CHAPTER LXXXI.

_Chapter whereby one assumeth the form of the Lotus._

I am the pure Lotus which cometh forth from the glory which is at the

nostril of Rā, and I make my journey and pursue it for Horus, the great

god beloved.

I am the pure Lotus which cometh forth in the field.

NOTE.

This little chapter is not without its special difficulty. Are we to

read ⁂⁂⁂ as a word implying motion, with ⁂ as its

determinative, or as implying invocation, with ⁂ as its

determinative? The copyists differed and some of them changed the word

into ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ so that there should be no ambiguity. But this

does not clear up the words which immediately follow; hence _Ba_ has

suppressed them, whilst other copyists have given themselves no trouble

as to the sense of what they wrote.

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