Behold! the dark cloud came down and rested on the Altar, the Serpent of fire stretched itself towards me, touched me on the forehead with its forky tongue and was gone.

From within the cloud a Voice sweet and low and clear spoke in heavenly accents: "Depart, ye Ministers, leave Me with my son whom I have summoned." Then like arrows rushing from a bow the flame-clad Spirits leapt from the ground and sped away.
"O Harmachis," said the Voice, "be not afraid, I am She whom thou dost know as Isis of the Egyptians; but what else I am strive not thou to learn, it is beyond thy strength.

For I am all things, Life is my spirit, and Nature is my raiment.

I am the laughter of the babe, I am the maiden's love, I am the mother's kiss.

I am the Child and Servant of the Invisible that is God, that is Law, that is Fate--though myself I be not God and Fate and Law.