Lives of Alcyone

sight drew him to the feet of the great revivalist. Aryasang smiled
upon the younger man and drew him quickly into close relations with
himself, and when in a few months the time came for his further
journey towards the hills, Alcyone was one of those whom he chose
to accompany him. The good abbot Aldebran also thought much of
Alcyone, but was quite willing to let him go upon an expedition as
this.
For many days they travelled, far up into the mountains, in the
leisurely fashion of those days, making halts of weeks in duration at
various monasteries on the way, Aryasanga always preaching to the
monks and the people, and inspiring them with his own fiery zeal
and enthusiasm. Many a time on such occasions he appointed
Alcyone to speak to the people, and he always aquitted himself well.
Their first long stay was at a monastery in a beautiful valley in
Nepal, and here Aryasanga and his band remained for nearly a
year, teaching the monks, organising the religion generally over a
large section of the country, and making this monastery a kind of
headquarters for their reformed faith. It was at this monastery a kind
of headquarters for their reformed faith. It was at this monastery that
Arayasanga left to his successors that wonderful book of extracts
which he called The Book of the Golden Precepts, which
commenced with the Stanzas of Dzyan, and included many
quotations from the writings of the great Nagarjuna included many
quotations from the writings of the great Nagarjuna included many
quotations from writings of the great Nagarjuna (Mercury), of whom
in an earlier life in Greece he had been so devoted a follower when
he was Kleineas, and Nagarjuna was Pythagoras.
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