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45 Homage to thee, Ka ! Supreme Power, he who furnishes the inha- 
bitants of the empyrean with funeral things, when he enters the 
hidden spheres, his form is that of Aperto.* * * § 
40 Homage to thee, Ra ! Supreme Power, his members rejoice when they 
see his body, the blessed spirit who enters into him, his form is that 
of the joyful one. 
47 Homage to thee, Ra ! Supreme Power, the adult who dilates his 
eyeball, and who fills his eye,"j" his form is that of the adult. £ 
48 Homage to thee, Ra ! Supreme Power, he who makes the roads in the 
empyrean, and who opens pathways in the sarcophagus, his form is 
that of the god who makes the roads. § 
49 Homage to thee, Ra ! Supreme Power, the moving spirit who makes 
his legs stir, his form is that of the moving one.|| 
50 Homage to thee, Ra ! Supreme Power, he who sends forth the stars 
and who makes the night light, in the sphere of the hidden 
essences,^ his form is that of the shining one. 
51 Homage to thee, Ra ! Supreme Power, he who makes the spheres and 
who creates bodies ; from thy person emanating from itself alone, 
thou hast sent forth, Ra, those who are and those who are not, the 
dead, the gods, the intellects ; his form is that of creator of bodies. 
52 Homage to thee, Ra ! Supreme Power, the mysterious, the hidden 
one, he whom the spirits follow as he conducts them, he gives the 
step to those surrounding him, his form is that ol Ameni. 
53 Homage to thee, Ra! Supreme Power, the horn, the pillar of the 
Ament,** the lock of hair that shines in tt its form is that 
of the horn. 
54 Homage to thee, Ra! Supreme Power, the Eternal Essence who 
penetrates the empyrean, who praises the spirits in their spheres, 
his form is that of the Eternal Essence. 
* Perhaps Auubis. t The solar disk. 
+ Or the old one, i.e. the perfect man ; or, perhaps, the Adam Kadmon 
of the Gnostics. _ 
§ This is in more ambiguous terms the idea of Jacobs ladder as 
applied to the Son of Man (John i. 51) ; or the god Ra makes a pathway 
from earth to Heaven for his adorers to ascend thereby. A similarity ot 
ideas will often beget a similarity of expression, but it must be strictly 
borne in mind that the converse does not apply, and that a similarity of 
expression does not convey always, or even oftentimes, a similarity of 
ideas. _ . 
|| Is the spirit which broods over the universe to hatch it into life. 
The region of the purest spirits, or the heaven of the pure essences. 
See Iamblicus and Porphyry, by Taylor. This was a theory which 
the Platonists borrowed from the Egyptians. 
** The glory and the support of the heavens or Amenti. ft Lacuna. 
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