THERE are more worlds than one, and in many ways
they are unlike each other. But joy and sorrow, or, in
other words, good and evil, are not absent in their
degree from any of the worlds, for wherever there is
life there is action, and action is but the expression of
one or other of these qualities.
After this
Earth there is the world of the Shí.
Beyond it again lies the Many-Coloured Land. Next
comes the Land of Wonder, and after that the Land of
Promise awaits us. You will cross clay to get into the
Shí; you will cross water to attain the Many-Coloured
Land; fire must be passed ere the Land of Wonder is
attained, but we do not know what will be crossed for
the fourth world.
James Stephens, from his story ‘Becuma of the White Skin.'
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