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e I shall delineate so By likening spiritual to corporeal forms, As may express them best; _though what if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein. Each to the other like, more than on earth is thought_." [161] Bunsen, Egypt's Place, Vol. V. p. 129, _note_. [162] This Museum also contains three large mummies of the sacred bull of Apis, a gold ring of Suphis, a gold necklace with the name of Menes, and many other remarkable antiquities. [163] Book of Job, Chap. xxix. [164] Brugsch, as above. [165] Lenormant, Ancient History of the East, I. 234, in the English translation. [166] Translated by De Rouge. See Revue Contemporaine, August, 1856. [167] Egypt 3300 Years ago. By Lanoye. [168] Beside the monuments and the papyri, we have as sources of information the remains of the Egyptian historians Manetho and Eratosthenes; the Greek accounts of Egypt by Herodotus, Plato, Diodorus Siculus, Plutarch, Jamblichus; and the modern researches of Heeren, Champollion, Rossalini, Young, Wilkinson. The more recent writers to be consulted are as follows:-- Bunsen's "AEgypten's Stelle in der Weltgeschichte. Hamburg." (First volume printed in 1845.) This great work was translated by C. C. Cottrel in five 8vo volumes, the last published in 1867, after the death of both author and translator. The fifth volume of the translation contains a full translation of the "Book of the Dead," by the learned Samuel Birch of the British Museum. Essays in the Revue Archeologique and other learned periodicals, by the Vicomte de Rouge, Professor of Egyptian Philology at Paris. Works by M. Chabas, M. Mariette, De Brugsch, "Aus dem Orient," etc., Samuel Sharpe, A. Maury, Lepsius, and others. [169] The Egyptian doctrine of transmigration differed from that of the Hindoos in this respect, that no idea of retribution seems to be connected with it. According to Herodotus (II. 123), the soul must pass through all animals, fishes, insects, and birds; in short, must complete the whole circuit of animated existence, before it again enters the body of a man; "and this circuit of the soul," he adds, "is performed in three thousand years." According to him, it does not begin "until the body decays." This may give us one explanation of the system of embalming; for if the circuit of transmigration is limited to three thousand years, and the soul cannot leave the body till it decays (the words of Herodotus are, "the
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