hymn to Ra

edgyzeal:

“A Hymn of Praise to Ra When He Riseth in the Eastern Heaven.”

Homage to Thee, O Thou Who art Ra when Thou risest and Tmu when Thou settest. Thou rise, Thou rise; Thou shine, Thou shine, Thou Who art crowned King of the Gods. Thou art the Lord of Heaven, Thou art the Lord of Earth, Thou art the Creator of those who dwell in the heights and of those who dwell in the depths. Thou art the One God who came into being in the beginning of time. Thou did create the earth, Thou did fashion man, Thou did make the watery abyss of the sky, Thou did form the Nile, and Thou art the Maker of streams and of the great deep, and Thou givest life to all that is therein. Thou hast knit together the mountains, Thou has made mankind and the beasts of the field, Thou hast created the heavens and the earth. Worshipped be Thou Whom the goddess Ma’at embraces at morn and at eve. Thou dost travel across the sky with heart swelling with joy; the Lake of Testes is at peace. The fiend Nak hath fallen and his two arms are amputated. The Sektet boat receives fair winds, and the Heart of Him that is in His Shrine rejoices. Thou art crowned with a heavenly form, the Only one, provided with all things. Ra cometh forth from Nu in triumph. O Thou mighty youth, Thou everlasting Son, Self-begotten, Who did give Thyself birth, O Thou Mighty One, of myriad forms and aspects, King of the World, Prince of Annu, Lord of Eternity and Ruler of the Everlasting, the company of the Gods rejoice when Thou rise and when Thou sail across the sky, O Thou Who art exalted in the Sektet boat. Homage to Thee, O Amon-Ra, Thou Who does rest upon Ma’at, Thou Who passes over the heaven, and every face sees Thee. Thou dost wax great as Thy Majesty doth advance, and the rays are upon all faces. Thou art unknown and cannot be searched out; Thou art the Only One. Men praise Thee in Thy Name Ra, and they swear by Thee, for Thou art Lord over them. Thou hast heard with Thine ears and Thou hast seen with Thine eyes. Millions of years have gone over the world; I cannot tell the number of them, through which Thou hast passed. Thy Heart hath decreed a day of happiness in Thy name of Ra. Thou dost pass over and travel through untold spaces of millions and hundreds of thousands of years; Thou set out in peace, and Thou steer Thy way across the watery abyss to the place which Thou lovest; this Thou doest in one little moment of time, and Thou dost sink down and makest and end of the hours. Hail my Lord, Thou that passest through eternity and Whose Being is everlasting. Hail Thou Disk, Lord of Beams and Light, Thou rise and Thou make all mankind to live. Grant Thou that I may behold Thee at dawn each day.

//from The Book of Coming Forth by Day, Plate I