"And you here! After you have vanished from my sight for thirty
years!"

"And you?"

"I was sent for to repair a door; that is all; and when I was left
alone, I wanted to look round.

"I am a scribe in the chief school...."

"And sacrificest to strange gods...."

"No, I do not sacrifice, and I have kept my faith in the promise,
Amram. I have entered this temple in order to learn the secrets of
the wise, and to open from within the fortress which holds Israel
captive."

"Secrets? Why should the Highest be secret?"

"Because the common people only understand what is low."

"You do not yourself believe in these animals which you call
sacred?"

"No, they are only symbols--visible signs to body forth the
invisible. We priests and scribes revere the Only One, the Hidden,
under His visible shape, the Sun, giver and sustainer of life. You
remember, when we were young, how Pharaoh Amenophis the Fourth
forcibly did away with the ancient gods and the worship of the