Ancient Egyptian prayers and invocations (original) (raw)

The ancient Egyptians had a number of good gods whom many good priests and kings would venerate and honor with inscriptions. The general idea, following the precedent set by the book of Revelations in chapter 22, is that we are to bow down to worship God, not his angels. Therefore the ancient Egyptian gods and the ancient gods of Greece and Babylonia and elsewhere should be considered angels, while GOD the supreme being over all spirits and physical creation is recognized to be Aten, sometimes identified with the sun by the ancient Egyptians. What is important is to recognize the difference between a sincere individual and their expression of faith and reverence for the spiritual and worldly powers of the universe, and that of the unbeliver uninterested in spiritual matters, or opposed to spiritual thinking and submission to law. The following invocations represent some of the earliest ideas of religious thought, and later echoes of that transcendent thinking and reverence for the spiritual world. Their order is not in approximate chronological sequence. Some untranslated segments of the text have been guessed at, as to what the words might have been. [using italicized brackets]