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The god turns the evil to truth, 
Correcting his fault 
and he is then permitted to behold afar off the first glimpse 
of the great divinity as the sun in the lower world. f To him 
a grand and long series of adorations is paid, and he then 
prepares, fortified by his great devotional exercise, to com- 
mence the various transformations which he will have to un- 
dergo before he can be introduced by Horus into the hall of 
judgment. The chapter which relates this is one of the most 
obscure, and its rubric is perhaps the longest in the Egyptian 
Ritual : J it would lead us too far away from the main sub- 
ject of this discourse to even do more than mention the heads 
of it. Suffice it to declare that each of the lesser deities of 
the Egyptian Pantheon is implored to assist the deceased, who 
almost at the same time declares his identity with them, and 
more especially with “ Horus in the day of the battle between 
Horus and Set,” and “he is transformed into his soul from his 
two halves, who are Horus, the sustainer of his father, and 
Horus who dwells in the shrine.” Among the mystical 
phrases in which that deity also is addressed is, “ the one order- 
ing his name to rule the gods is Horus, the son of Osiris, who 
has made himself a ruler in the place of his father Osiris. § 
Then follows a litany of adorations to Isis, Osiris, Horus, 
Nephthys, and the other deities, || and then succeeds the “ Crown 
of Justification ”^[ to which I have already referred. Hitherto 
the soul of the deceased has been undergoing probation, and 
performing its devotions as a spiritual being or eidolon only ; 
but soon the second stage of its journey arrives, and upon the 
performance of the appointed duties, and the utterance of 
certain invocations either by the soul, or vicariously for him 
by the priest upon earth, the various members of his body are 
one by one purified and restored to him, and the book in which 
this is described is called the “ Reconstruction of the deceased,” 
and extends from the twenty-first to the twenty-sixth chapter 
of the Ritual. The body having been reconstructed, — and it is 
singular that in this office Horus the Deliverer takes no part, — 
the body and soul have to be preserved from the attacks of 
the evil beings inhabiting Hades ; and the first member to be 
* Cap. xiv ., “ The Chapters of Rubbing away the Stains from the Heart 
of the Osirian (deceased).” 
t Cap. xv. + Cap. xvii., “ The Egyptian Faith.” 
§ Cf. 1 Cor. xv. 24 ; Ephes. i. 21. 
j| Cap. xviii., “ The Book of Performing the Days.” 
IT Cap. xix. 
