[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 endowed with the attributes of all the remaining Gods.  His nature was more and more spiritualized, till in the esoteric philosophy of the time of the Rameses he is compared to the All filling and All guiding intelligence.  He is “the husband of his mother, his own father, and his own son,” As the living Osiris, 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 maker of the material for the creation, the “first beginner,” by whose side the seven Chnemu stand, as architects, to help him, and who was named “the lord of truth,” because the laws and conditions of being proceeded from him.  He created also the germ of light, 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.

Pentaur listened to the youth with folded arms, now looking at him enquiringly, now adding approbation.  Then taking up the thread of the, discourse when it was ended, he began himself to speak.

Like obedient falcons at the call of the falconer, thoughts rushed down into his mind, and the divine passion awakened in his breast glowed and shone through his inspired language that soared every moment on freer and stronger wings.  Melting into pathos, exulting in rapture, he praised the splendor of nature; and the words flowed from his lips like a limpid crystal-clear stream as he glorified the eternal order of things, and the incomprehensible wisdom and care of the Creator—­the One, who is one alone, and great and without equal.

“So incomparable,” he said in conclusion, “is the home which God has given us.  All that He—­the One—­has created is penetrated with His own essence, and bears witness to His Goodness.  He who knows how to find Him sees Him everywhere, and lives at every instant in the enjoyment of His glory.  Seek Him, and when ye have found Him fall down and sing praises before Him.  But praise the Highest, not only in gratitude for the splendor of that which he has created, but for having given us the capacity for delight in his work.  Ascend the mountain peaks and look on the distant country, worship when the sunset glows with rubies, and the dawn with roses, go out in the nighttime, and look at the stars as they travel in eternal, unerring, immeasurable, and endless circles on silver barks through the blue vault of heaven, stand by the cradle of the child, by the buds of the