Athothis : a satire on modern medicine / by Thomas C. Minor.

antiquated knowledge of my land in his teaching ; for, taking advantage of his high position, he incorporated in the Pentateuch the most valuable precepts of the Nile Magi. His was a mighty mind versed in priestcraft, medicine, and statecraft, and all the mysteries of the Orient. He held one of the seven keys to the Hermetic lock, and therefore to him the true secrets of the East were as an open book. It is claimed that when Moses died his body was buried in the land of Moab, and it is written in the Hebrew chronicle, 'No man knowethhis sepulcher until this day.' Mortal, I will reveal to you a secret which has been hidden for ages: Know that what was once the mortal tenement of the Jewish leader now lies embalmed in Egypt with the Past Grand Initiates of the Sublime Court of Patah. His spirit sheds a glitter- ing light as a divine jewel on the bosom of the Creator. He is the star of Israel. Oh! modern sage of the Order of Memphis, Mystical Recluse of Thebes! If you would solve the true riddle of the Sphinx, read the Book of the Dead." " I have read the Bible with untiring interest," mur- mured Paulus Androcydes, reverently leaning his spir- itual head to the Orient, " yet never dreamed of tracing back the sanitary code of Moses to an Egyptian origin, although I have agreed with many moderns that the Jewish law-giver did not originate the first five sacred books, for he always speaks of himself in the third person and seems a mere collator of ancient doctrines, usages, and statutes. He could not have even written the entire book, since a full account of his own death appears in the last chapter. I have read Herodotus regarding circum- cision ; but as this author wrote nine hundred years after Moses, his statement should be taken with a few grains