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“living soul for ever.”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Book of the Dead

“Osiris became the type and symbol of resurrection among the Egyptians of all periods, because he was a god who had been originally a mortal and had risen from the dead.”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Book of the Dead

“There is neither water nor air here, its depth is unfathomable, it is as dark as the darkest night, and men wander about here helplessly. A man cannot live here and be satisfied, and he cannot gratify the cravings of affection”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Book of the Dead

“Thou art pure, thy ka is pure, thy soul is pure, thy form is pure.[3]”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum

“meter, the Egyptian word for God,”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum

“may there never be done unto me that which my soul abhorreth,”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum

“To the great and supreme power which made the earth, the heavens, the sea, the sky, men and women, animals, birds, and creeping things, all that is and all that shall be, the Egyptians gave the name neter.”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum

“But the sun rises again when the night is past, and, as it begins a new life with renewed strenght and vigour, it became the type of the new life which the Egyptian hoped to live in the world beyond the grave.”
― E a Wallis Budge

“anx anx an mit-k”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum

“The fact that the scarab flies during the hotest part of the day made the insect to be identified with the sun, and the ball of eggs to be compared to the sun itself. The unseen power of God, made manifest under the form of the god Khepera, caused the sun to roll across the sky, and the act of rolling gave to the scarab its name kheper, i.e., “he who rolls”.”
― E a Wallis Budge

“duration of life is eternity,”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum

“let not my soul be imprisoned,”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum

“maa-a ba-a xaibit-a
May I look upon my soul and my shadow.[2]”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum

“Praise be unto thee, O Osiris, lord of eternity, Unnefer, Heru-khuti (Harmachis), whose forms are manifold, and whose attributes are majestic, Ptah-Seker-Tem in Annu (Heliopolis), the lord of the hidden place, and the creator of Het-ka-Ptah (Memphis) and of the gods [therein], the guide of the underworld, whom [the gods] glorify when thou settest in Nut. Isis embraceth thee in peace, and she driveth away the fiends from the mouth of thy paths. Thou turnest thy face upon Amentet, and thou makest the earth to shine as with refined copper. Those who have lain down (i.e., the dead) rise up to see thee, they breathe the air and they look upon thy face when the Disk riseth on its horizon; their hearts are at peace inasmuch as they behold thee, O thou who art Eternity and Everlastingness!”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: Prayers, Incantations, and Other Texts from the Book of the Dead

“unto me. Never have I felt such pain, neither can sickness cause more woe than this. I am a prince, the son of a prince, the sacred essence which hath proceeded from God. I am the great one, the son of the great one, and my father planned my name; I have multitudes of names and multitudes of forms, and my being is in every god. I have been proclaimed by the heralds Temu and Horus, and my father and my mother uttered my name; but it hath been hidden within me by him that begat me, who would not that the words of power of any seer should have dominion over me. I came forth to look upon that which I had made, I was passing through the world which I had created, when lo! something stung me, but what I know not. Is it fire? Is it water? My heart is on fire, my flesh quaketh, and trembling hath seized all my limbs. Let there be brought unto me my children, the gods, who possess the words of power and magical speech, and mouths which know how to utter them, and also powers which reach even unto the heavens.’ Then the children of every god came unto him uttering cries of grief. And Isis also came, bringing with her her words of magical power, and her mouth was full of the breath of life; for her talismans vanquish the pains of”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, Egyptian Magic

“The stars which never set are under the seat of thy face, and the stars which never rest are thy habitations; and unto thee offerings are made according to the decree of the god Seb.

The company of the gods sing praises unto thee, and the starry gods of the Underworld bow down with their faces to the earth.”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians, Volume 2 (Volume 2)

“let not be fettered my shadow, let be opened the way”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum

“HYMN OF PRAISE. ‘o osiris, lord of eternity, Un-nefer, Horus of the two horizons, whose forms are manifold, whose creations are without number, Ptah-Seker-Tem in Annu, the lord of the tomb, and the creator of Memphis and of the gods, the guide of the underworld, whom [the gods] glorify when thou settest in Nut. Isis embraceth thee in peace, and she driveth away the fiends from the mouth of thy paths.”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead

“those favoured of God.[6]”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum

“for the texts neither form a connected work nor belong to one period;”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Book of the Dead

“Pyramid Texts" is the name now commonly given to the long hieroglyphic inscriptions that are cut upon the walls of the chambers and corridors of five pyramids at Sakkārah.”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians

“Thoth was also the “tongue” of the Creator, and he at all times voiced the will of the great god, and spoke the words which commanded every being and thing in heaven and in earth to come into existence.”
― E a Wallis Budge, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: Prayers, Incantations, and Other Texts from the Book of the Dead

“made the heavens, I have stretched out the two horizons like a curtain, and I have placed the soul of the gods within them. I am he who, if he openeth his eyes, doth make the light, and, if he closeth them, darkness cometh into being. At his command the Nile riseth, and the gods know not his name. I have made the hours, I have created the days, I bring forward the festivals of the year, I create the Nile-flood. I make the fire of life, and I provide food in the houses. I am Khepera in the morning, I am R at noon, and I am Temu at even.’ Meanwhile the poison was not taken away from his body, but it pierced deeper, and the great god could no longer walk. “Then said Isis unto R, ‘What thou hast said is not thy name. O tell it unto me, and the poison shall depart; for he shall live whose name shall be revealed.’ Now the poison burned like fire, and it was fiercer than the flame and the furnace, and the majesty of the great god said, ‘I consent that Isis shall search into me, and that my name shall pass from me into her.’ Then the god hid himself from the gods, and his place in the Boat of Millions of Years was empty. And when the time had”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, Egyptian Magic

“What is loved of God is obedience; disobedience hateth God.[2]”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum

“Osiris, seated, wearing the atef crown, and holding in his hands the crook and flail. Before him, by the side of an altar of offerings, stands Ani, with both hands raised in adoration. (3) A balance with the heart, symbolizing the conscience of Ani, in one scale, and [a feather] emblematic of Right and Truth, in the other. Beside the balance is the tri-formed monster Amemit. (4) Thoth, ibis-headed, seated on a pylon-shaped pedestal, painting a large feather of Maat.”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead

“earth in her hand, and formed thereof a sacred serpent in the form of a dart; she did not set it upright before her face, but let it lie upon the ground in the path whereby the great god went forth, according to his heart’s desire, into his double kingdom. Now the holy god arose, and the gods who followed him as though he were Pharaoh went with him; and he came forth according to his daily wont; and the sacred serpent bit him. The flame of life departed from him, and he who dwelt among the cedars (?) was overcome. The holy god opened his mouth, and the cry of his majesty reached unto heaven; his company of gods said, ‘What hath happened ? ’ and his gods exclaimed, ‘ What is it ?’ But R could not answer, for his jaws trembled and all his members quaked; the poison spread swiftly through his flesh just as the Nile rusheth through all his land. When the great god had stablished his heart, he cried unto those who were in his train, saying, ‘Come unto me, O ye who have come into being from my body, ye gods who have come forth from me, make ye known unto Khepera that a dire calamity hath fallen upon me. My heart perceiveth it, but my eyes see it not; my hand hath not caused it, nor do I know who hath done this”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, Egyptian Magic

“arrived for the heart of R to come forth, Isis spake unto by oath to deliver up his two eyes (i.e., the sun and moon).’ Thus was the name of the great god taken from him, and Isis, the lady of words of magical power, said, ‘Depart, poison, go forth from R. O Eye of Horus, go forth from the god, and shine outside his mouth. It is I who work, it is I who make to fall down upon the earth the vanquished poison, for the name of the great god hath been taken away from him. Let R live, and let the poison die! Let the poison die, and let R live!’ These are the words of Isis, the mighty lady, the mistress of the gods, who knew R by his own name.” Now from a few words of text which follow the above narrative we learn that the object of writing it was not so much to instruct the reader as to make a magic formula, for we are told that it was to be recited over figures of Temu and Horus, and Isis and Horus, that is to say, over figures of Temu the evening sun, Horus the Elder, Horus the son of Isis, and Isis herself. Temu apparently takes the place of R, for he represents the sun as an old man, i.e., R at the close of his daily life when he has lost his strength and power. The text is”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, Egyptian Magic

“The Chapter of the divine god, the self-created being, who made the heavens and the earth, and the winds [which give] life, and the fire, and the gods, and men, and beasts, and cattle, and reptiles, and the fowl of the air and the fish of the sea; he is the king of men and of gods, he hath one period of life (?) and with him periods of one hundred and twenty years each are but as years; his names are manifold and unknown, the gods even know them not. “Now Isis was a woman who possessed words of power; her heart was wearied with the millions of men, therefore she chose the millions of the gods, but she esteemed more highly the millions of the spirits "(khu). And she meditated in her heart, saying, ‘ Cannot I by means of the sacred name of God make myself mistress of the earth and become a goddess like unto R in heaven and upon earth ? ’ Now behold, each day R entered at the head of his holy mariners and established himself upon the throne of the two horizons. Now the divine one (i.e., R) had grown old, he dribbled at the mouth, his spittle fell upon the earth, and his slobbering dropped upon the ground. And Isis kneaded it with”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, Egyptian Magic

“Ani standing, with both hands raised in adoration, before Ra, hawk-headed and seated in a boat floating upon the sky.”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead

“The eating of bread is according to the plan of God.[3]”
― E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum