she so far differed from the belief of her time that she looked for a resurrection in the flesh.  It was doubtless this that intensified the hatred of the priesthood, and gave them an acceptable cause for obliterating the very existence, present and future, of one who had outrage their theories and blasphemed their gods.  All that she might require, either in the accomplishment of the resurrection or after it, were contained in that almost hermetically sealed suite of chambers in the rock.  In the great sarcophagus, which as you know is of a size quite unusual even for kings, was the mummy of her Familiar, the cat, which from its great size I take to be a sort of tiger-cat.  In the tomb, also in a strong receptacle, were the canopic jars usually containing those internal organs which are separately embalmed, but which in this case had no such contents.  So that, I take it, there was in her case a departure in embalming; and that the organs were restored to the body, each in its proper place—­if, indeed, they had ever been removed.  If this surmise be true, we shall find that the brain of the Queen either was never extracted in the usual way, or, if so taken out, that it was duly replaced, instead of being enclosed within the mummy wrappings.  Finally, in the sarcophagus there was the Magic Coffer on which her feet rested.  Mark you also, the care taken in the preservance of her power to control the elements.  According to her belief, the open hand outside the wrappings controlled the Air, and the strange Jewel Stone with the shining stars controlled Fire.  The symbolism inscribed on the soles of her feet gave sway over Land and Water.  About the Star Stone I shall tell you later; but whilst we are speaking of the sarcophagus, mark how she guarded her secret in case of grave-wrecking or intrusion.  None could open her Magic Coffer without the lamps, for we know now that ordinary light will not be effective.  The great lid of the sarcophagus was not sealed down as usual, because she wished to control the air.  But she hid the lamps, which in structure belong to the Magic Coffer, in a place where none could find them, except by following the secret guidance which she had prepared for only the eyes of wisdom.  And even here she had guarded against chance discovery, by preparing a bolt of death for the unwary discoverer.  To do this she had applied the lesson of the tradition of the avenging guard of the treasures of the pyramid, built by her great predecessor of the Fourth Dynasty of the throne of Egypt.

“You have noted, I suppose, how there were, in the case of her tomb, certain deviations from the usual rules.  For instance, the shaft of the Mummy Pit, which is usually filled up solid with stones and rubbish, was left open.  Why was this?  I take it that she had made arrangements for leaving the tomb when, after her resurrection, she should be a new woman, with a different personality, and less inured to the hardships that in her first existence