Egyptian Magic in Egyptian Magic by Florence Farr.

“The fate of such was to sacrifice the negatively evil, those who had neglected their opportunities; but the evil KHOUS could not themselves be annihilated.” [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. “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.”
  3. “‘Three days I hung upon the Cross, my Self a Sacrifice unto myself,’ says the God of the Eddas.”
  4. “In this conception we have at once the explanation of the dogma regarding the sacrifice of self to self. For the KA or Ego can only grow and become potent through ardent and patient perseverance and struggle.”
  5. “‘Sin,’-a something tending to taint men’s actions for the worse, a principle of evil,-is wholly absent; and the words which we have above translated ‘Good’ and ‘Evil’ really mean ‘Skilful’ and ‘Unskilful’ respectively.”