Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-10-17

true, rise to the giddy height OF Wy oes.
tiny, and thou shalt be glorious here and
hereafter; be false, fall, and ! win spit
upon thee, and thou shalt be accursed, and
thy soul shall remain In bondage till that
hour when, in the slow flight Of time, the
evil shall one more grow to good and
Egypt shall again be free.n
ldrew near, trembling and kissed hin on
the brow. May all these things ocne
upon me, n more" ! said. .ff fail thee,
o my fatheri"
may" he cried, .'not me; but rather
those whose will ] do. And now go, my son,
and ponder In thy heart, and in thy secret
heart digest my words; n mark what
thou shalt see, and gather up the dew CT
wisdom, and make thee ready for the battle.
Fear not for myself; thou art protected
from all Ill. No harm may touch thee from
without; thyself alone can be thine own en-
envy. ! have said"
Then / went forth with q full heart. The
night was very still, and there was non Q
stirring in the temple courts. hurried
through them, and reached the entrance to
b pylon that is at the outer gate. And
then, seeking solitude, aud, as 1t were, to
draw nigh to Heaven, ! climbed the pylon's
two hundred steps, until a tlength / reached
the massive roof. Here ! leaned my breast
against the parapet and looked forth. And
as l looked the red edge of the full
moon floated up over the Arabian hills, and
her rays fell upon the pylon whore / stood,
and thet temple walls beyond, aad lit up the
visages of the carven gods. Than the cold
light struck the wide stretch of well-tilled
land, now whitening to the harvest, and as
the heavenly lamp Of Isis (the moon) passed
up the sky, slowly did her rays creep down
the valley, where Siher. father of the land
of Khem, rolls on toward the sea.
And now the bright beams kissed the
water, that smiled an answer back, and
now mountain and valley. river, temple,
| town and plain were flooded with white
light, for Mother Isis was arisen, and
| threw her cleaning robe across the darb
bosom of the earth. Beautiful it was, with
| the beauty OF a perfect dream, and solemn
as the hour after death. Nightly, indeed
the temples lowered up against the face Of
nigat. Never had they seemed SO grand t.
me as upon that night, those ancient
shrines, before whose eternal walls Time
himself shall wither. And mine it was tt
be to rule this moonlit land; mine to pre-
serve those sacred shrines and cherish tht
honor of their gods; mine to cast out the
Ptolemy n free Egypt from the foreign
yoke! In my veins ran the blood of thost
kHCot mugs WIZ, SiSSPihS Az "a oiaoS "
the valley of Tapi tThebes), await the da,
Of resurrection. My spirit swelled within
me as I dreamed upon this glorious destiny
l closed my hands, and there, upon tn,
pylon, l prayed as I had never prayed be
fore to the Godhead, who is called by man,
names and in many forms made manifest
80 Ameu,' / prayed, ''God of gods, VIII
hast been from the beginning; Lord o
Truth, who art, and of whom all are, VIII
givest out thy Godhead and gatherest it Vi
again, in the circle of whom the divine one
move and are, who was from all time tn
Self-begot, and who shalt be till all time
hearken unto me.
80 Amen-Osiris, the sacrifice by whom
we are justified, Lord of the Region Of tn
Winds, the Ruler of the Ages, the Dwelle
in the West, the Supreme in Ament
hearken unto me.
80 Isis, Great Mother Goddess, Mother O
the neutrality-suspicious. Mother, Sister
Spouse, hearken unto me. If indeed l b
the chosen of gods to carry out the purpos
of the gods, let a sign be given unto me
even now, to seal my life to the life above
Stretch out your arms toward me, . y
gods, and uncover the glory of your coun
~tenance. Hear! ali, hear mel" And / cas-
myself upon my knees and lifted up m
eyes to Heaven.
And as I knelt a cloud grew upon tn
face of the moon and covered 1t up, so tina
the night became dark, and the silenc
deepened all ~around-even the dogs ia