ANCIENT EGYPT, 1 43 



" God is one and alone, and there is none other with Him 

 God is the one who made all things. 

 God is a Spirit, a hidden Spirit, the divine Spirit. 

 God is from the beginning, and has existed from the beginning. 

 He existed when as yet nothing existed, and whatever is, he made it 



after He was. 

 He is everlasting without end, and will exist for ever. 

 God is truth. He is life. He blows the breath of life into men's 



nostrils. 

 God begets, but He is not begotten. 

 God is the creator of heaven and earth, the deep, the waters, and the 



mountains, and makes firm the earth beneath, 

 God is compassionate to them that fear Him, and hears those who 



cry unto Him ; He protects the weak against the strong ; He 



rewards those who serve Him, and protects those who follow 



Him. 

 To obey is to love God, but to disobey is to hate him." 



Most of this hymn startlingly resembles parts of Holy Writ, 



Surely an elevation of thought and high code of morals, as 

 set forth in the foregoing extracts, can only ignorantly or 

 thoughtlessly be set down as idolatry and fetishism. 



Eternal process moving on 



From state to state the Spirit walks j 

 And these are but the shattered stalks, 



Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. 



Thy voice is on the rolling airj 



I hear thee when the waters run ; 



Thou standest in the rising sun, 

 And in the setting thou art fair. 



