The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-05-02

give, Are they impatient OF the barrier
Which close them2 The very muscles
are relaxing. Harkl
"What is that peculiar sound, as If
something were being wound upP
"Where is it2
"In the glass case with this same
Pharaoh2 In the air around him2 1
see nothing-that sound comes from in
side the mummy itself
Now voice, that of q man, but re.
pressed, reaches Frau Won Meyers earsi
it gives her double impression, seem-
ing to proceed from some near point and
also to come to her from a long way
back--centuries upon centuries:
"I am not dead, daughter of Israeli"
This metallic, thin tone resembles the
human voice about as the phonograph
does; it holds the listener in q trance
like attitude; she catches every word,
ceases to reason, and only gasps out
"Not deadl What After all this
fu,s made over you, the money spent on
you-not Pharaoh's mummy at all2
What kind of fraud are your"
The Voice speaks on through her in
terruption-
"There is no death. Where can man
go to get rid of universal lie? There
have been no ears to hear no eyes to
see me- Woman, it is a fearful doom
to be alive and to be thought dead.
Now, revisiting my ka On which there
is ever latent humanity 1 find for
once mortal in the right aura to hear
Newell do know why-child of those
Hebrews who were once the slaves Of
Pharaoh, Shall l tell thee my post
mortem history2"
The frau stammers a word Of assent,
curiosity outweigh.ng every other emo
ton; the ka does not pause an instant;
his tone indicates that after being bot
tied up for ages he is glad to be released.
The court physician examined my
body and said l was dead; they gave it
over TO the embalmers; then was there
great show of mourning throughout
the land for 20 days, the temples were
closed, no sacrifices offered, all festivals
suspended; men and women forebore to
drink wine and to eat choice viands,
they formed long professions, throwing
dust on their head, rending their gar
ments; many gated Thebes shut herself
in like a stricken idow and cried as
with one voice of woe to the gods.
Hypocritesl-shallI / tell thee, woman,
how many really mourned for Pharaoh2
Not so many as the fingers on these
withered hands. The secret exultation
in the heart of Menepthah at reigning
in my st. ad disgusted me; it was a pain
fuI uu,r,viea fN,. ba woe NV con XVoc IL
this shock which paralyzed my facul-
ties2 know not sank into leth-
argy, and when / again became con-
scious it was in the midst of an awful,
thick darkness Igroped about blindly
Il, Rameses the Great-in horrible
loneliness of spirit no one came near
to attend me to the Judgment hall of
Osiris, where the god awaited my COM
ing, with the Egyptian cross, the en-
blem of ett trnal life, and the hagellum
of justice, the AZ assessors by his side.
Mine was to be tile fullest union with
the divinity; was to reign with him
forever Still there came no sign out
of the darkness Then it dawned upon
my intelligence, which was so keenly
alive that my former existence was
death in comparison, that was spared
the common lot Of mortals; being far
| above them, as Pentaur had often sung,
I was TO escape the scene of Judgment
in the Hall Of Truth, and would be
allowed to enter at once the abode of
the ju- fed in the fields of Aalu.
"Though forsaken by all, yet did
sense other beings in the air near me,
passing me by, all unmindful of my
royal presence. Then a terrible convic.
ton bore in on me that l was ushered
into a world that was as thickly popu-
lated as the one I had left, but for
which my previous life had so ill pre-
pared me that my senses were not at
tuned even to its ordinary sights and
sounds; my mind was outside of its
conditions, my spirit impervious to its
| sympathies. Annihilation, this, OF which
Inever dreamed 1t was maddeningl
"'Do you not know mep cried Wild
! ly, the representative on earth of the
great sun god. Ra? What, minions !
silent still2 Show me the royal road
to the fields of Aalu, command
youl Where are the gatekeepers of the
Hall of Truth? Surely they will know
Pharaoh. The shadows fitted by; when
/ strove to grasp one, my hand closed on
empty air. Sometimes a deep sigh, n
groau, mocking laugh answered me-
no more. can not say how long this
lasted. An instinct told me that the
connection between my wandering spirit
and its late tenement was not severed.
would return, then, unto the mummy
and rest me. There, at least. in the
mortuary chamber surrounded by every
tribute to my sovereign state, l should
be again a king, All record of time was
gone.
"A long period of Inconsistencies in
my ka must have followed Now and
then comes to me some glimmer of re-
membrance Of another body that ami
mated on another planet, but it is very
faint It may be that this was q dream
while slept in my ka, until the hunger
for life awoke the higher principle to
action, had not changed. Slill was
Rameses, who shifted the mastery
of nations. One day, after going
forth from my tomb and encounterinp
the same darkness as before, bethought
me Of Ammon. II there was a
God had been on intimate terms with
in my earth life, it was Ammon; he il
was who presided over my marriage
with Neferari Osiris persisted in veil.
ing his glory, the Triad Of Thehes wai
obdurate, but this gracious deity might
discover. 1 reached out mine arms
How Justify cried from the depths ol
mine anguish oh, Ammon, come tC
PharaohY Remember that he, too, is al
immortalr
Joy unspeakable For the first time
since 1 was disembodied a voice replied
unto my call
! "Know thyself, misguided mortal
and light win como Thou art deserted
by thy false gods Did not tell thee
Israers Yahveh [Jehovahl reigns alone?