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, is called the “Lord of Two Faces,” the bright and the dark. The Pyramid Texts have the parallel conception of the Two Eyes of Horus, one white and one black, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ (Unas 37).

6. This passage receives illustration from the great inscription of Piānchi, who at Heliopolis paid a visit to the great Tabernacle (⁂⁂⁂) of the Sun-god, the doors of which he opened and afterwards sealed up with the royal seal. Before going up the steps to it he had to lift the _Vail_ (⁂⁂⁂⁂) or Curtains which concealed it, and perform sprinklings and offer incense and flowers. Two important words (of which the first has the interesting variant ⁂ and the second is written ⁂⁂⁂ in the oldest texts) are thus made clear.

The god is said, according to the different readings, to pierce “through, the Vail” or “through _what is upon_ the Vail.”

It will be remembered that the Hebrew Holy of Holies was separated from the Sanctuary by a curtain upon which the figures of Cherubim were woven, that before the curtain of the Holy of Holies stood the altar upon which incense was offered each morn and evening, and that in sin-offerings the priest sprinkled blood seven times before the Vail of the Sanctuary.

7. _The Seven Divine Masters_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂,[84] were the offspring of Mehurit, and assumed the form of Hawks.[85] They were the inventors and patrons of all the arts and sciences, and they assisted Thoth in composition and in the measurement of the earth. See references in Brugsch’s article, _Zeits._, 1872, p. 6.

They are, I believe, to be identified, like the Seven Rishis of the later Sanskrit literature, with the seven stars of the Great Bear. In this conception the Polar star is represented by Thoth.

8. _The Symbol of Life and the Sceptre_, the ⁂ and ⁂.

9. _Brute Force_ ⁂⁂⁂, see