y phallus is the phallus of Osiris.

"My reins are the reins of the Lords of Kher-[=a]ba.

"My chest is the chest of the Mighty one of terror.

"My belly and back are the belly and back of Sekhet.

"My buttocks are the buttocks of the Eye of Horus.

"My hips and legs are the hips and legs of Nut.

"My feet are the feet of Ptah.

"My fingers and my leg-bones are the fingers and leg-bones of the
Living Gods." [Footnote: The idea of the deification of the human
members was current already in the VIth dynasty. See _Recueil de
Travaux_, tom. viii, pp. 87, 88.]

And immediately after this the deceased says:

"There is no member of my body which is not the member of a god. The
god Thoth shieldeth my body altogether, and I am R[=a] day by day."

Thus we see by what means the Egyptians believed that mortal man could
be raised from the dead, and attain unto life everlasting. The
resurrection was the object with which every prayer was said and every
ceremony performed, and every text, and every amulet, and every formula,
of each and every period, was intended to enable the mortal to put on
immortality and to live eternally in a transformed glorified body. If
this fact be borne in mind many apparent difficulties will disappear
before the readers in this perusal of Egyptian texts, and the religion
of the Egyptians will be seen to possess a consistence of aim and a
steadiness of principle which, to some, it at first appears to lack.

THE END.

Printed BALLANTYNE, HANSON & Co
Edinburgh & London

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