I am the opener (i.e., inaugurator) of the festivals, and the maker of the floods of water. I am the maker of the hours and the creator of the days. I am the being whose name the gods and goddesses know not. I am the being who gives the command, and the waters of Hapi (the Nile) burst forth. I am the being who opens his eyes and the light comes forth I am the being who shuts his eyes and there is darkness. I am the maker of heaven, and I have made to be hidden the two gods of the horizon, and I have placed the souls of the gods and goddesses within them. I am the maker of the waters (Primeval Ocean), and I have made Meht-ur to come into being I have made the Bull of his Mother, and I have made the joys of love (love-making) to exist. I cannot look at the heavens, and water forces itself on my face as in the time of the inundation.”Īnd Aset said to Ra, “Oh my Divine Father, tell me thy name, for whoever is able to pronounce his name liveth.” Ra replied, “I am the maker of the heavens and the earth, I have knit together the mountains, and I have created everything which exist upon them. I am colder than water, I am hotter than fire, all my members sweat, I myself quake, mine eye is unsteady. Then Aset came along to speak to her father Ra and said: “What is this, Oh Divine Father? What is it? Hath a serpent shot his venom into thee? Hath a thing which thou has fashioned lifted up its head against thee? Verily it shall be overthrown by beneficent words of power, and I will make it to retreat in the sight of thy rays.” The holy god opened his month and said, “I was walking along the road and passing through the two lands which I myself had created, the two lands of my country, when I was bitten by a serpent which I did not see. Nobody could find an antidote to the serpent’s bite. He became so ill that the gods and goddesses feared he would die. The serpent bit Ra and caused him to become ill. She left the serpent on the road which the great god traveled. Aset took this and mixed it with earth and fashioned it into the form of a serpent. One day as Ra made his entrance in the eastern horizon, a portion of his essence fell upon the earth. She revered the state of the gods and goddesses and revered even more, the state of the spirits, because they were closer to the Divine.Īset meditated in her heart as follows, “Is it possible for me to become like Ra and to be the supreme monarch of all Creation by knowing the name of Ra?” She was dispassionate towards human beings. She was knowledgeable in the words of power and the wisdom of the world. She was living in the form of a woman in ancient times.
Ra is so ancient that periods of one hundred and twenty-five years for human beings are like periods of a year for him.īehold the goddess Aset.
Ra’s names and forms are innumerable and un-knowable even by the gods and goddesses. Ra is the essence of all life, fire, the gods and goddesses, men and women, beasts, cattle, reptiles, birds, fish and all objects in Creation. This scripture and the detailed study of the hieroglyphic text is the central study in the Teachings of the Temple of Aset course. To do so under the guidance of the temple sages is the act of following and remaining close to the Goddess as enjoined by the initiatic practice. The following summary is a brief introduction to the most important spiritual scripture of the Temple of Aset and was studied by the initiates, priests and priestesses of her temple.