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88 The Hidden God. [Ch.
that creep and fly, he causeth the rats to live
in their holes, and the birds that are on every
green twig. Hail to thee, 0 maker of all these
things, thou Only One."
Nor was the unity the only truth concern-
ing the Godhead known to the priesthood of
Egypt. Throughout the extent of the king-
dom, at Thebes, at Ombos, at Tentera, at
Memphis, at Annu (or On) a Triune God—of
whom some knowledge seems to have been
attained by Greece—invoked by many names,
but everywhere consisting of three persons,
consubstantial and co-eternal, was worshipped
as supreme. " I am Tmu in the morning,"
says the Creator, in a well-known passage,
" Ra at noon, and Harmachi in the evening ; "
that is to say, as the dawn, the noon, and the
sunset (which these names denote) are three
several forms co-existing perpetually and co-
equally in the substance of the sun, so also
did the three divine persons co-exist perpetu-
ally and co-equally in the substance of the
that creep and fly, he causeth the rats to live
in their holes, and the birds that are on every
green twig. Hail to thee, 0 maker of all these
things, thou Only One."
Nor was the unity the only truth concern-
ing the Godhead known to the priesthood of
Egypt. Throughout the extent of the king-
dom, at Thebes, at Ombos, at Tentera, at
Memphis, at Annu (or On) a Triune God—of
whom some knowledge seems to have been
attained by Greece—invoked by many names,
but everywhere consisting of three persons,
consubstantial and co-eternal, was worshipped
as supreme. " I am Tmu in the morning,"
says the Creator, in a well-known passage,
" Ra at noon, and Harmachi in the evening ; "
that is to say, as the dawn, the noon, and the
sunset (which these names denote) are three
several forms co-existing perpetually and co-
equally in the substance of the sun, so also
did the three divine persons co-exist perpetu-
ally and co-equally in the substance of the