Om: The Secret of Ahbor Valley. Talbot Mundy

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       Talbot Mundy

      Om: The Secret of Ahbor Valley

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      2018 OK Publishing

      ISBN 978-80-272-4860-5

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       EVOLUTION

       Chapter I "Cottswold Ommony...is no Man's Fool."

       Chapter II Number One of the Secret Service

       Chapter III What is Fear?"

       Chapter IV "I Am One Who Strives to Tread the Middle Way."

       Chapter V The House at the End of the Passage

       Chapter VI "Missish-Anbun is Mad"

       Chapter VII "Sarcasm? I Wonder if that ever Pays."

       Chapter VIII The Middle Way

       Chapter IX "Gupta Rao"

       Chapter X Vasantasena

       Chapter XI "All this in the Space of One Night"

       Chapter XII "All Things End—Even Carriage Rides."

       Chapter XIII San-Fun-Ho

       Chapter XIV The Second Act

       Chapter XV The Roll-Call by Night.

       Chapter XVI "Where are We?"

       Chapter XVII Diana Rehearses a Part

       Chapter XVIII Diana Adopts Buskins

       Chapter XIX A Message from Miss Sanburn

       Chapter XX Ommony Capitulates

       Chapter XXI The Lay of Alha.

       Chapter XXII Darjiling

       Chapter XXIII Tilgaun

       Chapter XXIV Hannah Sanburn

       Chapter XXV The Compromise

       Chapter XXVI Ahbor Valley Gate

       Chapter XXVII Under the Brahmaputra.

       Chapter XXVIII The Lama's Home

       Chapter XXIX The Lama's Story

       Chapter XXX The Lama's Story (continued)

       Chapter XXXI The Jade of Ahbor

      EVOLUTION

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      Tides in the ocean of stars and the infinite rhythm of space;

       Cycles on cycles of aeons adrone on an infinite beach;

       Pause and recession and flow, and each atom of dust in its place

       In the pulse of eternal becoming; no error, no breach

       But the calm and the sweep and the swing of the leisurely, measureless roll

       Of the absolute cause, the unthwarted effect—and no haste,

       And no discord, and nothing untimed in a calculus ruling the whole;

       Unfolding; evolving; accretion; attrition; no waste.

      Planet on planet a course that it keeps, and each swallow its flight;

       Comet's ellipse and grace-note of the sudden firefly glow;

       Jewels of Perseid splendor sprayed on summer's purple night;

       Blossom adrift on the breath of spring; the whirl of snow;

       Grit on the grinding beaches; spume of the storm-ridden wave

       Hurled on the north wind's ice-born blast to blend with the tropic rain;

       Hail and the hissing of torrents; song where sapphire ripples lave

       The crest of thousand-fathom reefs upbuilt beneath the main,

      Silt of the ceaseless rivers from the mountain summits worn,

       Rolled along gorge and meadow till the salt, inflowing tide

       Heaps it in shoals at harbor-mouth for continents unborn;

       Earth where the naked rocks were reared; pine where the birches died;

       Season on season proceeding, and birth in the shadow of death;

       Dawning of luminous day in the dying of night; and a Plan

       In no whit, in no particle changing; each phase of becoming a breath

       Of the infinite Karma of all things; its goal, evolution of MAN.

      Chapter I

       "Cottswold Ommony...is no Man's Fool."

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