or ever and ever, and thy form is
renewed with life upon earth; thou art made divine with the souls of the
gods, thy heart is the heart of Ra, and thy limbs are the limbs of the
great god. Amen is nigh unto thee to make thee to live again. Upuat
openeth a prosperous road for thee. Thou seest with thine eyes, thou
hearest with thine ears, thou speakest with thy mouth, thou walkest with
thy legs. Thy soul hath been made divine in the Tuat, so that it may
change itself into any form it pleaseth. Thou canst snuff at will the
odours of the holy Acacia of Anu (An, or Heliopolis). Thou wakest each
day and seest the light of Ra; thou appearest upon the earth each day,
and the 'Book of Breathings' of Thoth is thy protection, for through it
dost thou draw thy breath each day, and through it do thine eyes behold
the beams of the Sun-god Aten. The Goddess of Truth vindicateth thee
before Osiris, and her writings are upon thy tongue. Ra vivifieth thy
soul, the Soul of Shu is in thy nostrils. Thou art even as Osiris, and
'Osiris Khenti Amenti' is thy name. Thy body liveth in Tatu (Busiris),
and thy soul liveth in heaven.... Thy odour is that of the holy gods in
Amentet, and thy name is magnified like the names of the Spirits of
heaven. Thy soul liveth through the 'Book of Breathings,' and it is
rejoined to thy body by the 'Book of Breathings.' These fine extracts
are followed in the British Museum papyrus by the praises of Kersher by
the gods, a prayer of Kersher himself for offerings, and an extract from
the so-called Negative Confession, which has been already described. The
work is closed by an address to the gods, in which it is said that
Kersher is sinless, that he feeds and lives upon Truth, that his deeds
have satisfied the hearts of the gods, and that he has fed the hungry
and given water to the thirsty and clothes to the naked.[2]

[Footnote 1: The deceased is always supposed to be identified with
Osiris.]

[Footnote 2: A papyrus at Florence contains a copy of Part II. of The
Book of Breathings. The fundamental ideas are the same as those in Part
I., but the forms in which they are expressed are different. The
deceased is made to address several gods by name, and to declare that he
himself is those gods. "I am Ra, I am Atem, I am Osiris, I am Horus, I
am Thoth," &c.]

Another late work of considerable interest is the "Book of Traversing
Eternity," the fullest known form of which is found on a papyrus at
Vienna. This work