What had young blood to do with wisdom?
"My son, first grow old, and then come and seek wisdom in the old writings." The boy answered: "Do you give wisdom only for dying?
I want it for living." Then the old man let him in.
Jesus now visited the wise man every day and listened to his teachings about the world and life, and also about eternal life.

The hermit spoke of the transmigration of souls, how in the course of ages souls must pass through all beings, live through all the circles of existence, according as their conduct led them upwards to the gods, or downwards to the worms in the mud.

Therefore we should love the animals which the souls of men may inhabit.

He spoke with deep awe of the serpent Kebados, and of the sublime Apis in the Temple of Memphis.
He lost himself in all the depths and shoals of thought, verified everything by the hieroglyphics, and declared it to be scientific truth.

So that the man who lived in the dark discoursed to the boy on light.