(5) Concerning the Passage of the Soul[77].
Evoi, Father Iacchos, Lord God of Egypt: initiate thy servants in the halls of thy Temple;
Upon whose walls are the forms of every creature: of every beast of the earth, and of every fowl of the air;
The lynx, and the lion, and the bull: the ibis and the serpent: the scorpion and every flying thing.
And the columns thereof are human shapes; having the heads of eagles and the hoofs of the ox.
All these are of thy kingdom: they are the chambers of ordeal, and the houses of the initiation of the soul.
For the soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.
Thou callest her from the deep, and from the secret places of the earth; from the dust of the ground, and from the herb of the field.
Thou coverest her nakedness with an apron of fig-leaves; thou clothest her with the skins of beasts.
Thou art from of old, O soul of man; yea, thou art from the everlasting.