Egyptian Magic in Egyptian Magic by Florence Farr.

“We may now perceive dimly how the Egyptians conceived the seed of the Tree of Life-Eternal to be implanted in the heart of each man or woman born on earth; how it can wither and fade; how it can be cultivated until the man becomes either an Evil Demon or a God.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “Details of this kind are given in the supplement to M. Chabas’ translation of the Harris Magical Papyrus. The period was that of Rameses III. Compare this quotation: ‘HAI, the evil man, was a shepherd. He had said:– ‘”Oh! that I might have a book of spells that would give me resistless power.” ‘He obtained a book of the Formulas of Rameses-Meri-Amen, the Great God, his royal Master. By the Divine Powers of these, he enchanted men. He obtained a deep vault furnished with implements. He made waxen images of men, and love-charms. And then he perpetrated all the horrors that his heart conceived.'”
  2. “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.”
  3. “In the Fable of Adam and Eve is this great Lesson taught by the Masters of the Holy Qabalah. For Love were to them the eternal Eden, save for the Repression signified by the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Thus their Nature of Love was perfect; it was their Fall from that Innocence which drove them from the Garden.”
  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. “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.”