Majestic temple of the sacred bull, Apis--Tyrian mariner torn to pieces by the Egyptians for ignorantly killing a sacred cat--Imposing worship of the deified bull--Description of the sacred animal--Costly offerings at his shrine--An omen!--Tasteful palace of the hierarch of the temple--Transmigration of souls--Brute incarnation of deity--Tradition concerning Osiris--Foreshadowing of the coming of the Invisible upon earth in human form--Lamentations upon the death of a deified bull--His obsequies--Pomp and rejoicings over a new god, Apis--Mausoleum of the Serapis--Sarcophagi--The Sarapeum--The Lady Nelisa--Beautiful daughter of the priest of Mars--The Lake of the Dead--Embalmers and their art--Customs attending death and embalmment--Funeral procession of Rathmes, "lord of the royal gardens"--The venerable head-gardener, Amram--The baris, or sacred boat--pp. 226-244. LETTER XV. Conclusion of funeral ceremonies of the lord of the royal gardens--The Sacred Way--Processions of mourners--Avenue to the tombs--The "dead-life" of the Egyptians--Awful ceremony of the judgment of the dead--Burial of the unworthy dead prohibited--False accusers stoned away--Myth as to the state of the soul after death--Metempsychosis--The mystery of the tribunal of Osiris--Reception of the justified soul into the celestial kingdom--Doom of the reprobate soul--Monkeys, emblems of the god Thoth--The gate of the pyramids--Colossal Andro-sphinx, or Watcher before the pyramids--Beautiful temple of Osiris--The twin pyramids, Cheops and Chephres--pp. 245-261. LETTER XVI. Continuation of description of the Pyramids--Colossal monolith of Horus--Perilous ascent of Cheops--Prospect from a resting-place upon the pyramid, four hundred feet in air--A prince of Midian falls from Chephres--Magnificent view from the top of Cheops, six hundred feet in air--Tombs of kings--The Giants before the Flood founders of the great pyramids--Ancient appearance of pyramids--Greater duration of human life--The third pyramid built by Amun, son of Noah--Egyptian tradition of Noah and his sons--Entombment of Noah in Cheops, and the mourning of the Nations--Verdant plain of the Nile--The desolation of the Desert--Jizeh--Raamses and Pythom, the treasure-cities--The smiling land of Goshen--Prophecy of an Unknown World, in the West--The sacred papyri--Descent of the pyramid--Luxora, the beautiful daughter of the high-priest--Her legend of the Emerald Table of Hermes--Osiria--pp. 262-276. LETTER XVII.