
 " Your thoughts must be pure and clean," 
 continued Rosalinda, " and you must be able 
 to control your own mind, not letting all 
 kinds of useless and unworthy thoughts flit 
 in and out as they please you must live 
 as befits a Soul inhabiting a body." 
 
 " Tell me what that means, please," said 
 Luz. 
 
 " I have already said many things which 
 you will better understand later, my dear 
 little aspirant; but if you will remember 
 your question, I shall tell you what you wish 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 5 
 
 to know tomorrow. Go and play with the 
 rest, LUZ! You can practise for a Raja 
 Yoga teacher, by being kind and helpful to 
 your comrades." 
 
 LUZ would have begged to stay longer; 
 but now one after another of the boys and 
 girls came with shells and mosses and curi 
 ous pebbles to show, wanting to know their 
 names, and how they grew, and wfiat they 
 grew for. 
 
 " I wish they would keep away," thought 
 LUZ. " I wanted her to speak to me longer." 
 She walked away and sat down by herself 
 in the shade of a rock, to brood over her 
 disappointment; but she was hardly in a 
 comfortable position before Nancy and Car- 
 lota came and sat down beside her. 
 
 "Who is the Cave-Man? LUZ," asked 
 Carlota, who had come to the school two 
 days ago. 
 
 "Ask Nancy to tell you," said Luz, with 
 a sullen wish not to be bothered. 
 
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 " The Cave-Man is a good elf or brownie, 
 or something of that sort/ said Nancy 
 kindly, " and he lives in the Point Loma 
 caves here by the ocean. He has a harp on 
 which he plays beautiful music, and a ship 
 named Lucifer anchored in a little harbor." 
 
 "What kind of a ship is that?" asked 
 Carlota. 
 
 " It is a fairy-ship in which we send our 
 good thoughts out to all the countries in the 
 world." 
 
 "Will thoughts make any difference?" 
 wondered Carlota. 
 
 " Of course they will," answered Nancy. 
 " They make us what we are, Rosalinda says, 
 and she knows. Come, let us look for pink 
 shells," and off they ran to the water s edge. 
 
 Luz felt troubled in her mind, and tried 
 to throw off her sullen mood. Soon it melted 
 away, and they all walked home up over the 
 hills. 
 
 A little later she sat reading a story-book 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 7 
 
 under her dear little Eucalyptus tree, which 
 she had loved and cared for ever since it was 
 planted. She had named it Vestra. This 
 year the tree had been busy preparing its 
 first flowers, and Luz wondered very much 
 what kind they were going to be. Many 
 times she had stood with her fingers ready 
 to pinch one of the thousand little buds open, 
 to see what it looked like inside; but some 
 thing whispered to her not to do it, and she 
 did not. Now, as she sat there reading, she 
 heard the humming of bees in the tree. It 
 told her that some flowers were open. Soon 
 she stood with the very first one in her hand. 
 
 " Oh, welcome, welcome dear blossom ! " 
 she said. " I am going with some of the 
 grown-ups for a journey tomorrow, and shall 
 take you with me as a keepsake from my 
 tree. How light and beautiful you are! I 
 wish that I were you and you were I ! " 
 
 Very well ! " said a little voice beside 
 her. " I am glad you spoke ; I have long 
 wished to know how it is to be a human." 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 Luz looked about in surprise; and there! 
 a little Fairy stood before her very eyes, 
 dressed from head to foot in silvery green, 
 with a wreath of eucalyptus on her hair. 
 
 " Now you hold in your hand the first 
 blossom of this magic tree/ she said, " and 
 the first wish you utter will be granted. I 
 am the Fairy living in this tree; and, as I 
 said before, I would like to try life as a 
 
LUZ STAR-BYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 9 
 
 Human. It must be very great and interest- 
 ing." 
 
 " Is this really possible ? " asked Luz, as 
 soon as she had recovered from her astonish 
 ment. 
 
 " Nothing is simpler," said the fairy. 
 " We have only to change bodies." 
 
 " But shall I then be you or I? " said Luz, 
 with a puzzled look. 
 
 " What a strange idea ! " said the fairy 
 to herself. "Who could I be but myself, 
 even if I put on some one else s body ! 
 What variety of Human are you ? " she 
 asked. 
 
 "A girl," answered Luz with a smile at 
 her ignorance; which she regretted, when 
 she thought of her own ignorance about the 
 fairy. 
 
 " What is your name, if you have any? " 
 asked the fairy. 
 
 " My name is Luz. Do you have a 
 name?" 
 
10 LUZ STAR-BYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 " Yes, of course, my name is Vestra. 
 
 Now, we had better make all the agreements 
 
 before we change. Have you ever used my 
 
 kind of a body? " 
 
 "Never!" said Luz. "Is it difficult?" 
 " Nothing is easier. Is it hard to manage 
 
 the mankind ones ? " 
 
 " Oh no, it is soon learned. Besides, if 
 you want to go far you can ride. I will 
 give you all the instructions necessary." 
 
 They agreed to travel together so as to 
 help each other in case of need; and, after 
 some smaller points had been settled, they 
 thought themselves ready to change. Luz 
 instructed the interested little fairy about the 
 things she had packed to take on her journey, 
 and at last Luz asked: 
 
 " Now, how shall I travel ; and what do 
 I need for the journey? " 
 
 " You need nothing," said the fairy. 
 " Whatever you need you will find where 
 you go." 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 11 
 
 "But how do I move from place to place?" 
 
 " Nothing is easier ; you just wish yourself 
 where you want to go and then float there, 
 as fast or as slow as you desire." 
 
 " What a delightful existence that must 
 be ! " thought Luz, eager to make the change ; 
 and the fairy seemed just as eager to try the 
 human life. When they again stood under 
 the magic tree, in which the fairy had care 
 fully hidden the wishing-flower, they could 
 change back, but not before. And they 
 sealed their compact with the eucalyptus 
 seal. 
 
 II 
 
 It was done. Vestra awoke from a deep 
 sleep and looked about her in wonder. She 
 felt so strange and heavy, and so very big! 
 Then she remembered all yes, she was in 
 Human-land. She looked everywhere for 
 
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 Luz, but did not see her. Some people came 
 to take her on the journey; they all called 
 her Luz. It was very hard to move at first. 
 She had to move step by step, and could not 
 get off the ground. 
 
 " Everything moves on the ground, except 
 birds," she said to herself. " I never thought 
 that Human-land was like this/ 
 
 Luz opened her eyes and looked about her 
 as if she had just awakened from a dream. 
 She was sitting beside the Eucalyptus, her 
 dear tree. But how was this, that all of a 
 sudden it had grown so big ? She could not 
 reach around its trunk, even with both her 
 arms. Was it not but a little while ago 
 that she easily embraced the trunk with one 
 arm? Was she still dreaming? Yes, that 
 must be it. Then she discovered that her 
 dress was not the same. Ah ! It was the 
 silvery green of the Fairy, Vestra ! She re 
 membered all now: the wishing-flower, the 
 agreement. 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 13 
 
 Was it possible that she was now a Fairy ? 
 She looked at herself, at her tiny hands and 
 feet ; and measured her height by the well- 
 known little daisy-bush which she had plant 
 ed last year beside the tree. It spread above 
 her like a tree now. 
 
 " Yes," she said, " I am truly a fairy ! 
 But I feel like myself just the same; I am 
 still Luz. It is very strange. I wonder how 
 the fairy feels to be I ? I must go and search 
 for her at once. 
 
 " What a puzzle ! " she continued, mus 
 ing. " I am myself, that I feel sure of; but 
 I can see that I am the fairy. She is I, and 
 perhaps also herself I cannot understand 
 I must ask Rosalinda." 
 
 Luz tripped off on her dainty little feet 
 toward the building. She felt so wonder 
 fully light ; then she remembered what Ves- 
 tra had said about the manner of moving 
 from place to place, and thought she would 
 try. A group of little girls were going out 
 
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 to pick wild flowers on the hills. She wished 
 to go to them, and wonder and joy ! 
 floated off in their direction. " How sur 
 prised they will be to see a fairy/ she 
 thought, " and still more when they find that 
 it is their comrade Luz. What fun it will 
 be!" Nearer and nearer she floated. 
 
 " I wonder what kind those bright flowers 
 are ? " she thought, and immediately floated 
 towards them. As soon as she was near 
 enough to see that they were California 
 Poppies, she again remembered the girls, 
 and started in their direction. Alas, before 
 she knew it she was going somewhere else; 
 now after a meadow-lark whose nest she 
 wished to see; now after a rabbit jumping 
 over the hills she wished to compare her 
 speed with his; now a scarlet flower glow 
 ing in the distance attracted her attention, 
 and she floated towards it ; now to the girls 
 again; at last she was actually spinning 
 around in the air, back and forth, and did 
 not know what to do. She saw the breakers 
 
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 roll white and peaceful towards the dear old 
 shore, and the sunbeams glitter on the water ; 
 and presently found herself sitting on the 
 sand with her hands before her face, trying 
 to think. 
 
 " Who are you, little fairy ? " asked a kind 
 voice beside her. 
 
 " I am not a fairy, I am Luz, a little girl," 
 she answered ; and, looking up, met the wise, 
 good eyes of the Point Loma Cave-Man. 
 
 " Oh, I am so glad to see you ! " she cried, 
 and told him all that had happened, and 
 asked his advice. She told him also of the 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 17 
 
 puzzle in her mind: who was she really? 
 
 " Please tell me/ she pleaded, " am I the 
 Fairy, Vestra, or am I still myself, Luz ? " 
 
 " My poor little girl," said the Cave-Man, 
 " you are tired from these new experiences. 
 Rest while I play to you the Sea-Nymph s 
 Spring Song. After that we shall talk." 
 
 Luz loved music, and listened enraptured ; 
 she thought it the most beautiful she had 
 ever heard. The Cave-Man presently laid 
 his harp down on the sand, and looked at her. 
 
 "Can you play?" he asked. 
 
 " Yes," said Luz, " I play every day in 
 the school." 
 
 " Can you play one of your songs to me 
 now?" 
 
 " Of course, if I had an instrument oh, 
 I forgot " and she looked down at her 
 tiny fingers, and then at the Cave-Man, with 
 a puzzled expression. 
 
 " Do you not know what you are, little 
 
18 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 girl ? " said the Cave-Man. " You are a 
 Soul. You, the Soul, know everything the 
 music, the lessons; and it is you, the Soul, 
 that thinks. You have a body to use as a 
 kind of house, or clothing, or instrument 
 with which to work/ 
 
 " Oh, I know now/ said Luz. " Rosa 
 linda and others in the School have said so. 
 But I forgot, I did not understand." 
 
 " If some day you should change cloth 
 ing with one of your schoolmates, would 
 you, because of that, become her ? " 
 
 The little girl-fairy laughed, the first time 
 since the change; she thought of when she 
 and her friend Maria did this very thing, to 
 play a joke on some of the others. 
 
 " You and Fairy Vestra changed bodies 
 soul-houses but you are just the same, 
 Luz; is that not so?" said the Cave-Man. 
 
 The little fairy head nodded. " The eyes 
 are the windows of the Soul. I understand 
 it now. Here am I looking out through two 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 19 
 
 very small windows ; those in my other house 
 were larger ; but I, the one looking out, am 
 the same ; how very strange no, natural. 
 I wonder how it was that I did not under 
 stand it before. And Fairy Vestra is now 
 looking out through my windows. Oh, I 
 forgot ! " she cried suddenly, " we agreed 
 to travel together in case we needed each 
 other s help. Oh, how can I get to her ? " 
 The tears rose in the little fairy-eyes, and 
 she looked up at the Cave-Man imploringly. 
 
 He stroked her hair, and said: "That 
 must be easy for you now with your light 
 fairy-body." 
 
 " Oh, no," she sighed, and told the Cave- 
 Man all that had happened to her when she 
 wished to go to her girl-comrades. 
 
 " You have too many wishes at the same 
 time, my child," he said, " that is why you 
 get nowhere. Fairy Silence ! " he called. 
 " Come and teach this child to think of fewer 
 things and better ones." 
 
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 Instantly a little fairy appeared, the most 
 beautiful that one could imagine. She was 
 dressed in soft shimmering white. Nothing 
 that Luz had ever seen could be compared 
 to her. Luz thought of a pure, fragrant, 
 white rose; and her eyes reminded her of 
 the first star in the sky, while it is still twi 
 light, and the noises of the day are hushing. 
 
 The Fairy signed for Luz to come, and 
 she followed her inside the cave. Two little 
 earth-men with round brown faces stood on 
 either side of a door in the rock-wall. Fairy 
 Silence gave them a sign, and they opened 
 the door to a room which Luz had never 
 dreamt existed. When they were in, Fairy 
 Silence held her by the hand and looked into 
 her eyes for a moment. Then she left her 
 alone. 
 
 Luz stood there and looked around. She 
 did not feel afraid, trusting in the Cave-Man 
 and Fairy Silence. 
 
 There was nothing in the room except a 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 21 
 
 great chair, which stood in the middle of 
 one side against the wall. She could not 
 imagine what the chair and the walls in the 
 room could be made from; but they were 
 just like the silvery waves of the ocean when 
 the moon shines on them. Opposite the door 
 through which she had entered, she saw an 
 other door ; and once she thought she saw a 
 gleam of sunlight through the keyhole. 
 
 After a while all her attention was drawn 
 to the great chair. " For whom was it put 
 there ? " she wondered. She could not think 
 of sitting in it herself, although there was 
 no other. All at once she thought that some 
 one, whom she could not see, even with her 
 fairy eyes, was now sitting in that chair, 
 looking at all her thoughts. She felt so 
 ashamed. How small and foolish they 
 seemed to her, and how selfish; they whirled 
 round in her mind without any purpose what 
 ever. A room full of trash was her mind, 
 she thought; nothing else. 
 
 She wanted to get away, she did not think 
 
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 of how or why; she wanted something to 
 do ; some one to talk to, or talk to her ; some 
 thing to happen ; anything to take away her 
 own thoughts. But nothing happened, and 
 she was alone. The great chair stood there 
 as before, and her worthless thoughts looked 
 as bare as if they had been her clothes and 
 playthings scattered on this pure shining 
 floor. 
 
 She put her hands before her face trying 
 to hide the thoughts; but it seemed to her 
 that they shone through everything, and that 
 the one in the chair whom she could not see, 
 saw every one of them. 
 
 She thought of her disorderly bureau 
 drawer, and how irritated and ashamed she 
 felt at the time when Rosalinda came into 
 her room and laid all the disorder bare. She 
 had felt almost as now. Yes, but she had 
 felt very happy afterwards, when all was 
 cleaned out; and she had resolved to keep 
 order ever after. 
 
 " I have kept my promise pretty well/ 
 
LUZ STAR-BYE S DREAM JOURNEY 23 
 
 she thought, and felt glad that the one in the 
 chair could see that too but then she felt 
 ashamed of thinking so. Again she pictured 
 in her mind the drawer full of trash. She 
 did not want to think of that, but could think 
 of nothing else. Ah ! A new thought came 
 to her: The one whom she could not see, 
 and who read her thoughts, was a teacher 
 who was now laying bare the disorder in 
 her inner room the room of her mind. 
 
 She had imagined she understood, when 
 her teachers spoke of pure thoughts; but 
 now for the first time she realized their im 
 portance. Was there a way to clean this 
 inner room? "Certainly, I do not want to 
 have it this way. Only I never knew/ she 
 said. 
 
 She began to feel happy and grateful, and 
 as she did so it seemed to her as if a voice 
 from the great chair was speaking to her. 
 She forgot to feel ashamed and afraid. She 
 sat still and listened with growing happiness. 
 Many things which she never had understood 
 
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 were made plain to her, and the meaning of 
 life became so sacred and clear. 
 
 To no one could she ever tell what the 
 voice told her. " I could not say it beauti 
 fully enough, not even a poet could," she said 
 to herself. " No one would understand any 
 way, unless one had heard it oneself/ 7 
 
 Luz was again sitting on the sand beside 
 the kind old Cave-Man. He did not speak; 
 and although Luz had a great question in her 
 mind, she did not wish to disturb him. 
 
 He kept searching in the sand among the 
 pebbles for something. Once and again he 
 took up a little pebble, looked at it very in 
 tently, then threw it away as if disappointed. 
 Luz thought he must have lost something, 
 and wished she could help him search for it. 
 
 At last he picked up a pebble not much 
 larger than a grain of sand, and after he had 
 examined it his eyes lighted up. Carefully 
 he laid it in a little purse which he hung about 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 25 
 
 the neck of the girl-fairy, saying : " Take 
 this, it will be of good service to you ; and it 
 will remind you of the true purpose in things, 
 if you take it in your hand when you are un 
 decided about what to do. Farewell, child ! " 
 
 How suddenly he went away! It was a 
 long while before Luz realized that he had 
 actually gone. She felt so grateful to him 
 and to Fairy Silence, that she most fervently 
 wished to see them again, to thank them for 
 what they had done for her. But she waited 
 in vain. The waves rolled against the shore, 
 with regularity like the ticking of a clock; 
 rolled from over the great ocean to which 
 she saw no shore. She felt so alone in the 
 big world and she so small. 
 
 She took the little pebble which the Cave- 
 Man had given her, and held it lovingly 
 against her heart. She felt that that was her 
 only friend and comfort. Soon her thoughts 
 began to clear. She remembered Vestra, 
 who had her shape and name, and their 
 
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 agreement to travel together. " I must go 
 to her at once," she thought. " She may need 
 my help/ 
 
 III 
 
 A long train was winding its way between 
 great hills. In one of the cars sat a little 
 girl looking out through the windows. She 
 started and glanced up surprised when any 
 one spoke her name, Luz; and she did not 
 always answer at once, just as if she needed 
 time to think first if it were she they meant. 
 She watched with great interest the scenes 
 which seemed to come to meet her and swift 
 ly run past. It was California, where her 
 magic tree grew and where Luz s Raja Yoga 
 School was. All was so grand and beautiful, 
 she wondered how it was made. 
 
 These great hills seemed to have been 
 formed in a mold to fit the smooth blue vault 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 27 
 
 above. Not a tree, not a bush, not even too 
 tall a flower brushed against the sky. Spring 
 had covered the hills with light green vel 
 vety grass and silken flowers, and no one 
 but a master-artist could have arranged the 
 coloring of the flower-embroidery on the 
 slopes. The purple tones were made with 
 wild heliotrope and toadflax; the golden 
 sheen was produced by poppies and daisies ; 
 and the white, by forget-me-nots. There 
 were also other kinds of hills ; lower, so that 
 bushes and trees might grow on them with 
 out scratching the sky. In the deep valleys 
 flowed little streams and brooks, where the 
 big fat cattle took their drinks. Now came 
 big groves of orange-trees gliding past. 
 Their branches were heavily weighted with 
 golden balls of fruit. Then olive-groves 
 came to meet them, with their leaves of dark- 
 green and silver; cottages with walls and 
 verandas covered with beautiful climbing 
 roses ; and small towns with gardens around 
 every house, and avenues of stately palms. 
 
28 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 \ 
 
 Then came orchards with apple, fig, almond, 
 peach, plum, and apricot trees, and beauti 
 ful vineyards. 
 
 The train puffed onward very fast, and 
 soon the majestic hills of California, the 
 green fields, the orchards and the flowers, 
 were far behind. The little girl beheld wide 
 plains where nothing grew but thistles and 
 thorns, while the sand whirled over the 
 desert. 
 
 " Oh, why does not Luz come to me ? " 
 she sighed. " Has she forgotten our agree 
 ment? I am so very home-sick for Fairy 
 land. I would fly away at once, had I not 
 this heavy body to hinder me." 
 
 As she had done before, every time she 
 was alone, she stood up and tried to rise in 
 the air ; but a call : " Luz, dear, remember 
 your manners ! " brought her back quickly 
 to her seat. 
 
 " I cannot see why it should be wrong 
 manners to rise in the air, if one could," 
 she thought. " Human-land is so very 
 
LUZ STAR-BYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 29 
 
 strange; everything is quite opposite with 
 us I wish that LUZ were here to explain 
 things. The humans themselves can move 
 but slowly, but their houses almost fly. We 
 are shut up in one now, which is running 
 very fast and breathing hard as it runs. The 
 humans let the house take them where it 
 wants to go; I never thought they were so 
 helpless/ 
 
 " Have you ever been able to float through 
 the air ? " she asked of the lady sitting beside 
 her reading a book. 
 
 It was Amina, one of Rosalinda s friends, 
 who, with some more ladies and gentlemen, 
 was making a journey to the Isles of the 
 Southern Sea. She looked up smilingly at 
 Luz, and said: 
 
 " No, is our little Luz pondering the fly 
 ing proposition ? " 
 
 " I think it very strange that no one can 
 float in the air where one wants to. Why 
 are all People so heavy ? " 
 
30 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 " Well, that is really a long story," said 
 Amina solemnly, " but I might tell you some : 
 You see, it is our own fault. Life after life 
 we have forgotten that we are Souls who 
 live in bodies, as if it were in houses; and 
 have come to think that the body is the real 
 person." 
 
 " How very absurd! How stupid! " cried 
 the little fairy in the girl-body, with great 
 conviction. 
 
 " You are right, it is stupid," said Amina, 
 and thought that she had never seen Luz so 
 interested in this subject before. " But man 
 kind has become so used to thinking so, that 
 the right way seems strange now." 
 
 " How is it that you think the real way, 
 then ? " asked the fairy-girl. 
 
 "A great teacher, sent from the Wise Ones 
 who are guarding all the truths of the past, 
 came and told about it ; and many saw that 
 it must be so, and did as the teacher advised 
 them, trying to make their life and their 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 31 
 
 thoughts clean and righteous ; and then they 
 saw the truth themselves." 
 
 " I would like to know the name of that 
 teacher. Perhaps she was a fairy," said 
 Vestra-Luz. 
 
 " No, she was a real human ; one who 
 knows more than the fairies," said Amina, 
 " and her name I am sure you have heard 
 many times in our Raja Yoga School. So I 
 shall let you think it out for yourself." 
 
 " I shall ask Luz, when she comes," thought 
 the fairy, and again turned to what was most 
 in her mind the flying. 
 
 " You can understand that yourself, if 
 you think a moment," said Amina. " It is 
 the Soul as light and free as thought 
 which alone has the power to lift itself from 
 earth; and so, when the Soul is denied and 
 forgotten and the body rules alone, then the 
 body has nothing to make it light." 
 
 " But who is in the body to deny and for 
 get the Soul?" asked the fairy. 
 
32 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 " The body has some thought and reason 
 belonging to itself," said Amina. " Let me 
 illustrate. The Soul, the Master, is a noble 
 warrior sent from the Gods to make warfare 
 on all that is wrong and cruel in the world. 
 He is endowed with wisdom concerning all 
 things ; he is a poet, an artist, a musician, a 
 great scientist, a magician, with gentleness 
 and love for everything. He had a house 
 to live in, called the body, and with servants 
 in it to take care of it. They could do that 
 well, but otherwise they were very coarse 
 and ignorant in the things which the master 
 knew. 
 
 " Then the evil powers against which their 
 master, the Soul, was fighting, would be 
 whispering things to the ignorant servants. 
 This house is yours/ they would say, you 
 are taking care of it. You could be great 
 masters, and have all that you wanted, and 
 no one to say you nay/ Thus would they 
 whisper, and at last it came to pass that their 
 master, the Soul, was driven from his home ; 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 33 
 
 and the coarse servants ruled it. They held 
 great arguments and thought themselves 
 very wise. The most important thing is 
 to think of our house/ they said. 
 
 " The body grew heavy with all kinds of 
 food and drinks, and was decorated in costly 
 robes with jewels and feathers. But some 
 said piously : We should remember we have 
 a poor soul somewhere, which we must save 
 from going wrong. Let us pray. 
 
 Amina stopped and sat silent. 
 
 " Tell more," said Vestra. " What hap 
 pened next? " 
 
 " It is almost like this now," said Amina, 
 " and I think that you understand better how 
 it is that we cannot float lightly and freely 
 in the air, as otherwise is our right." 
 
 " But shall not the Soul-Master be free 
 again, and have his body-house again ? " 
 asked the fairy anxiously. 
 
 Yes, and that is just what we are work 
 ing for in our Raja Yoga Schools." 
 
34 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 The train was rolling in and stopping at 
 a big depot, and the little fairy looked with 
 interest and fear on the biggest crowd of 
 people she had ever seen. She looked and 
 looked to see some one in whom the real 
 Soul was taking care of the body, and she 
 kept close to Amina. 
 
 IV 
 
 Under a big tree beside a crystal lake in 
 Guatemala, the beautiful, sat a little fairy. 
 Very sad and forlorn she looked. 
 
 " How will this end? " she sighed. " Ves- 
 tra I cannot find. Fast as the wind have I 
 sped along, searching everywhere; she can 
 not possibly have traveled faster than I. 
 How shall I find her? What shall I do? 
 
 " I am so tired I never thought fairies 
 felt tired. Perhaps, though, it is not the 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 35 
 
 fairy-body that is weary, but I, Luz. Where 
 shall I rest? What land is this? " 
 
 She looked round and forgot her weari 
 ness in the marvel of the beautiful land be 
 fore her. Great trees lifted their majestic 
 heads above. Some were decked with lovely 
 flowers, others with luscious fruits. The 
 quiet water of an inland lake reflected like 
 a mirror the trees and shores and stately blue 
 mountains at the opposite side. At a dis 
 tance, by the shore of the lake, there was a 
 beautiful Greek temple, such as she had seen 
 only at Point Lorna, or in pictures from glor 
 ious old Greece. 
 
 She rubbed her eyes and looked again. 
 " These things look real, but it must be fairy 
 land it cannot be any other place ; and I 
 do not see any people nor even fairies do 
 I spy." 
 
 The little girl-fairy went searching, but 
 neither human nor elf did she encounter; 
 and again the lonely and helpless feeling 
 came, stronger than before. 
 
36 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 " It seems such a long time since I saw 
 Vestra. Can it be possible that ? Oh, 
 dare I think the thought ? it is too dread 
 ful but I must. How long did I stay in 
 the Cave-Man s cave? To me it seemed an 
 hour at most, but what do I know about fairy 
 time? It might have been days months 
 years! I have read about enchantments 
 like that in my story-books." 
 
 For a long time she sat mourning and 
 thinking, unable to find a clue or a sign of 
 where she was, unable to think of what to do. 
 She thought of Vestra who had her human 
 body, and what would happen if she never 
 found it again; she could not go home and 
 be with her comrades in the school any more. 
 Never could she tell them of all the marvel 
 ous things she had experienced. 
 
 " I suppose I could find a little baby-body 
 that was nobody yet, but then I would 
 be that baby and know nothing. What a 
 fool I am ! " she cried aloud. " I have a 
 fairy-body now, and still I feel and know 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 37 
 
 just the same but perhaps if I found a 
 baby-body that I liked, some one else might 
 already have taken it! Oh, is there no one 
 in all the world to take care of poor lost little 
 fairies like me? " 
 
 Her thoughts went to Fairy Silence and 
 the Cave-Man; and then for the first time 
 she remembered the Cave-Man s gift. Tak 
 ing the little pebble in her hand, she sat very 
 still. Her thoughts began to clear, as when 
 fog melts before the sun. She realized that 
 a good purpose is not enough, unless we are 
 also wise in carrying it out. She had formed 
 no plan, but had merely rushed off in the 
 direction she thought they had gone. The 
 first thing to do now was to find out where 
 she was. 
 
 She heard voices in the distance, yet it 
 seemed they came from the tree-tops. Then 
 they sounded nearer and more distinct, chat 
 ting and laughing, much like a big crowd of 
 school children. 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 39 
 
 Yes, the voices came from the tree-tops ! 
 She looked up, and great was her surprise 
 to see many birds with green, blue, red, or 
 yellow feathers sitting up there talking ex 
 citedly, and pointing to her with their claws. 
 She felt afraid, and wondered what they 
 would do ; so she tried to hide in the hollow 
 of a tree. She had not been sitting there 
 long when she saw a canoe rowed by a man 
 approach the shore. 
 
 " Can it be possible that I am not in Fairy 
 land after all ? " she thought. She saw that 
 a little boy and girl were also in the canoe, 
 and that they were landing at a foot-path 
 quite near. 
 
 " I must ask them the name of this land," 
 thought Luz, summoning all her courage to 
 meet them. Going nearer, she saw they 
 looked kind, and her fear vanished. Nearer 
 and nearer she drew, but they appeared not 
 to notice her. Now she was by the side of 
 the little girl, but they went on talking about 
 
40 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 the gay-colored parrots in the trees, and tell 
 ing how they were going to catch some of 
 the young ones to put in cages. Luz began 
 to understand that this must be a land with 
 real people, where parrots live wild. 
 
 " Please tell me the name of this place/ 
 she said to the girl. 
 
 No answer. Luz pulled her dress and 
 took her hand, but the girl seemed not to 
 feel it. " It must be that I can see them, 
 and they not me. Perhaps it is because I 
 have the pebble from the good Cave-Man 
 that I can see so much better than they," 
 she thought. " I shall lay the pebble on the 
 ground a little way off, and see if I can see 
 them just the same." 
 
 Luz stared around with wondering eyes. 
 What had happened? "Such a strange 
 dream ! " she said. " I dreamt that I was 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 41 
 
 a girl transformed into a fairy, and that I 
 saw some humans near by, and that I was 
 looking for some one. Oh, the dream was 
 so real ! " 
 
 "A stranger ! A stranger ! " cried some 
 voices, " come, come ! " A crowd of Fairies 
 and Elves in all kinds of funny shapes sur 
 rounded Luz in a moment. 
 
 " What is your name ? " asked one. 
 
 " I do not know," said Luz, seeming to 
 search in her mind. 
 
 " Where did you come from ? " asked an 
 other one. 
 
 " I do not remember ; I have been dream 
 ing," answered Luz, with a puzzled look. 
 
 " She might be a strange spy. Whoever 
 heard of any one not knowing her own 
 name ? " said an elf with a very long nose 
 and three eyes on each side. 
 
 " Let us take her to the queen," said some ; 
 and they started off, a double line of elves, 
 
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 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 with lost pins for weapons, walking on either 
 side. 
 
 Queen Coquita, who was the fairy of the 
 cacao-tree, sat on her throne, and Luz was 
 led before her. Coquita called the oldest and 
 
 wisest fairies and elves to council and re 
 quested them to say to which tribe this new 
 fairy belonged. But no one could tell. All 
 agreed she must belong to the tree-fairies, 
 judging from her dress. 
 
 " Shall we put her in the Earth-men s pris 
 on, or lock her in a cacao-tree? " asked the 
 long-nosed elf, with a deep bow. 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 43 
 
 " Nothing of that, you cruel sprite," said 
 the queen. " She shall stay at my court and 
 busily employ herself in making cacao-beans. 
 As for you you shall not come before my 
 eyes until you have found the tree to which 
 she belongs, and the place where these trees 
 grow. Put your many eyes to some other 
 use than ferreting out fairy-gossip. Away 
 at once ! " 
 
 Luz was busy with the rest in gathering 
 stuff to grow the cacao-beans, and as she 
 was yet ignorant in those things, her duty 
 was to prepare the material for the outside 
 shell. The fairies called her Star-Eye be 
 cause her eyes were different from any they 
 had ever seen. She often sat in deep 
 thought, trying to remember something she 
 felt ought to be done another mission be 
 sides growing cacao-beans. But what was 
 it? 
 
 On one occasion when Star-Eye, with 
 some little Coquita fairies, had strolled far 
 ther than usual in search of fiber for bark, 
 
44 LUZ STAR-HY&S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 they came upon two pompous parrot-elves 
 walking back and forth doing nothing. They 
 talked all the time, so that their hook-bill- 
 noses got very hot and they had often to 
 cool them in a neighboring pool of water. 
 
 " Why don t you do something useful and 
 stop that senseless talk, you everlasting 
 chatterboxes?" scolded one of the Coquita 
 fairies. 
 
 Then the parrot-elves, greatly delighted 
 at a chance to answer some one back, talked 
 faster and faster and used eight hundred 
 words to say : " Mind your business ! " They 
 chattered on and said, in one thousand one 
 hundred and fifty words, that it was high 
 style, and that they were talking after the 
 manner of the great humans. 
 
 " I am tired of your old talk about hu 
 mans, you can never make me believe such 
 silly tales," one of the fairies hastened to 
 say, while the parrot-elf was catching his 
 breath. But this delighted him still more, 
 as a subject for another thousand words. 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 45 
 
 " Why do you not go away from those 
 foolish chatterers when you dislike them ? " 
 asked LUZ Star-Eye. 
 
 " Don t you know ? We cannot get away. 
 They fascinate us so we cannot help our 
 selves till they stop, and that will never be. 
 Queen Coquita has warned all the fairies not 
 to notice or say one word to any of them if 
 we should meet them. But you see they pro 
 voke one so, and then it is done." 
 
 Now the fairies protested and scolded at 
 the parrot-elves, but to no avail, they talked 
 the more; talked their beak-noses red-hot 
 again and again. But Luz Star-Eye said 
 to the fairies, " Come with me now and let 
 us go home," and they went with her obedi 
 ently and left the parrot-elves behind, talk 
 ing to themselves. 
 
 This great power in Luz Star-Eye awed 
 and astonished the fairies and Queen Co 
 quita, and Luz was held in honor, and con 
 sulted in all kinds of difficulties. 
 
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 LUZ STAR-BYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 Ever since her meeting with the parrot- 
 elves she had been thinking of the " Hu 
 mans," and wondering what they were like. 
 
 "I wish to hear more about them," she said 
 to one of her companions. " Perhaps it is 
 true that there are such beings." 
 
 " The elves and fairies at Coquita s court 
 will laugh at you if you say this," was the 
 reply. " But if you ask old Pixie, he will 
 tell you as many human-tales as you want. 
 There he is now ! " 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 47 
 
 VI 
 
 Luz Star-Eye was not surprised when she 
 saw the old elf, although he was a very queer 
 figure. He had only one leg, no arms, and 
 no joints in his body. A big greenish-gray 
 beard flowed down to his one foot. He knew 
 no end of " human-tales," and was always 
 willing to tell them. And in Luz Star-Eye 
 he had his most attentive listener. In his 
 youth he had been body-guard for a tribe of 
 fairies who worked for the humans ; and so 
 he had heard much about them. 
 
 " It is very beautiful in human-land," he 
 said. "A big glowing blue sun makes their 
 days bright, and feeds the humans with god- 
 wisdom. At night the sky is full of stars so 
 wonderful that we have never seen the like. 
 There are green, blue, and rose-colored ones ; 
 some are golden, some violet, and all the 
 colors imaginable. They shine in the sky 
 like jewels. The stars are really shining 
 
48 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 palaces where the human s god-parents live. 
 They send lovely gifts to them through 
 magic rays." 
 
 " Oh happy humans ! " cried Luz, " and 
 what gifts do they receive?" 
 
 "Some obtain the gift of poetry; some, 
 knowledge to make useful things out of the 
 elements; others, the gift of understanding 
 the hidden nature of herbs and flowers. 
 Some learn to make all they touch beautiful ; 
 others have the gift of making music, or 
 song, or of picturing all they see in its own 
 form or color. And there are ever so many 
 other gifts of which I do not know the 
 
 names." 
 
 " I wish I were a human ! " cried Luz 
 Star-Eye. "Tell me more! Tell me more!" 
 
 " The humans are very wise and have 
 great power. They can with their thoughts 
 bring a whole tribe of us fairies into being, 
 to do whatever and go wherever they bid us." 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 49 
 
 " They must make very beautiful fairies," 
 said Luz. 
 
 " Yes, the most beautiful of all," said the 
 elf. " The humans change their bodies 
 oftener than we do; and they always begin 
 with a very small one which grows larger 
 just as a tree or a flower does, and in the 
 same way it grows old and withers and 
 wrinkles up so that the human has to leave 
 it and get a new one. In this way they do 
 not get tired of living and are fresh and 
 young often. 
 
 :t The humans are very loving and kind 
 to each other, and they are a protecting 
 power for their own animal world. Even 
 we in fairy-land receive benefits from them, 
 although many of us cannot see the humans." 
 
 " I wish I could see them ! " cried Luz, 
 "oh, I wish I could!" 
 
 " But there are bad humans, too," con 
 tinued the elf, " just as there are bad, ugly 
 fairies who do harm. The bad humans are 
 
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 blind, but they have glass eyes in their heads 
 through which they see everything back 
 wards. They spend their time in trying to 
 do each other harm and complaining when 
 harm is done to them again. They are very 
 dangerous, but not as powerful as the good 
 ones. They are much afraid of light. The 
 worst thing is that they destroy all the beau 
 tiful things the good ones do, if they come 
 upon them." 
 
 " But if they could see right, they would 
 not do it, I am sure/ said Luz. " Is there 
 no way to fix their eyes ? " 
 
 " I don t know," said the elf, " but I have 
 heard that they have seeds for real eyes 
 inside their heads." 
 
 "Do they grow?" asked Luz. 
 
 " They have grown in some, who have let 
 them, I have heard." 
 
 " But do they not all wish their sight very 
 much?" 
 
LUZ STAR-BYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 51 
 
 " No, they do not know that they are 
 blind/ said the old elf. 
 
 " Oh ! But why don t the good humans 
 tell them?" cried Luz. 
 
 " I don t know/ said the elf, " but I have 
 heard that they do, although the bad humans 
 destroy their bodies and do all kinds of evil 
 things to them." 
 
 " What a pity ! Is that possible ? Oh, but 
 could not I go and tell them ? Perhaps they 
 would listen to me because I am a fairy. 
 How can I get there? Oh, tell me, good 
 elf ! " Luz Star-Eye did not know why she 
 felt that her only mission was with these 
 humans, about whom she had heard so little. 
 She wanted to go to them, and she meant 
 to speak about it to Queen Coquita. 
 
 But the little elf looked at her as if he 
 wanted to take the things from her mind 
 again, and said : " Little Star-Eye, this is 
 only a story; perhaps there are no such 
 beings existing as Humans/ I have never 
 
52 LUZ STAR-BYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 seen any; and who knows if the ones who 
 told me told the truth ? There are not many 
 here who believe in those things/ 
 
 " Oh, but I just know that it is all true," 
 cried Luz, and off she flew to go before the 
 queen. 
 
 To her wonder she was met by a great 
 commotion, and the fairies surrounded her, 
 wailing : " Oh, Star-Eye, you will leave us 
 now. Who will then help us as you have 
 done? Who will save us from the chatter 
 ers ? Who will tell us what we do not know 
 ourselves ? " 
 
 The elf, Six-Eye, had come back, telling 
 that the tree to which she without doubt be 
 longed was the much-esteemed artist-chem 
 ist, Eucalyptus, and that Australia was its 
 home-land. 
 
 " We are sorry to have you leave us, little 
 Star-Eye," said the queen. " But the law 
 of right says, now that your tribe is found, 
 you shall go among your own that you may 
 find your right place." 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM- JOURNEY S3 
 
 The parting from the good Coquita and 
 the fairies would have been hard and sad 
 for Luz, had she not now felt a new purpose 
 in her life. She would go to help the blind 
 humans. That they existed, she had no 
 doubt; but she felt it to no purpose to tell 
 the fairies of her intentions. 
 
 The ceremonies in Luz s honor and all the 
 preparations were completed, and Luz Star- 
 Eye left the fairy court. She was escorted 
 by f airies-in-waiting and elf-guards in green 
 armor. They rode on well trained bluebirds, 
 flying in tune to the music which the Co 
 quita military band made. Some played on 
 grasses, others on leaf-flutes, and one elf 
 beat a drum made from the grass-rattle-pod. 
 
 After a while they came to the ocean, and 
 there they stopped. As they were land fair 
 ies they had to wait for something to take 
 them over the water, but in the meantime 
 they amused themselves, dancing and play 
 ing. They had not been there long when a 
 big white bird swooped down on them, and 
 
LUZ STAR-BYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 55 
 
 the frightened fairies scattered on all sides 
 in wild fright. The bird s sharp eye caught 
 sight of Star-Eye where she lay hidden under 
 a dry leaf, and it instantly picked her up with 
 one claw and flew with her out over the 
 ocean. Now he flew high in the air; now 
 he rested on the foaming waves, but not a 
 word did he speak. 
 
 A big ship was plowing its way through 
 the waves, and the bird steered its course 
 towards it. On the deck he put the fright 
 ened little fairy down, and said to her : " Do 
 not leave this place till I return, and no ill 
 shall befall you." He gave a calling sound, 
 and instantly a little water-sprite appeared. 
 
 " Bring me a chain with which to tie this 
 precious fairy," said the big bird; and the 
 water-sprite was off in a moment and soon 
 returned with a chain of pearls. He chained 
 Star-Eye to the big anchor. 
 
 " Who are you that treat me thus cruel 
 ly? " asked she. 
 
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 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 " I am Foam-Wing, the Cave-Man s mes 
 senger/ said the bird. 
 
 "And who is the Cave-Man who dares to 
 send you to do such things? He must be a 
 cruel giant," wailed little Star-Eye, shaking 
 her chain. But Foam-Wing was already far 
 away and did not hear her. 
 
 Many people came and went, but Star- 
 Eye did not see them. Among them was a 
 little girl who came again and again to the 
 place where Star-Eye sat chained ; once she 
 came so near that she touched Star-Eye s 
 pearl chain with her hand ; but neither saw 
 the other. 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 57 
 
 " I might never see Luz again, and I 
 should have to remain in a human body for 
 ever and ever/ murmured the girl to her 
 self. 
 
 Soon Star-Eye saw Foam-Wing return. 
 In terror she ran to hide, but her chain held 
 her, and the bird caught her with one claw, 
 while with the other he put something 
 around her neck. It was the purse with the 
 Cave-Man s pebble which he had found at 
 last, after much searching and inquiry. The 
 whole bird population in Guatemala had been 
 on the hunt. All had searched with earnest 
 zeal except the crows. They only lamely 
 pretended. A little blackbird then suggested 
 that all their nests be inspected. The result 
 was that the purse was found in the nest of 
 an old crow. 
 
 Foam-Wing touched the pearl chain with 
 his bill and it instantly became little drops 
 of water which ran out on the deck floor, and 
 he flew out over the ocean. 
 
58 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 VII 
 
 Star-Eye looked up as if she had just 
 awakened from a sleep. " Such strange 
 dreams I have had/ she murmured, " about 
 fairies and elves and about Foam-Wing. I 
 thought that I did not know him, and he 
 chained me with a pearl chain ; and my name 
 was Star-Eye, and I was going to help blind 
 humans how strange ! I must remember 
 this dream and tell Rosalinda." 
 
 She rubbed her little fairy-eyes with her 
 little fairy-fingers and looked around with 
 growing surprise and bewilderment. She 
 could not understand how it was that she 
 was on a ship just as if the dream had 
 been true. At first she thought that all these 
 strange things seemed so to her because she 
 had taken off the purse with the Cave-Man s 
 pebble, but then she found that she still had 
 it on. She could not understand. 
 
 Now her eyes fell on Vestra sitting near 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 59 
 
 by, longingly looking out over the ocean, and 
 with one leap she was at her side crying out 
 in exceeding joy : " Oh Vestra ! I have 
 found you ! " Luz threw her arms about 
 her neck, but Vestra sat there as before, 
 without giving any sign of recognition ; she 
 neither turned her head nor even her eyes, 
 but sat as before. 
 
 Then the little girl-fairy s heart and cour 
 age gave way; she threw herself down at 
 Vestra s side and cried as if her heart would 
 break. 
 
 She must have lain there for a long time, 
 for it was dark night when at last she lifted 
 her head and found that she was alone. The 
 wind blew and big waves dashed against the 
 ship. The moon looked pale and ghost-like 
 where it suddenly broke forth from a cloud 
 and the next moment again disappeared. 
 
 " I wish the dream had been true and that 
 the Cave-Man had sent Foam-Wing to me; 
 then he might come again. But how can he 
 
60 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 know? There is no one to care for me, no 
 
 one." 
 
 She solemnly took out the Cave-Man s 
 pebble and held it in her hand, as she had 
 done the first time when she sat by the ocean 
 and felt so small and alone. But how differ 
 ent it was then ! She was near home and the 
 Cave-Man would have come to her assistance 
 had she really needed it. But now she 
 was far away on a strange ship, she did not 
 know where. She had found Vestra, that 
 was true ; but to see her and not be able to 
 make herself seen or heard was worse than 
 before, for then she had at least the hope of 
 a happy meeting. 
 
 Holding the little pebble in her hand and 
 trying to clear her thoughts, had, after a 
 little while, made her quieter, and she felt 
 less lonely. She began to think of plans to 
 make herself heard by Vestra. The waves 
 dashed against the ship as before, but she 
 did not mind it now, she rather enjoyed their 
 wild play. Presently she thought she saw 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 61 
 
 something white gleam near the horizon. 
 Now it disappeared in the foam of the waves. 
 There she saw it again ; now she heard the 
 sound of wings close by now Foam- 
 Wing alighted beside her! 
 
 "Oh, Foam-Wing!" she cried, "dear, 
 nice Foam-Wing! I am so glad you have 
 come. I have dreamt about you. Do help 
 me, Foam-Wing; I think you can. I have 
 found Vestra ah, perhaps you do not 
 know that I had lost her." 
 
 Foam-Wing said 
 nothing, but gently 
 stroked her with his 
 
 " Yes, I found her," said Luz, " and I was 
 so happy; and then I found that she could 
 not see me, and she looks so sad and longing. 
 She could not hear me. Oh, dear Foam- 
 Wing, what shall I do? " 
 
 Foam-Wing looked at her for a moment. 
 Then he said : " Be of good cheer, Luz Star- 
 
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 Eye, I bring you greetings from the Cave- 
 Man." 
 
 " From the Cave-Man! Oh, tell me! tell 
 me ! " and Luz threw her arms around 
 Foam-Wing s neck in joy. 
 
 " When you left the shore at Point Loma 
 I was not there but away on an important 
 errand for the Cave-Man, carrying a pack 
 age wrapped in kelp. It contained three 
 little grains of self-control from the Raja 
 Yoga children at Point Loma, precious as 
 diamonds and as clear and firm. This I was 
 to take to a little boy in New Zealand, who in 
 the future was to be a brave warrior for 
 Right and Truth, but who was then in great 
 danger from a bad-temper-goblin that was 
 gaining more and more power over him." 
 
 "And did it help him?" asked Luz with 
 great interest. 
 
 " Yes, when he wore the packet with self- 
 control the goblin did not dare to approach 
 him. You should have seen his face all 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 63 
 
 black with anger and his claw fingers ready 
 to scratch anything, so disappointed was he 
 not to get at the boy." 
 
 " But will he not go and destroy others 
 instead? " asked Luz with concern. 
 
 " Not for some time at least, as he is too 
 interested in finding means to get hold of 
 his first prey again." 
 
 "But then?" 
 
 "Well, that depends on the boy; if he 
 faithfully wears the self-control and the gob 
 lin finds that all its cunning means of tempt 
 ing or scaring him are of no use, it falls 
 down at the boy s feet. The boy can then 
 put his foot on its neck as a sign of master 
 ship. After that the goblin does not recog 
 nize any other master, and will use its fierce 
 ways to fight for the boy against wrong and 
 evil." 
 
 " How interesting! " cried Luz. " I hope 
 he will win." 
 
 " Yes, and I have the Cave-Man s instruc- 
 
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 tion to visit him once every month to see how 
 he is getting on. But now to the other 
 matter. As soon as I came back from this 
 trip the Cave-Man sent me to find you, to 
 see if you needed any help." 
 
 "Oh, the kind, dear Cave-Man," cried 
 Luz. " I began to think no one cared for 
 
 me." 
 
 " It was not so hard to find where you 
 had gone, for the birds told me all along. 
 But there was some disturbance in the air 
 and many birds were bewildered and knew 
 nothing. At last, after much searching, I 
 heard about a strange fairy who had done 
 many helpful things where she lived; they 
 called her Star-Eye." 
 
 " Was that I ? " asked Luz, her eyes big 
 with astonishment. 
 
 " Yes, and I found you at last by the ocean. 
 I knew that Vestra would not be able to see 
 you, so I flew straightway to the Cave-Man 
 the shortest way possible, and now I am 
 back " 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 65 
 
 " Tell me," interrupted Luz, " was it real, 
 the dream I had about the fairies and you? " 
 
 " Yes/ said Foam- Wing; and then he told 
 her how he had found her pebble and all 
 about it. " Now," he said, " this is what 
 the Cave-Man sends you." And he brought 
 forth from under his wing a tiny packet. 
 " In it is a little pebble somewhat like your 
 own, although not of the same powers. This 
 you will hang about the neck of Vestra, and 
 as long as she wears it she will be able to 
 see and speak with you." 
 
 Thank you! Thank you!" cried the 
 happy little fairy. " How good the Cave- 
 Man is! How can I ever thank him? Tell 
 me something that I can do ! " 
 
 " You are a human, and it is only now, 
 while you have a fairy body, that you can 
 see and hear us. I do not know what you 
 can do. The Cave-Man and all his tribe are 
 in duty bound to serve those humans who 
 work for the Good and the Right. He has 
 
66 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 inscribed your name on his shining rock. 
 Do not fail him." 
 
 Luz was going to ask something more 
 about this, but Foam-Wing spread his wings, 
 and she saw them shimmering far away 
 through the darkness. 
 
 VIII 
 
 She sat long in thought. The desire to 
 see Vestra was not so strong now. She 
 thought over all that had befallen her, and 
 what it all meant. She remembered Rosa 
 linda, and what she had told her that day 
 on the Cave-Man s shore. She had not un 
 derstood much then, but now she felt that 
 she saw the meaning of Raja Yoga as plain 
 as daylight. Oh, how much she had learned ! 
 She remembered the visit with the Cave- 
 Man and Fairy Silence ; never, never would 
 she forget that. She still remembered the 
 
LUZ STAR-BYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 67 
 
 old elf s telling of the " humans," although 
 her other experiences in the fairy-world were 
 fast fading away like a dream. She remem 
 bered her desire to go and speak to the 
 " blind humans," and now she understood 
 why it was that she had such an interest 
 in them. 
 
 The clouds came and went, and the stars 
 shone down with gentle light on the little 
 fairy aboard the big ship. Luz looked up 
 to the sky and thought she saw all the beauti 
 ful colors of which the elf had spoken. Near 
 the horizon they seemed to gather in a long 
 line, twinkling and flickering. 
 
 " That is an island of the Southern Sea," 
 thought Luz, " I know it ! How beautiful 
 to meet a land like this rising from the ocean ! 
 Far away we see its lights as stars, and the 
 fairies would say that the lights came from 
 happy humans, protectors of the animals and 
 fairies; that each one of those stars was a 
 palace where a good human lived; and that 
 its rays carried good thoughts out over the 
 
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 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 ocean. Now I shall go and see if it is true." 
 
 Vestra slept and dreamed happy dreams 
 of her eucalyptus tree, and did not know that 
 Luz stood beside her. 
 
 " Can this be I ? " thought Luz ; and she 
 looked long at the sleeping girl. She noticed 
 every feature ; her hair, her nose and mouth, 
 arms and hands, and wondered how it would 
 feel to live again in that body. 
 
 " I do not think I am pretty, and I feel as 
 if I did not care to have me back," she 
 said. Suddenly she gave a cry of delight. 
 She had discovered a little golden locket 
 hanging from a chain around Vestra s neck. 
 It was her dear locket with the picture in it 
 
LUZ STAR-BYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 69 
 
 which she had received as a present on her 
 tenth birthday, and meant to keep always. 
 She put the Cave-Man s pebble into it, but 
 Vestra did not wake. 
 
 When the first ray of dawn shone in 
 through the little window she awoke. 
 
 " Good morning, Vestra ! " said Luz. " I 
 am here now/ 7 
 
 Vestra sat up instantly she could hear ! 
 "Luz, Luz, have you come at last?" she 
 cried. " Oh, do not leave me again ! " 
 
 They told each other all that had hap 
 pened, and Luz told why she had not come 
 to Vestra at once. Vestra had many won 
 derful things to tell Luz of her experiences 
 in " Human-land." They were so funny that 
 Luz laughed till her tears came. How Ves 
 tra had first learned that clothes were to be 
 taken off and changed at times; how she 
 had fallen and hurt herself because she had 
 not thought it necessary to step on anything 
 but air when she left the car; how she had 
 
70 LUZ STAR-BYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 tried in vain to go through a glass door 
 without opening it. She had learned so 
 many things by now that she thought there 
 was not much more to know. " I am very 
 tired of being a human," she said. " Could 
 we not in some way change back?" 
 
 " Not before we stand under the magic 
 tree, as you must remember," said Luz. 
 
 " Oh, beg some great king to make you 
 a fairy also, and then we shall live together 
 in the same tree and have such jolly times. 
 You do not want to put on this clumsy body 
 again, in which you cannot fly or float or 
 do anything, and which is so much trouble 
 to dress and feed." 
 
 " I think," said Luz, " that I would like 
 to be a fairy always, if it were not that I 
 have something that I must do " Luz 
 stopped as she saw that Vestra was looking 
 down on the water with apparent interest. 
 
 " What is that shining ground on which 
 our ship goes ? " she asked. 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 71 
 
 " It is water ; do you not know what 
 water is ? " 
 
 " Yes, but I thought that it was clear as 
 air, and not so much in one bowl. But what 
 is that floating on the water far ahead?" 
 asked Vestra. 
 
 " Oh, that is an island of the Southern 
 Sea, we shall soon be there! I saw it first 
 while it was still night. I saw its many 
 stars," said Luz, and clapped her fairy 
 hands. 
 
 " Does it float from place to place like our 
 ship ? " asked Vestra. 
 
 " No, it is always in one place," said Luz. 
 " I think that it must have roots away down 
 at the bottom of the ocean, that hold it. 
 Look, now we can see green hills and beauti 
 ful trees. We shall soon be there ! " 
 
 There was a joyous commotion on the 
 ship. Every one was to land, and Vestra 
 had parted from Luz. She was going with 
 Amina and the rest. 
 
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 " I shall come back to you tonight and 
 tell you about the country," Luz had said 
 in parting; and Vestra was happy now, 
 anticipating their next meeting. 
 
 IX 
 
 Luz was sitting under a caimito-tree on 
 an island of the Southern Sea. She was 
 thinking, as she often loved to do. She was 
 thinking of Vestra. How easy and delight 
 ful it was to have a fairy-body and to have 
 no cares! A drop of honey from a flower, 
 or the juice of a little fruit, was all she 
 needed for a meal; and everywhere were 
 little cosy places in trees or flowers where 
 she could curl up for a nap, or she might 
 stay in the nest of a friendly bird. And 
 now to see this beautiful land in this delight- 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 73 
 
 ful way! What joy was to be hers! But 
 she thought of Vestra. What had she to 
 make her happy? Luz thought she would 
 make up for Vestra s loss of freedom by 
 telling her about all she saw, and teaching 
 her all she could about the life of a human, 
 so that she could have some source of happi 
 ness. As it was now, Luz understood that 
 Vestra was too ignorant of even the simplest 
 things to be able to see beauty and happiness 
 in her surroundings. 
 
 Luz was disturbed in her solemn thoughts 
 by a queer little sound from a neighboring 
 tree. She looked up and met the eyes of a 
 bird sitting on a twig. He had his back 
 towards Luz ; but all the same, his head was 
 turned so that he looked at her. He gave a 
 low whistle and flew off to another tree. 
 Luz followed; she wanted to see more of 
 him. But there she saw something else; a 
 tiny bird-baby lying on the ground. The 
 mother bird, a little canary, was flying about 
 helpless and worrying. 
 
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 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 Luz took the little baby bird in her arms 
 and looked about for the nest. The little 
 mother fluttered her wings in great excite 
 ment, not knowing what the fairy meant to 
 do with her darling. However, Luz soon 
 
 discovered the nest 
 on a branch and bore 
 the birdling there. 
 But the bird that 
 could turn his face 
 back without moving 
 his body sat on an 
 other tree, and Luz 
 followed. 
 
 She never got as good a look at him as 
 she wanted to, for there was always some 
 thing for her to do. He seemed to lead her 
 just where she was needed. She had been 
 ever so busy for a long while. A little 
 blackbird had broken his wing and Luz act 
 ed as surgeon. She remembered how her 
 beloved Doctor Wood, whom she thought of 
 as the brother of the Cave-Man, had bound 
 
LUZ STAR-BYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 75 
 
 tip her sore finger once. If she only had a 
 little of his salve the bird would soon be well. 
 But she did the best she could, and bound 
 up the wing with strong grass fibers. The 
 little blackbird lay still and looked at her 
 with such grateful eyes that Luz s heart felt 
 warm. She had considerable work to find 
 a safe place for the blackbird to stay until 
 he could fly, and to find his family and make 
 them understand how matters were. The 
 bird with the loose head, however, seemed to 
 bring matters right with his whistling, which 
 all the birds understood. 
 
 Once she was quite frightened when she 
 suddenly met a black hairy tarantula, almost 
 as big as herself. 
 
 The tarantula was running about in a 
 circle as if her wits were lost. Luz soon 
 discovered that a big lump of clay had fallen 
 right over the entrance to her hole, and she 
 could not get in. Luz would have tried to 
 remove it, but she was afraid of the mon- 
 
76 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 strous thing, and would have gone away if 
 the tarantula had not run all about her. 
 Then she heard a voice from a tree saying: 
 " No harm ! No harm ! " and there sat a 
 mocking-bird looking at her. Luz succeeded, 
 after much struggling, in heaving away the 
 lump of clay by means of a stick used as a 
 lever. In this way a great part of the day 
 passed. Luz had helped and saved all kinds 
 of little creatures inhabiting the regions 
 where she went, quite far now from where 
 she started. 
 
LUZ STAR-BYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 77 
 
 She looked before her in great astonish 
 ment and saw a big tree all aflame. " I do 
 hope that there are no birds with nests in it," 
 she said, " it would be a pity ! " She came 
 nearer. Ah ! The tree was not on fire 
 it was full of flowers ! It was a flamboyant- 
 tree. Luz could not look at it long, for it 
 dazzled her eyes. She was near a road now, 
 where she saw some men with their mules 
 driving to town with loads of fruit and vege 
 tables. The drivers smacked their lips to 
 hurry the mules, and cried : " Get up ! " 
 ("Arre! Arre!") 
 
 In a tree sat a bird that also cried, "Arre ! 
 Arre ! " and made a sound like smacking the 
 lips. One of the drivers turned to see who 
 that other driver was, and Luz could not 
 help laughing at his sheepish look when he 
 saw it was only a bird. " The Arriero fooled 
 you," laughed the others. 
 
 Luz had now come to a most wonderful 
 grove of royal palms; they were so tall 
 that Luz could not see their tops; but she 
 
LUZ STAR-BYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 79 
 
 saw their smooth shining trunks, and they 
 seemed to her like the pillars of a great tem 
 ple. " How beautiful, if it were true that 
 the good humans the old elf told me about 
 were living in this wonderland, and that this 
 was one of their temples, where they went 
 to pay homage to their gods and receive good 
 gifts from the sun and stars. Perhaps it is 
 true; I shall find out." 
 
 " What a curious big stone that is by the 
 water ! " she thought. But on coming near 
 er it proved to be a turtle lying on his back 
 and unable to turn over again. It was no 
 use trying to put him right, she knew that. 
 But how could she help? Here all plans 
 seemed fruitless. Then she saw the bird 
 with the loose head sitting on a branch. He 
 was facing towards her, but the eyes were 
 looking intently the other way at something. 
 She glanced in the same direction and saw 
 nothing, but heard a rustling sound in the 
 bushes. Soon she discovered where it came 
 from. It was a man with a gun. "A blind 
 
80 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 Human," said Luz to herself. " I wonder 
 what is in danger/ 
 
 A low whistle from the loose-headed bird 
 made her look in his direction. There she 
 saw a beautiful deer, standing all unconsci 
 ous of danger, drinking water. Instantly she 
 understood. The man was aiming with his 
 gun at the deer. Like a flash, Luz was 
 beside him, waving her hands frantically be 
 fore his eyes. He could not see or hear her, 
 but he felt as if a shadow came before his 
 eyes. The shot went off, but in the wrong 
 direction the deer had escaped. 
 
 The man went away with his gun, and 
 Luz stood alone trembling. " To think that 
 one could not even take a drink without be 
 ing in danger of one s life," thought Luz. 
 " If we Humans had to live in that way, how 
 dreadful ! " 
 
 Now she went again to the turtle and was 
 glad the man had not seen him. He was 
 still lying on his back and had struggled so 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 81 
 
 long to turn over that his strength was 
 almost spent. Luz sped away to find help; 
 where, she did not know. At a little dis 
 tance she saw something dark between the 
 trees ; it came towards her. She stood face 
 to face with the deer she had saved. 
 
 The deer looked at her with such a grate 
 ful look in its big beautiful eyes, that Luz s 
 heart was happy. She understood that the 
 deer could see her. 
 
 " My good, kind deer," she begged, " there 
 is a poor turtle lying on his back, powerless 
 to turn over. Some one may come and do 
 him harm. Please, good deer, come with 
 me and help him." 
 
 The deer answered something which Luz 
 could not understand; but she did under 
 stand the look in its eyes, and started off to 
 where the turtle lay. The deer followed. 
 
 " Try to push him into the water with your 
 head/ said Luz. 
 
 The deer tried, but the turtle was very big 
 
82 LUZ STAR-EYE S DRBAM-JOURNBY 
 
 and heavy. He tried with his feet, but in 
 vain. Then saying something to Luz he ran 
 away quick as a flash. " I am sure he will 
 come back and bring help," thought Luz, 
 " otherwise he would not leave us like this." 
 
 Sure enough, there was the deer already 
 in sight, and with him another deer and a 
 little fawn. Luz stroked them all on their 
 heads, and the little fawn seemed wild with 
 delight and jumped high in the air. 
 
 With combined efforts the two deer pushed 
 and pushed at the turtle a great splash ! 
 both deer and turtle had tumbled into the 
 water. Before Luz had time to consider the 
 situation, she saw the turtle right side up 
 swimming to his hole, and the deer climb 
 ing up the bank, shaking the water from 
 their hair. 
 
 Luz thought she had never seen such a 
 dear little pet as the baby fawn. It played 
 around her. It stroked her with its silky 
 cheek and showed its love for her in every 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 83 
 
 way it could. The father deer, whose life 
 Luz had saved, now came and knelt down 
 before her, and with all signs possible in 
 vited her to sit on his back. 
 
 " Do you want me to go with you? " said 
 Luz, and the deer made signs of happiness. 
 She sat on his back and the deer instantly 
 rose up, and off they went with the swiftness 
 of the wind. Over rocks and up hills ; over 
 deep clefts he jumped; through brush and 
 tanglewood. Had Luz not had a fairy-body 
 she would very soon have been swept off his 
 back and lost in the wood. 
 
84 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 At last he stopped among some steep rocks 
 where big trees grew up through the thick 
 bushes. He bent the foliage aside with his 
 head and they entered a wide grotto. A half 
 light shone in through the green leaves. The 
 
 deer knelt down, as a sign that they had 
 reached their destination. Luz stepped be 
 side him and patted his head. The deer 
 then struck three loud taps on the rock-wall 
 with his hoof. Luz saw a flash of light 
 from a lantern and a little brown man stood 
 before her in the cave. He beckoned her 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 85 
 
 to follow. She hesitated, but when she saw 
 the imploring look in the deer s eye, she 
 thought some one might be in need of her 
 help; so she went with him. 
 
 The little brown man went first with the 
 lantern. Sometimes they went up steep 
 places, sometimes far down. In some places 
 the walls of the passage were shining with 
 gold ; at others the light was reflected from 
 a thousand crystals. They had been going 
 down for a long time, when he stopped be 
 fore a solid wall. He put his lantern on the 
 ground and with both hands played a tattoo 
 on the rock-wall. 
 
 A door opened and Luz entered a small 
 cave. The little man with the lantern dis 
 appeared. It was almost dark in the cave 
 and there was a wonderful fragrance as 
 from the most lovely flowers. But it was 
 so strong that Luz felt dizzy and sank to the 
 floor fast asleep. 
 
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 X 
 
 She awoke on feeling a fresh breeze, with 
 a dazzling light in her eyes. A beautiful 
 woman bent over her, whose hair was black 
 and fastened together with a pearl chain; 
 her eyes were black as night, but from their 
 depths shone the gentle stars. A faint sug 
 gestion of the same beautiful fragrance lin 
 gered about her. Luz met her eyes, and a 
 smile as from an old friend greeted her. 
 
 " You have saved the life of one of my 
 animals," the woman said in the sweetest 
 musical voice, " tell me what I can do for 
 you." 
 
 " Tell me who you are," said Luz, " and 
 how I can help those who are in need." 
 
 A gleaming star-beam shone from the 
 woman s eyes as she answered : " Ma Cuba 
 is my name. I was driven from my people 
 by a strange tribe, who had no god-fear. 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 87 
 
 They carried sharp cruel weapons, for which 
 we never had seen the use. With them they 
 killed my people, who knew not how to fight 
 or how to flee. 
 
 " In those days, when the noble Siboney 
 was chief and I his happy wife, no one in 
 our land hungered; no one sorrowed. All 
 were brothers, and a happy life was ours. 
 Now I hear the moans of suffering from my 
 country, and the weapons of warfare are 
 common among the people. Their hearts are 
 suffocating in the flesh, and they worship 
 in great houses, but the God of Life they do 
 not know. Oh, my people, my people! I 
 hear their woe, and cannot help ! " 
 
 " Why can you not go up there and be 
 with the people? " asked Luz. 
 
 " No, my child, I cannot ! They burned 
 my body, and with this one I can neither be 
 seen by them, nor speak to them." 
 
 " Oh, it is a pity ! " said Luz. " Is there 
 no way ? " 
 
88 LUZ STAR-BYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 " Not yet," said Ma Cuba sadly. " I have 
 tried many times ; once I got born in a little 
 baby-body and was going to grow up to help 
 the people. But the air was so full of 
 strange thoughts, and angry words, and 
 selfish acts, that I could not live there more 
 than one week. The one who had become 
 my mother was a good woman. I was sorry 
 not to stay as her child and make her happy." 
 
 " Could you not send me to do something 
 for you? " said Luz. " I shall try to do what 
 you say." 
 
 Ma Cuba looked at Luz for a long time 
 in silence. Then she said : " I see Great 
 Good Powers protecting you and leading 
 your steps; it may be the same shall help 
 my land if the time be ripe. Go child, visit 
 the world of men; then return and tell me 
 what hopeful signs you see." 
 
 Ma Cuba took a beautiful gem from her 
 girdle and fastened it on Luz s breast. " It 
 will give you power to understand the Ian- 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 89 
 
 guage of animals and birds; this you have 
 earned." She tapped on a crystal globe and 
 the same little brown earth-man appeared 
 with the lantern. 
 
 Luz looked at Ma Cuba, and the wish to 
 stay longer shone in her eyes. 
 
 " I must go and attend to my flowers," 
 said Ma Cuba. " The time for them is soon 
 at hand." 
 
 " Where are your flowers ? " asked Luz. 
 
 " They are above earth," said Ma Cuba, 
 " but I prepare their fragrance here in my 
 laboratory. They open at midnight when all 
 is still, and the perfumes which I send up 
 through them are my earnest prayers for the 
 welfare of my people. They float out over 
 the sleeping and give good dreams to little 
 children, making them long for noble 
 things." 
 
 Ma Cuba motioned for Luz to follow the 
 little brown man, and soon all was dark ex 
 cept for the lantern. After some time she 
 
90 LUZ STAR-BYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 saw they were out in an open field, and it 
 was night. The sky was illumined with myr 
 iads of stars, and they shone so near and 
 brilliant that Luz thought of the old elf s 
 " human tale," and that good gifts, sent 
 through their rays to " Good Humans," must 
 be nigh. 
 
 The little brown man with the lantern had 
 disappeared, and Luz stood alone. What 
 was she to do ? Where was she to go ? Then 
 she remembered Vestra. 
 
 She felt in a difficult position. Had she 
 not promised Vestra to come to her that 
 night, and had she not also promised Ma 
 Cuba to do her errand? 
 
 " If I now go to find Vestra it might 
 take me a long time, and I might forget the 
 mission of Ma Cuba. What shall I do?" 
 
 But now she readily remembered the Cave- 
 Man s stone and took it in her hand. " I 
 wonder what I ought to do? " she thought. 
 " I must do that which will do the most good, 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 91 
 
 Vestra will be disappointed and consider me 
 as breaking my promise but she is only 
 one, and in good care, while poor Ma Cuba s 
 people Yes, I shall let nothing take the 
 interest of her cause from me. I must suffer 
 for breaking my promise with Vestra." So 
 saying, Luz prepared to find a resting place 
 until the light of day should lead her to the 
 haunts of men. 
 
 XI 
 
 You are welcome to sleep in my bed, as 
 I am not going to use it before daylight," 
 said a funny voice near by, and Luz saw to 
 her surprise that it came from an Owl. Of 
 course, she remembered the gem which Ma 
 Cuba had given her. It gave her great joy 
 to think she really could understand the 
 birds. She had always heard the owl spoken 
 of as wise, and so she thought she would tell 
 
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 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 him of her troubles and hear what he would 
 say. 
 
 "Why don t you send a messenger to Vest- 
 ra?" said the Owl. 
 
 "Oh," said Luz, "can I do that? Who 
 can I send ? " 
 
 " In the mountains," said the Owl, " there 
 lives a good fairy by the name of Hada 
 Silfide, and she knows all about human life 
 and has the power to change herself into the 
 shape of a bluebird, a lizard, or an ant, and 
 she often goes among the human children to 
 bring them fairy luck if they are kind to 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 93 
 
 animals, which she has under her protec 
 tion." 
 
 Luz was overjoyed at the proposition and 
 thanked the good Owl again and again. The 
 Owl brought some beakfuls of rose-petals 
 with which he made a nice bed for Luz in 
 his nest, and wishing her sweet dreams he 
 started out to find Hada Silfide. 
 
 Luz fell asleep immediately. After some 
 time she was awakened by hearing peculiar 
 sounds, as from a lot of horses. She peeped 
 out from the owl s nest and thought that in 
 all her experiences since she had been a fairy, 
 this was the strangest of all. There, not far 
 away on a rock seat, sat a man. He was tall 
 and stately, with black hair ; in his hand was 
 a scepter with a bunch of golden feathers 
 at the top. On either side of him in double 
 lines stood elves with beautiful faces. Each 
 one had a little light like a star twinkling 
 from his breast. They were beautifully 
 dressed in blue, rose, white, and violet. 
 Each one held a small flute in his hand. 
 
LUZ STAR-BYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 95 
 
 Luz saw one after another of the elves 
 step forward and stand before the great one, 
 seeming to speak and answer questions. 
 Then each one went away, but soon returned 
 seated on a horse. They passed before the 
 king. The horses all belonged to humans. 
 Some walked with light steps as if they had 
 danced. Their backs were broad and shin 
 ing. Their heads were lifted high, and life 
 and courage shone from their brown eyes. 
 Others had packs on their backs, or saddles 
 and reins dragging, and looked tired. Their 
 eyes were dull and spiritless. Some were 
 sad-looking and dirty, and seemed only skin 
 and bones. When all had gone the king and 
 the elves were again as before. Then a 
 cloud passed over the moon and Luz saw 
 nothing but the little elf-lights. When the 
 moon came back all had disappeared. 
 
 Luz waited for the Owl to come back. 
 Perhaps he would know and tell her what 
 all this meant. She thought it unwise to 
 leave his nest for fear he might not find her 
 
96 LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 when he came back. At the break of day he 
 returned. Luz told him all that she had seen 
 and the Owl nodded his head knowingly un 
 til she had finished. Then he seated him 
 self in a comfortable position, smoothed his 
 feathers, and told her this: 
 
 Each moon at a certain time, Siboney, the 
 good king of old, comes and holds an assem 
 bly with his army of good elves. They have 
 different meeting-places all over the islands. 
 The horses are his animals. At these meet 
 ings each elf who guards one of the horses 
 steps up to report to the king. If the horse 
 is kindly treated and cared for by the owner, 
 the elf in return protects him from the " bru- 
 jos," and his household prospers. But, if 
 the horses have been treated cruelly, and not 
 given enough rest and food, Siboney lifts 
 his golden scepter, his brow darkens, and 
 with a voice as coming from a thunder 
 cloud he speaks. No punishment does he 
 lay on the owners of these mistreated ani 
 mals ; but the protection of his elves he with- 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 97 
 
 draws. Come " Brujos " as they may to 
 steal or do harm, no good elf would dare to 
 lift his wand to fight them away, and the 
 people drop lower and lower in misery. The 
 horses are brought from fields and enclos 
 ures by the elves, and pass for inspection 
 before the king. The little flutes, carried 
 by the elves, are to make music to charm 
 away the " brujos." When they hear it they 
 scream and hold their fingers in their ears. 
 They cannot endure it, but flee as fast as 
 they can. Each tone makes them feel like 
 being sawed in pieces with a dull wood-saw. 
 
 The Owl told Luz that he had found the 
 fairy, and she had been willing to take the 
 message to Vestra. Not before half a sun 
 had passed, however, could she be here as 
 she was going to visit two little brothers in 
 a near-by town. They had saved a big frog 
 from being hurt by an ignorant woman. A 
 little good elf in the service of Siboney had 
 been in the shape of the frog, and it was he 
 who then had asked Hada Silfide to visit 
 
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 the brothers and give them the fairy luck. 
 
 Luz consulted the Owl as to how she could 
 best do the wishes of Ma Cuba. After some 
 lengthy discussion they decided that the best 
 thing was for Luz to go all over the island, 
 not staying long at any place. And then 
 what a lot of nice hopeful things she 
 would have to tell Ma Cuba ! It would give 
 her courage to go on sending up her prayers. 
 
 XII 
 
 Hada Silfide had come to Luz and now 
 sped to find Vestra. Hada was to meet her 
 in the shape of a bluebird, tell Vestra who 
 she really was, and bring the greetings from 
 Luz. She was going to tell Vestra stories 
 and perhaps make her acquainted with some 
 bright little fairy that would have time to 
 stay with her and be her companion. 
 
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 Luz had said farewell to the good Owl and 
 started on her trip around the Islands. She 
 felt shy going to meet men now, since she 
 had been so long away from their life. 
 
 By this time she had grown so used to 
 the fairy-body that she almost forgot this 
 kind of life was not really her own. The 
 Owl offered to go with her, but fearing he 
 would be seen by people and be hurt, per 
 haps killed, Luz thought it better to go 
 alone. She met her friends the deer and 
 the little fawn, and had the pleasure now 
 of being able to understand their talk. They 
 also would have followed her had it not been 
 for the same reason; Luz did not want to 
 endanger their lives any more, by taking 
 them near the houses of men. 
 
 So Luz went alone. She felt it a very 
 solemn mission, the one Ma Cuba had given 
 her; because, might it not in some way be 
 that Ma Cuba could return to her people, 
 if a place were found where she could live 
 
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 and grow up? Luz hoped there was; the 
 land was so very beautiful. 
 
 Luz had not far to go before she met 
 some people. There was a nice house with 
 a garden back of it. On the shaded veranda 
 sat three young girls in pretty pink and 
 white dresses. They were laughing and 
 chatting merrily and were very good friends 
 and school-mates, as Luz understood from 
 their conversation. They spoke of other 
 girls and boys in their school, and told each 
 other many things which only they knew 
 about those others. She listened intently, 
 because she thought that in this way she 
 could gather knowledge about the character 
 of the people without having to visit so many 
 places. Presently one of the girls went into 
 the house, while the others kept on with their 
 conversation as before. 
 
 " We shall not have Josefina with us to 
 morrow when we go to Matilda s party/ 
 said one of the girls. " She and Amalia 
 talked bad things about me in school today. 
 
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 I was very angry with them. And I had 
 given Josefina my blue bead-ring too, and 
 was so nice to her." 
 
 " How mean ! " said the other girl. " In 
 deed we shall not have her with us. What 
 did they say?" 
 
 "I was not near enough to hear what they 
 said; but I heard my name several times, 
 and they stared after me. No, only you and 
 I and Maria shall go." 
 
 At this moment Maria came back from 
 the house, but as she heard her name men 
 tioned she stopped and said in a sarcastic 
 tone, " I am not wanted, I see. I shall go 
 back in, so that you may have your pleasure." 
 
 "What is the matter?" cried both girls. 
 
 " Oh, you are pretending not to know, but 
 I tell you, you cannot fool me. I heard you 
 talking about me, and I thought you were 
 my friends." 
 
 " But we only said we were going together 
 to the party tomorrow." 
 
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 Maria would not listen. She ended by 
 saying she would never speak to them again, 
 and went away with a haughty air. 
 
 Luz forgot for the moment that she was 
 a fairy, and followed her. She wanted to 
 tell her that the girls had not spoken ill of 
 her; that she had heard all and could wit 
 ness to the truth. But Luz soon found that 
 she herself could neither be seen, nor heard. 
 Alas ! She began now to realize the use she 
 would make of a human body. But still she 
 followed Maria in the hope that somehow 
 she would help her to understand. 
 
 Her mother was sitting in a rocking-chair 
 holding the baby in her arms, and a beautiful 
 boy of five was playing at her side. Maria 
 told her mother that the two neighbor-girls 
 had said bad things about her and that she 
 would not speak to them again. She threw 
 herself on the sofa and cried. 
 
 " My darling, don t cry," said the mother. 
 " I see now why it was that their mother 
 
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 got Luisa a silk dress. She thought I could 
 not afford to buy one for my girl ; but you 
 are going to have a much prettier one. 
 Don t cry, darling! Miguelito!" she called 
 to the little boy, "If Mama ever sees you 
 playing with Luisa s brother I shall tell 
 your father and he will be very angry with 
 you." 
 
 " But Pepe is nice," said Miguelito. " We 
 have great fun." 
 
 " Not a word more ; you should obey your 
 Mama." 
 
 Luz saw that there was no way to be un 
 derstood by them, and she felt so sorry. She 
 took the Cave-Man s stone to console herself. 
 All were misunderstanding each other. Why 
 did they think that others said bad things of 
 them ? They might just as well have thought 
 they said something good. It must be be 
 cause they had spoken ill of others them 
 selves, that they grew so suspicious. 
 
 " The little baby which the mother holds 
 
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 in her arms will learn these untrue things 
 from the very beginning and know nothing 
 else." Luz went near and petted its little 
 hands and stroked the silky curls, while she 
 still held the Cave-Man s stone in her hand. 
 How wonderful! As Luz looked into the 
 baby-eyes she saw that some one lived in that 
 body, some one wise and beautiful. She 
 understood how this soul had lived in a body 
 before, and had learned many things before 
 the body died, and was now here again in 
 a new house or little baby-body which this 
 mother took care of. 
 
 The sorrowful thoughts she had felt be 
 fore were gone, and she was glowing with 
 happiness. " Perhaps this is one of the good 
 heroes come again to help the country," she 
 thought. " How great and wonderful ! Oh, 
 could I but tell the mother, how happy she 
 would be, and how careful ! " 
 
 Luz touched the mother very lovingly with 
 her little fairy-hands, and looking into her 
 eyes she said with her voice ringing with 
 
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 joy : " Your baby is a beautiful Soul, per 
 haps it is one of the noble-hearted men, one 
 who is to do great work for the country ! " 
 
 The mother-soul looked through the eyes, 
 it understood, but there was a shade of sad 
 ness before it, instead of the joy Luz had 
 expected to see. 
 
 " Please, dear mother," pleaded Luz, " do 
 not let this little baby-body grow into habits 
 of selfishness and suspicion, because then the 
 hero-soul cannot use it, and must go away 
 as did Ma Cuba." 
 
 " Speak for me," cried the mother-soul. 
 " Oh, speak for me to my body-self, that it 
 may understand ! I have tried in vain these 
 thirty years to make it hear. I am an artist 
 and love the glorious colors and the sublime 
 beauty of nature. I came to earth to make 
 the splendor I had seen in the heavenly 
 dreams, into pictures, to make the world 
 glow with wonder and happiness. The one 
 who was my mother did not understand my 
 mission. 
 
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 " When I tried to express my longing for 
 beauty in my child language, she gave me 
 gay ribbons and delicate lace, and dressed 
 me in pretty frocks ; and all the friends said 
 how sweet I looked. So my little body-self 
 became so used to thinking that it was 
 beauty itself, and so disobedient and selfish, 
 that I could not make it hear a word. When 
 I longed to express to the world the joy and 
 beauty of life, it decked itself in finery and 
 showed itself. When I longed to have it 
 see the beauty in nature, it went before a 
 looking-glass admiring itself. Whenever 
 I wanted to teach the children in my care to 
 obey the soul, that they might not miss their 
 destiny as I have done, then my body-self 
 hugged them to itself and cried : They are 
 mine ! My own, to do with as I will and 
 soon also they could not hear the heaven- 
 voice of the soul. Speak to me ! Oh, speak 
 to me, that my body-self may hear ! " 
 
 Luz listened to the mother in pity and 
 astonishment. She felt so wonderfully re- 
 
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 lated to her. Was the mother not in the 
 same position as she herself, who could make 
 no one hear or see her now? She hoped 
 most fervently that when she was back in 
 her own human body she would remember 
 to listen to the voice of her soul-self. 
 
 Luz tried in vain to make the body-self 
 of the mother hear. She sat as before, rock 
 ing the baby in her arms, and now feeling 
 very sad; but she thought it was that the 
 neighbors had spoken ill of her children. 
 The little boy sat gloomy in a corner, and 
 Luz went to his side. She understood now 
 that it was her touch, when she had the 
 Cave-Man s stone in her hand, which gave 
 her the power to speak to their souls. 
 
 " I love Pepe," said the soul of the boy. 
 We were real brothers before, and had the 
 same parents, and we lived so happily in one 
 house. He lost his life in a battle ages ago 
 to save our country. Pepe is a hero. Oh, 
 tell her who is now my mother to let Pepe 
 and me love each other." 
 
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 Maria lay yet sobbing on the couch, but 
 when Luz touched her she became quiet, and 
 it was as if a ray of happiness had lighted 
 her face. Luz also felt the joy steal through 
 her own being, she knew not why. 
 
 " I know you," said the soul of Maria. 
 " We have loved each other before, I am 
 so happy to meet you." Then Luz also knew. 
 
 " Luisa did not speak ill of you," said Luz, 
 " I came to tell you." 
 
 " I know it," said Maria, " but I cannot 
 make my body-self hear me, it has grown 
 so disobedient and heavy. And I meant to 
 train it so as to make all the wonderful 
 poetry which I have heard in the heaven- 
 world. Oh, it is so beautiful that it would 
 make the world shine with happiness and 
 song. You who are my old friend, speak to 
 me, speak to my body-self, make me listen to 
 myself and you shall know the happiness of 
 thousands of people." 
 
 Luz tried, but was not heard, yet Maria 
 lay quiet and thinking. Soon she arose and 
 
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 said, " Mother, I do not think Luisa said 
 anything bad about me; I shall go and tell 
 her so." And she went out, while the little 
 Miguelito with happy face turned to his 
 mother and said, " May I go to Pepe now? " 
 
 " Yes, go my boy," said the mother, and 
 there was a happy light in her eyes. 
 
 XIII 
 
 Full of a new-born joy and hope Luz 
 left them. She must see more, she knew now 
 how to speak to those she met, and she would 
 have so many beautiful things to tell Ma 
 Cuba. 
 
 A fine carriage was rolling along the road 
 and in it sat a man. He was deep in thought 
 and his brow was furrowed. Luz wondered 
 what troubled him and thought that perhaps 
 she might help, and was at his side in a 
 moment. 
 
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 He was a statesman, and the care of im 
 portant things in the government weighed 
 on his mind. The country was in a very 
 critical condition. He knew it and was will 
 ing to give all his time and ability to its 
 service; but what could one do? This he 
 was asking himself over and over as he sat 
 there. 
 
 LUZ touched him gently with the Cave- 
 Man s stone in her hand, and his soul looked 
 out from his eyes and spoke to her. 
 
 " I can see all that our country needs," he 
 said. " I see it now. But how shall I make 
 my body-self understand? It has grown too 
 old in the habit of obeying its own brain- 
 mind alone. Speak to it that it may under 
 stand ! For the sake of my beloved country 
 do it, and all shall be well/ 7 
 
 "Oh, that I could," cried Luz, "but I 
 have not the power. I know now that to 
 speak to other body-selves we need the body, 
 and I cannot have mine yet." 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 111 
 
 " Then," said he, " try to find some one 
 who can make himself heard and obeyed by 
 his own body-self, and beg that one to speak 
 to us. Such are the ones who would rightly 
 govern the people." 
 
 All these things were so new and great to 
 Luz that she went to sit alone and think it 
 all over, to find out what was best to do. 
 She thought how important it would be to 
 the country of Ma Cuba, if she could find 
 some one who was obeyed by his body-self. 
 She decided to do her best in searching. 
 
 While she sat thus thinking she was sur 
 prised to see a man sitting under a tree a 
 short distance away. He was of a stately 
 and refined bearing and his features were 
 noble and gentle. He was not alone. All 
 around him were children, youths, and men 
 and women of all ages. A little child had 
 climbed on his knee, another one came tip 
 toeing from behind, stroking his sleeve with 
 his little sun-brown hand. 
 
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 Luz saw how the man taught the people 
 to read and write and count. Not far off 
 his horse was browsing the long grass, and 
 there was a sack filled with books and slates 
 and pencils, and things needed for school, 
 which the good man had brought with him. 
 
 He told the people about the history of 
 their country; he patiently advised them in 
 their difficulties; he lit in their hearts the 
 desire to be righteous, and to make their 
 country free and respected among the na 
 tions. 
 
 All this Luz understood while she yet held 
 the Cave-Man s stone in her hand. She saw 
 the people go away happier than they had 
 come. They disappeared in the shadows 
 behind, and others came in their place, until 
 Luz thought she had seen thousands pass. 
 
 He must be one whose body-self obeys his 
 soul. She arose to go to him, but as she 
 neared all disappeared as if melted into 
 shadows. It was a picture from the past. 
 
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 113 
 
 " What are you thinking so deeply about ?" 
 asked a little cat, sitting looking at her. 
 
 Luz told him of the picture she had seen. 
 " Well," said the cat, " there are many 
 
 good people now too. My mistress is the 
 best one of all. She gave me food and let 
 me live with her when I was hungry and 
 homeless. Come and see her ! " 
 
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 Luz followed the cat, and they soon came 
 to a low house with a little tobacco field 
 behind it. A black-and-white goat was tied 
 with a rope and ate of the grass by the wall. 
 Inside sat a little boy on a stool with a crutch 
 by his side. He had broken a leg, and as 
 no one had tied it up and taken care of it 
 he now had great pain, and grew constantly 
 worse. Besides the boy there was a woman, 
 a girl, and an old man who lay in a bed. 
 
 The woman went out and petted the goat 
 murmuring to herself: " Yes, I must do it! 
 In a week it is Santa Benita s day and I 
 shall go to church and pray her to make 
 the boy well. I must take the goat and sell 
 it to give to the Saint; I have nothing else/ 
 
 The woman stroked the goat and tears fell 
 on the shaggy coat. It was hard to part 
 with it. It was their only treasure, loved as 
 one of the family; its milk was helping to 
 keep them. The little sick boy was not her 
 own child, but she had taken him when his 
 parents died, for he had no home. She had 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 115 
 
 also her old father and her daughter to 
 support, and she was very poor. 
 
 " She is a kind, unselfish woman," said 
 Luz to the cat. " I wish I could speak to 
 her body-self. There are a lot of things 
 which I have seen growing, that I could tell 
 her to plant in her little field. It would 
 give plenty of food the year round. Is it not 
 a pity that I cannot make her hear me ? " 
 
 " Same with me," said the cat. 
 
 Luz went to the old woman and lovingly 
 touched her with the Cave-Man s stone. 
 
 The Soul of the good woman looked at her 
 silently so long that Luz thought she could 
 not speak, but then a beautiful light came 
 into her eyes and she said: 
 
 " Had I the power in my body-self to tell 
 what I know, the people whom I meet would 
 have light instead of darkness. I have lived 
 many times before on the earth and learned 
 many things; now I have to learn to be 
 humble. I have seen many God-men live 
 
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 among the people. They have always been 
 sent in time of need, to live among the people 
 and lead them right." 
 
 " There is need of them now, I have seen 
 and heard it, but where are they ? " asked 
 Luz. 
 
 " Search ! There is sure to be some one, 
 I know it," said the Soul. 
 
 " How shall I know the right one? " asked 
 Luz. 
 
 " Know them by their work. They bring 
 justice where there is injustice; kindness 
 where there is hatred and fighting; know 
 ledge, where there is ignorance. They know 
 how to speak through the body-self, which 
 they have taught to do always as the Soul 
 directs; and they teach the people to do the 
 same. 
 
 " Their lives are as noble as their teach 
 ings. They do nothing for the sake of pay 
 ment, or in order to obtain honor or riches 
 for themselves." 
 
LUZ STAR-BYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 117 
 
 " I must find some God-men/ cried Luz. 
 " I have promised to try/ 
 
 " Go and search for them, dear child, and 
 the country shall bless you/ 
 
 XIV 
 
 Luz sat among the flowers of a jasmine 
 bush, thinking. She had much to think of. 
 For a long time she had mingled with the 
 people, always searching for some one whose 
 body-self obeyed his Soul. 
 
 She had seen hundreds of men, women, 
 and children. Some had lived in poor little 
 huts, others in rich houses and palaces. 
 Some were simple ignorant people, others 
 were learned; some were struggling in 
 wrong-doing, some were kind and unselfish; 
 some were hateful, others loving. She had 
 spoken to the Soul of each one and almost 
 
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 all had answered her. But to those whose 
 hearts were filled with unforgiving hate, to 
 those who were cruel to defenseless animals, 
 and to those who were cruel to little children, 
 she had not been able to speak. 
 
 What she had seen and heard filled her 
 with wonder. Happiness and hope for Ma 
 Cuba swelled in her heart when she heard 
 the voices of all these noble Souls. It was 
 a great, beautiful world that had been opened 
 before her eyes, and she understood what 
 mighty things people can do. 
 
 Yet when she now sat among the jasmine- 
 flowers in a garden, her thoughts were sad 
 as well as happy. It was two worlds that 
 she saw in the same person. When Ma 
 Cuba asked about her people, what should 
 Luz answer? 
 
 She would tell her that they were wise 
 and good ; they were devoted to high ideals, 
 and to the great Soul-Teachers. They were 
 finding their pleasures in art and poetry; 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 119 
 
 in music and the beauty of nature. They 
 were self-sacrificing, kind and loving to each 
 other; no one misunderstood the other; no 
 one spoke evil of another. They had heroic 
 courage to defend right and justice; they 
 were lovers of truth. Such was the charac 
 ter of Ma Cuba s people. How happy she 
 would be! How she would send thanks to 
 heaven through the fragrance of her flowers ! 
 How then could Luz bear to tell her that 
 her people, on the other side of their nature 
 the outside had many of the opposites 
 to these qualities; that they were blind to 
 that beautiful side of their nature ; and that 
 she had, as yet, found no one who could see 
 clearly enough on that side to restore the 
 sight of others, though she had met many 
 who could almost see? 
 
 She would tell Ma Cuba of the great 
 riches in nature everywhere. Mines of gold, 
 silver, and of copper in the mountains ; beau 
 tiful crystals and precious stones. All kinds 
 of trees with wonderful fruits for food and 
 
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 for refreshment, which grew in abundance 
 everywhere, even without being planted. 
 There grew cacao, sugar, coffee, rice, and 
 countless other good things. Her mind lost 
 itself in the profusion of it all. 
 
 The jasmine-bush grew in the garden of 
 a house, and as Luz sat there she saw a 
 girl coming out. She had a school-bag with 
 books in her hand, and went over to the jas 
 mine-bush and picked the prettiest blossoms 
 she could find. Then she picked roses and 
 begonias and arranged them all in a bunch 
 which she carried in her hand as she went 
 out into the street. 
 
 " I know that she is going to school," 
 thought Luz. " I shall go with her. Per 
 haps there I shall see something hopeful to 
 tell Ma Cuba." 
 
 Luz followed the girl and soon they en 
 tered a gate and went into the patio of a 
 big house. They stepped on the veranda and 
 entered a great palatial house which seemed 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 
 
 121 
 
 more like a fine home than a school. There 
 were lots of pretty flowers and lovely plants, 
 beautiful urns and vases, pictures, all kinds 
 of little hand-made things, objects of art, 
 
 to make one feel that those living there were 
 artists, lovers of the beautiful, and pupils 
 of Mother Nature. 
 
 Luz had a strong feeling of being at home 
 in a Raja Yoga School again. Many chil- 
 
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 dren were coming and they were going quiet 
 ly to their places and putting away their 
 books. Luz entered a large assembly-room 
 with them. From another room came a 
 teacher, and following her, a girl it was 
 Vestra ! 
 
 Yes, Luz had met Vestra again, and never 
 had she had such a complete surprise, she 
 thought. Now she sat at Vestra s side in the 
 assembly, during the solemn morning exer 
 cises. Music was played, so soft and beauti 
 ful that it seemed to come from another 
 world. All the children sat still with their 
 eyes shut and their hands folded, and Luz 
 remembered her visit to Fairy Silence. Then 
 there was marching to music, and the child 
 ren sang their hymn. A tiny girl stepped 
 forth and recited these beautiful words from 
 Katherine Tingley: 
 
 THE; KNOWLEDGE: THAT WE ARE DIVINE 
 
 GIVES US THE POWER TO OVERCOME ALL OB 
 STACLES AND TO DARE TO DO RIGHT. 
 
LUZ STAR-EYE S DREAM-JOURNEY 123 
 
 Tears of joy came in Luz s eyes as she 
 listened; she had learned and loved these 
 words at her own Raja Yoga School in 
 Lomaland. 
 
 Luz knew that this was something for 
 Ma Cuba to hope for. It came to her as 
 a flash when the children were sitting in 
 silence and the soft music was played. She 
 thought it very strange this had not occurred 
 to her during her travels, and she regretted 
 all the opportunities she had lost of giving 
 hope and courage to the Souls with whom 
 she had spoken. She knew that Raja Yoga 
 would teach the people all they needed to 
 know in order to live happy lives; would 
 teach them to see and understand; to use 
 rightly the great resources of their land, and 
 rejoice in all the beauty. It would teach the 
 body-selves to hear and obey the Soul. 
 
 How happy Ma Cuba would be when Luz 
 told her about this ! 
 
 Luz followed the children to their different 
 
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 class-rooms where the teachers had classes 
 in all kinds of subjects: geography, history, 
 arithmetic, grammar, physics, music on sev 
 eral instruments, art, hand-work, etc. The 
 pupils learned also how to control their tem 
 pers and their desires to do wrong; they 
 learned to love the right when they saw by 
 example how easy and pleasant it was ; they 
 learned to love industry and helpfulness; 
 they learned to shun gossip, and to love the 
 truth. 
 
 XV 
 
 When the children ran to the playground 
 Luz and Vestra talked together at the cor 
 ner of the veranda. 
 
 Vestra had been happy ever since she came 
 to the school. First she had the message 
 from Luz by Hada Silfide, who had also 
 made her acquainted with a beautiful little 
 
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 125 
 
 fairy living in the sago palm by the patio. 
 They were good friends now, and had long 
 talks with Paddy. 
 
 Paddy was a little white dog with black 
 ears, and he always made them laugh with 
 
 his funny tales, or with the tricks he played 
 on them. He was there to teach the children 
 coming to school to be kind to their own dogs 
 at home ; and he believed they were learning, 
 because they treated him very kindly. 
 
 " I am almost sorry to leave this place 
 now," said Vestra. 
 
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 "What! Are you going away?" asked 
 Luz. 
 
 " Yes, we are going back to Lomaland 
 very soon, perhaps tomorrow," said Vestra. 
 
 " Is that possible ! Then I must go and 
 find Ma Cuba at once," exclaimed Luz. " I 
 should have liked to stay longer and speak 
 to Amina I am sure she could hear me in 
 her body-self." 
 
 " Oh do," begged Vestra. " I love Amina, 
 and if she could see and hear you now, she 
 would be able to see and hear me when I 
 have my body back and live in my eucalyptus- 
 tree again. Oh, do try, Luz! She would 
 then come and visit me, and I could tell her 
 things and ask her everything just as now. 
 She will soon be through with the children s 
 
 music." 
 
 Just then Paddy came running. " Luz," 
 he said, " some one wants to see you at the 
 gate. Come quick ! " 
 
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 Luz went, and there she saw a meadow- 
 lark sitting on a post. 
 
 " I am glad you came," said the lark. " I 
 got to know about you from the swallows 
 living in the Raja Yoga School. A great 
 calamity has befallen us. A tree where I 
 with my wife and two other bird families 
 had our nests, has been cut down. The nests 
 are floating on the water of the river where 
 the tree fell the little ones will drown 
 come, let us fly." 
 
 Luz and the bird flew off faster than Luz 
 had ever gone before, and they were soon at 
 the place by the river where the tree had 
 fallen. Luz saw the situation at once. The 
 meadow-lark s nest had three little unfeath- 
 ered birdlings in it and the anxious mother- 
 bird was hovering over them while the nest 
 floated down the river. 
 
 " Quick! " cried Luz to the meadow-lark, 
 "pull the nest to shore with your bill." 
 
 The meadow-lark did as she told him and 
 
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 pulled the nest ashore quite easily. He would 
 never have thought of it himself. But now 
 came a harder task; to get the nest with 
 the birdlings safe in a new tree. Luz tried 
 to carry the nest but found that it was too 
 heavy. Then she took the birdlings one by 
 one and laid them under the shelter of a 
 bush with the mother-bird to guard it, while 
 she carried the nest in both arms and went 
 off with the father-bird to hunt a safe place 
 to put it. As soon as the nest was placed 
 Luz hurried back after one of the birdlings, 
 then another, until they were all there, safe 
 and happy. It was worse with the nest 
 belonging to a canary. It had tipped over 
 and the eggs, which were not yet hatched, 
 dropped to the bottom of the river, and Luz 
 could do nothing but express her sympathy. 
 
 Twice during this saving work had Luz 
 thought she heard a familiar whistling, but 
 was too busy to look around. Now she saw 
 a bird in a tree not far away; it looked like 
 the one with the loose head, and she immedi- 
 
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 ately started off to see. Yes, it was he, but 
 as soon as she came near he flew to another 
 tree. 
 
 " I am so glad I have found you," said a 
 voice. It was the Owl. Luz was very happy 
 to meet him, and proposed that they sit down 
 and talk, for she had much to consult him 
 about, but the Owl said she had better come 
 at once to meet a friend who was waiting 
 for her. Luz consented gladly. The Owl 
 told Luz to stay close to his side and look 
 out for enemies, as he could not see well in 
 daylight. 
 
 They had flown for some time when they 
 came to a mountain-side with many beautiful 
 trees, and there the Owl stopped and called 
 out : " She is here ! She is here ! " 
 
 All these surprises were nearly overpower 
 ing. Luz could not think how it all hap- 
 pened, but she was sitting on the back of 
 the Deer again, and he was running over 
 mountain and plain, over hill and dale with 
 
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 the swiftness of the wind; till he came as 
 before to the same grotto, where the little 
 fawn greeted them with high jumps. 
 
 The Deer tapped as before on the rock- 
 wall, and the same little brown man with 
 the lantern appeared, and Luz followed him. 
 
 XVI 
 
 Luz was sitting with Ma Cuba in a jeweled 
 chamber and had told her all that she had 
 seen of the life of the people and their hopes. 
 Ma Cuba had said little, but her eyes shone 
 with their beautiful star-beams. 
 
 Ma Cuba told Luz many things from their 
 life in the past, and about all the wonderful 
 things there were in the islands, which no 
 one knew about; all the strange birds and 
 animals that lived in the mountains and 
 caves ; about a large serpent with shimmer 
 ing peacock colors, that lived on top of a 
 
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 hill, guarding treasures belonging to Ma Cu 
 ba until she came back to get them. 
 
 In this way Luz spent seven days, though 
 it seemed to her that only one afternoon had 
 passed. Then Ma Cuba said: 
 
 " I see that the stars point to the time of 
 your going. Child, you have many, many 
 yet to help, many things to learn. Do not 
 forget me when you come back to your 
 human life. I shall this time show you to 
 the entrance myself." 
 
 She went before and Luz followed through 
 many beautiful halls. Some were glittering 
 with diamonds, some with rubies, others 
 with topaz or gold. The last hall was a 
 small grotto studded with crystals. 
 
 " Farewell, child! " said Ma Cuba, laying 
 her hand on Luz s heart. Then she opened 
 a door and Luz stood in the open sky alone, 
 and it was night. 
 
 The stars were reflected in the still water 
 of a little lake, and tall reeds grew on the 
 
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 low bank. All was as still as if it had been 
 in the hall of Fairy Silence. Luz looked 
 around to see if not even now she could 
 find some one of her friends, but as she saw 
 or heard no one she floated off to where she 
 saw a light glimmering. 
 
 Was she asleep and dreaming, or did her 
 fairy eyes deceive her ? Before her stood a 
 great, noble gateway and was it not 
 the same through which she so many times 
 had entered the Raja Yoga grounds in Loma- 
 land ? But on this one she read : 
 
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 TRIBUTE OF KATHARINE; TINGLEY 
 
 ON BEHALF OF 
 
 THE: UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD AND 
 THEOSOPHICAI, SOCIETY 
 
 Luz sat under a rose-bush and thought. 
 She did not know what would happen next ; 
 where she would go; or how; but she had 
 learned to trust. Her head leaned against 
 a rose and she slept. 
 
 Then a big white bird which had been sit 
 ting on the gate flew silently down. He 
 took the little purse with the Cave-Man s 
 stone from Luz s neck and hid it under his 
 wing; then he lifted the little fairy in his 
 strong claws and flew away. 
 
 XVII 
 
 Under her eucalyptus-tree in Lomaland 
 Vestra sat waiting. She had just arrived 
 with Amina. All the girls of the Raja Yoga 
 Academy had been on the veranda to meet 
 
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 them and had sung their most beautiful 
 songs; the music greeted them as soon as 
 they entered the gate and passed up the 
 palm-avenue. Vestra kept close to Amina s 
 side when they entered through curiously 
 carved doors into a tig circular hall under 
 a glass dome. To Vestra it was as if she 
 had entered the hall of Olympus where the 
 great gods meet; her little fairy being was 
 over-awed. It was not yet the place for her, 
 but she felt she had obtained a glimpse of 
 why it was that the fairies aspired to human 
 life. She sat trembling with her hand in 
 Amina s. The boys of the College had greet 
 ed them with music played by their military 
 band. Had not the girl-body held her down, 
 Vestra felt that the powerful music would 
 have borne her up, away up, till she would 
 have been lost in the sky. 
 
 She was glad when at Amina s side she 
 was outside the hall. Luz s little comrades 
 wondered at Vestra s indifference in greet 
 ing them, but Vestra did not notice ; her one 
 
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 thought was to go to her +ree as soon as 
 possible. 
 
 Luz had been borne by Foam-Wing to the 
 shore where the fairy-ship, Lucifer, lay an 
 chored. He had put her, still sleeping, down 
 on the deck. The ship had then sailed, while 
 Foam-Wing flew close to it. When Luz 
 awoke she found herself on the ship, but she 
 had forgotten her " human " experiences and 
 was not much surprised. She looked with 
 delight on the beautiful sails shimmering and 
 changing in rainbow tints, and on the star 
 light torch in the bow. At the shore of the 
 Cave-Man, Foam-Wing again caught her 
 and immediately bore her up over the hills 
 to a place near the " magic tree/ 7 and there 
 he put her down and hung the Cave-Man s 
 purse with the pebble again around her neck. 
 
 She woke to memory in the dear garden 
 spot where she had played so many times, 
 and the first thing her eyes met was her 
 
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 " magic tree " and under it sat Vestra, 
 waiting. 
 
 Luz arose to go to her, but hesitated. 
 Vestra had not yet seen her. Luz was still 
 stunned from all the surprises; she did not 
 even find it strange to be here, she only 
 thought of what was coming she was go 
 ing to live again in her own body. 
 
 " I do not want to," she said. " No ! I 
 do not want to. Such a dull, clumsy life ! " 
 
 The unwillingness to change back grew 
 stronger as she stood there hesitating and 
 bewildered, and she drew away with the im 
 pulse to hide from Vestra a little longer. 
 She felt unhappy and alone, then remem 
 bered the Cave-Man s stone and took it in 
 her hand. It had its usual effect; her 
 thoughts began to clear. She thought of the 
 old elf s story of the " blind humans " ; she 
 remembered all the times she had wished to 
 have her human body to be able to help 
 others ; she remembered that she then would 
 
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 have a chance to make herself one of those 
 whose body-self obeys the Soul. Next 
 moment she stood under the tree, brought 
 forth the magic flower and gave it to Vestra. 
 
 It was done. Luz awoke on hearing some 
 one call her by name, and the next moment 
 she threw herself joyously into the arms of 
 Rosalinda. 
 
 " I have so much to tell you/ 7 she cried, 
 " so very much, and I am really, truly, going 
 to be a Raja Yoga Teacher! " 
 
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