The Old Ways

Egyptian · The Egyptian Book of the Dead · 2 of 65

Spell 17 — The Mystery of Being

E.A. Wallis Budge, 1895

I am Yesterday, I am Today, and I am Tomorrow, and I have the power to be born a second time. The hidden dwelling of the soul is the place from which no traveller returns. My sacred image is the Eye of Ra, who was with Ra before heaven and earth had come into being, before the mountains had come into existence, before the flood had appeared.