. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . Fountain and School of the Motherof Little Mohammed. SUBTLE MYSTERIES OP THE PRIESTS 347 worshipped the prototype of their own Pallas. On theevening of the 17th day of Thoth, Herodotus saw thenatives, rich and poor, placing on the fronts of theirdwellings, large flat lamps filled with a mixture of saltand oil which they kept alight all night in honour ofOsiris and of the dead/ He made his way into thedwelling of the ineffable god, and there, unobserved amongthe crowd, he witnessed scenes from the divine life repre-sented by the priest
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . Fountain and School of the Motherof Little Mohammed. SUBTLE MYSTERIES OP THE PRIESTS 347 worshipped the prototype of their own Pallas. On theevening of the 17th day of Thoth, Herodotus saw thenatives, rich and poor, placing on the fronts of theirdwellings, large flat lamps filled with a mixture of saltand oil which they kept alight all night in honour ofOsiris and of the dead/ He made his way into thedwelling of the ineffable god, and there, unobserved amongthe crowd, he witnessed scenes from the divine life repre-sented by the priests on the lake by the light of torches,episodes of his passion, mourning, and resurrection. Thepriests did not disclose their subtler mysteries beforebarbarian eyes, nor did they teach the inner meaning oftheir dogmas, but the little they did allow him to discernfilled the traveller with respect and wonder, recallingsometimes by their resemblance to them the mysteriesin which he was accustomed to take part in his owncountry. Then, as now, but little attention was paid tothe towns in the centre and east of th
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