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8 the miracles of antichrist
the stall he saw a young mother on her knees before
a little child, which lay on a sheaf of straw on the
floor.
And the sibyl’s bony finger pointed towards that
lowly child. "Ave, Caesar," said the sibyl with a
scoffing laugh. " There is the God that shall be
worshiped on Capitolium Hill." Then Caesar
recoiled from her as from a maniac.
But upon the sibyl descended the mighty spirit of
prophecy. Her dim eyes began to glow, her hands
stretched toward heaven, her voice changed, so that
it no longer seemed to be her own, but had such
ring and power that it might have been heard over
the whole world. And she pronounced words which
she seemed to read up among the stars:
" On Capitolium the world-renewer shall be worshipped,
Christ or Antichrist, but not weak, infirm human beings."
Having said this, she glided away between the
terror-stricken men and passed slowly down the hill
and disappeared.
But the next day Augustus strictly forbade the
people to erect a temple to him on Capitolium Hill.
Instead, he built there a sanctuary to the newborn
Godchild and called it heaven’s altar, Aracoeli.
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