Liturgical Prayers
Prayer to Amun-Ra, The Almighty
The One in his works, as with the gods. Beneficent Bull of the company of the gods. Chief of all the gods.
Lord of Truth, father of the gods, maker of men, creator of all animals, Lord of things that are, creator of the staff of life: Maker of the herbage that sustaineth the life of cattle.
Power made by Ptah, beautiful child of love. The gods ascribeth praises unto Him.
Maker of things celestial and of things terrestrial, He illumineth Egypt, Traverser of the celestial heights in peace.
King Ra true speaker, chief of the earth. Most glorious one, Honored Lord, chief creator of the whole earth.
The Opening of the Mouth
My mouth is opened by Ptah,
my mouth's bonds are loosed by my leader-god.
Thoth hath come fully equipped with spells,
He looseth the bonds of Set from my mouth.
Atum hath given me my hands,
they are placed as guardians.
My mouth is given to me.
My mouth is opened by Ptah,
with that chisel of metal with which he opened the mouths of the gods.
I am Sekhmet-Wadjet who dwelleth in the west of heaven,
I am Sahyt among the souls of On.
A Prayer of Thanksgiving
We give thanks to thee. Every soul and heart is lifted up to thee, o undisturbed name honored with the name of "God" and praised with the name of "Father," for to everyone and everything cometh the fatherly kindness and affection and love and any teaching there may be that is sweet and plain, giving us mind, word, and knowledge: mind so that we may understand thee, word so that we may expound thee, knowledge so that we may know thee.
We rejoice, having been illuminated by thy knowledge. We rejoice because thou hast shown us thyself. We rejoice because while we were in the body thou hast made us divine through thy knowledge.
The thanksgiving of the man who attaineth to thee is one thing: that we may know thee. We have known thee, o intellectual light. O life of life, we have known thee. O womb of every creature, we have known thee. O womb pregnant with the nature of the Father, we have known thee. O eternal permanence of the begetting Father, thus have we worshipped thy goodness.
There is one petition that we ask: we would be preserved in knowledge. And there is one protection that we desire: that we not stumble in this kind of life.
Prayer to Amun, The One and The Many
One is Amun, who keepeth Himself concealed from all, who hideth Himself from the gods, no one knowing His nature.
He is more remote than the firmament, He is deeper than the netherworld.
None of the gods knows His true form. His image is not unfolded in the papyrus rolls. Nothing certain is testified about Him.
He is too secret for His Majesty to be revealed, He is too great to be enquired after, too powerful to be known.
Awestruck is mankind when His Name is uttered knowingly or unknowingly. There is no god able to invoke Him by it. He is Soul-like, hidden of name, like His Secrecy.