21 Has been received with favor in a multitude of homes; but Greece is, of them all, the royal host. 22 The breadth of Grecian thought; the depth of her philosophy; the height of her unselfish aspirations have well fitted her to be the champion of the cause of human liberty and right. 23 The fates of war have subjugated Greece, because she trusted in the strength of flesh, and bone and intellect, forgetful of the spirit-life that binds a nation to its source of power, 24 But Greece will not forever sit within the darkness of the shadowland as vassal of a foreign king. 25 Lift up your heads, you men of Greece; the time will come when Greece will breathe the ethers of the Holy Breath, and be a main spring of the spirit power of earth. 26 But God must be your shield, your buckler, and your tower of strength. 27 And then he said, Farewell. Apollo raised his hand in silent benediction, and the people wept. 28 Upon the Cretan vessel, Mars, the Hebrew sage sailed from the Grecian port. SECTION XI. CAPH. _Life and Works of Jesus in Egypt._ CHAPTER 47. _Jesus with Elihu and Salome in Egypt. Tells the story of his journeys. Elihu and Salome praise God. Jesus goes to the temple in Heliopolis and is received as a pupil._ And Jesus came to Egypt land, and all was well. He tarried not upon the coast; he went at once to Zoan, home of Elihu and Salome, who five and twenty years before had taught his mother in their sacred school. 2 And there was joy when met these three. When last the son of Mary saw these sacred groves he was a babe; 3 And now a man grown strong by buffetings of every kind; a teacher who had stirred the multitudes in many lands. 4 And Jesus told the aged teachers all about his life; about his journeyings in foreign lands; about the meetings with the masters and about his kind receptions by the multitudes. 5 Elihu and Salome heard his story with delight; they lifted up their eyes to heaven and said, 6 Our Father-God, let now thy servants go in peace, for we have seen the glory of the Lord; 7 And we have talked with him, the messenger of love, and of the covenant of peace on earth, good will to men. 8 Through him shall all the nations of the earth be blest; through him, Immanuel. 9 And Jesus staid in Zoan many days; and then went forth unto the city of the sun, that men call Heliopolis, and sought admission to the temple of the sacred brotherhood. 10 The council of the brotherhood convened, and Jesus stood before the hierophant; he answered all the questions that were asked with clearness and with power. 11 The hierophant exclaimed, Rabboni of the rabbinate, why come you here? Your wisdom is the wisdom of the gods; why seek for wisdom in the halls of men? 12 And Jesus said, In every way of earth-life I would walk; in every hall of learning I would sit; the heights that any man has gained, these I would gain;