Contents 7 Foreword 11 A Letter from Vera Duran de Rachewiltz 12 My Encounter with Boris De Rachewiltz I COSMOLOGY IN ANCIENT EGYPT 18 1. The Great Beginning - The God Ptah 24 2. The Generations of Egyptian Gods 31 3 A Computations of the Gods 40 4. A Computation located among Papyri 50 5. Forty - two Deities and the Core of Time 69 6. The Red Dragon in the Revelation of St. John 83 7. The Ancient Egyptian Canon 94 8. Two Astrological Movements 106 9. The Hour of Life 111 10. Horus and the Four Officiants 121 11. A Journey towards Rebirth 130 12. The Representation of Ka, Ba, Akh and Shut 138 13. The Metamorphosis of Osiris 150 14. The Net and the Astral Fish 154 15. The Djed and the Circumnavigation 164 16. The Opening of the Mouth 170 17. The Phoenix and the Lotus Blossom 176 18. The Book of the Dead’s Sequence of