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That which is thy destruction has been ordered to thee bv 
Truth ;* * * § 
Those who are on the road have been cast down jf 
The precursors of the Apophis, 
The accusers of the Sun are overthrown ; 
Thy tongue is greater than the envious tongue of a scorpion, 
It has failed in its power for ever.”J 
Then addressing Ilorus, “ Oh, Horus,” says the deceased, 
“thou pollutest the accusers of the Sun, the hater of the Sun 
whom thou seest is stopped by thee.” And then in a strain of 
prophecy, foreseeing the ultimate end of the power of darkness, 
he turns to Apophis and declares, — 
“ The great Apophis, 
The accusers of the Sun have been judged by Akar; § 
The great gods are victors, 
Leading him captive, 
Justifying the Sun against the Apophis four times,” 
or, in other words, completely. This first great victory over, 
the deceased dedicates all his members anew to the different 
divinities, “ till there is not a limb of him without a god” ;|| and 
thus he is like to every one of the divinities, even to the highest, 
so that he can say of himself, “the Osirian has been deemed the 
Lord eternal ; he has been judged like Kheper Ra.”^[ He is the 
Lord of the Crown, and, therefore, by a sublime psychostasis, 
“he is Horus who dwells in, or who treads amongst millions. 
He does not die again, he is his being, 
he is the light illuminating the precincts one after another, 
he is escaped from all evil things.” 
No wonder, therefore, that the final rubric declares of this 
chapter, “ This said, a person passes in every direction or in every 
part.” 
It seems to partake somewhat of the nature of a contra- 
diction that a believer of whom such glorious things could be 
confidently asserted, was liable to any of the wants of mortal 
life, or to undergo any further trial or purification ; but it 
nevertheless was so, for the greatest of all trials was yet to be 
undergone, and therefore, the body and soul, exhausted by so 
long-sustained a conflict, had to be refreshed with heavenly 
* Or, rather, “ Tlimei, the goddess of truth.” 
t The previous emissaries, Serpent, Crocodile, Tortoise, &c. 
I Cap. xxxix, “ The Chapter of Stopping all Reptiles.” 
§ A mystical title of Osiris. 
|| Cap. xlii., “ The Chapter of Turning away all Evil, and Turning back 
the Blows made in Hades.” 
II The Creator under the form of the sacred scarabeus. 
