altar some animals which were running loose in the vineyard, young
asses, goats, and sheep. It was not in this place that Abraham came to
sacrifice Isaac; perhaps it was on Mount Moriah. I have forgotten many
of the instructions regarding the wine, vinegar, and skins, and the
different ways in which everything was to be distributed to the right
and to the left; and I regret it, because the veriest trifles in these
matters have a profound symbolical meaning. If it should be the will of
God for me to make them known, he will show them to me again.



CHAPTER LVI.

Apparitions on Occasion of the Death of Jesus.



Among the dead who rose from their graves, and who were certainly a
hundred in number, at Jerusalem, there were no relations of Jesus. I
saw in various parts of the Holy Land others of the dead appear and
bear testimony to the divinity of Jesus. Thus I saw Sadoch, a most
pious man, who had given all his property to the poor and to the
Temple, appear to many persons in the neighbourhood of Hebron. This
Sadoch had lived a century before Jesus, and was the founder of a
community of Essenians: he had ardently sighed for the coming of the
Messias, and had had several revelations upon the subject. I saw some
others of the dead appear to the hidden disciples of our Lord, and give
them different warnings.

Terror and desolation reigned even in the most distant parts of