(475) Be gracious to me, 0 Providence and Psyche, as I write these mysteries handed down for gain but for instruction; and for an only child I request immortality, O initiates of this our power (furthermore, it is necessary for you, O daughter, to take (480) the juices of herbs and spices, which will to you at the end of my holy treatise), which the great god Helios Mithras ordered to be revealed to me by his archangel, so that I alone may ascend into heaven as an
inquirer (485) and behold the universe.

This is the invocation of the ceremony:*

"First -origin of my origin, AEEIOYO, first beginning of my beginning,** PPP SSS PHR[] spirit*** of spirit, the first of the spirit (490) in me, MMM, fire given by god to my mixture of the mixtures in me, the first of the fire in me, EY
EIA EE, water of water, the first of the water in me, OOO AAA EEE, earthy substance, the first of the earthy substance in me, (495) YE YOE, my complete body (I,_______whose mother is _______****), which was formed by a noble arm and an incorruptible right hand in a world without light and yet radiant, without soul and yet alive with soul, YEI AYI EYOIE:

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* Or "spell"; note also, below, the translation of logos [lambda omicron gamma omicron sigma -- RE] with "prayer."

** Cf. On the Eighth and Ninth (Nag Hammadi Codex VI, tractate 6), page 60, line 20. With regard to the Mithras Liturgy in general, cf. this tractate as well as another Hermetic tractate, Corpus Hermeticum XIII.

*** "Spirit," "breath," "wind": pneuma [pi nu eta upsilon mu alpha -- RE] as one of the four elements.

**** Here the initiate was supposed to introduce his own name and that of his mother. This formula appears several times in the Liturgy.