“Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.”

“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”

“However bright a torch might burn it could never match the rising sun.”

“They rode out together from the shadows of the trees, leaving the Bala Hissar and the glowing torch of the burning Residency behind them, and spurred away across the flat lands towards the mountains...And it may even be that they found their Kingdom.”

“The mountain is awake, with utteranceOf flame and burning rock and thunderous sound-Abode of the ancestral spirits who danceIn blissful fire! Tremors run through the groundAnd through men's hearts. The people stand dismayedBy prophecies as mantic ghosts invadeWith alien voice the soothsayers in their trance.”

“It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch itself remains burning ever the same. It is even so with the bliss of the Way.”