The Franklin Files

The Secret Hymnody


Let all Nature of the Cosmos receive the hearing of this hymn!
Be opened, O earth; let every deep of the abyss be opened for me.
Tremble not, ye trees, for I would hymn unto the Lord of Creation, to the All and to the One.
Be opened, ye heavens: stand still, ye winds: let the deathless sphere of God receive my words.
For I will sing praise unto Him who founded all; who fixed the earth, who suspended the heavens;
Who commanded the sweet water to come out of the ocean into the earth, to those parts inhabited and those that are not, for the use and nourishment of all men;
Who commanded the fire to shine for every action of Gods and men.
Let us together give praise unto Him, the Sublime One, Who rideth upon the heavens and is the Lord of all Nature.
He, Who is the Eye of Nous, may He accept the praise of my powers.
O all ye powers within me, praise ye the One and the All.
Sing with my will, all ye powers that are in me.
O holy knowledge, by Thee illumined, I magnify the intelligible Light that Nous alone can see, and rejoice in the joy of the Logos.
All ye powers, sing praises with me.
Hymn with me, O my temperance, and my continence; hymn through me, O my justice, the praises of the Righteous.
Hymn thou, O my communion, the praises of the All.
Sing through me, O truth, the praises of the True; and sing thou, O goodness, the hymn of the Good.
O Life and Light, from us to you our praises flow.
I render thanks to Thee, O Father, Energy of all my powers: I give thanks to Thee, O God, Thou Power of all my energies.
Thy Logos, through me, sings praises unto Thee; take back through me the All into the World, this oblation of the Logos.
Thus is the pæan of the powers in me; they praise Thee, Thou All, they do Thy will.
From Thee is Thy will: to Thee is the All; receive the reasonable oblation of the All.
O Life, preserve the All that is in us; O Light, enlighten it; O God in-spirit it.
For Thy Nous is the Shepherd to Thy Word, O Thou Creative Bestower of the Spirit.
Thou art God - Thy (Essential) Man thus calls to Thee through fire, through air, through earth, through water, through Spirit, and through all Thy creatures.
From Thy Eternity I have found how to praise Thee, and in Thy will I have found the object of my quest.
I have found my rest! -XIII. 1-20.
And thus, as Hermes declares: "Nous enters the pious Soul and leads it into the light of divine knowledge.
"And such a Soul never tires of hymning praises unto God, and of pouring blessings upon all men, both in words and deeds - in imitation of its own Divine Father.
"Therefore, O Son, let us give thanks unto God, and pray that we may indeed receive the radiant Nous." -X. 21, 22.

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I think we found them.........Hermes was Pymander....
and his Goddess is the Spirit of the earth Destiny in whatever form
they walk amoung man in.........And the "Power" Of Destiny
"is" the Magic Force of the Hidden Mysteries.

I understand that Hermes orginals have been lost and that most text
are rewritten and translated many times so I can see where they have
been influenced with the language of the time...but I understand why
those that found Pymander and understand his power were so sought and killed....

However, it would seem that Amenhotep collected a large harem of ladies over the years, including several from diplomatic marriages, including Gilukhepa, a princess of Naharin, as well as two of his daughters (Isis and in year 30 of his reign, Sitamun or Satamun, who bore the title "great royal wife" simultaneously with her mother). We can document at least six of his children consisting of two sons and four daughters (other daughters including Henuttaneb and Nebetiah). However, his probable oldest son, Tuthmosis who was a sem-priest, died early leaving the future heretic king, Amenhotep IV, otherwise known as Akhenaten, as the crown prince.

Priests in ancient Egypt had a role different to the role of a priest in modern society. Though the Egyptians had close associations with their gods, they did not practice any form of organized religion, as modern times would define it.


The priests did not preach, proselytize, or care for a congregation. They were not messengers of any "divinely revealed truth." There was no single Holy Book on which the religious system of Egypt was based. In fact, the various cosmogonies developed at Heliopolis, Memphis and Hermopolis are each different and even contradictory. The various myths and legends surrounding the gods were totally incompatible with the development of one coherent system of belief. One version of how the sun traveled across the sky described how Ra was ferried in his sacred boat, the Solar barque, whose divine crew the deceased King hoped to join upon his resurrection. According to another myth, the sun was born each morning on the eastern horizon to the sky-goddess Nut and traveled across the vault of heaven, which was her body, to be swallowed by her at sunset on the western horizon. A third explanation was that a giant scarab beetle, the god Khepri, pushed the fiery ball up through the horizon at dawn and rolled it across the sky.

No preaching was required because every Egyptian accepted the validity of the traditional religious theology, i.e. the world was created, ordered and governed by the gods, through the intermediary the king, the only actual priest in Egypt. It was accepted that people tried to live good lives in the hope of earning merit for the life to come; they didn’t need to be "converted" to a way that was already considered to be theirs. The authors of religious works had no responsibility for instructing the people as a whole in the ways of the gods. The same was true for the ritual priests.

Egyptian priests did have a vital role in the religious ritual of daily and festival life. Whereas today a god may be worshipped who is believed to bestow his grace upon his followers, the Egyptian priest offered and performed material and ritually magic services to the god of his temple, to ensure that god’s presence would continue on earth, and thus maintain the harmony and order of the world as it had been created. That was why the priests were called "servants of the god," or hem-netjer, the traditional title for a priest.

The name Egypt is from the Greek Aiguptos, derived from the Hwt-ka-Ptah, the temple or Mansion of the Spirit of Ptah attributed to Menes, the founder of the city of Memphis and the traditionally recognized unifier of Egypt. So, the Greeks pretty much named Egypt after a temple to the Egyptian god Ptah.


Egyptian god Ptah who was Pymander. And then came Amenhotep IV, otherwise known as Akhenaten. Wonder if Tuthmosis was Pymander too.