“We must be near the place,” the wanderers said to each other, in awe-stricken whispers. “Dost thou not see the rock and the flowering cactus?” “One eagle sits and the other circles—” “O Thou seen and unseen powers! Search our hearts, that thou mayst know all our gratitude,” cried the Dorado, falling to his knees, and prostrating himself on the ground, an act which was quickly imitated by his comrades. “I am Gautama,” said a voice. When Yermah looked up, a man old as Akaza, stood making the hierophant sign of blessing over him. “Rise and receive from me word from thy beloved teacher. “Fear me not. “These hands have guided thy puny baby footsteps, and now thou must lend thy strength to me. We have some days yet before thou art at rest.” The survivors were near the ancient site of Tenochtitlan,[24] then a dreary waste of water, with its first city ingulfed, but to have rebirth again and again until the present time. Gautama was accompanied by two of the Brotherhood and some tamanes, amply provided with food and fresh raiment, which they gave to the travelers. “Thou art the last admitted, and art the youngest initiate,” said Gautama to Yermah, later. “But thine is a special mission. When once in Cholula, I shall tell thee all. Thou art anxiously awaited.” The augmented company went into camp for the rest of the day but they resumed travel shortly after sunrise, the next morning. The holy city of Cholula[25] did not exist in those days. There was nothing on the plain but the splendid “Memento for Generations,” built by the men of Atlantis, whose descendants were gathered into the hungry maw of the sea. This massive pile is twice the length of the Pyramid of Cheops, but not nearly so high. A long circular stairway led to its top, which measured an acre in its area, and supported a teocalli—the last temple of the Brotherhood of the White Star which was built in America. Nothing could be more sublime and beautiful than the view from the top of this pyramid. Toward the west stretches the bold barrier of porphyritic rock which nature has reared around the valley of Mexico, with huge Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl standing like two colossal sentinels guarding the entrance to this incomparable region. The word pyramid means a place of fire, while Palai, or Pele, of the Hawaiians, is the spirit of the volcano center, or precipice of fire, as a pyramid was often called. The Arabic word Alcyone means the center, or cone, the spiritual apex around which the sun and all the sidereal galaxy are circling. The two mountains represented the masculine potency and the feminine passivity of all which is generated in nature giving all things their proportion. Acting on this principle, the ancient sculptors down to and including Phidias, fixed the respective heights of man and woman as twenty and nineteen palms of one-third of a foot each, up to the organs of casualty and comparison, at the roots of the hair on the forehead.