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-'Is it that I desire power ? I am a philosopher ; I will not even remain in the capital. I will go to Athens , whence I came .' When the king heard this, he was beside himself, and said : 'Whoever shall bring the business of Alotra before me is the enemy of my kingdom . ' No one dared to speak further of this matter . One day during evening prayer, worried by her maladies and pains , Alotra threw herself down at the base of a column of the church , and went to sleep . When the ser- vice was over, and all had departed , her servants sought her, but did not find her. Towards the third hour of the night she awoke from her sleep . Looking round, and see- ing that there was no one , she rose up, and went about all alone . As she was bemoaning herself while walking up the street, called the ' Street of gold ' , a demon spoke to her, and said : ' What ails you, Alotra , daughter of Licnus , my friend ? Julian has not given to you what he has taken from you. ' She answered : ' No , Sir.' She thought he was a policeman (watchman of the street) that called her. She approached him trembling with fright . He said to her: 'Because of the friendship of your father, who worshipped me and offered incense to me, and paid me sacrifices , I will return to you all that Julian has taken from you ; but go to the king, and say to him, that Julian shall come and swear to me by that image that protects the hours of the city, and I will take him, and he will not be able to save himself from my hands , until he has returned to you every- thing that he has taken from you .' She went rejoicing to the queen in the morning , and spoke to her of it , and the queen narrated it to the king . When the king heard it, he spoke to her, and said: ' Do not tell me any more of this , but tell it to Samderun, the advocate. The king was astonished and marvelled at this business ; he sent for Alotra, and she came before him ; she threw herself at his feet, and did obeisance , weeping piti- fully. She prayed him, and said : ' Compassionate me , my Master. I am not a stranger to you . You are my true brother. My parents confided me to your care . I have no other refuge, my Master, if it is not your Highness . I am your sister in affection, and of your kith and kin in body. It is not God -fearing that you neglect my youth. I have no other left as heir ; no family connexions or near relatives . See, my lord the king, my parents governed the kingdom . Watch, do not turn your face from me because of my father who was a tyrant ; but for my mother's sake , who was the sister of your father, have pity on me ; for it was not the fortune of one of his chiefs that Julian grasped and took, but the throne and the crown ; he had his eyes upon the kingdom. He was aiming high, to be king over you . ' When the king heard this from Alotra, he murmured within himself, and said to her : ' Now what is it that I should do to you ? ' She said to him : ' Let him swear to me by the image that guards the hours of the city, and I shall never have another word to say to him. ' When the king told the Senate that which the demon said to Alotra, they were in great surprise ; and when Julian heard of it, he told Magnus , his magician and friend . He took him at night-time and went to the clock- tower. As they entered the gate, that demon began to howl and say: 'Where are you entering, Julian, robber, snatcher, and liar ? Beware of the God whom you have belied . You have sworn by the Holy Cross and by the Communion, and it is for this you have spoken the lie ; but men have not acquiesced in your falsehoods . If I pronounce the great Name of God in all this city touching your false dealings , I will make a laughing- stock of you throughout all the earth . You have been longing after the fortune of Licnus , my friend ; and with the fortune that was given to him you wish to enrich yourself. Woe to thee, thou art fallen into my hands ! It is not the bright radiance of God ; you will not escape safe and sound. ' When Julian heard this , he was in great fear . Magnus , the magician , calmed that demon, and said : R
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'My lord, let not your Highness be disturbed for him . All that you command him he will do, provided that it be not published and mocked at , because he is not a simple man . ' That demon said to Magnus, the magician : ' I will not give the fortune of Licnus , who offered me sacrifices, to another who does not pay me with sacrifices , nor offer me incense. If Julian wishes to listen to me in that which I shall say to him, I will make him master of all the earth , and the kingdom of all the territory of the Romans shall be given to him. From one corner of the world to the other his name shall be preached . His kingdom shall be in the ascendant and conquer for a hundred years , when once his leadership takes hold of all the kingdoms . But if he wishes that anything that he has done be not divulged and published , and that he be not made a laughing- stock, so that the Christians burn his body as they have done in the case of his brother, then let him at once throw frankin- cense before me .' Magnus, the magician , said to Lulinus (Julian ) : ‘ See now, my brother, which of the two alternatives are you ready to adopt ? ' Julian answered him : ' Two great mis- fortunes have come upon me. If I am exposed , I shall be laughed at , and I shall have a bad reputation in all the land . A man learned in the sciences , and named philoso- pher, and who in all the learned assemblies was wont to receive, as it is fitting for philosophers , gifts and honours ; to whom with their wives and children men rendered homage as to a king,—and then after this great reputation , that it should be proclaimed in the capital which contains people from all countries that Julian, son of Aesculapius , who was called a philosopher, for the love of gold , robbery was found in him ; that he dared to belie his oaths to the Cross and the Holy Sacrament , and that he renounced God, his Creator, and became a stranger to the sacraments of the Christians , and to the sacred sign of baptism . Alas , O Julian ! to what a byword and shame did the love of gold lead him! I, therefore, much prefer to offer incense and to bring sacrifices , rather than to be mocked at, and have an evil reputation .' Magnus , the magician, ran at once and brought the incense, gave it to Julian and he offered it to devils ; he inclined his head, and worshipped them ; that one demon said to them : ' Go in peace . After three days come to me , as I have something to say to you .' After three days , Magnus , the magician, took Julian , and brought him down to the house of the watch . Magnus , the magician , opened the book of assemblies , that in which the names of all the demons were written . The demons at once assembled from every side, and came there . When Julian saw them that they entered flying , he trembled and was seized with fear. He hastened to make the sign of the Cross on his forehead . At the same moment all took to flight . Magnus said to him : ' Julian , my friend , why have you made the sign of the Cross ? ' Julian said : 'I did not know that they would be afraid of the Cross , and take to flight , otherwise I would not have done it . ' Magnus said to him : ' If you would like to see them assembling about you , to show you the hidden things, and teach you the secrets , that you may enter into their mysteries and perfect yourself at their appearance to become a member of their pact ; that they show you the things that are hidden , and teach you the things that are treasured up ; that they make you king of kings, and subject to you all the nations and kingdoms ; that they raise you above all , and that people listen to you as servants to their masters-this sign of the Cross will never do it for you .' Magnus summoned them again ; and they came with their teacher, Satan. Julian inclined his head, and adored them . The Prince of the demons ascended , and seated himself on the throne of fantasy and trumpery, the throne of fire, with the armies of demons who were stationed before him in fear , and he lifted up his voice , and said unto them : 'You know that the kingdom and power of all this world, it is I who hold it . The kings of all the earth adored me ; they offered their sacrifices unto me ; the realms of the Babylonians , Persians , and Medes ; of Sheba , Saba, India , and Abyssinia ; of Egypt , Palestine, and all the barbarous nations situated on all the sides of the earth ;
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these belong to us and worship us, with their wives and their children ; and even great Rome ; there was not one people or kingdom from the beginning of the world that did not worship us , except this Constantine , deprived of his reason, and owing to his defective mind . For I have taken the trouble to go into all the corners of the earth, and have passed through all the realms of the nations , and visited them. I made peace in all the powers , and then returned hither. This Constantine renounced the worship of his ancestors . He agreed to the error of the Galileans . He called himself king , only he and his sons . When I saw that they left me, and worshipped Him who was crucified by the Jews on the wood , for the friendship I had with his ancestors , I had patience with him for a long time. But seeing that he would not turn from his error, I took away from him his life and that of his two sons also, who wished to reign after their father. As for him too , who has survived of this family in these days, I will deprive him of life, and make him without the heritage of children. I will cause Julian to arise in his realm , and I will make him Autocrat over all the earth . He alone shall be king from the East to the West . His kingdom shall endure a hundred years. To him all the kingdoms of the earth shall submit . What I have not done for his ancestors , I shall do for him. As in a bed of comfort all the forces of my service shall have comfortable rest in him. He shall be my temple , and I shall dwell in him ; nor will I leave it for ever, because I have found that he, alone, in all the kingdoms of my dominion, is anxious to carry out all my wishes . Arise , Julian, our king , prosper and succeed ! ' He rose imme- diately, and offered sacrifice . On the same night all the demons came to worship him. On the night of the morrow Magnus , the magician, took Julian and went outside the second wall, to the idols of Baal-zebub. They took with them Kuzu , the daughter of Magnus , the magician , who was pregnant ; they took off her clothes, and hung her up in the house of the idols by her belly until she was ripped open . They drew out of her womb alive the child, nine months old , and performed with it all kinds of superstitious rites of divination and enchant- ment. These workers of superstition came up from the earth , that is to say, demons from the lower world . Magnus, the magician , addressed them, and said to them : "The prince of the world and all his powers have deemed it fit to give the kingdom and the dominion to the son of your confession, Julian . Are you satisfied that he be king ? Will you help him, as you hold rule in this lower world ? ' All answered , and said : ' We will submit to him, because to him belongs all the power beneath the sky ; his power shall reign above all the powers , and that will endure a hundred years . His power shall be victorious .' After they had practised divination and enchantment with that child, they restored it to the womb of its mother, and brought her down from the cord upon which she was hanging. They placed her on the altar, and put on her frankincense . Julian approached , and lit the fire with the wood of laurel which was placed upon the altar. He lifted up his voice, and said : ' ORuler of this world, mighty power too of the chief demons and devils , those above the earth and those beneath : I pray you to receive the new and first sacrifice of Julian your new king, for the peace of the realm , for the repose of his government, and for the preservation of his life, for the term of a hundred years during which you have assigned unto him the kingdom.' At the same moment the demon entered into him, and dwelt in him as in a temple of idols . It was then that the Spirit of God departed from him, as He departed from Saul ; and the spirit of Satan ruled in him , and became master over him. From that hour everything that he did seemed to be done as through the machinations of demons . On the night when Julian sacrificed to demons , this vision appeared to one of the saints . He saw Julian stand- ing in the thermal baths of Athens . He was perspiring, and his sweat smelt like perfumes . The angel of God , who held a sponge of fire in his hand , was wiping this perspira- tion from off his whole body. He who was worthy to see him in this condition said to the angel : ' Why do you wipe from him this pleasant odour ? ' And he replied : ‘ I am
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wiping from him the holy consecration which he put on in baptism. ' The saint said to him : 'Why, my master ? ' And the angel answered him : ' Because the Spirit of God has departed from him .' He who had been the witness of this vision kept silence , and said nothing to any one. After several days the king pressed him to swear to Alotra by that idol which guards the hours . He said : ' It is enough for me. I have sworn twice by the Sacrament of the Christians, and by the Cross which they adore. If she insists, I will swear a thousand times by the Commu- nion which the Christians have, and by the Cross which they worship ; but by the figure which is on high I will not swear.' The whole assembly of the Senate rose up against the king, and said to him : ' It is not God-fearing for a Christian man to forsake God, and devote himself to swearing by idols which the pagans worship. ' The servants of the royal house had no idea that Julian had renounced God, and brought sacrifices to demons. The king kept quiet , and made no reply. Then Alotra approached again , and besought the king. He was angry with her ; and she at once entered the queen's presence ; and daily she im- portuned for that which Julian had taken from her. At that time the war of the Barbarians was stirred up against the king. Because the Romans had no general , the king named Julian general for the war over all the armies of the Romans . When going to war against the enemies of the king, he sent for Magnus, the magician. He practised his enchantments , asking : 'Victory or not ?' He was told by the demons to make a feast, and to offer sacrifices to Hadarius and to Deus , to Hormuzd and to Serapis, and to Baal-shemin ; and they will also offer on your behalf. When he had brought the sacrifices in secret , he set out for the war, and conquered the Barbarians . Immediately his heart was exalted in pride, and he left God, his Creator. In those days when Julian was in the high countries , the son of Constantine , the just , departed from this world. Then Julian revealed his paganism , and raised persecution against us . From the start, holy persons saw with the clear vision of the spirit, men expert in knowledge , that which was in store for him. One of the saints had seen him, while yet a little child , asleep on the couch, with the venomous serpent, called a viper, wound about his head like a crown ; and he at once thought within himself: "This child will be an accursed creature ! ' And also when he would read from the Epistles , those who were near him observed how amazed and intent he was and how his colour changed . (Something missing in the MS.)
-" Turning the wheels ' , he would, for instance, say, ‘ all the days of my life , more than all those who have been before me, I will magnify your feasts , and I will be to you a sincere friend and brother. ' In his sleep he put out his hand, and gave it to the devil, saying : 'You be our master, and I your pupil . If I renounce you , may God renounce me. You be for me, and I will be for you always .' At the same time he kissed his right hand . When Basilius roused him, he inquired : ' To whom were you speaking in your sleep ? To whom did you give your right hand ? and with whom have you made a covenant ? Who was it that was speak- ing to you ? ' After a long time , when he had remembered his vision , he lied to Basilius , saying laughingly : ' You and Gregory are my brothers until the end . It was to you both that I gave my right hand , and to whom I was speaking . ' Tion , the philosopher, he who received Julian at bap- tism , said to him several times before us all : ' If my dreams do not deceive me , judging from the visions which I see concerning you, you will die a wretched death ; for God has decreed against you a sentence without mercy. Take heed to yourself ; for I myself think that your portion will be with the devil.' One day when all the sages and philosophers of Athens were seated, and Julian and all their pupils were standing before them , the philosopher Tion said to Julian : ' See, there is no person in this assembly who is of the royal blood except you . Behold , if the occasion arise , you will
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be king. Do no harm to any one in this assembly ; but may your eyes be upon them for good . Tell me then, should the occasion arise that you become king, what are you going to do to me who received you from the waters of baptism , and taught you knowledge ? ' Julian said to him in a joke : ' I would crucify you high above the great public baths , and I would have your body burnt therein . And as for Sosipater, I would have his skin stripped from him alive .' All laughed . Whereupon Tion , his teacher, said to them : ' Laugh not, my brothers ; pray rather that not one of you may attain the age of fourteen years , according to Athenian reckoning, because in that year there will be great persecution . Some one present in this assembly will renounce God, and worship idols ; and then he will bring about persecution among those who confess Christ.' It is because not every one knows how the fall of Julian took place, that I have taken pains to write for the children of the Holy Church the whole grim account of the paganism of Julian, the transgressor, and how the history of Julian , the pagan, ended . They will not be contaminated by his putrid filthiness , nor will the fire of his desire set them ablaze .