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"A form beloved comes again"--Inspired painters in a voyage of discovery--Tributes to Mary, honoring all womankind--Guido's wish--Madonnas of many climes. Raphael's "Transfigured Woman"--Savonarola's bonfire--St. Luke's picture of the Virgin--The Vandal spirit. Page 29

Life a pilgrimage--Pilgrims of many faiths--A struggle for holy places between the Pilgrim-Crusaders and Moslem--The harem and the home--The rise of Chivalry--The Knights and "Our Lady"--The results of the Crusades. Page 36

"The wandering hermit wakes the storms of war"--Acre and Esdraelon, the "Armageddon" or "Mountain of the Gospel" of the Scriptures--The battle-field of nations--The City of Jeanne d'Arc. The jewel in the sickle-haft--Prince Edward, the Crusade leader--Sultan Kha-tel--The sacking of Acre--Actors introduced. Page 48

The flight from Acre to Nazareth--The born-leader--Life estimates with Death holding the scales--A prince honors, a bishop blesses, and a mother loves--An epitome of paradoxes. Page 53

Nazareth, the place of Mary's nativity--The choice of a leader--The coward king--The Virgin's Fount--English songsters--The Knights' mountain Litany--Longings for home and mother--Nain and Endor's lessons. Page 61

Sir Charleroy's band approach Shunem, the City of Elijah--The surprise--Sir Charleroy the captive of Azrael the Mameluke--The Mohammedan heaven depicted--"A hair, the bridge over hell"--The odoriferous houris--A gorgeous charnel-house blasted--The prodigal becomes the herald of purity--The Knight of Saint Mary and the Jewish Spy--Adversity makes the Knight and the Jew friends--The Knight instructing Ichabod--"'Till Shiloh comes"--"The true, refined and final Judaism"--"The east and the west embracing; truth leading."--An honest doubt is a real prayer. Page 82

The radiant proselyte--Climbing to glory--The ghostly forms hovering over submerged Sodom--Jordan's sweetening--Siddim-angels among the willows and oleanders by the Dead Sea--Summonsed to fight for the Crescent or go to the slave mart--Nourahmal "The light of the harem" becomes the disciple and friend of Ichabod--A debate concerning women--A rarity and a wonder--"I told her women had souls; she laughed like a monkey"--The flight from Jericho by night--The lightning--God's torch--"Canst thou dance rocks into camels?"--A mummy's flight, and the burial of a live man--"Unclean"--The solemn passage of Jordan. Page 93

A breakfast of lentils and barley in the wilderness--The gloom of the Knight and the joy of the Jew--Sermons on fate and songs in flowers--The poetry of Ichabod--Celibacy a reward at Rome--Kneph "The father of his mother"--The heathen and the Christian "Feast of the Rose"--The summary of the events in Mary's life and in the life of Jesus--The Egyptian Rosary--Neb-ta the maiden sister--The egg and the cross, ancient signs of immortality--The Copt priest--The insights of the Egyptians symbolized by the Sphinx. Page 113

A night-scene by Jabbock--Harrimai the priest, and his daughter Rizpah--The religious ceremonial and the revel--Sir Charleroy and Rizpah as "Ahasuerus and Esther"--The Knight's secret discovered--Conquest of a woman's heart through pity--"Of what metals Jewish maidens are." Page 152

The Knight of Saint Mary enslaved by a Hebrew beauty--The journey toward Bozrah--The Mameluke attack--The hand to hand fight--Sir Charleroy wounded and Ichabod slain--Rizpah's heroism in peril--Espousal in the face of death--A wonderful vision. Page 170

Teacher and pupil become patient and nurse--Perilous relations--Delights, assurances, fears and clouds--Harrimai's discovery and his malediction--Love's debate and decision--Elopement by night--the Knight and the Jewess wedded at Damascus. Page 182

The death of Harrimai--A honey-moon in the "Eye of the East"--To Bashan with the Mecca chaplet-seekers--Nature, art and desolation--Lejah's black lava-sea--The frenzies of Gerash's passion-flower--Reaction after exaltation--"A camel voyage in-sea"--Rizpah's challenge--Jealous of Sir Charleroy's love for Mary--"Illusion"--The church of Saint George at Edrei--Recrimination--Ridicule costly to pride--Neither Christian, Jew nor Pagan--A woman with unsettled faith--A babe poisoned by its mother's passion--The lamp and the palm-trees--The Knight's appeals--Omens--A beacon needed--Fleeing the Lejah--To Bozrah. Page 195

Kunawat at the City of Job--The Shrine of Astarte--The Cyclopean image--Questioning the Soul, Time and God--Hugeness, greatness; littleness, caricature--The naked worshipers of the golden calf--Sins exposed--Purity's vision--Phallic mysteries--Khem--Female deities--Dualism--Immortality by progeny and by regeneration--The fire-worshiper's mystic number eight, and the Jewish covenant number seven. Page 212

Houses forty centuries old--The old stone-house of an ancient giant becomes the home of the knight and his wife--How circumstances change people--Recriminations and reconciliation--"The gall taken from animals offered to Juno, goddess of marriage"--Rizpah's temper that seemed brilliant before wedlock, afterward seems to Sir Charleroy very like that of a virago--The charming nonsense of those for the first time parents--Shall she be named Davidah, Angela, Marah or Mary?--The Christian and Jewish faith battle about the cradle--The separation of husband and wife, in anger--The sick child and the desolated, deserted wife--Rizpah longs for a mother, such as Mary of Bethlehem. Page 224

After many years, Rizpah dwells in Bozrah with her three children--Rizpah of Bozrah fascinated by Rizpah of Gibeah--Miriamne the daughter of Rizpah--The daughter appalled by her mother's mysterious hallucinations--The wonders of mother-love--The story of the ancient, Jewish "Mother of Sorrows"--The omen of the bat and the parable of the stars. Page 245

The old and the young Jews--The old Christian priest and his Jewess proselyte--Attacked by Mamelukes--The "Old Clock Man"--The Balsam Band--Miriamne, the Jewess proselyte, questions concerning the queen of the old priest's heart--The miraculous picture of Mary at Damascus--Silver hands and feet--Crown jewels. Page 264

The birth of Jesus and the flight to Egypt--Miriamne reads to her mother a Christian account of Mary's espousal--Rizpah curious but doubtful. Page 293

Father Adolphus and Miriamne converse of the Holy Family's sojourn in Egypt--Heliopolis and the Temple of the Sun--Fire-worshipers--At Memphis, the shrine of Apis the sacred bull--The red heifer of Israel--The Holy Family rescued in Egypt by a robber who afterward died on the cross next to the Savior--The legend of a gipsy's prophecy concerning Jesus--Zingarella won by the Virgin. Page 312

Rizpah dreading heresy yet charmed by the story of the "Girl Wife"--"Behold my mother and brethren"--Christ's message to his widowed mother--The "Church of the Terror"--Rizpah's vision of "Glad Tidings." Rizpah of Bozrah allured from Rizpah of Gibeah--A hot-chase after an old love--The sword that pierced Mary--The shadow of the cross horrifies Rizpah--The faith of the Nazarene denounced--Miriamne driven from home by her mother. Page 322

Miriamne alone at night in the giant city--A refuge at the Christian priest's--The midnight Miserere--Penitents--Easter at Bozrah--Finding the mother-love in God's heart. Page 337

The convert's yearnings--"Go and tell"--When parents oppose each other which shall the child follow?--A child of the kingdom in a new family circle--Jesus, Mary and the elect--Miriamne's two great ambitions--Living apart may be as sinful as actual divorcement--Father Adolphus encourages and Rizpah opposes Miriamne--Rizpah recounts to Miriamne the story of her love for Sir Charleroy, his madness and her own futile visit to London in the effort to win him back--The curse of heredity--"I'll disown thee with tears in my voice and kisses in my heart." Page 351

Miriamne's welcome by the London Palestineans--The daughter meets her father in a mad-house--Disappointment--The flight--The search--The White Madonna of the Asylum Park--Love the remedy of minds perturbed by hate--Pallas-Athene the virgin of the heathen--Miriamne's letter to her mother and its grim answer. Page 367

Sir Charleroy giving signs of recovery under Miriamne's Ministries--A remarkable service in the chapel of the Palestineans--The knight interested in the story of Cana--The address of Cornelius, on "Home" and "Marriage"--"Is this London or Bozrah?"--Sir Charleroy's sudden relapse--Miriamne's adroit ministries--Memories that awaken hopes--The clouds again lifting--Mary's life motto. Page 381

Sir Charleroy, partially restored, with Miriamne and Cornelius journeying toward Syria--Passing Cyprus--Olympus--A storm rising on the Mediterranean--Cornelius presses his love suit on Miriamne--Miriamne pledges love, but pleads her mission as a barrier to marriage--Conflicts below, tempests aloft--A dream; Venus's court and Mary's triumph--Sir Charleroy in frenzy defying the billows--An hour of peril--The "Lightning Song" of the sailors--The twin stars--"Mary, Star of the Sea"--The victims of fabricated consciences--Parting. Page 397

From Jerusalem to Bozrah--The tomb of Ichabod--Sir Charleroy argues against meeting Rizpah--Miriamne's strong argument in behalf of the lasting obligations of marriage--A husband reaching the climax of revenges--Joseph by kindness kept Mary in sweet mood and so blessed the unborn Christ--"Miriamne, I am a bundle of contradictions!"--The news-rider--A plague at Bozrah--De Griffin's twins nigh death--Miriamne meets her mother--Reconciliation--A strange funeral; only two women as mourners and pall-bearers. Page 437

Father Adolphus and Sir Charleroy--A ruined temple and a ruined man--"A woman, a woman leading in religion!"--Jesus and Magdalena--The twelve appearings of the lingering Christ--The Savior's love-letter from heaven to His mother--Lucifer's attempt at suicide--The kiss befouled by treason--The meeting of Sir Charleroy and Rizpah--"The tomb of giant-love grown to mad-hate." Page 453

A scene of domestic happiness--Love the vassal of the will--Neb-ta in the "Judgment Hall of Truth"--The lambs that are offered by sectarian hates--The Arcana of glorious wedded love--Rizpah transformed--Miriamne's public profession of Christ--Cornelius Woelfkin again appeals for union in wedlock--An inner and an outer Miriamne--The coronation of love--The solemn espousal. Page 467

"The gold of my heart to the man that piloted me to happiness"--Miriamne yearns for a world in sin--Has the Church or God failed?--A revolutionary reformer--The story of the grail quest--The quest of a heavenly cure for human ills--The triumphant Adam and Eve--The queenly women of patriarchal times--The mother of the Savior as the wife of a carpenter--What kept her young heart from breaking--Miriamne's farewell to Bozrah. Page 484

The secret meeting of the Knights at the house of Phebe--Swords bent sickle-like and spears crossed--After war, social victories--Sunrise at midnight--Each career determined by the life that gives life--The girdle of Venus--Next after God, Mary chiefly instrumental in giving the world a Savior. Page 498

The death of Dorothea--The priest of the wayside--The wedding of Cornelius and Miriamne--A pilgrimage to the tombs of Adolphus, Charleroy and Rizpah. Backlook, and outlooks. Page 510

The Missioners at Bethany--The site of the Home of Jesus--Miriamne's ideal society--The miracle age--A home, not a throne, the place of Ascension--Will Jesus so return?--The angel bivouac. Page 522

The Knight's Pentecost--In the upper room of Joseph of Arimathaea--Mary's title and realm--Luke, the word-painter--The smoke side and the fire side of Pentecost. Page 529

The Hospitaler deemed a prophet at Bethany. The legitimacy of Jesus as the "son of David" assured through His mother--"The reign of blood"--First born--Pagan Rome made sponsor for Mary's son--Doomsday books and royal charters. Page 538

The old church at Bethany--A dedication--The wonders of symbolism--Idolatry and Mariolatry. Page 548

The Hospitaler warns the Missioners of the Sheik of Jerusalem's designs--The son of Azrael--Immunity purchased--The wedding of Beulah, Nourahmal's grand-daughter to a Jewish convert--The wedding address--Juno-Moneta--Crown jewels of maidens and mothers--Mary sounding the depths of woman's miseries--A malediction for lust--"Knights of the White Cross"--The lost woman dreaming of how it seems to have a mother's arms infolding her--The Virgin's potent example. Page 568

Nourahmal wed to the Druse camel-driver--the Druse converted--The Hospitaler's message--Ezekiel prophecies fulfilled at Olivet--The "Mother's pillow"--Gabriel, the "Angel of Mothers and of Victories." Page 581

"Motherhood priced"--"Thou shalt be saved in child-bearing"--Sylvan gods of Rome--"The Miriamites,"--"In Rama, weeping and great mourning"--Joachim's bleating lamb slain--Woman's supreme hour--Maternity's crucifixion--"The Caesarian Section"--The ebbing tide and the stranded wreck, at midnight. Page 595

The funeral of Miriamne--The Hospitaler tells the traditions of Mary's death and assumption--What the Druse convert said to his camel--"The beatings of mighty wings"--The tomb of Miriamne in Gethsemane. Page 611

Cornelius and his son at Bethany--Changed scenes--Under the lights and shadows of Chemosh--A widower's grief--Azrael's putative son razes to the ground Miriamne's home and temple--The legend of Mary's coffin and girdle--The last of the new grail-knights--A sad and dramatic tableau. Page 618

MARY AND THE INFANT JESUS, Frontispiece

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THE BIRTH OF MARY 60

RIZPAH DEFENDING THE DEAD BODIES OF HER RELATIONS, 250

THE EDUCATION OF MARY, 282

THE MARRIAGE OF MARY AND JOSEPH, 294

THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS, 332

JESUS AT THE AGE OF TWELVE WITH MARY AND JOSEPH ON THEIR WAY TO JERUSALEM, 350

THE YOUTH JESUS YIELDING TO THE WISHES OF HIS MOTHER, 366

THE WEDDING AT CANA, 380

MARY AND ST. JOHN, 433

THE QUEEN OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID

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