Ancient Egypt: Religious Thought Development

"Contrary to the popular and current impression, the most important body of sacred literature in Egypt is not the Book of the Dead, but a much older literature which we now call the 'Pyramid Texts.' These texts, preserved in the Fifth and Sixth Dynasty Pyramids at Sakkara, form the oldest body of literature surviving from the ancient world and disclose to us the earliest chapter in the intellectual history of man as preserved to modern times. They are to the study of Egyptian language and civilization what the Vedas have been in the study of early East Indian and Aryan^[1] culture. Discovered in 1880–81, they were published by Maspero in a pioneer edition which will always remain a great achievement and a landmark in the history of Egyptology. The fact that progress has been made in the publication of such epigraphic work is no reflection upon the devoted labors of the distinguished first editor of the Pyramid Texts. The appearance last year of the exhaustive standard edition of the hieroglyphic text at the hands of Sethe after years of study and arrangement marks a new epoch in the study of earliest Egyptian life and religion. How comparatively inaccessible the Pyramid Texts have been until the appearance of Sethe's edition is best illustrated by the fact that no complete analysis or full account of the Pyramid Texts as a whole has ever appeared in English, much less an English version of them. The great and complicated fabric of life which they reflect to us, the religious and intellectual forces which have left their traces in them, the intrusion of the Osiris faith and the Osirian editing by the hand of the earliest redactor in literary history—all these and many other fundamental disclosures of this earliest body of literature have hitherto been inaccessible to the English reader, and as far as they are new, also to all."
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¹Videre licet:
Ancient India: The Aryas (Aryans) - http://wsu.edu/~dee/ancindia/aryans.htm

Etymology:
http://www.answers.com/topic/aryan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/aryan

Source:
Breasted, James Henry. Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt; Lectures Delivered on the Morse Foundation at Union Theological Seminary (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1912), pp.xiii-xiv.

Full Text:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/rtae

The 12th Hour

The Book of Gates
by

E.A. Wallis Budge
[1905]

[Original Title: The Short Form of the Book of Am-Tuat and the Book of Gates]

THE TWELFTH HOUR

The majesty of this great god taketh up his position in this Circle at the limits of the thick darkness, and this great god is born under the form of KHEPERA in this Circle. The gods NU and AMMUI, and HEH and HEH[UT] are in this Circle at the birth of this great god, when he maketh his appearance from the Tuat, and taketh up his place in the Matet Boat, and riseth from between the thighs of the goddess Nut.

THENEN-NETERU is the name of the gate of this City.

KHEPER-KEKUI-KHA-MESTI is the name of this City. [This is] the secret Circle of the Tuat, wherein this great god is born, when he maketh his appearance in NU, and taketh up his place in the body of NUT.

Whosoever shall make [a copy] of these [representations] according to the figures which are depicted on the east [wall] of the palace of Ament of the Tuat, they shall be magical protectors to him that knoweth them upon earth, both in heaven and on earth.

At this point the light beginneth [to come], and it is the end of the thick darkness which Ra travelleth through in Amentet, and of the secret matters which this great god performed therein. He who hath no knowledge of the whole (?) or part (?) of the secret representations of the Tuat, shall be condemned to destruction.

Whosoever shall make [a copy] of these [representations] according to this copy of what is in the Ament of the Tuat, [which] cannot be looked at or seen, and whosoever shall know these secret images shall be in the condition of the spirit who is equipped [for journeying], and shall come forth [from] and shall descend into the Tuat, and shall hold converse with the men and women who live [there] regularly and unfailingly, millions of times.

Source: http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/gate/gate14.htm

The Temple of Kemetic Wicca

Hail,

We are pleased to announce the rebirth of
The
Temple of Kemetic Wicca
(ToKW)

Em hetep,

Ankh, Udja, Seneb!

Rev. Frater K.A. Sahure, D.D., Msc.D., Th.D.
Rev. Frater P.M. Lorca, D.D., D.Met.
~ Presiding Spiritual Overseers of the Temple ~

"Adorations"

"There is a secret door that I shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (these are the adorations, as thou hast written) as it is said:

The Light is mine; its rays consume
Me: I have made a secret door
Into the House of Ra and Tum,
Of Khephra, and of Ahathoor.
I am thy Theban, O Mentu,
The prophet Ankh-f-na-khonsu!

By Bes-na-Maut my breast I beat;
By wise Ta-Nech I weave my spell.
Show thy star-splendour, O Nuit!
Bid me within thine House to dwell,
O winged snake of light, Hadit!
Abide with me, Ra-Hoor-Khuit!"

Excerpted from:
Liber CCC
{Book 300}
Khabs am Pekht

http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/lib300.htm

Preparing the God

Spell for the laying of hands upon the God

The Pharaoh speaks unto Re-Harakhte,

"Thoth is come to see you, his nms-cloth at his throne, his tail at his buttocks. Awake you, that you may hear His voice.

Oh, greetings to you, Re-Harakhte, with that which your father Atum has judged you.

My arms are upon you as Horus, my arms are upon you as Thoth, my fingers are upon you as Anubis."

From - Episode 13, Daily Temple Ritual, Temple of Sethos I at Abydos

A Personal Blessing

The Blessing

{This personal blessing may be performed by any Priestess/Priest and for anyone, anything, or inanimate object.}

Priestess/Priest: [recites once]

Be assured the Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt are by your side in spirit, peace, comfort, and harmony during your triumphal time of spiritual need, blessing, and healing.

Be assured that the Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt are indeed housed within you, in spirit and being, and bless you divinely,

During the Ancient Egyptian seasons of Akhet (emergence), Peret (growth), Shomu (harvest), and five Epagomenal days of the year,

Be assured the Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Witchcraft are housed within you, in spirit and being, and bless you divinely.

Be certain, the Pharaoh’s Obelisk will bestow great, joyful energies and blessings upon you from the many hands of ancient times which created then erected this 5,000 year old symbol and monument, made of earth, in honor of the rising Sun of Re and new beginnings during your cycle of life’s enlightenment in the here and now, the afterlife, and through your eventual reincarnation.

Hail and harness the divine power (Netjer) of Isis, Sekhmet, and Re, as bestowed upon thee, and as the mighty Scarab moves across the earth from sunrise to sunset.

May your days bring new beginnings and enlightenment for you with all of your hopes and wishes granted upon thee by the Netjeru and Celtic Gods and Goddesses.

In the Light of the Egyptian Pantheon,
The Lady & Lord,
The Maiden, Mother & Crone,
Em hotep & Blesséd Be!

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