cloak

The melodious song mesmerized me and cloaked my soul in a most liberating embrace I had never known. The emotion enveloped me, and smothered the emptiness.

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

I'll say this, Arik: the old man's warning proved to be true - things are not always what they seem. She was no young lady -" "If it's the demon you speak of," interjected Rith, as she stepped back into the ruin, Lyssa following after, "she was not even a toothless old hag.

A clue is a key which unlocks_a box full of keys - those peculiarly tempting arrangements of_circumstance and fate_are points of departure which_lead to infinite realms of mystery that_beckon with the taboo of hidden knowledge._ I am compelled to follow where the curling finger of_intrigue_flits seductively among shadows whose origins lie in primeval_antiquity._ The Forbidden Occult is forever enshrined in the luminous_cathedral of my imagination.__Every philosopher's stone I look_under carries my mind_aloft on the fairy_wings of discovery to ever higher treasures of exponentially expanding conscious awareness.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice . . . . Truth breaks free, science is popularized, and religion totters; soon it will fall, in the course of centuries--that is, tomorrow. . . . In good time we shall only have to deal with r