This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...and upon it I take my firm stand; let me be accompanied by this book after my life " (chapter 15). There is one thread of gold that runs throughout the Book of the Dead; life, everlasting life, is the subject of its pages; immortality with the Sun-god. It is not the Book of the Dead but of the Living, for all ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...and upon it I take my firm stand; let me be accompanied by this book after my life " (chapter 15). There is one thread of gold that runs throughout the Book of the Dead; life, everlasting life, is the subject of its pages; immortality with the Sun-god. It is not the Book of the Dead but of the Living, for all live unto him. The term "the living," frequently employed in the Book of the Dead, always refers to those whom we call the dead. The term " the dead" is only applied to the wicked, or rather to the powers of darkness, the enemies of light. The living for whom this book was written were those who, having passed through the experience of the life of this world, had attained to a more perfect existence; an existence more worthy of the term Life, an existence supposed to be dependent on this Book of the Dead which in that other world would preserve them from the second death. CHAPTER IV MYTHOLOGY OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD 'I"'HE religious literature of ancient Egypt, like that J-of other ancient nations, teaches us that in old times the belief prevailed that the whole of nature was animated with one living spirit. There was no sharp division between the animate and the inanimate; everything that existed possessed in a varying degree the same soul. The four elements, Earth, Water, Fire, and Air, as well as the Sun, the Moon, and the other heavenly bodies, all were acting, living, breathing beings; all were personified and endued with human characteristics. Possibly the first development of the Egyptian religion, such as we know it, was the embodiment of the four elements into four divinities, which were doubled into male and female by the teaching of Hermopolis, so as to form an Ogdoad, or company of Eight; these were...
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