Within the Temple of Isis

r midnight, the Priestess had just r

stess of Isis attendant upon the burial service of one in high rank; and a great nobleman

nough her mind was neither with the events of the day nor the dead, but her thoughts were resting now where they had wandered

her part and had, with such a pitiable moan and beseeching glance at her, b

s, which all unknown to her, must be now impending. However, upon learning from an attendant that the young girl was r

ed the border-land of sleep the pale face, with its pleading eye

wrong," and taking up her mantle she glided swiftly through the corridors, and

informed Sarthia of her coming and, with a quivering and swift movement, she spr

hear me and help me," said the girl, in a whisper, tense and l

g Sarthia to her bosom with one strong arm, and with the o

uired in the Temple Service. But, believe me, dear Priestess, the trouble is far deeper than appears upon the surface. The Ritual this morning but furnished the occasion or, rather, hastened some crisis that was already near at hand. For some time now I am haunted by most pote

esence of the sentiment and show of an external ceremony? The pageantry, which appeals so overwhelmingly to the emotions of the outside world, is the necessary means of teaching the people these awful and stupendous mysteries of life and death. But the Initiate should be sustained by actual experiences within these hidden realms and possess a knowledge of their i

so again, and now I must leave you to seek an interview with the chief of the Astrologers. The record and Horosc

, having first dispatched a messenger before her to announce her coming, seeking an audience, well knowing that at this now early ho

another, until suddenly she found herself confronted by a most intensely vivid and startling vision. "Can it be?" Yes, true enough, there sat the venerable Astrologer holding in his hand before him, her chart of birth. Beside him, engaged in completing the necessar

de out, and the fatal arc carefully computed, Venerated Master," and handed his work

, Venerated Father?

u know how true they are, the physical organism of Sarthia can not survive this present cycle of yonder fair God

be the full, and must we indeed lose our Sarthia before ano

ations, indicate sudden and vio

from the vision, "now I understand it all," and with a feeling of amaze at