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Chapter 11  
     
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 And where the boat goes there is a great island on which the Gods rest:
 
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 there stands the Tree of Life,
 
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 growing between the ocean and the sky, between the upper and lower worlds.  
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 Its fruit keeps the Gods and the souls of the dead who have been justified before Osiris in eternal youth;
 
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 the past as well as the future is written on its leaves.
 
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 Now as the boat passes with Rê living once more within it the Gods come as dogs to his feet, rejoicing to greet him.
  
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 The Sun, renewed, was showing himself once more to men.
 
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 The scribe Nefer-ka held his hands out to the disk and chanted his salutation to Rê, the Great One:
  
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 He commanded, and the Gods were born.
  
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 Men came forth from his eyes, and the Gods from his mouth.
  
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 He it is who made the grass for the cattle, and the fruit: tree for men;
 
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 he who created that wherein live the fishes in the stream and the birds in the heaven;
 
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 he who putteth the breath in the egg, and nourisheth the son of the worm, and produceth the substance of insects;
 
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 he who maketh what is necessary for mice in their holes and nourisheth the birds on every tree.
  
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 It is for love of him that the Nile cometh, he, the sweet, the well-beloved. and at his rising men do live.
  
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 And this Chief of the Gods hath yet his heart open to him that calleth on him.
 
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 He protecteth the fearful against the audacious man.
  
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 Therefore is he loved and venerated by all that doth exist, in all the height of heaven, in the vastness of the earth, and the depth of the sea.
  
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 The Gods bow down before thy majesty and exalt their Creator.
  
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 They rejoice at the approach of Him who did beget them:
  
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 Be praised! say the wild beasts. Be praised! saith the Desert.
  
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 Thy beauty conquers hearts.
  
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 In the light of the risen Sun, Nefer-ka the Scribe saw the messengers coming towards the house of his father,
 
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 one of them bearing in his hands the book that described the journey and the trials of the Dead,
 
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 and behold! Edfu, his brother, was standing before him declaring that his father's living hands were stretched out to hold the book,
 
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 and that his eyes had sight yet in them to read what was in the book.
  

 
 
 

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