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blessed spirits which inhabit Elysium ; and even to be lC like the 
destructive spirit which comes from the place of destruction. 
He is entreated to deliver the Osirian from “ the crocodiles of 
Hades,* from the gods armed with swords, the avenging 
Cabereii in the abodes of Osiris,” + “ from the agile demons 
furnished with legs, from the cruel gods who pluck out hearts 
and who throw them into their furnaces, because the Royal 
Osirian is Ra himself, and “ his soul is in the disk of the sun ; 
the soul of Ra shines in his shape (and) his body rests amid 
the invocations which are addressed to him.” The gods of the 
stars are entreated to receive him with acclamations ; the two 
heavenly sisters, Isis and Neplithys, are besought to place the 
crown of justification upon his head, J as “ that of a spirit 
worth v of adornment j and the chaptei concludes with this 
petition : — 
17 Oh, Ra, place the royal Osibian in thy train ; he is the divine key 
which opens his haunts, he knows admirable means of obtaining the 
great victory over his enemies ; Osikis is powerful through thy two 
eyes ; walking god,§ the course of Osibis is thy course. Ra, the 
journeys of Osibis are thy journeys, Osibis makes thee rule over thy 
enemies, thou makest the Osibian rule over his enemies, by means 
of the great splendour which is the splendour of Ra in the empyrean, 
they cry to him : Bull of the country of the dead, thou art Ra, thy 
body rests in peace, thou art blessed in thy mysteries. 
11. Chapter III. is a short one, and consists of fifteen invoca- 
tions beseeching Ra to come to the Royal deceased in truth or 
completely. The addresses are almost identical with those 
which, in “the Ritual and mythological hymns, are addressed to 
Turn, Osiris, Amen, and Horus. The last invocation, declares 
that the supplicant has already, by the favour of Ra, become one 
of the nine gods.|| 
CHAPTER III. 
1 Oh, Ra, come to the King ! truly. Highly glorious Teb Teiit. 
2 Oh, Ra, come to the King ! truly. Thou makest thy soul young 
again and thou givest birth to thy body. 
* Cf. Ritual, cap. xxxii., the chapter of stopping the crocodiles coming 
to take the mind of a spirit from him, in Hades. 
f Ritual, eap. cxlvii. . „ 
+ Cf. Ritual, cap. xix., “The Crown of Justification. 
| Idiom ; the deity who is never resting, but is in eternal progress 
through his creation. 
II Either as an extra deity beyond the eight great gods, or because nine 
was the Egyptian perfect plural, especially as applied to things divine. 
