LETTER XXIV.

Mournful reflections--Sacred poem by Remeses, being scenes in the life of Job--Remeses discovers all--A sirocco of the soul--He narrates the mysterious scenes of his initiation--Startling spectacles--Overwhelming displays of enchantment and magic--Mysterious journey beneath the pyramids--Labyrinthine catacomb--March of Time through the heavens--Remeses alone beside the altar--Amense not his mother!--His vision in the dark chamber of the pyramids--The massacre of the Hebrew infants--Scene in the Hebrew hut--The mother and child--The babe committed to the Nile--The little maid--The beautiful lady, Pharaoh's Daughter--The Hebrew nurse--The image-caster--pp. 398-414.