B904 <=> B906 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 905]

“Having said this, the venerable Hadji-Asvatz-Troov again stood up and went to the place where the materials of different colors lay.

“Then he began to unroll these colored materials consisting of what is called ‘Bokharan-silk,’ color by color; and with each piece of material, all of one color, he covered by means of specially constructed rollers, not only all the walls and the ceiling, but even the floor of this section of the cave, owing to which it appeared that the whole interior was draped with the material of that given color. And each of the colored materials changed the vibration number of all the forms of ‘life.’

“After experiments with the colored materials, this great terrestrial scientist of recent times asked us to follow him, and, going out of this section of the cave back again into its main passage, we went into another small passage leading off to the side.

“Behind us trailed along the goat, the sheep, and the dog with their improvised collars.

“We walked a fairly long time until we finally came to the most important section of these underground spaces.

“There the venerable dervish Hadji-Asvatz-Troov again went to one of the niches of that big underground space and pointing to a big pile lying there of some material of a very strange color, said:

“’This material is woven specially from the fibers of the plant “Chaltandr” and has its natural color.

“This plant Chaltandr is one of the rare formations on the Earth, the color of which not only has the ability to change the vibrations of other nearby sources, but is itself completely indifferent to all other vibrations.

“’That is why for my experiments concerning vibrations arising not from color but from other causes, I especially ordered just this material and made out of it, for the whole of this underground space, something like a large “tent” and so adapted it that it could be moved in any direction and given any form desired.