The Washington times., 1919-03-30

cause OF Jne rest that Is revealed to rs.
We learn that It Is not your body only that
VIII be In danger. Upon this journey you
VIII see a woman whom you will come to
love. This woman will. we think, bring
you much sorrow and also much joy"
Then perhaps that journey is worth
making, XII, since many travel far before
they find aught that they can love. Tell
me, have met this woman?"
There We are troubled, Prince, for it
would seem-unless we are deceived-that
you have met her often and often; that
you have known her for thousands Of years,
as you have known that man at your side
for thousands Of years.
What do you mean, Magician?" seti
asked. eyeing him keenly. How can /
who am stfll young have known a woman
and man for thousands Of years?"
XII considered him with his strange eyes,
and answered:
You have many titles, Prince Is not
one Of them Lord Of Re-births?' and Il so.
how did you get it and what does it
mean?"
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but it was given to me because of some
dream that my mother had the night be-
fore / was born. Do you tell me what it
means, since you seem to know so much"
I cannot, Prince. The secret is not one
that has been shown to me. Yet there
was an aged man, magician like myself,
from whom l learned much in my youth
Bakenkhonsu here knew him well-who
made a study Of this matter. He told me
he was sure, because it had been revealed
to him, that men do not live once only and
then depart hence for ever He said that
they live many times and in many shapes.
though NOT always in this world, and that
between each life there is a wall of dark
ness"
If so, OF what use are lives which we
do not remember after death has shut the
door Of each of them?'
The doors may open again at last
Prince, and show US all the chambers
through which our feet have wandered
from the beginning"
Our religion teaches, XII. that after
death we live eternally elsewhere in our
own bodies, which we find again on the
day OF resurrection. Now eternity, having
no end, can have no beginning; it is a
circle Therefore if the one be true.
namely. that We live on, it would seem
that the other must be true, namely. that
we have always lived,
That Is well reasoned, Prince. In the
early days, before priests froze the
thought Of man into blocks of stone and
built OF them shrines to a thousand gods,
many held that this reasoning was true,
as then they held that there was but one
god"
"As do these Israelites whom 1 go to
visit. What say you of their god. Ki?"
That he is the same as our gods,
Prince. To mems eyes God has many
faces, and each swears that the one he
sees is the only true God. Yet they are
wrong, for all are true"
Cor perchance false, XII, unless even
falsehood Is a part Of truth Well. YOU
have told me Of two dangers, one to my
body and one TO my heart Has any other
been revealed to your wisdom?"
Yes, Prince. The third is that this
journey may in the end cost you your
throne"
Even so. XII, I think that could en-
dure life seated more humbly than on a
throne, though whether her Highness
could endure 1t Is another matter. Then
you say that II go upon this journey an
other will be Pharaoh in my placer"
we do not say that. Prince Il is true
that our arts have shown us anCther filling
your place in a time of wiZardry and won
ders and Of the death of thousands Yet
when We look again We see not that other
but you once more filling your own place"
Here ], Ana. bethOught me Of my vision
In Pharaoh's hall
The matter is even worse than l
thought, XII, since having once left the
crown behind me ! think that 7 should
have no wish to wear it any more" said
Seti. who shows You all these things,
and how?"
"Our Kas, which are our secret selves,
show them to us. Prince. and in many
? ays. Sometimes it is by dreams or Wis
ons. sometimes by pictures on water,
sometimes by writings in the desert saEd.
n all these fashions. and by others. or
Nas, drawing from the infinite we'll Of
wisdom that is hidden in the being of
very man, give us glimpses of the truth"
Then these things you tell me are
rue?"
1--WE believe so, Prince"
And being true, must happen. So what
the use OF your warning me agairSt
ruths. What would you have me do?
that mus happen? There cannot be .wO
Iot go upon this journey? Why have you.
old me that l must go, since if did not
20 the truth would become lie. which it
annOt? You say ii is fated that I should
70 and because | go such and such things