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Having made this general expurgation, the deceased then 
addresses each of the forty-two assessing deities individually, 
calling each by his mystic name, which was among the instruc- 
tions previously whispered into his ear by the god Thoth, and 
then declares himself free of each of the different sins of which 
the different deities were singly to accuse him. Strong in the 
strength of Horus, the deceased is able to justify himself from 
all their demands, and they in their turn one after another 
acquit him Avith the w r elcome phrase, “ Thou mayest go, thou 
art justified.” Then ensues a repetition of the remarkable 
dialogue which took place at the shores of the river of Hades, 
for every part of the hall of judgment, floor, lintel, sill, door, 
&c., refuse to let the deceased pass by it till he has first told 
them their names. This as before he is enabled to do, and he 
then prepares to address himself to Osiris. 
All the while that the deceased has been answering the 
interrogations of the assessors, his heart has been weighed in the 
balance by Thoth and Thmei,* against a feather, the symbol of 
truth, while Horus pleads for his acceptance, and the funereal 
deities Amset, Ilapi, Tautmutf, and Ivabhsenuf offer themselves 
as propitiatory oblations. In some cases Horus himself takes 
hold of the deceased and leads him before his father, and he 
always has at hand the great white robe called the robe of 
righteousness, t with which he waits to invest the deceased after 
his trial is over. Soon the last question has been asked and 
answered, the assessing avengers express their satisfaction, Isis 
and Osiris spread open their wings to admit the deceased to 
Elysium, and Horus triumphantly robes him in the typical 
dress, and the awful assembly with one voice declares to him : 
“ Go forth, you have been introduced, 
Thy food is from the Eye J 
Thy drink is from the Eye. 
Thy meals are from the Eye. 
The Osirian has been justified for ever.” 
Henceforth his happy lot in the eternal life will be as one of 
the gods, nay, more, as Horus himself, to enter into the closest 
communion with them, to have revealed to him the highest 
mysteries, to go to the visible Sun, and to become one of “ the 
gods of the orbit, ”§ to pass unchecked from region to region of 
heaven, paradise, and the abyss of eternity, to become more and 
* The goddess of truth, the Themis of the Greeks, 
f A specimen of this robe in the Hay collection was sixteen feet long. 
See Proceedings Soc. Antiq. Lon., Second series, vol. xv. 
% Of Horus. § Ritual, caps. xxvi. — xxx. 
