Sacred Hymns to Amen


icon11   The 4th of the Five Hymns to Amen (Leiden Papyrus)

1200th Chapter.
2Secret of manifestations and sparkling of shape.
3Marvellous God, rich in forms.
4All gods boast of Him,
5to magnify themselves in His beauty,
6to the extent of His Divinity.
7The Holy Spirit (Divine Light) himself is united with His body.
8He is the great one in Heliopolis.
9He is called Heaven.
10Amen, who comes out of Heaven,
11to guide the peoples.
12Another of His forms are the Eight gods of the unmanifest void,
13primeval one of the primeval ones, begetter of the Divine Light (Holy Spirit).
14He completed himself as the Son (of God),
15being of one body with him.
16He is the Universal Lord,
17who initiated that which exists.
18His Soul, they say, is the one who is in the sky.
19He is the one who is in the netherworld,
20foremost of the East.
21His Soul is in the sky, His body in the West.
22His statue is in southern Heliopolis, elevating His body.
23One is Amen,who keeps Himself concealed from them,
24who hides Himself from the gods,
25no one knowing His nature.
26He is more remote than the sky,
27He is deeper than the netherworld.
28None of the gods knows His true form.
29His image is not unfolded in the papyrus rolls.
30Nothing certain is testified about Him.
31He is too secretive for His Majesty to be revealed,
32He is too great to be enquired after,
33too powerful to be known.
34People immediately fall face to face into death
35when His Name is uttered knowingly or unknowingly.
36There is no god able to invoke Him by it.
37He is Soul-like, hidden of name, like His Secrecy.