Sekhmet and Set from Christian Jacq

She rules band of messengers armed with knives, who wander through the
earth, brining illness, famine and death, notabley durring those times
of the year, the periods of transition when evil is swallowed up --
the passage from one year to another, and beginning of night. These
hordes are exorcised by the most competent magicians firstly as State
level and then in the private shere. To pacify Skehmet's anger, one
must use an amulet or statue representing her. Evil influence then
becomes beneficent, power is cleansed of its impurities. On the last
day of the year, she is invoked while recalling the role of the
assassins who came from the Evil Eye sowing panic and darkness,
hurling thier darts fromt heir mouths: may they stay far from the
magician. They will have no power over him for he is Ra, he is
Sekhmet. These words must be spoken over a piece of fine linen upon
which the gods are drwwn. The magi offers them bread and beer, burns
incense, makes twelve knots and put the material on the neck of the
one who wished to be protected. To ward off the murderers and
arsonists of Sekhmet, the magi takes the identity of Heru, the unique.
He speaks the spells over a wooden cane, hodling it in his hand. Then
he must leave his house and walk around it.

She whose power is great as infinity.


Set

When Horus, suffering from a headache, lies on a cushion, his brother
Set watches over him, and prevents him being attacked by demons who
wish to paralyse him.

This divine act is repeated on earth. The magician acts like a weaver.
He cuts off a piece of material, ties seven knots in it and attaches
it to the patients big toe. To succeed in this, the magus must take
the identity of Set, who has considerable power "I am he who has
divided that which was reunited. I am he who is full of vigour and
great in power, Set."

Let us not forget that the dead man has been given a perfect shroud,
which is also that of the initiant being reborn to life as a spirit
-Set's skin. THe house of resurrection will then be the very being of
the enemy, the adversary who has been vanquished and mastered by magic
power.

All the techniquet of the martial arts rest on the same principle, to
use the strength of the opponant who seeks to desrtoy you to increase
your own power.

Set is an efficient healer. In a special spell against the mysterious
"Asian illness' an appeal is made to Set who calms the sea. Thus the
bodily fluids themselves will also be at peace and the illness will go
away. If necessary, the sick man will be confined and his mouth closed
with the skin of the tortoise.

A magical papyrus from Paris teaches us that the magician invokes the
gods with the aid of a vase. He speaks to Set who is thought of as the
god of gods. The magician is so bold because Set's
power enables him to make the gods come at his bidding.

Set of the seven faces banishes the dead , enemies and advisaries both
male and female and the sow who devours the West.

The magi walkes at night with Heru in front and Set to his right. He
does not fear demons in the shadows and the dead can not disturb him.
It is he who threatens them: he can cut off thier hands, blind thier
eyes, close thier mouths. I am Heru-Set. Theh proclamation creating a
union beyond duality, beyond good and evil.