Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt: Lectures Delivered on the Morse Foundation at Union Theological Seminary |
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¹ Pyr Abydos Amon ancient Anubis ascends Atum barque Behold belief body called celestial hereafter century B. C. character charms Coffin Coffin Texts dead king death deceased Dewat discern Divine Enneads doctrines Dynasty earliest earth east Egypt Egyptian religion Ennead equipment evident evil father ferry Feudal Age four Horuses glorious heart Heliopolis horizon hymn identified Ikhnaton Imperishable Stars Isis and Nephthys king Neferkere king Pepi king Teti king Unis king's LACAU ladder land Lily-lake live lord magical moral mortuary myth Nephthys Nether World Nile offering Osirian faith Osiris papyrus passage Pepi II Pharaoh Ptah Ptahhotep Pyramid Age pyramid of Teti Pyramid Texts realm righteousness ritual royal sacred says side Solar faith soul Sun-god surviving Tefnut temple thee theology Thoth thou art thou hast throne thy name thy thousand tion tomb Unis comes Utterance vizier words ye gods
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Page 301 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Page 320 - How manifold are thy works! They are hidden from before [us], O sole God, whose powers no other possesseth, Thou didst create the earth according to thy heart While thou wast alone; Men, all cattle large and small, All that are upon the earth, That go about upon their feet; [All] that are on high, That fly with their wings.
Page 180 - Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road, ' "* Which to discover we must travel too.
Page 329 - ... the breathing, animated, exulting light, which feels, and receives, and rejoices, and acts, — which chooses one thing, and rejects another, — which seeks, and finds, and loses again,— leaping from rock to rock, from leaf to leaf, from wave to wave — glowing, or flashing, or scintillating, according to what it strikes ; or, in its holier moods, absorbing and enfolding all things in the deep fulness of its repose, and then again losing itself in bewilderment, and doubt, and dimness, —...
Page 319 - For thou hast raised them up. Their limbs bathed, they take their clothing; Their arms uplifted in adoration to thy dawning. Then in all the world, they do their work.
Page 318 - When thou settest in the western horizon of the sky, The earth is in darkness like the dead; They sleep in their chambers, Their heads are wrapped up, Their nostrils are stopped, And none seeth the other, While all their things are stolen Which are under their heads, And they know it not. Every lion cometh forth from his den, All serpents, they sting. Darkness . . . The world is in silence, He that made them resteth in his horizon.
Page 321 - While thou wast alone; Men, all cattle large and small, All that are upon the earth, That go about upon their feet; [All] that are on high, That fly with their wings. The foreign countries, Syria and Kush, The land of Egypt; Thou settest every man into his place Thou suppliest their necessities. Every one has his possessions, And his days are reckoned.
Page 244 - Oryx nome, as far as its southern and northern boundary, preserving its people alive and furnishing its food, so that there was none hungry therein. I gave to the widow as (to) her who had a husband; I did not exalt the great above the small in all that I gave.
Page 199 - Hearken to that which I say to thee, That thou mayest be king of the earth, That thou mayest be ruler of the lands, That thou mayest increase good.
Page 178 - How prosperous is this good prince! It is a goodly destiny, that the bodies diminish, Passing away while others remain, Since the time of the ancestors, The gods who were aforetime, Who rest in their pyramids, Nobles and the glorious departed likewise, Entombed in their pyramids. Those who built their (tomb)-temples, Their place is no more.