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THE TREE OF LIFE 263
ZOTHAZAZAZA. Hear me, my Father, Father of all paternities,
Infinite Light, I invoke Thy Incorruptible Names which is in the
AZon of Light that ZOROROTHORA should send me the Water of
the Fiery Baptism from the Virgin of Light to the end that I may
baptize my disciples. Hear me again, 0 my Father, Father of all
Paternity, Infinite Light, that the Virgin of Light may come, that
she may baptize my disciples with Fire, that she may pardon their
sins, purify their iniquities, for I invoke Thy Incorruptible Name
which is ZOTHOOZA THOITHAZAZZAOTH AMEN AMEN AJIEN. Hear
me also, 0 Virgin of Light, 0 Judge of Truth, forgive the sins of
my disciples; and if, 0 my Father, Thou blottest out their
iniquities, may they be written down heirs of the Kingdom of Light,
and to this end perform a miracle upon these censers of sweet
smelling perfume."
It requires very little ingenuity on the part of the novice to make
the necessary alterations in these rituals, adapting them to his own
ends. A pronoun here, and a word there, and the result is a personal
ritual. The same is also true of the rituals of the Book of the Dead,
many of which are lyrical and panegyric. Chapter CLXXXII gives
a short Invocation, wherein Thoth is represented as being identified
with the deceased.
" I am Thoth, the perfect scribe, whose hands are pure. I am
the Lord of purity, the destroyer of evil, the scribe of right and
truth, and that which I abominate is sin.
" Behold me, for I am the writing reed of the god Neb-er-tcher,
the lord of laws, who giveth forth the word of wisdom and understanding,
and whose speech hath dominion over the double land.
I am Thoth the lord of right and truth, who maketh the feeble one
to gain the victory, and who avengeth the wretched and the
oppressed on him that wrongeth him.
" I have scattered the darkness !
" I have driven away the storm, and I have brought the wind to
Un-Nefer, the beautiful breeze of the north wind, even as it came
forth from the womb of his mother.
"I have caused him to enter the hidden abode, and he shall
vivify the soul of the Still-Heart, Un-Kefer, the son of Xuit, Horus
triumphant ! "
Needless to say, in the use of the above invocation the Form of
the God Thoth is assumed magically, and the ritual itself enumer-