Henri Rousseau Woman Walking in an Exotic Forest

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discernible pause.
The mind that is
answering these
questions isn't human,
is it?
NO. BUT HUMANS HAVE
ALWAYS KNOWN US.
Us? There's more than
one of you?
UNCOUNTABLE BILLIONS.
But, what are you?
ANGELS.
Mary Malone's head rang. She'd been brought up as a Catholic. More than that—as Lyra had discovered, she had once
SPIRIT ARE ONE.
She shivered. They'd been listening to her thoughts.
And did you intervene in human evolution?been a nun. None of her faith was left to her now, but she knew about angels. St. Augustine had said, "Angel is the name of their office, not of their nature. If you seek the name of their nature, it is spirit; if you seek the name of their office, it is angel; from what they are, spirit, from what they do, angel."Dizzy, trembling, she typed again:And Shadow matter is what we have called spirit?FROM WHAT WE ARE,SPIRIT; FROM WHAT WE DO,MATTER. MATTER AND
YES.