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The Forty-two Crimes and the Forty-two Assessors. Lake 

 of the Nome. The Poor who were rejected at their Trial 

 buried on the Shores of the Lake _ - . 4.30 



The Ceremonies and Names borrowed by the Greeks from 

 Egypt ------ 4,31 



The Baris. Charon. Hecate. Gates of Cocytus and Lethe. 

 Figure of Justice without a Head. The 360 Priests, 

 and the Barrel pierced with Holes . - - 433 



Charon and the Styx. Cakes in the Tombs. The Cake 

 for Cerberus - - - _ _ 434 



Osiris, Judge of the Dead. The Trial of the King. If 

 condemned, he was deprived of the Rites of Burial like 

 other Persons - _ . - . 435 



Funeral Rites refused to their Kings by the Jews also - 436 



The Egyptians allowed no Insult to be oiTercd to the Body 

 after Death - - - - - 437 



Belief of the Egyptians that secret Crimes were known to 

 the Deity and punished. The Doctrine of transmigra- 

 tion invented in order to bring the future Punishment 

 to the Level of the Comprehensions of the most ignorant 439 



Transmigration during a Period of 3000 Years. Ptirifi- 

 cation of the Soul. Plato gives 10,000 Years, and 3000 

 for a virtuous Pliilosopher - - . 441 



Doctrine adopted by the Greeks. Pythagoras and Phere- 

 cydes. The Metempsychosis, or Melensdmatosis, the 

 Passage of the Soul from one Animal to another - 443 



Idea of the Egyptians preserving the Body to receive the 

 Soul again. Doubtful, Animals being also embalmed 444 



The Resurrection of the Body. Tombs resold and occu- 

 pied by others. The 3000 Years dated from the Death 

 of each Person. The Pharisees - _ . 445 



Buddhists and other Religions admitted Transmigration.* 

 Future Judgment. The Souls weighed - - 446 



A wicked Soul sent back to the World under the Form of 

 a Pig. Variations in the Mode of representing these 

 Subjects .---.- 447 



• The Chinese BudtUiists rciifesent the wicked in the other world assuming 

 this new shape, in which they at first ai>|)ear very uncomfortahle. 



