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What if the force that lights the world also holds the key to a weary soul?
In Marie Corelli’s A Romance of Two Worlds, a young creative woman cannot sleep or find joy in her art. Doctors offer no relief. Then she meets Heliobas, a calm, learned man who claims that electricity and spiritual life share a hidden force. His teaching opens a different path through her exhaustion and sadness.
Heliobas calls this force the electric principle: a power that, according to his teaching, runs through the universe and every human being. As the narrator explores his ideas, questions of prayer, pain, and life after death take on new urgency. Her search reaches beyond the earth in a vision guided by the radiant Azul.
What you’ll discover
- A search for relief Enter the narrator’s sleepless world, where even the art she loves no longer brings joy.
- A teacher of hidden forces Meet Heliobas, whose calm authority gives his claims about spirit and electricity a compelling presence.
- A journey beyond earth Follow Azul through a vision of space that sets one woman’s troubles against a vast universe.
- Reason meets spiritual belief Explore a story that challenges the choice between scientific thought and faith in the soul.
- A voice of personal testimony Hear the narrator tell her experience in a first-person voice shaped like a confession.
Who will love it
Readers who love visionary fiction, spiritual adventure and tales where science and faith meet, and who enjoy a Victorian heroine, a mysterious healer and glimpses of other worlds.
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The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A sleepless musician meets a calming painter
- A glass of water, a strange wine, a sudden sleep
- Three dreams give her one burning name
- Cellini tells the story of his own cure
- The Hotel Mars and a beautiful sister called Zara
- Leo, Prince Ivan and the circle theory of souls
- Music from the air and a flight through the planets
- Heliobas sets out his Electric Creed
- What the story is about and how it is told
Who’s who
- The narratorA young half-Italian musician and improviser, worn out by overwork, who longs to be well again and to understand why the universe exists.
- Raffaello CelliniA young Italian painter whose calm presence soothes the narrator and who sends her to the man who once cured him.
- HeliobasA Chaldean scholar and electrician, also called Count Casimir, who heals without fees and claims to cultivate the electric force in the human soul.
- ZaraHeliobas's sister, a sculptor of startling beauty who wears a color-changing gem and wants a true friend of her own sex.
- Prince Ivan PetroffskyA rich, witty Russian nobleman who loves Zara hopelessly and doubts the theories of her brother.
- LeoA great Newfoundland dog who carries messages and obeys the unspoken thoughts of his master Heliobas.
- AzulA radiant spirit who guides the narrator through the planets and is bound in some way to Heliobas.
- Amy EverardThe narrator's cheerful American friend, who loves fashion and gossip and fears anything mystical.
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Un romance de dos mundos
by Marie Corelli · 1886
After visiting Cellini's studio, a sleepless musician dreams the name Heliobas three times.
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Can one calm glance heal a mind that doctors cannot reach? In A Romance of Two Worlds, Marie Corelli tells of a young musician broken by sleeplessness who travels to the Riviera and meets a painter whose presence soothes her at once.
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A sleepless musician meets a calming painter
The story is told by a young musician, half Italian, who falls ill from overwork one winter in the 1880s. Her doctor in London, Dr. R, has one treatment for every patient, and it fails her. He sends her to Cannes with her American friends, Colonel Everard and his lively wife Amy.
At the Hotel de L, she meets Raffaello Cellini, a young Italian painter whose colors amaze Paris and Rome. When he passes her in the garden with a single kind look, her nervous agitation melts away. His studio becomes a place of rest for her, and she often gazes at his large canvas, Lords of Our Life and Death, which shows a sorrowing Angel of Death above a globe and a glowing face of Life beyond.
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What is A Romance of Two Worlds about?
A sick young musician goes to Cannes, meets the painter Raffaello Cellini and is sent to Paris to the healer Heliobas. He treats her with electric remedies and sends her spirit through the planets, where she learns about faith and love.
Who is Heliobas in A Romance of Two Worlds?
Heliobas, also called Count Casimir, is a Chaldean scholar living in Paris. He claims to cultivate the electric force within the soul, heals people without taking money, and guides the narrator, his sister Zara and the painter Cellini.
What does the Electric Creed mean in the book?
It is Heliobas's theory that God is pure radiance, that the Electric Ring sends out worlds and that the soul is an electric spark. He presents Christ as a living link between Earth and the Central Sphere.
The author
Marie Corelli
1855–1924 · British novelist
Marie Corelli was an English novelist and one of the best-selling authors of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, at her height outselling most of her famous contemporaries. The Sorrows of Satan, her 1895 tale of a devil's bargain in literary London, is often called one of the world's first modern bestsellers.
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