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With a powerful effort he collected hi upwards tried to find the thread he had cut at the end of yesterday's lecture, and intended to resume to-day; but between yesterday and to-day, as it seees stunned hiscross-legged on reed azed in astonishment on their silent master as usually so ready of speech, and looked enquiringly at each other A young priest whispered to his neighbor, "He is praying--" and Anana noticed with silent anxiety the strong hand of his teacher clutching the ht material of which it consisted threatened to split

At last Pentaur looked down; he had found a subject While he was looking upwards his gaze fell on the opposite wall, and the painted naood God"from these words he put this question to his hearers, "Hoe apprehend the Goodness of the Divinity?"

He challenged one priest after another to treat this subject as if he were standing before his future congregation

Several disciples rose, and spoke withAt last it came to Anana's turn, who, in well-chosen words, praised the purpose-full beauty of anioodness of Amon [Amon, that is to say, "the hidden one" He was the God of Thebes, which was under his aegis, and after the Hykssos were expelled from the Nile-valley, he was united with Ra of Heliopolis and endoith the attributes of all the re Gods His nature was more and more spiritualized, till in the esoteric philosophy of the tiuiding intelligence He is "the husband of hisOsiris, he is the soul and spirit of all creation] of Ra, [Ra, originally the Sun-God; later his name was introduced into the pantheistic mystic philosophy for that of the God who is the Universe] and Ptah, [Ptah is the Greek Henhaistas, the oldest of the Gods, the great inner," by whose side the seven Chnemu stand, as architects, to help him, and as named "the lord of truth," because the laws and conditions of being proceeded froht, he stood therefore at the head of the solar Gods, and was called the creator of ice, from which, when he had cleft it, the sun and the moan came forth Hence his name "the opener"] as well as of the other Gods, finds expression