Show M MI r n 1 THE MAGICAL PAPYRI I J 5 Th The My I LI of I Egypt In the J 3 i Tradition has hat always reined created Egypt In the with being belli the home of oC magic malla Talmud r Indeed d there thele Is le a saying that ports parts of ot magic were wb when n thirteen twelve twaIn of oC them were er assigned to end and nd that It was at during Mi hie hi rut res rf In Egypt that Jeu Jesue learned the theart then theat art at n of ot working miracles A particular ht rt therefore attaches to any H tare relating to tu magic which pray lift lid from the burled libraries of Ji temples During recent I years yean several everal veri I Important discoveries havo been mad and an H It lit is I fortunate fortunato that must most of or these thele papyri pap rl haw have hR fund their t resting place phu lae e In the the British IOU mu ream The Th correctness of the tradition ns At t It to prevalence of magic In the Nile ale Und In to amply proved r t lay at t the lII of ot the mystic of ot the book of f the dead and anil nd It If formed the thet t of nr the science of ot medicine ii if I the he famous 1 papyrus os na o well ns ae ft of at the favorite literature of ot the tho common p people ople The discoveries of oC the tho last few tow years in ix both th J und and have hove placed placeda a new tt on en the Ihl study lUdy of magic and andt M alsed t l i It front from the position of oC a tint art to ta the rank of t a Ii 1 throwing mush mu ll flight on in the thi beginnings of It 1011 ton lon and In n the most moot mo t r ait ages s has hll linen been well 11 hed NS ril the tine physics of or man In III a 1 slate of oC nature It nt his hiM earliest to 10 polvo th the problems 1 of nature nIl anti t to 0 ox preen his hIli own position in the mutual J which he felt relt existed through throughout out nature On this thin subject s u 1 I Ct the Iho papyrus tD a ru ent of ot Noel I In the British I museum eUm tl throws I rowe Great light This Thill work contains a II curious litany railed ailed the Hook of the Overthrowing of ot Alep Apap was the serpent fiend the theone enemy one IllY of ot Hn On the Ihl sun god Hod KO To 10 defeat him huts had to he be employed The described de are ore most Inter Interesting esting A wax figure for 0 Instance of ot on which his hll name was WAil written In II green Is 18 to be made and placed on a n I fire to n that It shall Khall consume Ume tho the ene one enemy enemY my of ot n f Ita Or 01 again figures e of tho fin flond 0 and od n hl hll hie attendants al l nn orr N to bo ho made mado of ot wax 11 and to have their names written on them to 1 la be pierced with a 0 atone stono pear und end then burned burntt This custom of ot Wax figures of the demon H Ic found In almost every ever system ly t e of ot h More oro Im Irn l In nt Is i s the care advised to recite the names of oC the Ihl evil nee meg and lint to write and destroy them for tor the name n 1111 was 8 believed l ved to ho bo the most vital fitment In nature Unless tho the object had hind n II name It could not nod if H the name was lost bet It 11 perished Henro the tho Bonk hook of ot the Dead I the special chapters to If preserve ervo the immo In the next world rho The belief belleC in the tho power of ot thin tho name lieu lien nt lit the bauli of nil Oriental magic and Is he even fount In iii tho the Christian t writings such uch ao fl the th Apoca Apocalypse of or Pt St John where we have huO the UIO passage Thou hou heat hast a n name that thou st and thou art dead Hev In III ill 2 The fhe new name Is la prominent and Is III evidently the same as os the good or Ka Ja Kaname name r borne by the dead in the 1 Egyptian gy Fields 1 nt or ream In 11 the text dating tinting from the time of or the sixth dy dynasty dy dynasty nasty H 1 C C NO wO rend read la IR happy with his hla nairn the of oC Pop IK Is written down con at th Ih the head of ot the tho living Tim Tate papyrus i that this belief In the tho power of ot the name nam lay Irl i fit f maglo malc Hie rhe ob I at the base bue aloe lect for which this ritual written Is U I Apel was IVI the demon demun of ut th tint the of the rain in M In Inand end and storm and cloud and aliI thus thU the op 01 opponent opponent of lor f I the I he sun son and nd Ihl litany Vim Willi to be i 1 u lilt uC nn un Incantation to ob vl obtain tain taht a R lr dear shear sky sHy wherein the sun hIM hig voyage Unimpeded The i of if the tho magical of am Hit Is Ie I hown by 11 n it 1 re rev vius which h was wall obtained by bv tin the III lm some Conte fw few f years yea ago ogo and hu hus j I t been by 11 the Clarendon K pres II with note and bonan lation lalon hv hy J 1 L p ln S A Th Ih papyrus Willi discovered In In n Up Upper Upper 11 per 16 and ond IIII purchased nemo Urn thins later ater h by u the th tet of ot the Its date nn call be hit b fixed with fair certainly On 0 the Ih obverse of the two tu o leaves are arc n u set of farm ascends account writ written writt ten t 1 ell In t l rk r le 1 in I u the seventh year of ot the Claudius A J D and on the reverse are aloe written writ tOil In III De Pe or III M the script n II of oC magical tales III ItS Tho rhu u ties o of or the tile probably loot place thirty yarn jars Inter hater we may mn plate their origin about A 1 D 76 75 Among Amons the magical of oC 1 there then Will ryas M a 1 lamous tYlle syi le of aC stories grouped 11 round lound the lute elde t son lion of ell If Jr r the of ot Moses Mone I nf af wino whom hlll 1111 thelt I I here Is II I a a s statue Ol a t t t e In tho urn I a U uru i it nf af wino whom hlll 1111 thelt I I here Is II I a a s statue Ol a t t t e In tho urn I a U uru i it Ish must urn lie He was waC ft n high priest of or Memphis and In Is I traditionally sail to tf have himself to the truly study of ot magic and l especially to a iii search earch for forthe the magic 1 rolls roll written by h the lingers fingers of ot the albs god god Thoth Heimes This pai papyrus rus was RII probably ly used usell by II some ome story teller who real renI realor or recited It hi I us III Arab story tenets tellero do de dein doIn 0 In The Tim Th e Ira blue A I g Inta and similar hit tar works work II The TIll author has hili ha collected tales tale of oC varying ages and nosh grouped them round his bin hero Some are lire taken ap up apparently from Christian II sources and we leave hn t n R curious parallel In III the story of oC Chilst and the shooter In hi the tem lem temple lempie pie also n a 1 t of at time the parable nf or Dives anti and lilt Hut the most malt curious me some MOUle episodes kably like 1110 tho the miracles of r ell and the of or Egypt These fl flIn less s record l n iii groat contest In tangle magic between b Pl 1 the time magicians o of f Egypt and anil Ethiopia J the lute wisdom of It being by v the son lion of or I This contest semi to accord with the IIII men Inen mentioned In the I le of or Jonnes Jannes Jon aim Jam J nm lues 1111 lee t who h withstood into 1 eo II 11 Timo Timothy to thy 8 S 8 St The Flue fh two tiro Ethiopian magi clans clang boit bO lIt of the deeds of oC magic they th thlIn can lIn One toys nays I 1 will cant cast my ply m magic upon the latish land of ot und 1111 1 I will cause the people of or Egypt g It to peas pass time days davs ami nOlI nights with without without out seeing the Ihl light lIht Herd Here we seems seem to have A n strange and almost verbal version of ot the ninth timers there was a II thick darkness In III nil all the tho land of lit three days da Exodus 10 23 Another parallel is II found In the tho words of ot the Ihl The rite magi magl magician clan cian gives gIve as III n a 1 sign to 10 his mother molher that If h he aid Rid against n the of ot Egypt the till sign shall bo bl that It JC thou art arl eating or drinking the waters shall be he the color of ot blood before thee the anti and the IIII heavens shall ho bo the tho color of blood blond 1 The resemblance re In the tho lie Drew brew version Is III not quite so o clot close as In Inthe Inthe Inthe the firMI but still a till It Is le curl curi curiously OURI similar to tho the turning of the waters Into blood 10 17 Lastly Is a n remarkable u hILLMAN TILLMAN MclAURIN IN AND N EY EYl R l W i I d i j li fr E t 0 I tI tt p 1 sti Senator Tillman Gov Senator vv unfortunately somewhat mutilated which to contain n II truce trace of ot the tho story of ot Moses In the bulrushes The Thu lion Knit Of dl t the tho champion of oC I II Egypt I nfl nn Moses loses was WOY of ot the tho Hebrews wits Will to time till legend here heie given givena i n a reincarnation of the Ow older ohler wise manof man I named Hor t the he son HOIl of time the ue ress I when whet lie he 11 defeats tents hla opponents I tto t HInd one of DC them upbraid him with time the words Art Ait thou not he whom I 1 saved paved from the lire reeds of Inn Ita Nile thy companion being behig drowned London Post |