Egyptian Magic in Egyptian Magic by Florence Farr.

“The Bennu bird also is remarkable for transfixing and piercing its prey.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “The Cultivation of Thought and Will is again shown by the uplifted hands in the hieroglyph which represents the KA: and the attitude of aspiration enables it to formulate a resting-place for the piercing, penetrating spirit, the BAIE.”
  2. “We can then see that the two ends of the concave mass stretch round and form a receptacle for the egg: this symbolises a more quintessential influx from the primal entity or HAMMEMIT descending upon the upstretched arms of the KA in the form of the Hawk or BAIE.”
  3. “These four hieroglyphs used for the word BAIE showed distinct orders or genera of souls”
  4. “They could give strength to the armies of the nation and they had the means of transmitting their power; of the Staff of the “King-Initiate” held so strong a magical potency, that, with it in his hand, the leader of armies became as mighty as Pharaoh himself.”
  5. “No, no, the energy of life may be Kept on beyond the grave, but not begun, And he who flagged not in the earthly strife From strength to strength advancing, only he His soul well knit and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.”