314 
3 Ob, Ra, come to the King ! truly. 
4 Oh, Ra, come to the King ! truly. 
5 Oh, Ra, come to the King ! truly. 
9 Oh, Ra, come to the Kino r ! truly. 
7 Oh, Ra, come to the King ! truly. 
8 Oh, Ra, come to the King ! truly. 
Lead him into the holy dwelling. 
Guide him on the good ways. 
Guide him on the roads of Nun. 
Guide him on the roads of Nut. 
He restores the body of Osiris. 
He places the corpse upon its 
He has taken the good ways. 
He worships thy soul upon the 
Thou speakest to him as to the 
Ho is one of thy nine gods. 
e> * “V 1 
foundation, in its place that no one knows. 
9 Oh, Ra, come to the King ! truly. He calls his body Osiris. 
10 Oh, Ra, come to the King ! truly. He sees him who it is in the 
sarcophagus. 
11 Oh, Ra, come to the King ! truly. The rays of Aten * are upon his 
person. 
12 Oh, Ra, come to the King ! truly. 
13 Oh, Ra, come to the King! truly. 
horizon. 
14 Oh, Ra, come to the King! truly. 
god who is upon the ground, 
lo Oh, Ra, come to the King ! truly. 
12. Chapter I\ ., which is a long one, also, like Chapter II 
possesses little special interest, having more a personal appli- 
cation to the deceased; it is chiefly to be read in connection 
with our present subject as attesting the perfect union of attri- 
butes and characteristics of Ra and Osiris, especially as Osiris 
Rhotamenti or the judge of the dead in Hades. The openin«- 
verses of the chapter, which is all that will here be quoted" 
imply the eternal pre-existence of the soul of the king as a 
portion of tiie eternal Essence of the gods. This seems to have 
been more especially a tenet of the Ramesside dynasty, since 
there ismvidenee that previously the royal soul was supposed to 
;| ecorae divine at the moment of accession, as in the older 
dynasties it was so after death. The change which made the 
soul of the monarch from all time a divinity by eternal <r en e 
ration was perfectly a political one, introduced as a state mea- 
sure to secure the continuance of the reigning dynasty after 
the interruptions which destroyed the peace, and partly the 
religion, of Egypt at the death of Amenhotep IV and flip 
Aten-Ra kings of the XVIIIth dynasty. 1 * the 
SECTION I. 
I Thou art what he is Ra thou givest birth to the royal Ostrian thou 
makest him exist like thyself, god of the two horizons: the birth of 
* The solar disk. 
