With his great knowledge of esotericism, he has been a great patriarch among his people. He was interested in everybody's trouble and difficulty. He was thrown into the midst of worldly responsibilities, to learn all that he has learned from it, and then to teach his knowledge and experience to those who looked to him for the bread of knowledge. No doubt, the stories of ancient times very often strike our modern ears as most childish. But the way they were told and the people that told them all make a great difference. In the first place, there was such a scarcity of lettered people in those days that the stories were told by the unlettered who certainly must have improvised upon every legend they told and pictured it according to the artistic development of their particular age. Nevertheless, truth is there, if we only knew how to lift the veil.