Then the old man let him in.

Jesus now visited the wise man every day and listened to his teachings
about the world and life, and also about eternal life. The hermit
spoke of the transmigration of souls, how in the course of ages souls
must pass through all beings, live through all the circles of
existence, according as their conduct led them upwards to the gods, or
downwards to the worms in the mud. Therefore we should love the
animals which the souls of men may inhabit. He spoke with deep awe of
the serpent Kebados, and of the sublime Apis in the Temple of Memphis.
He lost himself in all the depths and shoals of thought, verified
everything by the hieroglyphics, and declared it to be scientific
truth. So that the man who lived in the dark discoursed to the boy on
light. He spoke of the all-holy sun-god Osiris who created everything
and destroyed everything--the great, the adorable Osiris by whose eye
every creature was absorbed. Then he would again solemnly and
mysteriously murmur incomprehensible formulae, and the eager boy grew
weary. Here, too, something evidently had to be reversed. So
thinking, he went quietly forth and left the little gate open. When
the old man looked up at him, there he was in the open air pasturing
the goat, who, delighted at her liberty, was capering round on the
grass.

"Why do you not show your reverence for truth?" he said, reprovingly.

And Jesus: "Don't you see that I am proving my reverence for your
teaching. You say: We must love animals. Therefore I led the goat out
into the open air, that she may feed on the fragrant grass. You say
that we should kindle our eye at that of the sun-god, therefore I went
out with the goat from the dark vault into the bright sunlight."