Opener Of The Way

Nik Turner

Sphynx

Anubis

With my jackal-like head men calleth me Anubis
Child of love of Nepthys and Osirius
Vigilant on my mountain, of the Gods I am protector
In wood be my image of a powerful scepter
Like the Ur Hekau with which the God’s mouths I loosed
In my Hall of Two Truths no untruth will be excused
The Heart in the Balance, the Tongue I test
In my Hall Divine we try only the best
Please observe dear Thoth, my weighing precision
The fate of this heart rests uponThy decision

My Anubian Light can lead it to the Next World
Or unjustified to the Dread Devourer be hurled
I perform Psychostatis, give thou me thy hand
Fit thee up with space/time suit, make firm thy thighs to stand
Thy spells with back teeth like mine have brought thee hither
I can destroy faults within Thee, come ye therefore Thither
I keep books on movements of planets and spaces
Numbers and forms, bodies and faces
Placed in the Constellation of the Great Bear
Shield the Moon from Set till Thoth takes it in care
On the day on which the Universe began
Twas my lot to allot Destiny to each man