Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CXV
I have grown from yesterday, a Great one among the Great. I have raised myself above all things that come into being
The Face is revealed to the Eye of the Only One, and the round of darkness is broken through. I am one of you
I know the Powers of Heliopolis. Doth not the All-powerful One issue from it like one who extendeth a hand to us?
Two brethren came into being: they were Heb-rā and Sotemanes, whose arm resteth not; and he assumed the form of a female with a lock, which became the Lock in Heliopolis
Active and powerful is the heir of the temple; the Active one of Heliopolis. The flesh of his flesh is the All-seer, for he hath the might divine as the Son whom the Father hath begotten. And his will is that of the Mighty one of Heliopolis
The ancient text of this chapter has most unfortunately been lost. A few words only remain in the fragments of Papyrus Pm . M. Naville has also published what is found on an ostracon of the time of the XVIIIth dynasty. There is no doubt that the form of the text which has been handed down in the later papyri has suffered great alterations. And a comparison between the Turin and Cadet papyri shows in how untrustworthy a way this later form of the text has been transmitted
Special attention has been given to this chapter by Mr. Goodwin ( Zeitschr. , 1873, p. 104), and by M. Lefébure ( Mélanges D’Arch. , 1874, p. 155), whose work is very much more valuable than that of his English colleague. But the most important study bearing on the relations between the older and the more recent recension is that of M. Naville, ‘Un ostrakon égyptien,’ in the first volume of the Annales du Musée Guimet