320 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XIII. 



Genica*: " Have you not been informed by the 

 Genica, that all individual souls are emanations from 

 the one Soul of the Universe ?" and Porphyry says, 

 *' The Egyptians perceived that the Divinity not 

 only entered the human body, and that the (divine) 

 soul dwelt not, while on earth, in man alone, but 

 passed in a measure through all animals." 



Osiris was called t the " manifester of good," or 

 the " opener of truth," and said to be '*full of good- 

 ness (grace) and truth." He appeared on earth to 

 benefit mankind ; and after having performed the 

 duties he had come to fulfil, and fallen a sacrifice 

 to Typho the evil principle, (which was at length 

 overcome by his influence, after his leaving the 

 world,) he *' rose again to a new lifet, " and became 

 the judge of mankind in a future state. The dead 

 also, after having passed their final ordeal and been 

 absolved from sin, obtained in his name, which they 

 then took, the blessings of eternal felicity. The 

 title '' manifesfer of good** accords well with what 

 Plutarch § says of Osiris, that he was a '■^good being, 

 and sometimes styled Omphis (Onuphis), which 

 signifies a benevolent and beneficent power ; " the 

 word Onuphis being evidently the Egyptian ap- 

 pellation of this God Ouon-nofre, ** tJie opener of 

 good" 



This was his principal title. He was also fre- 

 quently styled "President of the West," "Lord 

 of Abydus," (which may either be Ehot Abydus, 

 or Eht the East,) "Lord of the world," " Lord of 



* J7f/r Prichard, p.208. f Vide sitj7iri, p. 189. 



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