Egyptian Magic in Egyptian Magic by Florence Farr.

“An evil immortality awaited the great evil-doer or destroyer among mankind; just as a beautiful immortality awaited the Shining Ones who had added to the beauty of life in their mortal days.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “In this way we come to the consideration of the magical Power of the Soul: called by the Egyptians the YEKH, KHOU or Shining One. We find in nearly all the Magical Tales that it was through the initiative of the KHOU that really magical acts were performed.”
  2. “The Sun is the symbol of sensitive life, and of belief and joy and pride and energy, of indeed the whole life of the will, and of that beauty which neither lures from far off, nor becomes beautiful in giving itself, but makes all glad because it is beauty.”
  3. “We write of great writers, even of writers whose beauty would once have seemed an unholy beauty, with rapt sentences like those our fathers kept for the beatitudes and mysteries of the Church; and no matter what we believe with our lips, we believe with our hearts that beautiful things, as Browning said in his one prose essay that was not in verse, have ‘lain burningly on the Divine hand,’ and that when time has begun to wither, the Divine hand will fall heavily on bad taste and vulgarity.”
  4. “M. Chabas in his supplement to the Harris Magical Papyrus gives many instances of the good and evil uses made of the KHOU. One entered the body of a princess who was obsessed for a long period, until it was cast out by means of the health-giving Divinity. It was the KHOU which had been degraded that became a demon and the torturer of mankind.”
  5. “And the KA or Ego had to return to the HAMMEMIT in the Place of Spirits and await the time when it might again have a chance of regenerating matter Astral and Material, and become of the number of these ‘Shining Ones,’ who are set like Jewels in the Diadem of the LORD OF SPIRIT AND LIFE, MADE ONE.”