A BOOK OF THE BEGINNINGS
NOTES TO SECTION 13
[1] [In Ep. ad Rom. 2.495.]
[2] ['These things are written in the Cosmogony of Taautus (Thoth), and in his memoirs, and from the conjectures and evidences which his mind saw and found out, and wherewith he hath enlightened us.' Extracted from Eusebius' Praeparatio Evangelica, bk. 1. ch. 10, in Cory's Ancient Fragments, pp. 3, 4. See also The Phenix, p. 194.]
[3] [El Sched. p. 109.]
[4] [Bk. 10, ch. 28.]
[5] [Ant. 2. 10, 2.]
[6] [Job, 38:32, 9:9.]
[7] [Gesenius, Mon. Ph. pl. 39; Movers, Phoenicians, p. 527.]
[8] [2 Sam. 17:25. Marg.]
[9] [Qu. Heb. in 2 Sam. 17:25.]
[10] [De Myst. 1.1.]
[11] [Ps. 60.]
[12] [40:7]
[13] [Ps. 109:31.]
[14] [Lepsius, Abth. Denk. 3. Bl. 276.]
[15] [Ch. 59:9, 10.]
[16] [15:21]
[17] [Ch. 116. 'Men do not speak, Gods do not perceive it, in turn, I have gone against all that opposes me. Have I not seen the secrets. Oh ye chief Gods of Sesennu [Heliopolis]! greatest on the 1st of the month, less on the 15th. They are Thoth, Shta-Sa, and Tum.' Birch's tr.]
[18] [Ps. 7.]
[19] [Source.]
[20] [Ch. 17. 'The Sun is in his rising when the rule which he has made begins, the Sun begins, rising in Suten Khen [Bubastis]; being in existence, Nu elevates the firmament; he is on the floor which is in Sesennu [Hermopolis]. He has strangled the children of wickedness on the floor of those in Sesen [Hermopolis].' Birch's tr.]
[21] [Ps. 26:7.]
[22] [Wilkinson, pl. 54.]
[23] [Deutsch, Remains, p. 66.]
[24] [v. 9.]
[25] [Heb. und Chald.]
[26] [Job 30:9.]
[27] [20:7, 8.]
[28] [Ps. 32.]
[29] [Ps. 52.]
[30] [Ps. 45.]
[31] [Ps. 53.]
[32] [Ps. 54.]
[33] [Ps. 74.]
[34] [Ps. 88.]
[35] [Ps. 88:4, 6, 8, 10, 11. ]
[36] [Ps. 110:3.]
[37] [RP, 10. Lefebure.]
[38] [49.]
[39] [Ps. 42:6]
[40] [Ps. 44:19.]
[41] [Ps. 54.]
[42] [2 Ch. 9:4.]
[43] [Ch. 147. 'I have made my way, I have bruised, and have passed pure: [Pure is] the Osiris [four times], he washes his face in the water [basin] of the Sun, the day of the festival of the Adjustment of the Year.' Birch's tr.]
[44] [Calmet, Dict., under entry 'Psalms.']
[45] [Source.]
[46] [Is. 38:11.]
[47] [Ch. 17. 'Oh, Lord of the Great Abode, Chief of the Gods! save thou the Osiris from the God whose face is in the [shape of] a dog, with the eyebrows of men; he lives off the fallen at the angle of the Pool of Fire, eating the body and digesting the heart, spitting out the bodies. He is invisible.' Birch's tr.]
[48] [Ps. 22:20.]
[49] [Ch. 154. 'Do not catch your equals or fellows with your nets, [nor] catch in them, walking away from earth. They reach to heaven, they stretch to earth.' Birch's tr.]
[50] [Vig. Pap. 9900. In Birch. See above note.]
[51] [Chs. 76-88. See Ritual.]
[52] [Ch. 154. 'OH! seeing with his face, the prevailers, chief of the born that is, fathers or their fathers, catching the birds flying on the waters! Do not catch your equals or fellows with your nets, [nor] catch in them, walking away from earth. They reach to heaven, they stretch to earth. The Osiris comes forth and breaks them [when they are stretched].' Birch's tr.]
[53] [Ps. 16:10.]
[54] [Prov. 7:20. Marg.]
[55] [Is. 13:10.]
[56] [Ch. 85. 'I return as the Ibis among the Spirits to the Western place.' Birch's tr.]
[57] [Lepsius, Denk. 2. 25.]
[58] [Jer. 8:7.]
[59] [Birch, Arch. (Soc. of Ant.), 35, 4, 85.]
[60] [RP, 6, 111. 'Egyptian Mag. Text,' Birch.]
[61] [Deut. 33:8.]
[62] [Ps. 10:15.]
[63] [RP, 6, 111.]
[64] [Ps. 89:35-7.]
[65] [Ch.1. 'I am Thoth, justifier of the words of Horus against his enemies, the day of weighing words in the great abode in An [Heliopolis].' Birch's tr.]
[66] [Ps. 10:7.]
[67] [Ps. 5:9.]
[68] [Ch. 39. 'Thy tongue is greater than the envious tongue of a scorpion, which has been made to thee; it has failed in its power for ever.' Birch's tr.]
[69] [Ps. 7:14-15.]
[70] [Ps. 74:20.]
[71] [Ps. 22:16.]
[72] [Ps. 25:15.]
[73] [Ps. 124:7.]
[74] [Of I and O.]
[75] [Ps. 41:9.]
[76] [Ch. 110. 'He keeps at pleasure; none escape from him. I am that crawling reptile in it. I have brought the things of the land of Tum, the time of overthrowing the ministers.' Birch's tr.]
[77] [Ps. 18:15.]
[78] [Ps. 18:16, 17.]
[79] [Ps. 74:13, 14.]
[80] [Ch. 15. 'Hail, thou magnified and enlarged, thy enemies fall on their blocks! Hail, thou greater than the Gods, rising in the heaven, ruling in the Gate! Hail, thou who hast cut in pieces the Scorner and strangled the Apophis! Give thou the sweet breath of the North wind to the Osiris!' Birch's tr.]
[81] [Ch. 134. 'Horus smites off their heads to the heaven (as) for the fowls, their thighs to the earth for wild beasts, to the waters for the fishes.' Birch's tr.]
[82] [Ch. 39. 'I make the haul of thy rope, oh Sun! The Apophis is overthrown; their cords bind the South, {194} North, East, and West. Their cords are on him. Akar [Victory, or the Sphinx] has overthrown him. Ha-ru-bah [he who is over the Gate of the Inundation] has knotted him ... The Apophis and Accusers of the Sun fall. Overthrown is the advance of the Apophis.' Birch's tr.]
[83] [Ps. 2:12.]
[84] [Ch. 39. 'He has made Intelligences. Give ye to him glory. Ascribe ye it to him. —Oh! [said by Nupe], the mother of the Gods, proceeding, he has found the way.' Birch's tr.]
[85] [Ps. 9:15.]
[86] [2:2]
[87] [Ch. 9. 'Oh Soul! greatest of things created, let the Osiris go. Having seen he passes from the Gate, he sees his father Osiris, he makes his way in the darkness to his father Osiris, he is his beloved, he has come to see his father Osiris, he has pierced the heart of Set to do the things of his father Osiris, he has opened all the paths on heaven and earth, he is the son beloved of his father, he has come from the mummy, a prepared Spirit.' Birch's tr.]
[88] [Luke, 24:44.]
[89] [Ib.]
[90] [Ps.40:7.]
[91] [Heb. 1:6.]
[92] [Ch. 17. '[The one] ordering his name to rule the Gods is Horus the son of Osiris, who has made himself a ruler in the place of his father Osiris. The day of establishing the earth and completing the earth is the burial of Osiris, the soul created in Suten-khen [Bubastis], giver of food [or existence], obliterater of sins, who has traversed the eternal path.' Ch. 78: 'He came forth from the horizon with them, they made him the terror of the Gods and Spirits transformed with him the only one of millions, creating all that is made. For first Osiris made the generation of Horus. Osiris figured him. How was he dignified than those who belong to the beings of light, with him? Osiris rose as a divine hawk, Horus embodies [incorporates] it with his soul like all the things of Osiris at the Gate.' Birch's tr.]
[93] [Ps. 22:1.]
[94] [Ib. 14.]
[95] [Ib. 18.]
[96] [Ps. 38:13?]
[97] [Ch. 81. 'I am the pure Lily coming forth from the luminous one. I guard the nostril of the Sun, and the nose of Athor. I give messages. Horus follows them. I am the pure Lily which comes out of the fields of the Sun.' Birch's tr.]
[98] [Mariette, Dendarah.2. pl. 48, 49.]
[99] [69:2]
[100] [69:4]
[101] [69:3]
[102] [Ch. 98. 'I pass the waters. I stand in the boat. I pass the God. I stand and come forth from the mud, towed along.' Birch's tr.]
[103] [Ps. 23:1, 2.]
[104] [Source.]
[105] [Source.]
[106] [Ps. 23:4.]
[107] [Ib.5.]
[108] [Ch. 79. 'I have received food off the table, and drunk libations at the eventide, I have come to those who are in the horizon with joy; glory has been given to me by those who are in the Gate in this mortal body. I rejoice at that Great God, Lord of the Palace; the Gods rejoice when they see him at his good coming forth from the belly, born of his mother the Firmament.' Birch's tr.]
[109] [Ps. 18:32, 33.]
[110] [Ch. 78. 'My face is in the shape of the divine hawk, my hind quarters are in the shape of a hawk. I am the prepared by his Lord, I go forth to the Gate or to Tattu. I have seen Osiris, I am wrapped up by his hands. My wrap is the heaven.' Birch's tr.]
[111] [Ps. 18:35.]
[112] [Ch. 78. 'I have seen my quiet Lord. I learn their knowledge of the circumstances of the Gods, whom Horus has made of the seed of his father Osiris.']
[113] [Ch. 138. 'I have been made and emanated from his nostril, I am the Horus of Kam.ka, issue of the red one [Desert]; taking like him who is invincible: his hand is strong against his enemies, supporter of his father, snatched from the waters of his mother, striking his enemies, correcting the aggressors in silence.' Birch's tr.]
[114] [Everard's version and Menard's, with additional fragments.]
[115] [Bk. 4. ver. 14.]
[116] [Ibid., ?]
[117] [p. 75]
[118] [Job. 21:28.]
[119] [In Zohar. Francke's or Knorr von R.'s tr.]
[120] [Ver.1.]
[121] [ver. 7.]
[122] [Ps. 132:17.
[123] [23:5, 6.]
[124] [Jer. 23:6; 33:16, marg.]
[125] [Barker Pap.217, Brit. Mus.]
[126] [Zech. 6:12.]
[127] [Ch. 105. ']
[128] [Sat. 1.20.]
[129] [I can find no ref. to a double in Herodotus, but only several mentions of the twelve gods. See Bk, 2, chs. 45, 143, etc.]
[130] [See Opers. at Pyr. Gizeh.]
[131] [Compare Psalms 78.]
[132] [Rit. ch. 1. 'I am with Horus the day of clothing Tesh-tesh [the Nile], to open the door to wash the heart of the meek one, keeping secret the secret places in Rusta. I am with Horus supporting the right shoulder of Osiris in Skhem.' Birch's tr.]
[133] [Rev. 3:7.]
[134] [22:20-24.]
[135] [Fol. 21, col. 2.]
[136] [Ch. 1. 'I am the great workman who made the Ark of Socharis on the stocks.' Birch's tr.]
[138] [Book of Enoch, 58:7.]
[139] [Source.]
[140] [See TSBA, 4. pt. 1. p. 15, note. Naville.]
[141] [Source.]
[142] [TSBA, 3. 386.]
[143] [Ecc. 9:7-10.]
[144] ['In social meetings among the rich, when the banquet is
ended, a servant carries round to the several guests a coffin, in which there is
a wooden image of a corpse, carved and painted to resemble nature as nearly as
possible, about a cubit or two cubits in length. As he shows it to each guest in
turn, the servant says, "Gaze here, and drink and be merry; for when you die,
such will you be." Tr. Rawlinson.
'In the entertainments of the rich among them, when they have finished
eating, a man bears round a wooden figure of a dead body in a coffin, made as
like the reality as may be both by painting and carving, and measuring about a
cubit or two cubits each way; and this he shows to each of those who are
drinking together, saying: "When thou lookest upon this, drink and be merry, for
thou shalt be such as this when thou art dead."' Tr. Macauley. Bk. 2.78.
See also BB 1:296.]
[145] [500, Chabas, RP, 10.]
[146] [Brugsch, Hist., pl. 4. scutch. 40.]
[147] [Source.]
[148] [18:24.]
[149] [Ecc. 51:10.]
[150] [Ecc. 51:5-10.]
[151] [Ecc. 47:13-16.]
[152] [Rit. 15. 'Glory to thee! arresting thy person "coming, approaching in peace."' Birch's tr.]
[153] [Tem. Ins. 1. pl. 97.]
[154] [Goodwin, TSBA, 2. 356.]
[155] [Con. Cels.]
[156] [Rit. 1. 'Oh Openers of Roads! Oh Guides of Paths to the Soul made in the abode of Osiris! open ye the roads, level ye the paths to the Osiris with yourselves. He enters the Gate of Osiris. He goes in with exultation, he comes out in peace. The Osiris is neither stopped nor turned away. He goes in as he wishes, he comes out as he likes. He is justified, he does what he is ordered in the House of Osiris, he proffers his words with you. The Osiris goes to the West in peace.' Birch's tr.]
[157] [40:3, 4.]
[158] [40:5.]
[159] [RP, 4, 109. Cook.]
[160] [Birch, Sel. Pap, II.]
[161] [Compare Ps. 18:2.]
[162] [Compare Acts 17:29.]
[163] [Compare John 1:18.]
[164] [Compare 1 Kin. 8:27.]
[165] [Compare Is. 40:13-14.]
[166] [Compare Ps. 17:15.]
[167] [Jude 9.]
[168] [Source.]
[169] [Discuss.]
[170] [Source. Destruction of Mankind?]
[171] [Ex. 32.]
[172] [Ibid?]
[173] [Birch, Gal. 19.]
[174] [Source.]
[175] [Pl. B & C. in BB 2.]
[176] [Source. Destruction of Mankind?]
[177] [Num. 19:9.]
[178] [Source. Destruction of Mankind?]
[179] [Hos. 10:11.]
[180] [I Sam. 6.]
[181] [Source. Destruction of Mankind?]
[182] [Rit. 146-7. See Ritual.]
[183] [Source. Destruction of Mankind?]
[184] [Source. Destruction of Mankind?]
[185] [Ex. 24:10.]
[186] [Ex. 32:16.]
[187] [Source.]
[188] [Source. Destruction of Mankind?]
[189] [Source. Destruction of Mankind?]
[190] [Num. 33:9.]
[191] [Ex. 15:23-25.]
[192] [56:3]
[193] [Ex. 24:6-8.]
[194] [RP, 6. 103-112, with commentary on the TSBA, 4. pt. 1.]
[195] [Ex. 24:4.]
[196] [Neh. 13:24.]
[197] [2 Kin. 18:26.]
[198] [Sanhedrin, 21. B. Deutsch, Rem. 423.]
[199] [I Ch. 24:27.]
[200] [Neh. 2:7-9; 6:5, 17, 19.]
[201] [Source.]
[202] [Source.]
[203] [Rem., 320.]
[204] [Ibid.]
[205] [Entwurf einer Geschichte, etc.?]
[206] [2 Es. find. not 1:4. 2 Es. 14:21.]
[207] [2 Es. 14:42.]
[208] [Ch. 7:12.]
[209] [Heb. und Chald.]
[210] [Sharpe, Eg. Ins. 78.]
[211] [Didron, Icon. Chret., fig. 5 & 26.]