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THE PYRAMID TEXTS

4

 

O
=
6
6
OSIRIS
89
35
8
T
=
2
3
THE
33
15
6
G
=
7
3
GOD
26
17
8
W
=
5
5
WHOSE
70
25
7
F
=
6
4
FACE
15
15
6
I
=
9
2
IS
28
19
1
B
=
2
6
BEHIND
42
33
6
H
=
8
3
HIM
30
21
3
-
-
45
32
-
333
180
45
-
-
4+5
3+2
-
3+3+3
1+8+0
4+5
-
-
9
5
-
9
9
9

 

 

10
OSIRIS UNAS
     
-
O+S
34
16
7
-
I
9
9
9
-
R
18
9
9
-
I
9
9
9
-
S
19
10
1
-
A
1
1
1
-
SUN
54
18
9
10
OSIRIS A SUN
144
72
45
1+0
-
1+4+4
7+2
4+5
1
OSIRIS A SUN
9
9
9

 

 

-
-
-
2
RE
23
14
5
-
-
-
-
4
SOPD
54
18
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
I
=
9
1
I
9
9
9
9
H
=
8
4
HAVE
36
18
9
9
C
=
3
4
COME
36
18
9
9
T
=
2
2
TO
35
8
8
-
Y
=
7
3
YOU
61
16
7
-
M
=
4
2
MY
38
11
2
-
F
=
6
6
FATHER
58
31
4
-
I
=
9
1
I
9
9
9
9
H
=
8
4
HAVE
36
18
9
9
C
=
3
4
COME
36
18
9
9
T
=
2
2
TO
35
8
8
-
Y
=
7
3
YOU
61
16
7
-
O
=
6
1
O
15
6
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
465
186
96
54
-
-
-
-
-
4+6+5
1+8+6
9+6
5+4
-
-
-
-
-
15
15
15
9
-
-
-
-
-
1+5
1+5
1+5
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
6
6
9

 

 

8
ASCENDED
189
28
1
9
DESCENDED
63
36
9

 

 

6
ASCEND
46
19
1
3
AND
19
10
1
7
DESCEND
54
27
9
7
DESCEND
54
27
9
4
WITH
60
24
6

 

 

16
ASCEND AND DESCEND
119
56
2
16
DESCEND AND ASCEND
119
56
2
26
ASCEND AND DESCEND ASCEND WITH
225
99
9
27
ACEND AND DESCEND DESCEND WITH
233
134
8
6
OSIRIS
89
35
8

 

 

6
OSIRIS
89
53
8
5
HORUS
81
36
9
4
ISIS
56
38
2
15
I
226
127
19
1+5
-
2+2+6
1+2+7
1+9
6
I
10
10
10
-
-
1+0
1+0
1+0
6
-
1
1
1

 

 

3
GEB
14
14
5
3
BEG
14
14
5

 

 

2
IN
23
14
5
-
4
YOUR
79
25
7
-
4
NAME
33
15
6
6
2
OF
21
12
3
3
7
DWELLER
79
34
7
-
2
IN
23
14
5
-
21
I
258
114
33
9
2+1
-
2+5+8
1+1+4
3+3
-
3
I
15
6
6
9
-
-
1+5
-
-
3
-
6
6
6
9

 

 

- - -  
O GREAT ENNEAD
     
O
=
6
1
O
15
6
6
G
=
7
5
GREAT
51
24
6
E
=
5
6
ENNEAD
43
25
7
-
-
18
12
O GREAT ENNEAD
109
55
19
-
-
1+8
1+2
-
1+0+9
5+5
1+9
-
-
9
3
O GREAT ENNEAD
10
10
10
-
-
-
-
-
1+0
1+0
1+0
-
-
9
3
O GREAT ENNEAD
1
1
1

 

 

- - -  
O LESSER ENNEAD
     
O
=
6
1
O
15
6
6
L
=
3
6
LESSER
78
24
6
E
=
5
6
ENNEAD
43
25
7
-
-
14
13
O LESSER ENNEAD
136
55
19
-
-
1+4
1+3
-
1+3+6
5+5
1+9
-
-
5
4
O LESSER ENNEAD
10
10
10
-
-
-
-
-
1+0
1+0
1+0
-
-
5
4
O LESSER ENNEAD
1
1
1

 

 

13
O LESSER ENNEAD
136
55
1
12
O GREAT ENNEAD
109
55
1

 

 

7
SAKHMET
77
23
5
9
SHEZMETET
121
40
4
16
I
198
63
9
1+6
-
1+9+8
6+3
-
7
I
18
9
9
-
-
1+8
-
-
7
-
9
9
9

 

 

3
THE
33
15
65
4
THAT
49
13
4
7
I
82
28
10
-
-
8+2
2+8
1+0
7
I
10
10
1
-
-
1+0
1+0
-
7
-
1
1
1

 

 

3
THE
33
15
65
4
TIME
47
20
2
2
OF
21
12
3
3
THE
33
15
6
12
I
134
62
17
1+2
-
1+3+4
6+2
1+7
3
I
8
8
8

 

 

6
SOTHIS
      
-
SO
34
16
7
4
THIS
56
29
2
6
SOTHIS
90
45
9
-
-
9+0
4+5
-
6
SOTHIS
9
9
9

 

 

1
I
9
9
9
2
AM
14
5
5
3
THE
33
15
6
8
FERRYMAN
100
46
1
14
First Total
156
75
21
1+4
Add to Reduce
1+5+6
7+5
2+1
5
Second Total
12
12
3
-
Reduce to Deduce
1+2
1+2
-
5
Essence of Number
3
3
3

 

 

5
HORUS
81
27
9
- - - - -
- - - - -
6
ENTERS
81
27
9
3
THE
33
15
6
8
FERRYMAN
100
46
1
17
First Total
214
88
16
1+7
Add to Reduce
2+1+4
8+8
1+6
8
Second Total
7
16
7
-
Reduce to Deduce
-
1+6
-
8
Essence of Number
7
7
7

 

 

1
R
18
9
9
2
RA
19
10
1
3
ARE
24
15
6
3
RAH
27
18
9
6
HURRAH
74
38
2

 

 

1
R
18
9
9
2
RE
23
14
5
3
RED
27
18
9

 

 

3
THE
33
15
6
5
GREAT
78
24
6
4
ADZE
36
18
9

 

 

5
EMMER
      
-
E+M
18
9
9
-
M+E
18
9
9
-
R
18
9
9
5
EMMER
54
27
27
-
-
5+4
2+7
2+7
5
EMMER
9
9
9

 

 

6
SAVOUR
96
33
6
7
SAVIOUR
      
-
S+A+V
42
15
6
-
I
9
9
9
-
O+U+R
54
18
9
7
SAVIOUR
105
42
24
-
-
1+0+5
4+2
2+4
7
SAVIOUR
6
6
6

 

 

 
CONTENT IS
      
7
CONTENT
91
28
1
2
IS
28
19
1
9
CONTENT IS
119
47
2
-
-
1+1+9
4+7
-
9
CONTENT IS
11
11
2
-
-
1+1
1+1
-
9
CONTENT IS
2
2
2

 

 

 
CONTENT IS
      
7
CONTENT
91
28
1
3
ARE
24
15
6
10
CONTENT ARE
115
43
7
1+0
-
1+1+5
4+3
-
1
CONTENT ARE
7
7
7

 

 

9
PESESHKEF
      
-
P+E+S+E
45
18
9
-
S+H
27
9
9
-
K+E+F
22
13
4
9
PESESHKEF
94
40
4
-
-
9+4
4+0
-
9
PESESHKEF
13
4
4
-
-
1+3
-
-
9
PESESHKEF
4
4
4

 

 

7
CHANNEL
57
30
3

 

 

5
HETEP
54
27
9

 

 

3
THE
33
15
6
8
ULTIMATE
101
29
2
9
SACRIFICE
73
37
1
20
First Total
207
81
9
2+0
Add to Reduce
2+0+7
8+1
-
2
Essence of Number
9
9
9

 

 

1
I
9
9
9
2
AM
14
5
5
3
THE
33
15
6
6
BRIGHT
64
37
1
3
AND
19
10
1
7
MORNING
90
45
9
4
STAR
58
13
4
26
First Total
287
134
35
2+6
Add to Reduce
2+8+7
1+3+4
3+5
8
Second Total
17
8
8
-
Reduce to Deduce
1+7
-
-
8
Essence of Number
8
8
8

 

 

4
RITE
52
25
7
5
RITES
71
26
8
6
RITUAL
81
27
9
7
RITUALS
100
37
1

 

 

7
DESCENT
70
34
7
4
INTO
58
22
4
3
THE
33
15
6
5
ABYSS
66
12
3

 

 

8
THE ABYSS
99
27
9

 

 

7
DESCENT
70
34
7
4
INTO
58
22
4
3
THE
33
15
6
5
ABYSS
66
12
3
2
OF
21
12
3
3
THE
33
15
5
4
MIND
40
22
4
28
I
321
132
33
10
-
3+2+1
1+3+2
3+3
1
I
6
6
6

 

 

7
THE MIND
73
37
1
8
THE ABYSS
99
27
9

 

 

3
THE
33
15
6
7
DESCENT
70
25
7

 

 

3
THE
33
15
6
6
ASCENT
62
17
8

 

 

7
DESCENT
70
25
7
6
ASCENT
62
17
8

 

 

3
THE
33
15
6
7
RITUALS
100
37
1
2
OF
21
12
3
3
GOD
26
17
8
15
First Total
180
81
18
1+5
Add to Reduce
1+8+0
8+1
1+8
6
Essence of Number
9
9
9

 

 

4
GODS
45
18
9
6
RITUAL
81
27
9

 

 

3
SKY
55
10
1
5
EARTH
52
25
7
10
UNDERWORLD
134
53
8
18
First Total
241
88
16
1+8
Add to Reduce
2+4+1
8+8
1+6
9
Second Total
7
16
7
-
Reduce to Deduce
-
1+6
-
9
Essence of Number
7
7
7

 

 

6
OSIRIS
89
35
8
9
CELESTIAL
86
32
5
8
FERRYMAN
100
46
1
23
-
185
113
14
2+3
-
1+8+5
1+1+3
1+4
5
-
14
5
5
-
-
1+4
-
-
5
-
5
5
5

 

 

3
THE
33
15
6
8
FERRYMAN
100
46
1
5
WHOSE
70
25
7
4
FACE
15
15
6
2
IS
28
19
1
6
BEHIND
42
33
6
3
HIM
30
21
3
31
-
318
174
30
3+1
-
3+1+8
1+7+4
3+0
4
-
12
12
3
-
-
1+2
1+2
-
4
-
3
3
3

 

 

8
SENENMUT
111
30
3

 

 

8
SENENMUT
      
-
S
19
10
1
-
E
5
5
5
-
N
14
5
5
-
E
5
5
5
-
N
14
5
5
-
M+U+T
54
9
9
8
SENENMUT
111
39
30
-
-
1+1+1
3+9
3+0
8
SENENMUT
3
12
3
-
-
-
1+2
-
8
SENENMUT
3
3
3

 

 

6
WAKING
65
29
2
3
THE
33
15
6
8
FERRYMAN
100
46
1
17
First Total
198
90
9
1+7
Add to Reduce
1+9+8
9+0
-
8
Second Total
18
9
9
-
Reduce to Deduce
1+8
-
-
8
Essence of Number
9
9
9

 

 

11
D
I
S
M
E
M
B
E
R
E
D
-
-
-
-
-
--
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
+
=
10
1+0
=
1
 -
1
-
1
`-
-
9
19
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
+
=
28
2+8
=
10
1+0
1
-
1
11
D
I
S
M
E
M
B
E
R
E
D
-
-
-
-
-
--
-
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
4
5
4
2
5
9
5
4
+
=
42
4+2
=
6
 -
6
-
6
`-
4
-
-
13
5
13
2
5
18
5
4
+
=
69
6+9
=
15
1+5
6
-
6
11
D
I
S
M
E
M
B
E
R
E
D
-
-
-
-
-
--
-
-
-
-
`-
4
9
19
13
5
13
2
5
18
5
4
+
=
97
9+7
=
16
1+6
7
-
7
-
4
9
1
4
5
4
2
5
9
5
4
+
=
52
5+2
=
7
 -
7
-
7
11
D
I
S
M
E
M
B
E
R
E
D
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
occurs
x
1
=
1
=
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
occurs
x
1
=
2
=
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
4
-
4
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
4
occurs
x
4
=
16
1+6
7
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
5
-
5
-
-
-
5
occurs
x
3
=
15
1+5
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
--
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
 - -
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
-
9
occurs
x
2
=
18
1+8
9
11
D
I
S
M
E
M
B
E
R
E
D
-
-
21
-
-
11
-
52
-
25
--
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
-
2+1
-
-
1+1
-
5+2
-
2+5
11
D
I
S
M
E
M
B
E
R
E
D
-
-
3
-
-
2
-
7
-
7

 

THE PROPHET

Kahil Gibran

HEN Almitra spoke, saying, We would ask now of Death.
And he said:
You would know the secret of death.
But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the
heart of life?
The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto
the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.
If you woul4 indeed behold the spirit of death,
open your heart wide unto the body of life.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the
sea are one.
In th~ depth of your hopes and desires lies your
silent knowledge of the beyond;
And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your
heart dreams of spring'r
Trust the dreams, for in tllem is hidden the gate to
eternity.
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the
~ 72 tit'

sht;pherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling,
that he shall wear the mark of the king?
Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind
and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
. Only, when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
And when'you have reached the mountain top,
then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then
shall you truly dance.

in the fields, shall rise and gather into a cloud and then fall down in rain.
And not unlike the mist have I been.
In the stillness of the night I have walked in your
streets, and my spirit has entered your houses,
And your heart-beats were in my heart, and your
breath was upon my face, and I knew you all.
Ay, I knew your joy and your pain, and in your
sleep your dreams were my dreams.
And oftentimes I was among you a lake among
the mountains.
I mirrored the summits in you and the bendi}1g slopes, and even the passing flocks of your thoughts and your desires.
And to my silence came the laughter of your children in streams, and the longing of your youths In nvers.
And when they reached my depth the streams and
the rivers ceased not yet to sing. .
But sweeter still than laughter and greater than
longing came to me.
lt was the boundless in you;
The vast man in whom you are all but cells and
smews;
~ 76 fIE

He in whose chant all your singing is but a sound­
less throbbing.
It is in the vast man that you are vast,
, And in beholding him that I beheld you and loved you.
For what distances can love reach that are not in
that vast sphere?
What visions, what expectations and what pre­
sumptions can outsoar that flight?
Like a giant oak tree covered with apple blossoms
is the vast man in you.
His might binds you to the earth, his fragrance lifts you into space, and in his durability you are death­less.
You have been told that, even like a chain, you are
as weak as your weakest link.
This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as
your strongest link.
To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon
the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam.
To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon
the seasons for their inconstancy.
Ay, you are like an ocean,
And though heavy-grounded ships await the tide
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upon your shores, yet, even like an ocean, you cannot hasten your tides. .
And like the seasons you are also,
And though in your winter you deny your spring, Yet spring, reposing within you,- smiles in her I
drowsiness- and is not offended.
Think not I say these things in order that yo.u may say the one to the other, 'He praised us well. He saw
but the good in us.' - ­
I only speak to you in words of that which you
yourselves know in thought. - .
And what is word knowledge-but ~a shadow~ of
wordless knowledge? ­
Your thoughts and- my words are waves from a sealed memory that keeps records of your ye-ster­&~, ­
And of the ancient days when the earth knew not us nor herself,
- And of nights when ~arth was up wrought with
confusion. - ­
Wise men have come to you to give -you of their
wisdom. I came to take of your wisdom:
And behold I have found that which is greater than
wisdom. -­
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It is a flame spirit in you ever gathering more of
i tseIf,
While you, heedless of its expansion, bewail the
witherinKof your days. ~ It is life in quest oflife in bodies that fear the grave.
There are no graves here.
Th~se mountains and plains are a cradle and a
stepping-stone.
Whenever you pass by the field where you have laid 'your ancestors look well thereupon, and you shalf see yourselves and your children dancing hand in hand.
Verily you often make merry without knowing.
Others have come to you to whom for golden promises made unto your faith you have given but riches and power and glory.
Less than a promise have I given, and yet more
generous have you been to me.
You have given me my deeper thirsting after life.
Surely there is no greater gift to a man than that
which turns all his aims into parching lips and all life into a fountain.
And in this lies my honour and my reward, ­
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That whenever I come to the fountain to drink I
fmd the living water itself thirsty;
And it drinks me while I drink it.
Some of you have deemed me proud and over­
shy to receive gifts.
Too proud indeed am I to receive wages, but not
gifts.
And though I have eaten berries among the hills
when you would have had me sit at your board,
And slept in the portico of the temple when you
would gladly have sheltered me,
Yet was it not your loving mindfulness of my days and my nights that made food sweet to my mouth and girdled my sleep with visions?
For this I bless you most:
You give much and know not that you give at
all.
Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a
mirror turns to stone,
And a good deed that calls itself by tender names
becomes the parent to a curse.
And some of you have called me aloof, and drunk
with my own aloneness, .
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And you have said, 'He holds council with the trees
of the forest, but not with men.
'He sits alone on hill-tops and looks down upon
our city.'
True it is that I have climbed the hills and walked
in remote places.
How could I have seen you save from a great
height or a great distance? .
How can one be indeed near unless he be far?
And others among you called unto me, not in
words, and they said:
'Stranger, stranger, lover of unreachable heights, why dwell you among the summits where eagles
build their nests?
'Why seek you the unattainable?
'What storms would you trap in your net,
'And what vaporous birds do you hunt in the sky? 'Come and be one of us.
'Descend and appease your hunger with our bread
and quench your thirst with our wine.'
In the solitude of their souls they said these things; But were their solitude deeper they would have
known that I sought but the secret of your joy and your pam,

And I hunted only your larger selves that walk the
sky. ­
But the hunter was also the hunted;
For many of my arrows left my bow only to seek
my own breast.
And the flier was also the creeper;
For when my wings were spread in the sun their
- shadow upon the earth was a turtle.
And I the believer was also the doubter;
For often have I put my fmger in my own wound
that I might have the greater belief in you and the greater knowledge of you.
And it is with this belief and this knowledge tbat I
say,
You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor
confmed to houses or fields.
That which is you dwells above the mountain and
roves with the wind.
It is not a thing that crawls into the sun for warmth
or digs holes into darkness for safety,
But a thing free, a spirit that envelops the earth and
moves in the ether.
-::
If these be vague words, then seek not to dear them.
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) d.

Vague and nebulous is the -beginning of all things,
but not their end,
And I fain would have you remember me as a
beginning.
Life, and all that lives, is conceived in the mist and
not in th~ crystal.
And who knows but a crystal is mist in decay?
This would I have you remember in remembering
-me:
That which seems most feeble and bewildered in
you is the strongest and most determined.
Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened
the structure of your bones?
And is it not a dream which none of you re­member having dreamt, that builded your city and fashioned all there is in it?
Could you but see the tides of that breath you
would cease to see all else,
And if you could hear the whispering of the dream
you would hear no other sound.
..
But you do not see, nor do you hear, ana it is well. The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the
hands that wove it,
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And the clay that fills your ears shall be pierced
by those fingers that kneaded it.
And you shall see
And you shall hear.
Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness,
nor regret having been deaf.
For in that day you shall know the hidden pur­
poses in all things,
And you shall bless darkness as you would bless
light.
After saying these things he looked about him, and he saw the pilot of his ship standing by the helm and gazing now at the full sails and now at the
distance.
And he said:
Patient, over patient, is the captain of my ship. The wind blows, and restless are the sails;
Even the rudder begs direction;
Yet quietly my captain awaits my silence.
And these my mariners, who have heard the
choir of the greater sea, they too have heard me
patiently.
Now they shall wait no longer.
I am ready.
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The stream has reached the sea, and once more the great mother holds her son against her breast.
Fare you well, people of Orphalese.
This day has ended.
It is closing upon us even as the water-lily upon its
own tomorrow.
What was given us here we shall keep,
And if it suffices not, then again must we come to­
gether and together stretch our hands unto the giver. Forget not that I shall come back to you.
A little while, and my longing shall gather dust
and foam for another body.
A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind,
and another woman shall bear me.
Farewell to you and the youth I have spent with
you.
It was but yesterday we met in a dream.
You have sung to me in my aloneness, and I of
your longings have built a tower in the sky.
But now our sleep has fled and our dream is over,
and it is no longer dawn.
The noontide is upon us and our half waking has
turned to fuller day, and we must part.
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once
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more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.
And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky.
So saying he made a signal to the seamen, and straightaway they weighed anchor and cast the ship loose from its moorings, and they moved eastward.
And a cry came from the people as from a single heart, and it rose into the dusk and was carried out over the sea like a great trumpeting.
Only Almitra was silent, gazing after the ship until
it had vanished into the mist.
And when all the people were dispersed she still stood alone upon the sea-wall, remembering in her heart his saying:
'A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.'

 

 

 
 
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