Kepera – the Becoming of Spirit, a Key to Creation
The following passage is from the xvii chapter of the Egyptian Book of the Dead: It is said of the Universal God Ra: “Speak Universal Master”, he says after having become. “it is I, the becoming of Kepera, when I became the becoming of those who became after my becoming, for numerous are the desires coming out of my mouth, when the Earth had not yet been formed, when the sons of the Earth who were not yet made: the snakes, out of whose dwelling I came, Out of this NUN* where I was among the dispirited, no place was found for me where I could stand up. “I found in my heart that which should be useful to me and in the void that would serve me as a foundation, when I was alone, when I had not begotten Shut (space) when I had not yet spat out Tefnut (water), when no other divinity that would have been made with me had yet become. Therefore, I conceived myself in my own heart and the becoming of my numberous becomings of my becomings in the becomings of the children and in the becomings of their children.” * NUN is understood to be a thinking nothingness/void or self-aware pre-spirit without form, where No Thing exists but It. I contemplate this as a possible answer to questions like: If God is All, How Was God Created? Is God the God of Himself/Itself/Herself/Themselves? Or, as we are individuated pieces of God, has God