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The one who had brought me the water was about five feet, three inches in height. Her skin was very fair and her golden hair hung in waves to just below her shoulders in a beautiful symmetry. Her eyes, too, were more golden than any other color and held an expression that was both gentle and merry. | had the feeling that she was reading my every thought. Her almost transparent skin was without blemish of any kind, exquisitely delicate, though firm and possessed of a warm radiance. Her features were finely chiseled, the ears small, the white teeth beautifully even. She looked very young. | judged that she could not be much over twenty years of age. Her hands were slender, with long, tapering fingers. | noticed that neither she nor her companion wore make-up of any kind on their faces or fingernails. The lips of both were a natural deep red. They wore no jewelry of any description. Indeed, such adornment would have served only to detract from their own natural beauty. Both women wore draped garments of a veil-like material which fell to their ankles, and both robes were bound at the waist by a striking girdle of contrasting color, into which jewels seemed actually to be woven. The garment of the little blonde was of a pure light blue, and her tiny sandals were golden in color. Later, | learned that she was a citizen of the planet we know as Venus. Kalna is the name | shall give her. IIlmuth, my name for the other woman, was taller and a rich brunette in coloring. She also wore her hair in a cascade that fell to just below her shoulders, and it was a beautiful wavy black with highlights of reddish brown. Her large eyes were black, luminous, with flashes of brown. They held the same merry expression as those of her companion, and | felt that she, too, could read my innermost thoughts. In fact, this is an impression | have received from every person that | have met from worlds beyond our own. The color of this lovely brunette?s robe was a pale, rich green, and her sandals of a copper hue. Ilmuth, like Firkon, was an inhabitant of the planet Mars. | realize that in trying to describe these ladies from other worlds than ours | am attempting the impossible. Perhaps, using my inadequate description as a stepping stone, the reader will search his own imagination for an image of perfect beauty?and then know that it must certainly fall short of the reality. As | finished drinking from the small goblet of water, | was asked to be seated, an invitation | gladly accepted. On the wall exactly opposite the door through which we had entered hung a portrait which | was certain must represent Deity. The emotion which the beauty of the two young women had aroused in me was momentarily forgotten as the wonderful radiance emanating from the portrait enveloped me. It showed the head and shoulders of a Being who could have been eighteen to twenty-five years of age, in whose face was embodied the perfect blended balance of male and female, and whose eyes held a wisdom and compassion beyond description. | do not know how long | was enrapt by this beauty. There was no interruption until | myself returned to an awareness of my surroundings. | did not need to ask who this Being was. Kalna broke the silence by saying, ?That is our symbol of Ageless Life.