The Count of Gabalis

I offered him, but these explanations are truly not given at the first word. "My address is the greeting that the Sages use when they wish to open their hearts to someone and reveal their secrets. Your letters seemed so learned to me that I might expect it would not be unknown to you, and that the Count of Gabalis could say nothing more pleasant to you."

"Ah, my Lord," I cried out, and remembered the great role I had to play, "how shall I make myself worthy of so much kindness? Is it possible that the greatest of the children of men is in my study: "Cabinet," a private room used for reading, writing, and receiving esteemed guests., and that the great Gabalis honors me with his visit?"

"I am the least of the Sages," he answered with a serious look, "and God, who distributes the light of wisdom according to the weight and measure that pleases His Majesty, has weighed out only a small portion for me, compared to what I admire with astonishment in my companions. I hope you will one day equal them, if I am permitted to judge by the figure of your nativity: "Nativität," an astrological birth chart used by occultists to judge a person's potential and spiritual destiny., with the sending of which you honored me: but he—"