Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-10-24

Where. each in others arms, the Sisters
weep,
Isis and Neph,hys. Ger His unawakina
sleep
And then again rolled out the solemn
chorus of q thousand voices:
''Sofsiy We tread. our measured footsteps failing
Within the Sanctuary Sevenfold;
Soft on the Dead that liveth are We calling:
Return, Osiris, from thy Kingdom coldi
Return to them that worship thee of old
1t ceased, and sweetly she took up the song;
20 Odweiier In tho West,
Lover aud Lordliest
Thy love. thy sister Isis calls thee home!
Come from thy chamber dun,
Thou Master of the Sun,
Thy shadowy chamber far below the foami
With weary wings and spent
Through all the armament
Through all the horror-hauhted ways of hell,
Iseek thee near and far,
From star to wandering star.
Free with the dead that in Auenti dwell.
Iseareh the height, the deep. the lands, the
skies.
Rise from the dead and live our Lord
Osiris, RISE"
''Softiy we tread, our measured footsteps falling
Within the Sanctuary Sevenfoid;
Soft on the Dead that liveth are we calling:
Return. Osiris, from thy Kingdom cold!
Return to then that worship thee of DID,"
Then, In a strain more high and glad, the
singer sang:
"He wakes--from forth the prison
We sing Oiris risen,
We sing the ,.hild that Nout conceived and
bare.
Thine own love, Isis, waits
The Warden of the Gates.
She breathes the breath OF Life on breast and
hair.
And in her breast and breath
Beholdi he wakeneth,
Behold at length he riseth out of rest;
Touched with her holy hands,
The Lord Of all the Lands.
He stirs he rises from her breath, her breast!
But thou. fell Typhon, fly,
The Judgment day draws nigh,
Fleet on thy track as flame speeds Horus from
the sky"
softly We tread our measured footsteps falling
Within the Sanctuary Sevenfold
Soft on the Dead that liveth are We calling:
Return, Osiris, from thy Kingdom coldi
Return to them that worship thee of old "
Once more, as we bowed before the Holy,
she sang, and sent the full breath Of her
glad music ringing up the everlasting walls,
till the silence Quivered with her round
notes of melody, and the hearts of those
who hearkened stirred strangely in the
breast. And thus, as we walked, she sang
the song of Osiris risen, the song of Hope,
the song of Victory:
"Sing we the Trinity,
Sing We the Holy Three,
Sing we, and praise we and worship the Throne,
Throne that our Lord hath set
There peace and truth are met,
There in the Halls of the Holy alone!
There in the shadowings
| Faint of the folded wings,
There shall we dwell and rejoice IN our rest,
We that thy servants are!
Horus drive Ill afar!
! Far In the folds of the dark of the WestF
! Once more, as her notes died away, thun
| dered forth the chorus of all the voices, ano
then the chanting ceased, and as the sur
sank the High Priest raised the statue o1
the living God and held it before the multi
| tude that was now gathered in tht
court of the Temple. Thereupon, witt
| a mighty and joyful shout of ''Osiris! Oul
hope! Osiris! Osirisr' the people tore the
black wrappings from their dress, revealing
the white robes they wore beneath, and, a!
| one man, they bowed before the God, ant
| the feast was ended.
But for me the ceremony was only begun
| for tonight was the night of my initiation
Leaving the inner court l bathed myself
and, clad in pure linen, passed, as it is or
| dained, into an inner, but not the inmos