I believe that all these things are ordained to an end which we do not know.

Fate draws me on--I fulfil my fate----" "And do but delay your freedom.

Yet I will not argue with you, brother, who must follow your own road.

See now, what has this woman, this priestess of a false faith if she be so still, brought you in the past?
Once in another life, or so I understand your story, you were sworn to a certain nature-goddess, who was named Isis, were you not, and to her alone?
Then a woman tempted you, and you fled with her afar.

And there what found you?
The betrayed and avenging goddess who slew you, or if not the goddess, one who had drunk of her wisdom and was the minister of her vengeance.