Post by whistler on Nov 27, 2004 21:37:15 GMT
In the ceremony on initiation the candidate is instructed to advance to the East –
Then I Read the Egyptian book of the dead and found
THE CHAPTER OF NOT BEING TRANSPORTED TO THE EAST IN KHERT-NETER.
The Osiris Ani saith:- Hail, Phallus of Ra, which advanced and beat down opposition. things which have been without motion for millions of years, have come into life through Baba. I am stronger thereby than the strong, and I have more power thereby than the mighty. Now, let me not be carried away in a boat, or be seized violently and taken to the East, to have the festivals of Sebau Devils celebrated on me. Let not deadly wounds be inflicted upon me, and let me not be gored by horns. Thou shall neither fall [nor] eat fish made by Tebun.
Now, no evil thing of any kind whatsoever shall be done unto me by the Sebau Devils. (I shall not be gored by) horns. Therefore the Phallus of Ra, (which is) the head of Osiris, shall not be swallowed up. Behold, I shall come into the fields and I shall cut the grain. The gods shall provide me with food. Thou shalt not then be gored, Ra-Khepera. There shall not be then pus in the Eye of Tem, and it shall not be destroyed. Violence shall not be done unto me, and I shall not be carried away in (my) boat to the East to have the festivals of the Sebau Devils celebrated on me in evil fashion. Cruel gashes with knives shall not be inflicted upon me, and I shall not be carried away in (my) boat to the East. I the Osiris, the assessor of the holy offerings of all the gods, Ani, whose word is truth, happily, the lord of fealty (to Osiris).
Then I Read the Egyptian book of the dead and found
THE CHAPTER OF NOT BEING TRANSPORTED TO THE EAST IN KHERT-NETER.
The Osiris Ani saith:- Hail, Phallus of Ra, which advanced and beat down opposition. things which have been without motion for millions of years, have come into life through Baba. I am stronger thereby than the strong, and I have more power thereby than the mighty. Now, let me not be carried away in a boat, or be seized violently and taken to the East, to have the festivals of Sebau Devils celebrated on me. Let not deadly wounds be inflicted upon me, and let me not be gored by horns. Thou shall neither fall [nor] eat fish made by Tebun.
Now, no evil thing of any kind whatsoever shall be done unto me by the Sebau Devils. (I shall not be gored by) horns. Therefore the Phallus of Ra, (which is) the head of Osiris, shall not be swallowed up. Behold, I shall come into the fields and I shall cut the grain. The gods shall provide me with food. Thou shalt not then be gored, Ra-Khepera. There shall not be then pus in the Eye of Tem, and it shall not be destroyed. Violence shall not be done unto me, and I shall not be carried away in (my) boat to the East to have the festivals of the Sebau Devils celebrated on me in evil fashion. Cruel gashes with knives shall not be inflicted upon me, and I shall not be carried away in (my) boat to the East. I the Osiris, the assessor of the holy offerings of all the gods, Ani, whose word is truth, happily, the lord of fealty (to Osiris).