”Through the Gates of the Silver Key”(48)その１

　In the face of that awful wonder, the quasi-Carter forgot the horror of destroyed individuality. It was an All-in-One and One-in-All of limitless being and self―not merely a thing of one Space-Time continuum, but allied to the ultimate animating essence of existence’s whole unbounded sweep―the last, utter sweep which has no confines and which outreaches fancy and mathematics alike. It was perhaps that which certain secret cults of earth have whispered of as YOG-SOTHOTH, and which has been a deity under other names; that which the crustaceans of Yuggoth worship as the Beyond-One, and which the vaporous brains of the spiral nebulae know by an untranslatable Sign―yet in a flash the Carter-facet realised how slight and fractional all these conceptions are.