CHAPTER LXXIX. - The Egyptian Book of the dead

_Chapter whereby one assumeth the form of the Chief god of the Divine

Cycle._

Hail to thee, Tmu, Lord of Heaven, who givest motion to all things which

come into being; thou who comest forth from the Earth and createst

whatsoever is begotten: Lord of the things which are; who givest birth

to the gods; great god, self-produced; Lord of Life, who givest vigour

to the men now living:

Hail to you, ye Lords of pure things, ye whose abodes are hidden:

Hail to you, ye Lords of Eternity, ye whose attributes are concealed,

and the place where ye reside is unknown.

Hail to you, ye gods who are in the divine circuit and the Kabhu; ye

gods who are in Amenta and ye, O Divine Cycle which is in Heaven:

Let me come to you, let me be purified and strengthened, let me be

enriched and gifted with power, let me have possession and glory.

I bring in offering to you perfume, incense and natron. Stop ye the

outpourings of your hearts against me. I am come to put a stop to all

the wrong things which are in your hearts, and to do away with the false

charges which have been made to you.

But I bring in offering to you well-being.[89] I lift up in offering to

you Maāt.

I know you and I know your names, and I know your attributes, though it

be not known what by you may be brought to pass.

I come before you and make my appearance as that god in the form of a

man who liveth like a god, and I stand out before you in the form of

that god who is raised high upon his pedestal, to whom the gods come

with acclamation, and the female deities with jubilation, when they see

him.

I come before you and make my appearance on the seat of Rā, and I sit

upon my seat which is on the Horizon, and receive the offerings upon

their altars. I drink the sacred liquor each evening, in the form of the

Lord of all creatures, and I am exalted like that venerable god the Lord

of the Great House, whom the gods rejoice at seeing at his beautiful

comings forth from the womb of Nut, to whom Nut each day giveth birth.

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Footnote 89:

Perhaps rather _glory_, _splendour_,⁂⁂⁂⁂, which

implies something to be _seen_.

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