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Chapter 12  
  The 4th of the Five Hymns to Amen (Leiden Papyrus)  
     
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 200th Chapter.  
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 Secret of manifestations and sparkling of shape.
  
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 Marvellous God, rich in forms.
  
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 All gods boast of Him,
  
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 to magnify themselves in His beauty,
  
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 to the extent of His Divinity.
 
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 The Holy Spirit (Divine Light) himself is united with His body.
  
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 He is the great one in Heliopolis.
  
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 He is called Heaven.  
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 Amen, who comes out of Heaven,
  
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 to guide the peoples.  
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 Another of His forms are the Eight gods of the unmanifest void,  
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 primeval one of the primeval ones, begetter of the Divine Light (Holy Spirit).
  
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 He completed himself as the Son (of God),  
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 being of one body with him.  
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 He is the Universal Lord,   
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 who initiated that which exists.
  
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 His Soul, they say, is the one who is in the sky.
  
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 He is the one who is in the netherworld,   
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 foremost of the East.  
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 His Soul is in the sky, His body in the West.
  
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 His statue is in southern Heliopolis, elevating His body.
  
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 One is Amen,who keeps Himself concealed from them,
  
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 who hides Himself from the gods,
  
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 no one knowing His nature.  
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 He is more remote than the sky,  
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 He is deeper than the netherworld.
  
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 None of the gods knows His true form.
  
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 His image is not unfolded in the papyrus rolls.
  
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 Nothing certain is testified about Him.
  
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 He is too secretive for His Majesty to be revealed,  
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 He is too great to be enquired after,
  
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 too powerful to be known.
  
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 People immediately fall face to face into death
  
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 when His Name is uttered knowingly or unknowingly.  
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 There is no god able to invoke Him by it.
  
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 He is Soul-like, hidden of name, like His Secrecy.  

 
 
 

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