THE BOOK OF KNOWING
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF RA AND OF THE OVERTHROWING OF
APEP:
APEP:
THE WORDS OF NEBERTCHER (LORD OF ALL) WHICH HE SPOKE
AFTER COMING INTO BEING:
I am he who came into being in the form of the infinite power of manifestation
(Khepera). I became the Creator of what came into being. After my coming into
being many were the things coming forth from my mouth (words of power). Not
existed heaven (Nut), not existed earth (Geb), and creeping things in that place.
I raised them out of Nu, from the state of inactivity. Not found I a place to stand
wherein. I was alone, for not had I spit out the form of Shu (the thermal yang
principle of the world), not had I emitted Tefnut (the moisture, hydrogenoid, yin principle of the world) not existed another who worked with me. I made a foundation by means of my will, and laid a foundation in the law (Maa), and there came into being the multitude of things. I was alone. I became from GOD one, Gods three, that is from out of myself were raised up Shu and Tefnut. Nu (the unmanifested undifferentiated realm) Shu and Tefnut gave birth to Seb (Geb or earth), and Nut (heaven), Seb, and Nut gave birth to Ausar, Herukhent en Maati, Set, Auset, and Nebt-Het.
(Khepera). I became the Creator of what came into being. After my coming into
being many were the things coming forth from my mouth (words of power). Not
existed heaven (Nut), not existed earth (Geb), and creeping things in that place.
I raised them out of Nu, from the state of inactivity. Not found I a place to stand
wherein. I was alone, for not had I spit out the form of Shu (the thermal yang
principle of the world), not had I emitted Tefnut (the moisture, hydrogenoid, yin principle of the world) not existed another who worked with me. I made a foundation by means of my will, and laid a foundation in the law (Maa), and there came into being the multitude of things. I was alone. I became from GOD one, Gods three, that is from out of myself were raised up Shu and Tefnut. Nu (the unmanifested undifferentiated realm) Shu and Tefnut gave birth to Seb (Geb or earth), and Nut (heaven), Seb, and Nut gave birth to Ausar, Herukhent en Maati, Set, Auset, and Nebt-Het.
