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Of course the place was empty. Ombos, Albertus Magnus and all the wonderful contents of the spacious old rooms had disappeared. I made a search of the house, and it was not without a curious sensation in my heart that I entered the room where the Master of Masters had towered in his niche. Silence only the faint boom of a gun far away in the French trenches awful, ghastly silence.
Ombos misused it; that was disastrous. It seems to me that it is safe to use this god-energy only in its own proper sphere. You have very likely heard of men who have tried to pass themselves into inanimate objects?
Osiris was slain by the red-haired and jealous demon, Sit-Typhon, and then Egypt was divided between Horus and Sit as rivals; and so it consisted henceforth of two kingdoms, of which one, that of the north, duly recognised Horus, son of Isis, as its patron deity; the other, that of the south, placed itself under the supreme protection of Sit-Nubiti, the god of Ombos.
"Old Ombos you could not help but think that he had grown very much like the statue himself; or had the statue grown like him? held up a candelabra which threw the details of the bronze figure into relief and cast flickering reflections on the dark oak panelling of the recess. "'It's an exquisite thing, said Ombos. 'See how he rears himself on his black granite plinth.
Philometor also built a temple at Antseopolis to Antaeus, a god of whom we know little, but that he gave his name to the city; and another to Aroëris at Ombos; and in the same way he carved the dedications on the porticoes in the Greek language.
It struck the solid bronze with a terrific crash and fell at the base of the pedestal whereon Ombos had stood a moment before. "Clayton rushed in at this juncture, and we went into the sitting-room. I saw him wipe his forehead with the back of his hand. "'He's been here again, sir, he said. 'I was standing on the gravel path by the library, a minute ago, when I saw him close by me in the bushes.
'I believed that he knew more than any person I had met before, and I knew that he knew that I knew less than any person he had met before though he did not say it, and I was not expecting that he would.... That was exactly how I felt when I was talking tea with Ombos ... his conversation was as exhilarating as wine; his presence diffused a stimulating atmosphere; I felt exalted by his joyous enthusiasm.
"'I was merely telling you a few cold and scientific facts, returned Ombos argumentatively. "'Now, if I wished to impress you it would be easy enough. I would like to test that sensitiveness which you boast that you don't possess. I think I could give you a severe shaking-up!
"That's just what old Ombos said. And if he didn't understand all about those things, I should jolly well like to be led to the man who did. Ombos told me hundreds of times that a man walked about this earth throwing his force into everything he came in contact with scattering some kind of power; and of course that power is picked up by stones and houses and ... statues, or anything.
At Kom Ombos there are two sanctuaries, one dedicated to Sebek, the other to Heru-ur, or Haroeris, a form of Horus in Egyptian called "the Elder," which was worshipped with Sebek here by the admirers of crocodiles. Each of them contains a pedestal of granite upon which once rested a sacred bark bearing an image of the deity.
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