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Ancient Egyptian - A Hymn of Thebes
Identifier
010136
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
quoted in Legends of Ancient Egypt: Stories of Egyptian Gods and Heroes by F. H. Brooksbank - "part of a hymn that was sung daily in the great temple that was devoted to him at Thebes".
Long ages before writing was invented, prayer and praise were offered to him by the people. They believed in the existence of an eternal, almighty and all wise Being, who could neither seen nor known by man, the first original great god from whose attributes all other gods sprang.
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A description of the experience
Ancient Egyptian – God
is One and Alone
and there is none other beside Him
God is One and alone
the Maker of all His creatures
God is Spirit
deep hidden from the eye of man and from all things
God is the Spirit of Spirits
of creation the Spirit divine
God is God from the beginning
before all things were, He was God
Lord of existences is He
Father of All
God eternal
God is the One everlasting
perpetual, eternal, unending
From endless time hath He been
and shall be henceforth and for ever
God is hidden
and no man His form hath perceived nor His likeness
Unknown of gods and of men
mysterious, incomprehensible
God is Truth
and on truth doth He live
King of truth divine is He
God is life
and man liveth through Him
the Primeval Alone