midnight
The lord listened to the report of the astrologers . In case of any unusual phenomenon he pacified them concerning the safety of the world , and commanded to write down all observations on appropriate tablets , which were sent every month to priests of the temple of the Sphinx , the greatest sages in Egypt . Those men drew conclusions from those tablets , but the most important they declared to no one , unless to their colleagues the Chaldean priests in Babylon . After midnight his holiness might sleep till the morning cock-crow if he thought proper . Such a pious and laborious life had been led , not more than half a year ago , by this kind , divine person , the distributor of protection , life , and health , who watched day and night over the earth and the sky , over the world both visible and invisible . But for the last half year his eternally living soul had begun to be more and more wearied with earthly questions , and with its bodily envelope . There were long days when he ate nothing , and nights during which he had no sleep whatever .