Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

WORDS OF POWER

A symbol of the higher qualities which are mighty to subdue and transmute the lower qualities. They are the expression of the Divine nature within the soul.

"The earliest name for the formula found upon amulets is hekau, and it was so necessary for the deceased to be provided with these hekau, or words of power,' that in the 16th century B.C., and probably more than a thousand years earlier, a special section was inserted in the Book of the Dead with the object of causing them to come to him (the defunct) from whatever place they were in, 'swifter than greyhounds and quicker than light.'" - BUDGE, Egyptian Magic, p. 27.

“Homage to you, O ye lords of eternity, ye possessors of everlastingness, take ye not this heart of Osiris (the deceased) into your grasp, and cause ye not words of evil to spring up against it; for it is the heart of Osiris, and it belongeth unto him of many names, the mighty one whose words are his limbs, and who sendeth forth his heart to dwell in his body" (Book of the Dead, Ch. XXVII). - Ibid., p. 32.

In the above text, appeal is made to the lords of Karma that the purified soul should not be required to again reincarnate and be subjected to the strife of the lower qualities (words of evil) in the underworld of the phenomenal life. For the causal-body (heart) is the seat of the Self on the higher mental plane; and the manifest Self is the individuality whose expression is the higher qualities (limbs), and whose causal-body is made new before the ideals, and proceeds forth as the immortal vehicle of the ego.

The power of the higher qualities is exceeding great in raising and transforming the soul. In the pursuit of ideals the lower qualities are deprived of all strength by the higher and swifter impulses from the Divine nature within.

"Spiritual freedom is the attribute of a mind, in which reason and conscience has begun to act, it is moral energy or force of holy purpose put forth against the senses, against the passions, against the world, and thus liberating the intellect, conscience, and will, so that they may act with strength and unfold themselves for ever. The essence of spiritual freedom is power." - W. E. CHANNING, Works, Vol. I. p. 105.

See Also

ALCHEMY
AMULETS
CAUSALBODY
DEFUNCT
HEART
INCARNATION
INDIVIDUALITY
KARMA
LIMBS
MAGIC
MOUTH
OSIRIS
SCARLET
UR-HEKAU