Chapter LXXI

C1hapter whereby one cometh forth by day.

2O Divine Hawk, who comest forth in Heaven, Lord of Mehurit.

3Make thou me sound, even as thou hast made thyself sound, who revealest thyself, who disrobest thyself, and presentest thyself to the Earth.

4May his will towards me be done by the Lord of the Lord of the One Face.

5I am the Hawk in the Tabernacle and I pierce through [that which is upon] the Vail.

6Here is Horus, the Son of Isis: Horus the Son of Isis.

7Make thou me sound, even as thou hast made thyself sound, who revealest thyself, who disrobest thyself, and presentest thyself to the Earth.

8May his will towards me be done by the Lord of the One Face.

9I am the Hawk in the Southern Heaven, and Thoth in the Northern Heaven, who appease the Flame when raging and who convey Law to the god who loveth it.

10Here is Thoth: Thoth.

11Make thou me sound, even as thou hast made thyself sound, who revealest thyself, who disrobest thyself, and presentest thyself to the Earth.

12May his will towards me be done by the Lord of the One Face.

13I am Unbu of En-areref, the Flower of the Abode of Occultation.

14Here is Osiris: Osiris.

15Make thou me sound, even as thou hast made thyself sound, who revealest thyself, who disrobest thyself, and presentest thyself to the Earth.

16May his will towards me be done by the Lord of the One Face.

17O thou who art upon thy two legs [or who art terrible upon thy two legs], at thine own hour, owner of the Two Twin Souls, and who livest in Two Twin Souls.

18Make thou me sound, even as thou hast made thyself sound, who revealest thyself, who disrobest thyself, and presentest thyself to the Earth.

19May his will towards me be done by the Lord of the One Face.

20O thou who circlest round, within thine Egg, Lord of Mehurit.

21Make thou me sound, even as thou hast made thyself sound, who revealest thyself, who disrobest thyself, and presentest thyself to the Earth.

22May his will towards me be done by the Lord of the One Face.

23Sebak standeth erect, surrounded by his high places, and Neith standeth erect in the midst of her alluvial grounds, in order to reveal themselves, to disrobe themselves and to present themselves to the Earth.

24May his will towards me be done by the Lord of the One Face.

25Oh ye Seven Divine Masters, who are the arms of the Balance on the Night wherein the Eye is fixed; ye who strike off the heads and cleave the necks, who seize the hearts and drag forth the whole hearts, and accomplish the slaughter in the Tank of Flame: ye whom I know and whose names I know, know you me as I know your names.

26I advance to you, advance ye to me: live in me and let me live in you. Convey to me the Symbol of Life which is in your hands, and the Sceptre which ye grasp.

27Award to me the life of yearly speech through countless years of life in addition to my years of life; countless months in addition to the months of my life; countless days in addition to the days of my life; and countless nights in addition to the nights of my life, that I may come forth and beam upon my own images, with breath for my nostrils, and eyes which see, amid those who are at the Horizon, on that day when brute Force is brought to a reckoning.

28If this Chapter is known there is well-being on earth with Rā and a fair abode with Osiris, and the person is glorified in the Netherworld. There are granted to him the sacred cakes and the coming forth into the presence, in the course of each day, undeviatingly, for times infinite.