Chapter whereby one cometh forth by day out of the Netherworld. Let the words be said:

I am He who closeth and He who openeth, and I am but One.

I am the Originator at the first appearing of the light.

I am the great God, self-subsisting;

His Names are the most beautiful names, and all of them are His;

Resistless is He among all powers.

I am Yesterday, and I know the Morrow.

Strife arose among the created forces when I gave the command.

The Unseen Realm is the scene of contention among created powers.

I know the name of the great angel who is here.

Herald of God is his name.

I am the One who presideth over the account of whatsoever is and of that which cometh into being.

Who is that? It is God who presideth over the account of all that is and all that cometh into being, through endless time and eternity. Endless time is the Day and eternity is the Night.

I have alighted upon my Land, and I come from my own Place.

What is that? It is the Horizon of my Lord's creation.

All defects are done away, all deficiencies are removed, and all that was wrong in me is cast forth.

I am purified at the two great and mighty Lakes at Sutenhunen, which purify the offerings which living men present for the sake of the great God who is there.

Who is that? It is God Himself.

Which are the two great and mighty Lakes? The Lake of Natron and the Lake of Truth.

I advance over the roads, which I know, and my face is on the Land of Truth.

What is that? The road upon which the righteous advance, when they go to the Field of Aarru, approaching the land of Spirits in Heaven.

I come forth through the T'eser gate.

What is that? This gate of the angels is Haukar. It is the gate and the two doors and openings, through which the sun issueth to the Eastern Horizon of Heaven.

O ye who have gone before! Let me grasp your hands, me who become one of you.

Who are they? Those who have gone before are the Nourisher and the Knowing One. May I be, throughout the course of each day, in the grace of their Lord.

I make full the Eye when it waxeth dim on the day of contest between the two opponents.

I lift up the hairy net from the Eye at the period of its distress.

What is that? The right Eye of the sun in the period of its eclipse, when God giveth it free course, and the angel lifteth the shadow from it.

I behold the sun, when it is renewed from Yesterday, on the breast of the sky. Its course is ordained and my course is ordained.

What is that? The sun and its daily renewal on the breast of Mehurit? It is the likeness of the Eye of the sun at its daily rising. And Mehurit is the sky.

I am one of those who follow the guidance.

What is that—"one of those who follow the guidance"? Said with reference to those whom their Lord loveth.

Hail, ye possessors of Truth, angels attached to the judgment, who deal destruction to falsehood, ye who are in the train of Hotepeschaus, grant me that I may come to you. Do ye away the wrong which is in me, as ye have done to the Seven Glorious ones, who follow after the departed, and whose places the angel hath fixed on that day of "Come thou hither"!

Hotepeschaus is the divine Flame which is assigned for burning the souls of the adversaries. I know the names of the Seven Glorious ones who follow the departed, and whose places the angel hath fixed on the day of "Come thou hither." The leader of this company of angels,

"An-ar-ef, the Great" is his name; 2, Kat-kat; 3, the Burning One, who dwelleth in his fire; 4, the Red-eyed one in the House of Gauze; 5, Fieryface which turneth backwards; 6, Dark Face in its hour; 7, Seer in the Night.

I am the one who dwelleth by the Persea tree in Heliopolis, on that night of battle wherein is effected the defeat of the Sebau, and that day upon which the adversaries of the Inviolate One are exterminated.

The night of conflict is the defeat of the children of Failure at Elephantine. There was conflict in the entire universe, in heaven and upon the earth.

He who frequenteth the Persea tree is he who regulateth the children of Failure, and that which they do.

O God, Lord of the sun, whose sign riseth up in its orb, and shineth from the Horizon, and swimmeth over the firmament, and saileth over the sky; Thou art without a peer; whose command sendeth forth breezes of flame, lighting up the Two Earths with Thy glories, deliver N from that angel whose attributes are hidden, whose eyebrows are as the arms of the Balance upon that day when outrage is brought to account, and each wrong is tied up to its separate block of settlement.

The angel whose eyebrows are as the arms of the Balance is "he who lifteth up his arm."

Deliver me from those Wardens of the Passages with hurtful fingers, attendant upon the judgment.

The Wardens are the powers who keep off the forces of the adversaries of God.

May your knives not get hold of me; may I not fall into your shambles, for I know your names; my course upon earth is with the light and my fair goal is with the righteous. Let not your offerings be in my disfavour, O ye angels at your posts! I am one of those who follow the Master, a keeper of the writ of the Creator.

I fly like a hawk, I cackle like the Smen-goose, I move eternally like the winding stream.

O God, Creator, who art in the Great Dwelling, Sovereign over all powers, deliver me from that being who liveth upon the damned; whose face is that of a hound, but whose skin is that of a man; at that angle of the pool of fire; devouring shades, consuming human hearts. One seeth him not.

This being whose face is that of a hound and whose skin is that of a man: Eternal Devourer is his name.

O Fearful One, who art over the Two Earths, who orderest the block of execution; to whom is given sovereignty and enjoyment as Prince of Sutenhunen.

It is He to whom was ordained the Leadership, upon that day when the Two Earths were united before the Inviolate One.

He is the beneficent One in Sutenhunen, the giver of food and the destroyer of wrong, who hath determined the paths of eternity.

It is God Himself.

Deliver me from that one who seizeth upon souls, who consumeth all filth and corruption in the darkness or in the light: all those who fear him are in powerless condition.

This one is Satan.

O Creator, who art in the midst of Thy bark, deliver me from those inquisitorial Wardens to whom the Inviolate One, of Glorious Attributes, hath given guard over His adversaries, and the infliction of slaughter in the place of annihilation, from whose guard there is no escape. May I not fall under your knives, may I not sit within your dungeons, may I not come to your places of extermination, may I not fall into your pits; may there be done to me none of those things which the angels abominate; for I have passed through the place of purification in the middle of the Meskat, for which are given the Mesit and the Tehenit cakes in Tanenit.

The Meskat is the place of scourging in Sutenhunen. Tanenit is the resting place of the departed.

God buildeth thy dwelling and layeth the foundation of thy house. Purification is offered, and might is given.

I have come upon this earth and with my two feet taken possession. I come from my own Place.

Back, O Lion with dazzling mouth, and with head bent forwards, retreating before me and my might.

God destroyeth what in me is wrong, and cutteth off that which is rebellious.

Dread cometh in my train and Might is in my hands. Numberless are the hands who cling fast to me. The dead ones and the living come to me. I defeat the clients of mine adversaries, and spoil those whose hands are darkened.

I have made an agreeable alliance with the inhabitants of Cher-âbat and those of Heliopolis. And every power is in fear before the Terrible, the Almighty One.

I avenge every servant of God against his oppressor, at whom I shoot my arrows when he appeareth.

I live by God's will.

I am radiant as the fiery dawn.

And woe to them who mount up against me!

What is this? "Of unknown attributes, which God hath given" is the name of the Funereal Chest. "The Witness of that which is lifted" is the name of the Shrine.

The fiery dawn is a sign of God.

They who mount up against me, woe to them, they are the associates of Satan as they approach.