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Updated: June 26, 2025
"When my mother kissed me and gave me dates, when I could work and observe in peace, when you opened my eyes to the beautiful world of poetry that was good!" And you have soothed the sufferings of many men, added Pentaur, "and never caused pain to any one." Nebsecht shook his head. "I drove the old paraschites," he muttered, "to madness and to death."
The day-star rose, and Pentaur turned to it, and prostrated himself as his custom was. When he rose, Mesu also was kneeling on the earth, but his back was turned to the sun. When he had ended his prayer, Pentaur said, "Why do you turn your back on the manifestation of the Sun-god? We were taught to look towards him when he approaches."
The voice of the paraschites had softened, and Bent-Anat, who looked down on him with emotion, interrupted him, exclaiming with deep feeling: "And so you will forgive me? poor man!" The old man looked steadily, not at her, but at Pentaur, while he replied: "Poor man! aye, truly, poor man. You have driven me out of the world in which you live, and so I made a world for myself in this hut.
The poet of the House of Seti, the young Pentaur, who knew these eyes, had celebrated them in song, and had likened them to a well-disciplined army which the general allows to rest before and after the battle, so that they may march in full strength to victory in the fight.
Suddenly Pentaur raised his head, lifted his hands to heaven, and cried: "O Thou! the One! though stars may fall from the heavens in summer nights, still Thy eternal and immutable laws guide the never-resting planets in their paths.
From my childhood I have always been softhearted and patient; every one says I am like my mother; but what Paaker made me suffer by words and deeds, that is I could not " His voice broke, and Pentaur felt how cruelly he had suffered; then he went on again: "What happened to my brother in Egypt, I do not know, for he is very reserved, and asks for no sympathy, either in joy or in sorrow; but from words he has dropped now and then I gather that he not only bitterly hates Mena, the charioteer who certainly did him an injury but has some grudge against the king too.
When Pentaur offered him his hand he exclaimed: "Here is an end to all my jokes and abuse! A strange thing is this fate of men. Henceforth I shall always have the worst of it in any dispute with you, for all the discords of your life have been very prettily resolved by the great master of harmony, to whom you pray."
"And so for mere curiosity," cried Pentaur, "you would endanger the blissful future of thousands of your fellow-men, take upon yourself the most abject duties, and leave this noble scene of your labors, where we all strive for enlightenment, for inward knowledge and truth."
She went up to Pentaur, clung to him, clasped her arm around his neck as he bent over her, then kissing him fondly: "The Gods will bless you!" she said once more. She tore herself from him and threw herself down by the body of Paaker, as if she had done him some injustice and robbed him of his rights.
But you cannot carry your experiments beyond the external world, and you forget that there are things which lie in a different realm." "I know nothing of those things," answered Nebsecht quietly. "But we the Initiated," cried Pentaur, "turn our attention to them also.
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