which I will again (525) receive after the present bitter and relentless necessity
which is pressing down upon me--
I, _______ whose mother is _______ according to the immutable decree of god,
EYE YIA EEI AO EIAY IYA IEO! Since it is impossible for me, born (530) mortal,
to rise with the golden brightnesses of the immortal brilliance, OEY AEO EYA
EOE YAE 5IAE, stand, O perishable nature of mortals, and at once
Draw in breath from the rays, drawing up three times as much as you can, and
you will see yourself being lifted up and (540) ascending to the height, so
that you seem to be in mid-air. You will hear nothing either of man or of any
other living thing, nor in that hour will you see anything of mortal affairs
on earth, but rather you will see all immortal things. For in that day (545)
and hour you will see the divine order of the skies: the presiding gods* rising
into heaven, and others setting. Now the course of the visible gods will appear
through the disk of god, my father; and in similar fashion the so-called "pipe"
(550), the origin of the ministering wind. For you will see it hanging from
the sun's disk like a pipe. You will see the outflow of this object toward the
regions westward, boundless as an east wind, if it be assigned to the regions
of the East--and the other (viz. the west wind),
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* Moving, revolving heavenly bodies, which may in-
fluence human affairs and preside over the days.