THE RITES OF ELEUSIS
as the night sky—blue!
Thou whose skin is of flaming orange,
as though it burned in a furnace: Thee, Thee we invoke!
Behold, I am yesterday, to-day, and the brother of The
Morrowl
Iam born again and again.
Mine is the unseen
force from which the Gods are sprung; that giveth life unto
the dwellers in the watch—towers of the Universe.
I am the charioteer of the East, Lord
01 the Past and
the Future.
I see by mine own inward light;
Lord of
Resurrection, who cometh forth from the dusk, and whose
birth is from the House of Death.
Ο ye two divine hawks upon your pinnacles, who keep
Watch over the Universe!
Ye who company the bier unto
the House of Rest.
Ye who pilot the Ship of Ra, ever ad—
vancing onwards unto the heights of Heaven
!
Lord of the Shrine which standeth in the centre of the
Earth!
Behold He is in me and I in Him!
Mine is the radiance in which Ptah floateth over his
firmament.
I travel upon high.
I tread upon the firmament of Nu.
I raise a flashing flame with the lightning of mine eye,
ever rushing forward in the splendour of the daily glorified
Ra, giving my life to the dwellers of Earth.
If I say “come up upon the mountains,”
The Celestial waters shall flow at my word ;
For I am Ra incarnate,
Khephra created in the fleshl
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