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JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS
Thomas Mann 1875-1955
Page 935
"Come nearer, my friend," he said, as the bee studded curtain closed behind them, "pray come close to me, dear Khabiru from the Retenu, fear not, nor startle in your step, come quite close to me! This is the mother of god, Tiy, who lives a million years. And I am Pharaoh. But think no more of that, lest it make you fearful. Pharaoh is God and Man, but sets as much store by the second as the first, yes he rejoices, sometimes his rejoicing amounts to defiance and scorn that he is a man like all men, seen from one side; he rejoices to snap his fingers at those sour faces who would have him bear himself uniformly as God
SIMULATIONS OF GOD
THE SCIENCE OF BELIEF
John Lilly 1975
Page xi
"I am only an extraterrestrial who has come to the / Page xii / planet Earth to inhabit a human body, Everytime I leave this body and go back to my own civilization, I am expanded beyond all human imaginings, When I must return I am squeezed down into the limited vehicle."
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
E.A. Wallis Budge
First Published
1899
THE ADDRESSES OF HORUS
[Chap. clxxiii.
CHAPTER
CLXXIII.
[From the Papyrus of Nebseni (Brit. Mus. Nc. 9900, sheets 9 and 10).]
Vignette: "Osiris, the great god, the lord of Abtu, the lord of transformations, the prince of eternity," seated in a shrine; to the left of the text the deceased stands, with hands raised in adoration, before the god, and the ground between them is covered with the bodies of birds and beasts which have been
prepared for sacrifice (see pp. 390, 391).
Page 589 Chap. clxxiii. IO]
THE ADDRESSES OF HORUS
Text: THE SPEECHES OF HORUS TO HIS' DIVINE FATHER OSIRIS WHEN HE ENTERETH IN TO SEE HIM, AND .WHEN HE COMETH FORTH FROM NEAR THE GREAT ABT CHAMBER TO LOOK UPON RA AS UN-NEFER, THE LORD OF TA-TCHESERT; THEN DOTH EACH EMBRACE THE OTHER AT THB PLEASURE OF HIS KHU, THERE IN THE UNDERWORLD. (1) A Hymn of Praise to Osiris, governor of those in the underworld, the great god, the lord of Abydos, the king of eternity, the prince of everlastingness, the holy god in Re-stau, (2) by the scribe Nebseni, who saith :- (3)
"I ascribe praise unto thee, O lord of the gods, thou "God One, who livest (4) upon right and truth, behold, "I thy son Horus come unto thee; (5) I have avenged "thee, and I have brought to thee maat-even to the "place where is. the company of thy gods. (6) Grant "thou that I may have my being among those who are "in thy following, for I have overthrown all thy (7) "foes, and I have stablisherl all those who are of thy "substance upon the earth for ever and ever,"
[Here follow forty declarations, each of which is preceded by the words "Hail, Osiris, I am thy " son." ]
(8).. "I have come, and I have avenged [thee, O my"father Osiris]. .
(9).. "I have come, and I have overthrown for thee "thine enemies.
(10) "I have come, and I have done away with every "evil thing which belongeth unto thee.Page 590 [Chap. clxxiii.33
(11) "I have come, and I have slain for thee him that " attacked thee. .
(12) "I have come, and I have sent forth mine arm "against those who were hostile towards thee.
(13) "I have come, and I have brought unto thee "the fiends of Set with their fetters upon them.
(14) "I have come, and I have brought unto thee "the land of the South, and I have united unto thee " the land of the North.
(15) "I have come, and I have stablished for thee " divine offerings from the South and from the North.
(16) "I have come, and I have ploughed 1 for thee "the fields.
(17) "I have come, and I have filled for thee the"canals with water.
(18) "I have come, and I have hoed up for thee the "ground.
(19) "I have come, and I have built cisterns for thee.
(20) "I have come, and I have gone round about the "Boil for thee.
(21) "I have come, and I have made sacrificial "victims of those who were hostile to thee.Page 591 Chap. clxxiii. 32]
(22) "I have come, and I have made sacrifices unto "thee of thine animals and victims for slaughter.
(23) "I have come, and I have supplied [thee] with " food in abundance [of the creatures which are upon " earth l
(24) "I have come, and I have brought unto thee " . . . . . .
(25) "I have come, and I have slain for thee " . . . . . . . .
(26) "I have come, and I have smitten for thee"emasculated beasts.
(27) "I have come, and I have netted for thee birds "and feathered fowl.
(28) "I have come, and I have taken captive for "thee thine enemies in their chains.
(29) "I have come, and I have fettered for thee thine "enemies with fetters.
(30) "I have come, and I have brought for thee cool "water from Abu (Elephantine), wherewith thou "mayest refresh thine heart.
(31) "I have come, and I have brought unto thee " herbs of every kind.
(32) "I have come, and I have stablished for thee "those who are of thy substance daily.Page 592 [Chap. clxxiii. 33(33) "I have (33) "I have come, and I have made thy cakes in "the city of Pe of the red barley.
(34) "I nave come, and I have made thy ale in the "city of Tepu of the white grain.
(35) "I have come, and I have ploughed for thee "wheat and barley in Sekhet-Aaru.
(36) "I have come, and I have reaped it for thee "therein.
(37) "I have come, and I have glorified thee.
(38) "I have come, and I have given [to thee] thy "souls.
(39) "I have come, and I have given [to thee] thy "power.
(40) "I have come, and I have given [to thee thy]." . . . . .
(41) "I have come, and I have given [to thee thy] " . . . . .
(42) "I have come, and I have given [to thee] thy "terror.
(43) "I have come, and I have gIven [to thee] thy "victory.
(44) "I have come, and I have given to thee thine "eyes, [which are] the plumes on thy head.
(45) "I have'come, and I have give)l [to thee] Isis "and Nephthys that they may stablish thee.
(46) "I have come, and I have filled for thee the "Eye of Horus [with] oil (or unguent).
(47) "I have come, and I have brought?nto thee the "Eye of Horus, whereby thy face shall be destroyed."
Page 590 Note 1 The text actually has, I have overthrown."
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NINE |
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I HAVE COME |
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81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
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I HAVE COME |
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36 |
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81 |
8+1 |
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NINE |
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9 |
I HAVE COME |
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36 |
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= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
8 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
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36 |
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81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
9 |
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I HAVE COME |
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81 |
8+1 |
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NINE |
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8+1 |
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8+1 |
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9 |
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I HAVE COME |
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81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
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I HAVE COME |
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81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
14 |
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I HAVE COME |
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8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
15 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
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36 |
36 |
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= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
16 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
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36 |
36 |
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= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
17 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
+ |
= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
18 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
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= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
19 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
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= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
20 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
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= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
21 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
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= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
22 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
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= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
23 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
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= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
24 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
+ |
= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
25 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
+ |
= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
26 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
+ |
= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
27 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
+ |
= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
28 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
+ |
= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
29 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
+ |
= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
30 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
+ |
= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
31 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
+ |
= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
32 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
+ |
= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
33 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
+ |
= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
34 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
+ |
= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
35 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
+ |
= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
36 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
+ |
= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
37 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
+ |
= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
38 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
+ |
= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
39 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
+ |
= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
40 |
9 |
I HAVE COME |
9 |
36 |
36 |
+ |
= |
81 |
8+1 |
9 |
NINE |
9 |
820 |
360 |
First Total |
360 |
1440 |
1440 |
- |
- |
3240 |
- |
360 |
- |
360 |
8+2+0 |
3+6+0 |
Add to Reduce |
3+6+0 |
1+4+4+0 |
1+4+4+0 |
- |
- |
3+2+4+0 |
- |
3+6+0 |
- |
3+6+0 |
10 |
9 |
Second Total |
9 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
9 |
- |
9 |
- |
9 |
1+0 |
- |
Reduce to Deduce |
- |
- |
- |
|
|
- |
|
- |
|
- |
1 |
9 |
Essence of Number |
9 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
9 |
- |
9 |
- |
9 |
HURRAH FOR RAH FOR RAH FOR RAH HURRAH
I
HAVE
COME
153 x 12 = 1836 1836 = 12 x 153
2 |
RA |
19 |
10 |
1 |
6 |
TEFNUT |
86 |
23 |
5 |
3 |
SHU |
48 |
12 |
3 |
11 |
|
153 |
45 |
9 |
| 1+1 |
|
1+5+3 |
4+5 |
- |
2 |
|
9 |
9 |
9 |
FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS
Graham Hancock 1995
Page 382
"Despite such apparently inauspicious beginnings, Shu and Tefnut (who were always-described as 'Twins' and frequently depicted as lions) grew to maturity, copulated and produced off spring of their own: Geb the god of the earth and Nut, the goddess of the sky. These two also mated, creating Osiris and Isis, Set and Nepthys, and so completed the Ennead, the full company of the Nine Gods of Heliopolis. Of the nine, Ra, Shu, Geb and Osiris were said to have ruled in Egypt as kings, followed by Horus, and lastly - for 3226 years - by the Ibis-headed wisdom god Thoth.8
JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS
Thomas Mann 1855 1955
JOSEPH THE PROVIDER
Page 935
"This is the mother of god, Tiy,
"Come nearer, my friend," he said, as the bee studded curtain closed behind them, "pray come close to me, dear Khabiru from the Retenu, fear not, nor startle in your step, come quite close to me! This is the mother of god, Tiy, who lives a million years. And I am Pharaoh. But think no more of that, lest it make you fearful. Pharaoh is God and Man, but sets as much store by the second as the first, yes he rejoices, sometimes his rejoicing amounts to defiance and scorn that he is a man like all men, seen from one side; he rejoices to snap his fingers at those sour faces who would have him bear himself uniformly as God
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"When of late I had my seizure, and revelation was vouchsafed me for the improvement of the teaching- for it is not
complete, never have I asserted that it was complete - then I heard my Father's voice and it spoke to me saying: 'I am the heat of ,the Aton, which is in Him. But millions of suns could I feed from my fires. Callest thou me Aton, then know that the name itself stands in.need of improvement. When you call me so, you are not calling me by my last and final name. For my last name is: the Lord, of the Aton.' Thus Pharaoh heard it, the Father's beloved child, and brought it back with him out of his attack. But he kept silent, and even the silence made him forget. Pharaoh has set truth in his heart, for the Father is the truth.'But he is responsible for the triumph of the teaching, that all men may receive it; and he is concerned lest the improvement and purification, until at last it consist only of the pure truth, might mean to make, it unteachable. This is a sore concern which no one can understand save one on whom as much'" responsibility rests as on Pharaoh. For others it is easy to.say: 'You have not set truth in your heart, but rather the teaching.' Yet the teaching is the sole means of bringing men nearer the truth. It should be im / Page 967/ proved; "but if one improve it to the extent that it becomes unavailable as a medium of truth - I ask the Father and. you: will not only then the reproach be justified that I have shut up the teaching in my heart to the disadvantage of the truth? Pharaoh shows mankind the image of the revered, Father made by his artists: the golden disk from which rays go down upon his creatures, ending in tender hands" which caress all creation. Adore!" he commands 'This is the Aton, my Father, whose blood runs in me, who revealed himself to me, but will be Father to you all, that you may become good and lovely in him.' And he adds: 'Pardon, dear human beings, that I am so strict with your thoughts. Gladly would I spare your simplicity. But it must be: Therefore I say to you: Not the image shall you worship when, you worship, not to it sing your hymns when you sing; but rather to Him whose image it is, you understand, the true disk of the sun, my Father in the sky, who is the Aton, for the image is not: yet he.' That is hard enough; it is a challenge to men; Out of a hundred. twelve understand it. But if now the teacher says: 'Still another and further effort must I urge upon you for the sake of truth, however much it pains me for your simplicity. For the image is but the image of the image and witness to a witness. Not the actual round sun up there in the, sky are you to think of when you burn incense to his image and sing his praise -"- not this, but the Lord of Aton; who is the heat in it and who guides its qmrse.' That goes too far, it is too much teaching, and not twelve, not even one 'understands. Only Pharaoh himself understands; who is outside of all count, and yet he is supposed to teach the many. Your forefather, soothsayer, had an easy task, althoug.h he made it hard for himself. He might make it as hard as he liked, striving after truth for his own sake and the sake of his pride, for he was only a wanderer. But I am King, and teacher; I may not think what I cannot teach. Whereas such a one very soon learns not even to think the unteachable."
Here Tiy, his mother, cleared her throat, rattled her ornaments, and said, looking ahead of her into space:
"Pharaoh is to be praised when he practises statesmanship in matters of religious belief and spares the simplicity of the many..That is why I warned him not to wound the popular attachment to Usir, king of the lower regions. There is no contradiction between knowing and sparing, in this connection; and the office of teacher need not darken knowledge. Never have priests taught the multitude all they themselves know. They have told them what was. wholesome, and wisely left in the realm of the mysteries what was not beneficial. Thus knowledge and wisdom are together in the world, truth and forbearance. The mother recommends that it so remain."
"Thank you, Mama, "said Amenhotep, with a deprecating bow. "Thank you for the, contribution. It is very valuable and will for / Page / 968 /
eternal ages be held in honour. But we are speaking of two different things. My Majesty speaks of the fetters which the teaching puts upon the thoughts of God; yours refers to priestly statecraft, which
divides teaching and knowledge. But Pharaoh would not be arrogant, and there is no greater arrogance than such a division. No, there is no arrogance in the world greater than that of dividing the children of our Father into initiate and uninitiate and teaching double words: all-knowingly for the masses, knowingly in the inner circle. No, we must speak what we know, and witness what we have seen. Pharaoh wants to do nothing but improve the teaching, even though it be made hard for him by the teachhing. And still it has been said to me: 'Call me not Aton, for that is in need of improvement. Call me the Lord of the Aton!' But I, through keeping silent, forgot.' See now what the Father does for his beloved son! He sends him a messenger and dream-interpreter, who shows him his dreams, dreams from below and dreams from above, dreams important for the realm and for heaven; that he should awake in him what he already knows, and interpret what was already said to him. Yes, how loveth the Father his child the King who came forth out of him, that he sends down a soothsayer to him, to whom from long ages has been handed down the teaching that it profits man to press on towards the last and highest! "
"To my knowledge., " Tiy coldly remarked, "your soothsayer came up from below, out of a dungeon, and not from above."
"Ah, in my opinion that is sheer mischief, that he came from below," cried Amenhotep. "And besides, above and below mean not much to the Father, who when he goes down makes the lower the upper, for where he shines, there is the upper world. From which it comes that his messengers interpret dreams from above and below with equal skill.
JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS
Thomas Mann 1875-1955
JOSEPH THE PROVIDER
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"To put it bluntly, somebody had been conspiring against Pharaoh's life - this although the days of the majesty of that elderly god were well known to be numbered anyhow,. and it is common knowledge that their inclination to unite again with the sun could not be arrested either by the' advice of the magici,ans and physicians of the bookhouse or even by the mediation of Ishtar of the Way, which His Majesty's brother and father-in-law of the Euphrates, Tushratta, King over Khanigalbat or Mitanniland, had solicitously sent to him.But that the Great House, Si-Re, Son of the Sun and Lord of the Two
Crowns, Neb-ma-Re-Amenhotpe, was old and ailing and could
scarcely breathe was no reason at all why he should not be conspired against; indeed, if you liked, it was a very good reason why he should, however dreadful, of course, such an enterprise remained.
It was a universally known fact that Re himself, the sun-god, had originally been. King of the two lands,. or rather ruler on earth over all men; and had ruled them with majestic brilliance and blessing so
long as his years were still young, mature, or middle-aged, and even for some considerable period of time into his beginning and increasing age.But when he had got very old, and painful infirmities and
frailties, though of course splendid in their form, approached the majesty of this god, he had found it good to withdraw from the earth and re;tire into the upper regions. For his bones gradually turned to silver, his flesh to gold, and his hair to genuine lapis lazuli, a very beautiful form of senescence, yet attended with all sorts of ailments and pains, for which the gods themselves had sought a thousand remedies but all in vain, since no herb that grows can avail against the diseases of gilding and silvering and lapidification, those troubles of advanced old age. Yet even under these circumstances. th.e old Re had always clung to his earthly sovereignty although he must have seen that owing to his own weakness it; had begunn to relax, that he had ceased to be feared and even to be respected.
Now Isis, the Great One of the. Island, Eset, a millionfold fertile in guile, felt that her moment was come. Her wisdom embraced heaven and earth, like that of the superannuated old Re himself. But there was one thing she did not know or command, and the lack of it / Page 889 / hampered her: she did not know the last, most secret name of Re, his very final one, knowledge of which would give power over him. Re had very many names, each one more seeret than the one before, yet not utterly hopeless to find out, save one, the very last and mightiest. That he still withheld; whoso could make him name it, he could compel him and outdistance him and put him under his feet.
Therefore Eset conceived and devised a serpent, which should sting Re in his golden flesh. Then the intolerable pain of the sting, which only great Eset could cure who made the worm, would force Re to tell her his name. Now as she contrived it, so was it fulfilled. The old Re was stung, and in torments was forced to come out with one of his secret names after another, always hoping that the goddess would be satisfied before they got to the last one. But she kept on to the uttermost, until he had named her the very most secret of all, and the power of her knowledge over him was. absolute. After that it cost her nothing to heal his wound; but he only got a little better, within the wretched limits in which so old a creature can; and soon thereafter he gave up and joined the great majority."
EGYPTIAN MAGIC
E.A.Wallis Budge
1899
ISIS COVETS THE POWER OF R.A
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THE LEGEND OF RA AND ISIS.
"The Chapter of the divine god, the self-created "being, who made the heavens and the earth, and the "winds [which give] life, and the fire, and the gods, " and men, and beasts, and cattle, and reptiles, and the " fowl of the air and the fish of the sea; he is the king " of men and of gods, he hath one period of life (?) and "with him periods of one hundred and twenty years "each are but as years; his names are manifold and "unknown, the gods even know them not.
RA STUNG BY A SERPENT.
"Now Isis was a woman who possessed words of " power; her heart was wearied with the millions of " men, therefore she chose the millions of the gods, but "she esteemed more highly' the millions of the spirits "(khu). And she meditated in her heart, saying, 'Can-"not I by means of the sacred name of God make "myself mistress of the earth and become a goddess "like unto Ra. in heaven and upon earth?' Now behold, each day Ra entered at the head of his holy mariners and established himself upon the throne of the two horizons. Now the divine one (i.e., Ra) had grown old, he dribbled at the mouth, his spittle fell upon the earth, and his slobbering dropped upon the ground. And Isis kneaded it with earth in her hand, and formed thereof a sacred serpent in the "form of a dart; she did not set it upright before her face, but let it lie upon the ground in the path / Page138 / whereby the great god went forth, according to his "heart's desire, into his double kingdom. Now the "holy god arose, and the gods who followed him as "though he were Pharaoh went with him and he came "forth according to his daily wont; and the sacred "serpent bit him. The flame of life departed from "him, and he who dwelt among the cedars (1) was " overcome. The holy god opened his mouth, and the "cry of his majesty reached unto heaven; his company "of gods said, 'What hath happened?' and his gods "exclaimed, 'What is it? ' But Ra could not answer, "for his jaws trembled and all his members quaked; "the poison spread swiftly through his flesh just as the " Nile rusheth through all his land. When the great " god had stablished hi.s heart, he cried unto those who "were in his train, saying, 'Come unto me, 0 ye who "have come into being from my body, ye gods who "have come forth from me, make ye known unto "Khepera that a dire calamity hath fallen upon me. " My heart perceiveth it, but my eyes see it not; my "hand hath not caused it, nor do I know who hath "done this unto me. Never have I felt such pain, "neither can sickness cause more woe than this. I " am a prince, the son of a prince, the sacred essence "which hath proceeded from God. I am the great " one, the son of the great one, and my father planned "my name; I have multitudes of names and multitudes
"of forms, and my being is in every god. I have been / Page
139 / "proclaimed by the heralds Temu and Horus, and my "father and my mother uttered my name; but it hath "been hidden within me by him that begat me, " who Would not that the words of power of any seer "should have dominion over me. I came forth. to look "upon that. which I had made, I was passing through "the world which I had created, when lo! something "stung me, but what I know not. Is it fire? Is it " water? My heart is on fire, my flesh quaketh, and "trembling hath seized all my limbs. Let there be "brought unto me my children, the gods, who possess "the words of power and magical speech, and mouths "which know how to utter them, and also powers "which reach even unto the heavens.
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ISIS OFFERS HER HELP.
'Then the, "children of every god came unto him uttering cries "of grief. And Isis also came, bringing with her her " words of magical power, and her mouth was full of
'" the breath of life; for her talismans vanquish the "pains of sickness, and her words make to live again "the throats of those who are dead. And she spake, "saying, 'What hath come to pass, O holy Father? 'What hath happened? Is it that a serpent hath "bitten thee, and that a thing which thou hast created " hath lifted up his head against thee? Verily it shall "be cast down by my effective words of power, and. I "will drive it away from before the sight of thy sun"beams.
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THE SUFFERINGS OF RA.
The holy god opened his mouth and said, " 'I was passing along my path, and I was going / Page140 /
"through the two regions of my lands according to "my heart's desire, to see that which I had created, " when lo! I was bitten by a serpent which I saw not. "Is it fire? Is it water? I am colder than water, I am hotter than fire. All my flesh sweateth, I quake, "my eye hath no strength, I cannot see the sky, and "the sweat rusheth to my face even as in the time of "summer.' Then said Isis unto Ra, ' O tell me thy " name, holy Father, for whosoever shall be delivered "by thy name shall live.' And Ra said, 'I have made "the heavens and the earth, I have knit together the "mountains, I have created all that is above them, "I have made the water, I have made to come into "being the goddess Meht-urt, and I have made the " " Bull of his mother," from whom spring the delights "of love. I have made the heavens, I have stretched "out the two horizons like a curtain, and I have placed "the soul of the gods within them. I am he who, if "he openeth his eyes, doth make the light, and, if he "closeth them, darkness cometh into being. At his "command the Nile riseth, and the gods know not "his name. I have made the hours, I have created "the days, I bring forward the festivals of the year, "I create the Nile-flood. I make the fire of life, and " I provide food in the houses. I am Khepera in the " morning, I am Ra at noon, and I am Temu at even.' "Meanwhile the poison was not taken away from his "body, but it pierced deeper, and the great god could " no longer walk.
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RA REVEALS HIS NAME TO ISIS.
"Then said Isis unto Ra, 'What thou hast said is "not thy name. O tell it unto me, and the poison "shall depart; for he shall live whose name shall be " revealed.' Now the poison burned like fire, and it "was fiercer than the flame and the furnace, and the "majesty of the great god said, 'I consent that Isis "shall search into me, and that my name shall pass "from me into her.' Then the god hid himself from "the gods, and his place in the Boat of Millions of "Years was empty. And when the time had arrived "for the heart of Ra to come forth, Isis spake unto "her son Horus, saying, 'The god hath bound himself "by oath to delhrer up his two eyes (i.e., the sun and ,t moon).' Thus was the name of the great god taken "from him, and Isis, the lady of words of magical "power, said, 'Depart, poison, go forth from Ra. - O "Eye of Horus, go forth from the god, and shine outside "his mouth. It is I who work, it is I who make to fall "down upon the earth the vanquished poison, for the "name of the great god hath been taken away from "him. Let Ra live, and let the poison die! Let the "poison die, and let Ra live!' These are the words " of Isis, the mighty lady, the mistress of the gods, who "knew Ra by his own name."
AUM MANI PADME HUM
ALL HAIL THE JEWEL AT THE CENTRE OF THE LOTUS
