(104) Morning and evening are and reach up from the earth to the moon only, and take their original from the light of the sun, and this makes evening and morning, as also the outward day, and the outward dark night, as every one knoweth.

(22) And since the dawn is an image of the day of birth, and from that point the light which has shone forth at first from the darkness increases, there has also dawned on those involved in darkness a day of the knowledge of truth. In correspondence with the manner of the sun's rising, prayers are made looking towards the sunrise in the east. Whence also the most ancient temples looked towards the west, that people might be taught to turn to the east when facing the images. "Let my prayer be directed before Thee as incense, the uplifting of my hands as the evening sacrifice," say the Psalms.

(80) [And in those days the sun shall be seen and he shall journey in the evening †on the extremity of the great chariot† in the west] And shall shine more brightly than accords with the order of light.

(83) And when I had gone forth below and seen the heaven, and the sun rising in the east, and the moon setting in the west, and a few stars, and the whole earth, and everything as †He had known† it in the beginning, then I blessed the Lord of judgement and extolled Him because He had made the sun to go forth from the windows of the east, †and he ascended and rose on the face of the heaven, and set out and kept traversing the path shown unto him.

(1) HERE now is begun the describing of the astral birth. It ought well to be observed what the first title of this book meaneth, which is thus expressed: The DaySpring or Dawning in the East, or Morning-Redness in the Rising. For here will a very simple man be able to see and comprehend or apprehend the being of God.

(504) 1082 To say: The sky is pregnant with the wine juice of the vine; 1082 Nut has given birth to (it) as her daughter, the morning star. 1082 I also arise; 1082 the third is Sothis of the pure places. 1083 I have purified myself in the lakes of the dancers(?) singers(?) or, panegyrists(?), 1083 I have cleansed myself in the lakes of the jackal. 1083 Thorn-bush, remove thyself from my way, 1084 that I may take the south side of the Marsh of Reeds. 1084 The m3'-canal is opened, the Winding Watercourse is inundated. 1084 The two reed-floats of heaven are placed for Horus, 1084 that he may ferry over to R`, to the horizon. 1085 The two reed-floats of heaven are placed for him of the horizon, 1085 that he may ferry over to R`, to the horizon. 1085 The two reed-floats of heaven are placed for Horus sm.t, 1085 that he may ferry over to R`, to the horizon. 1085 The two reed-floats of heaven are placed for Horus of the East, 1085 that he may ferry over to R`, to the horizon, 1086 The two reed-floats of heaven shall be placed for me, I, Horus of the gods, 1086 that I also may ferry over to R`, to the horizon, 1086 and that I may take my throne, which is in the Marsh of Reeds. 1087 I descend to the south side of the Marsh of Offerings. 1087 I am a Great One, son of a Great One; 1087 I am come forth from between the thighs of the Two Enneads. 1087 I have adored R`; I have adored Horus of the East; 1087 I have adored Horus of the horizon, 1088 as he girded himself with the apron, 1088 that he might be gracious to me, that he might be gracious to "Horus-on-his-throne(?)," 1088 that he might be gracious to "Horus-on-his-throne(?)," that he might be gracious to me.

(105) But I must once mention, that now is the Dawning or Morning Redness of the Day, as the Doorkeeper will have me do. Now observe:

(12) The creation of the day and the renewal of the month which they might behold

(17) Sun and Moon - one* the day, the other the night, bow to the dust in adoration; and from their worship comes their movement. It is God who has spread out the day in whiteness, it is he who has folded up the night and blackened it.