Chapter whereby one cometh forth by day from the Netherworld.

I am Yesterday, To-day, and To-morrow, for I am born again and again; mine is the unseen Force, which by God's command giveth food to those in the Tuat at the West of Heaven; I am the Eastern rudder, the Lord of Two Faces, who seeth by his own light; the Lord of resurrections, who cometh forth from the dusk and whose birth is from the house of death.

Ye two divine hawks upon your gables, who are giving attentive heed to the matter; ye who accompany the bier to the tomb, and who conduct the ship of the Light-giver, advancing onwards from the highest place of the Ark in heaven; ye servants of the Lord of the shrine which standeth in the centre of the Earth;

Mine is the radiance in which the Creator floateth over His firmament.

Oh my Lord, who smileth cheerfully, and whose heart is delighted with the perfect order of this day as Thou enterest into Heaven and comest forth in the East: the ancients and those who are gone before acclaim Thee.

Let Thy paths be made pleasant for me; let Thy ways be made wide for me to traverse the earth and the expanse of Heaven.

Shine Thou upon me, oh gracious Power; as I draw nigh to the divine words which my ears shall hear in the Tuat; let no pollution of my mother be upon me; deliver me, protect me from him who closeth his eyes at twilight and bringeth to an end in darkness.

I am the Overflower, and Kam-ura is my name: I bring to its fulness the force which is hidden within me.

Oh Thou Great One, who art shoreless, and callest upon the powers of the South, at the moment when the offering is carried forth, saying:

"Behold the Lord of His flood; see, the shoulder is fastened upon His neck and the haunch upon the head of the West": offerings which the two angels of the West present to me when the weeping bursteth forth from me at what I witness, as I am borne round on the Tenait in Abydos, and the bolts made fast on the gateways above your images are in the reach of Thine hand and from within Thee.

Thy face is as that of a hound whose nostril sniffeth at the covert to which my feet convey me.

The guide is my bearer, for He who lulleth me to rest is strong as a lion.

Do Thou save me!

I am he who cometh forth as one who breaketh through the door; and everlasting is the daylight which His will hath created.

"I know the deep waters" is my name.

I satisfy the desires of the glorified, who are by millions and hundreds of thousands.... I am the guardian of their interests, actively working at the hours of the day; twelve in circling round, uniting hands, each of them with another. But the sixth of them in the Tuat is the "Hour of the overthrow of the Sebau," which cometh here in triumph; the same which maketh way into the Tuat.

I shine forth as the lord of life and the glorious order of this day: the blood which purifieth and the vigorous sword-strokes by which the Earth is made one.

I sever the horns from those who unite in resistance to me; the hidden ones who rise up in opposition against me; those who go upon their bellies.

I come as the ambassador of the Lord of lords to avenge the cause of the righteous in this place. Let not the eye consume its tears.

I am the guide of the house of Him who dwelleth in His treasures.

I am come from Sechem to Heliopolis to inform the Bennu of the matters of the Tuat.

Oh angel, who concealest that which is within thee, but raisest up forms, grant that I may come forth and see the orb of the sun, and walk forth in the presence of the great God, who abideth for eternity.

I travel on high, I tread upon the firmament, I raise a flame with the daylight which mine eye hath made, and I fly forward towards the splendours of the glorified in presence of my Lord daily, giving life to every man who treadeth on the lands which are upon the earth.

Oh thou who leapest forth, conductor of the shades and glorified ones from the earth, let the fair path to the Tuat be granted to me, which is made in behalf of those who are in faint condition and for the restoration of those who are in pain.

Who art thou, who devourest in Amenta?

I am he who presideth in Restau. "He who entereth in his own name, and cometh forth in quest; the Lord of the eternity of the earth" is my name.

She who hath conceived hath set down her burden; which turneth round before descending; the door is shut at the wall which is reversed....

His eye hath been given to the Avenger and his face brighteneth at the dawning of the day.

I am not exhausted: I become strong as a lion and the palm flowers of the breath-giver are upon me.

I am not one who drowneth.

Blessed are they who see the Bourne: beautiful is the One of the motionless heart who causeth the stay of the overflowing.

Behold! there cometh forth the Lord of life, thy support, who abideth day after day.

I embrace the sycomore, I am united to the sycomore.

I part the two angels of morning that I may come to hold the Eye, and cause it to rest in its place.

I am come to see the Light-giver at His setting, and I unite with the breeze at His coming forth: my two hands are pure for adoring God.

May I be restored! May I be restored!

I fly up to heaven and I alight upon the earth; and mine eye turneth back there towards the traces of my footsteps.

I am the offspring of yesterday; the tunnels of the earth have given me birth, and I am revealed at my appointed time.

May I be under shelter from the warlike-handed one who cometh behind me, may my flesh be sound and may my glories be a protection to the limbs of one who waiteth for the purpose of taking counsel. May the company of angels listen to what I say.

To be said on coming forth by day; that one may not be kept back on the path of the Tuat, whether on entering or on coming forth; and that the soul of the person die not a second time.

If then this chapter be known the person is made triumphant upon earth [and in the Netherworld] and he performeth all things which are done by the living.

This chapter was discovered on a plinth of the Hennu Bark by a master builder of the wall in the time of King Septa, the Victorious.

Recite the chapter when sanctified and pure.