Chapter whereby one assumeth the form of the Golden Hawk.

I set myself to view: I set myself to view as the golden hawk, which cometh out from its egg; and I fly and I hover as a hawk of four cubits across the back. My two wings are of the green gem of the South.

I come forth from the cabin of the bark and I raise myself up from the Eastern Hill.

I stoop upon the Atit bark, that I may come and raise to me those who are in their circles, and who bow down before me.

I display myself and gather myself together as the beautiful golden hawk with the head of a heron, to listen to whose utterances the day cometh every day, and I sit down in the midst of the great angels of Heaven.

The fields lie before me; the produce is before me; I eat of it, I wax radiant upon it, I am saturated with it to the satisfaction of my heart.

God hath given to me my throat, and I am in possession of all that pertaineth to my person.