n the Zohar,
compare Qabbalah, etc., by Isaac Myer. Philadelphia, 1888, pp. 397,
388, 389, 108 _et seq._, 190, 196, 418, and many other places.
[83] _Hymne a Ammon-Ra des papyrus Egyptiens du Musee de Boulaq,
traduit et commente_, by Eugene Grebaut, etc. Paris, 1874, p. 11.
[84] _Ibid._, p. 28. See also, pp. 115, 120-122, 295.
[85] _Ibid._, pp. 112, 115.
[86] As to the meaning of the important word _maat_, see, Religion of
Ancient Egypt, by P. Le Page Renouf--Hibbert Lectures for 1879. New
York, pp. 73 _et seq._; 123 _et seq._ _Hymne a Ammon-Ra_, last before
cited, notes p. 110 _et seq._
[87] _Hymne a Ammon-Ra_, p. 16 _et seq._
[88] _Ibid._, pp. 27, 28.
[89] Comp. _Hymne a Ammon-Ra_, by E. Grebaut, pp. 3, 4, and notes to
same, p. 39 _et seq._
[90] Or, "the changing which is in the changing of all things when
they change."
[91] That is: "Lords of _maat_," i.e., of the harmony of the universe.
[92] Place of the soul's birth. This refers to the upper prototypic
world. The same idea is in the Zohar.
[93] _Catalogue des Manuscrits Egyptiens_, etc., _au Musee Egypt. du
Louvre, par Feu Theodule Deveria_. Paris, 1881, No. 3283; pp. 143,
144. Comp. _Hermes Trismegiste_, par Louis Menard, second ed. Paris,
1867, pp. 188, 190, 117 _et seq._; 147.
[94] _Hermes Trismegiste_, edition last cited, p. 218.
[95] By the Word or Logos. The Logos occupied an important position in
the Ancient Egyptian religion. See my Article on the subject in, The
Oriental Review, January-February, 1893, p. 20 _et seq._
[96] Shu corresponds to the Makrokosm, the primordial Adam or
androgenic Adam Qadmon, of the first chapter of the Hebrew Book of
Genesis. As to Shu, see: History of the Egypt. Relig., by Dr. C.P.
Tiele. Boston, 1882, pp. 84, 85, 155, 156.
[97] The Hebrew _She-kheen-ah_, or Glory?
[98] The Nile. Notes for Travellers in Egypt, by E.A. Wallis Budge,
Litt. D., F.S.A., etc., second ed. London, 1892, p. 165 _et seq._
[99] Inscriptions in the pyramid of Pepi I., l. 664 (_circa_ 3233-3200
B.C.,) in the _Recueil de Travaux Relatifs a la Philol., et a l'Arch.
Egypt._, etc., Vol. VIII., p. 104.
[100] Comp. The _Per-em-hru_ or, Book of the Dead, edition of Ed.
Naville, ch. XVII., l. 3, 4. In the passage cited from Pepi, I. 664
_et seq._, Tumu is also a primordial deity and its female _sakti_ or
principle, is Nu or Nut, the sky.
[101] It is from this action that the deity was named Shu from the
root, _Shu_ to l
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