In addition to this interesting utterance of Egyptian theology, we have to note the idea of _Silence_ ⁂⁂⁂ as the origin of the gods, or powers of nature. The notion was also current in the Greek world. The writer of the _Philosophumena_ (VI, 22) speaks of ἡ ὑμνουμένη ἐκείνη παρὰ τοῖς Ἕλλησι Ζιγή. It was from this source that the early Gnostic Valentinus borrowed this item of his system. St. Irenaeus (_Haeres_, II, 14) charges him with having taken it from the theogony of the comic poet Antiphanes. ----- Footnote 37: ⁂⁂ _Nu_. Footnote 38: ⁂. Footnote 39: See also in Plate XI the Vignette from chapter 17 in the Turin and all the later papyri. Footnote 40: Columella speaks of the “contumacia pervicax boum.” ------------------------------------ CHAPTER XXV. _Chapter whereby a person remembereth his name in the Netherworld._ Let my name be given to me in the Great House. Let me remember my name in the House of Flame(1.) on the Night wherein the Years are counted and the Months are reckoned, one by one. I am He who dwelleth in Heaven, and who sitteth on the Eastern side of Heaven: and if there be any god who cometh not in my train, I utter his name at once. NOTES. 1. Every Egyptian Temple being symbolical of Heaven, had its Great House ⁂⁂⁂ and its House of Flame ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, as most sacred adyta at the extremity opposite to the entrance. The former occupied the central position, like the Ladye Chapel in our cathedrals, and the latter stood by the side of it. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER XXVI. _Chapter whereby the Heart(1.) is given to a person in the Netherworld._ He saith: Heart[41] mine to me, in the place of Hearts! Whole Heart[42] mine to me, in the place of Whole Hearts! Let me have my Heart that it may rest within me; but(2.) I shall feed upon the food of Osiris, on the eastern side of the mead of amaranthine flowers.(3.) Be mine a bark for descending the stream and another for ascending. I go down into the bark wherein thou art. Be there given to me my mouth wherewith to speak, and my feet for walking; and let me have my arms wherewith to overthrow my adversaries. Let two hands from the Earth open my mouth: Let Seb, the Erpā of the gods, part my two jaws;(4.) let him open my two eyes which are closed, and give motion to my two hands which are powerless: and let Anubis give vigour to my legs, that I may raise myself up upon them. And may Sechit the divine one lift me up, so that I may arise in Heaven and issue my behest in Memphis. I am in possession of my Heart, I am possession of my Whole Heart, I am possession of my arms and I have possession of my legs.(5.) [I do whatsoever my Genius willeth, and my Soul is not bound to my body at the gates of Amenta.] NOTES.