Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life by E. A. Wallis Budge
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the baleful deeds of those who live in their days; and I
am not of them." _Thoth_. "Now will I make mention of thy name [to the god]. And who is he whose roof is of fire, whose walls are living uraei, and the floor of whose house is a stream of water? Who is he, I say?" _Deceased_. "It is Osiris." _Thoth_. "Come forward, then; verily, mention of thy name shall be made unto him. Thy cakes [shall come] from the Eye of R[=a]; and thine ale [shall come] from the Eye of R[=a]; and thy sepulchral meals upon earth [shall come] from the Eye of R[=a]." With these words Chapter CXXV comes to an end. We have seen how the deceased has passed through the ordeal of the judgment, and how the scribes provided him with hymns and prayers, and with the words of a confession with a view of facilitating his passage through the dread Hall of the Ma[=a]ti goddesses. Unfortunately the answer which the god Osiris may be supposed to have made to his son Horus in respect of the deceased is not recorded, but there is no doubt that the Egyptian assumed that it would be favourable to him, and that permission would be accorded him to enter into each and every portion of the underworld, and to partake of all the delights which the beatified enjoyed under the rule of R[=a] and Osiris. |
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