The Osiris Ani saith:  Perform thy work,  O Seker,  perform thy work,  O Seker,  O thou who dwellest in thy circle,  and who dwellest in my feet in Khert-Neter.   I am he who sendeth forth light over the Thigh of heaven.   I come forth in heaven.   I sit down by the Light-god (Khu).   O I am helpless.   O I am helpless.   I would walk.   I am helpless.   I am helpless in the regions of those who plunder in Khert-Neter,  I the Osiris Ani,  whose word is truth,  in peace.

 

THE CHAPTER OF FORCING A WAY INTO AMENTET [AND OF COMING FORTH] BY DAY

The Osiris Ani saith:  The town of Unu is opened.   My head is sealed up,  Thoth.   Perfect is the Eye of Horus.   I have delivered the Eye of Horus which shineth with splendours on the brow of Ra,  the Father of the gods,  [I am] that self-same Osiris,  [the dweller in] Amentet.   Osiris knoweth his day,  and he knoweth that he shall live through his period of life;  I shall have by being with him.   I am the Moon-god Aah,  the dweller among the gods.   I shall not come to an end.   Stand up therefore,  O Horus,  for thou art counted among the gods.

(Naville, op. cit., I, Bl. X)

THE CHAPTER OF FORCING A WAY INTO THE TUAT

The Am Khent priest Nefer-uben-f,  whose word is truth,  saith:  Hail,  Soul,  thou mighty one of terror.   Behold,  I have come unto thee.   I see thee.   I have forced a way through the Tuat.   I see my father Osiris.   I drive away the darkness.  I love him.   I have come.   I see my father Osiris.   He hath counted the heart of Set.   I have made offerings for my father Osiris.   I have opened all the ways in heaven and on earth.   I love him.   I have come.   I have become a Spirit-body and a Spirit-soul,  who is equipped.   Hail,  every god and every Spirit-soul,  I have made the ways.   I am Thoth....

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