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THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE MAKETH HIMSELF ONE WITH THE ONLY GOD, by                    
First Line: O everlasting kingdom of the scepter
Last Line: Shall drag me back from my immortal path!
Subject(s): Egypt;religion; Theology


O EVERLASTING Kingdom of the Scepter,
O Resting-place where Ra's bright boat is moored,
O White Crown of the Form which is divine!
I come! I am the Child! I am the Child!
My hair is Nu, my face the disk of Ra,
My eyes are Hathor, and my neck is Isis;—
Each member of my body is a god,
My flesh and bones, the names of Living Gods.
Jhoth shelters me, for always, day by day.
I come as Ra, I come as he whose name
Is yet unknown. I come as Yesterday,
As Prophet of the million years to be
For nations and for peoples still untold.
I am the Child who marcheth down the road
Of Yesterday, To-day, and of To-morrow.
I am the One, the Only One, who goeth
Forever round his course through all horizons;
Whose moment is in your bodies, but whose forms
Rest in their temple, secret and unveiled;
Who holdeth you in his hand, but whom no hand
Can ever hold; who knoweth your name and season
But whom you can not know, nor any mortal;
For whom the days return in constant passing,
Moving in splendor toward the end of time.

Yea, I am He, and shall not die again;
Nor men, nor sainted dead, nor even gods
Shall drag me back from my immortal path!





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