Am the Uncreated God
Before Me The Dwellers in Chaos are Dogs
Their Masters Merely Wolves

I Gather The Power
From Every Place
From Every Person

Faster Than Light Itself
Hail To He Who Is In The Duat
Who Is Strong

Even Before The Servants of Serpents
He Gathers The Power
From Every Pit of Torment

From They Who Hath Burnt in Flames
From Words of Power Uttered By the
Darkness Itself


Hail To He in The Pit
Who Is Strong

Even Before the Terrors of The Abyss
Who Gathers The Power
From The Wailing And Lamentations

Of The Shades Chained Therein
From He Who Createth Gods From
The Silence Alone


[Last year, after the release of Black Seeds of Vengeance, I
received e-mails containing the text of a work whose origins had

until then been completely unknown to me. Entitled, "The Chapter
for Bringing Heka to those who Burn," the author claimed it was
part of a larger collection of works known as "The Book of

Resurrection Apophis." In Egyptian methology, Apophis is also
known as Apep, the terrible monster serpent who, in dynastic
times, was a personification of the darkness of the darkest hour

of night. Apeop is the dreaded embodiment of utter evil in the
form of a giant snake that arises anew each night to struggle
against the Sun god, Ra. Against Apep, Ra must not only fight,

but must succesfully conquer morning sun, lest darkness and
chaos engulf the entire earth during the day as well. Apep was
both crafty and evil doing, and, like Ra, possessed many names,

to destroy him it was necessary to curse him by each and every
name by which he as known. In Egyptian papyri, Apep is also
represented in the form of an enormous serpent, into each

undulation of which a knife is stuck. In the Book of Gates, we
see him fastened by the neck with a chain (along which is
fastened the Goddess, Serqet), the end of which is in the hands

of a god, and also chained to the ground with five chains.
Coincidentally (or perhaps not), Apophis is also the name the
Hyskos king Aussere adopted during his reign over the conquered

and subjugated Egypt of 1570 B.C. The Hyskos had invaded Egypt
and established their new political and religious capical city,
Avaris, in the delta region of Egypt. Avaris is also the site of

the original Temple of Set. Set (or Sutekh, to the Hyskos) wa the
chief god of the Hyskos at that time, but in Egyptian mythology
since pre-dynastic times, Set was the murderous brother of

Osiris, and the original ultimate embodiment of the forces of
darkness, chaos and evil, at whose command was te monster
serpent, Apep. During the early period of the Hyskos occupation,

the Hyskos faced little significant opposition. But during the
reign of Apophis I, the Theban princes of Egypt rose up to drive
the Hyskos back out of Egypt, a feat that is recounted on two

large stelae set up by Kamose in the Temple of Amun at Karnak.
The text which I received was in three languages - Egyptian,
Greek and modern English, along with rubric instructions for the

proper recitation of the chants, which are to be memorized and
repeated as a sort of mantra, and as such should be spoken in
Egyptian rather than English. The translations were given only

to throw light upon the meanings of the spell. Upon closer
examination of the text, it seems to bear superficial
resemblance to Chapter 24 of the Papyrus of Ani, "The Chapter

for Bringing Magick to Ani," (which is also known in some Books
of the Dead as "The Chapter for Gaining Power," and in modern
ritualmagick as "The Gathering of Heka.") But the similarities

go immediately astray, for "The Chapter for Bringing Heka to
those who Burn" seems as though it is, in this incarnation, a
blasphemous underworld perversion of the chapters contained in

the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead. Perhaps it was
intended for use by ancient cultists who would be intent upon
using the darker forces of Chaos and the spiritual energy of
those souls burning in the fiery pits of torment in the
underworld for their own cultist ambitions of the upsetting the

orderer structure of the ancient Egyptian world. More likely,
their goal was probably to alter the political balance of rival
religious factions in the turmoil of those tumultuous
intermediate times. By the end of the 14th Dynasty, Egypt's once
considerable might as a nation had eroded due to internal

political struggles, so that it was unable to defent itself
against invaders. The Hyskos overwhelmed the Dynasty, remaining
in power until being expelled during the 17th Dynasty ina great
war, which lasted, according to Manetbo, about a quarter of a
century.]