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more assimilated to the divine essence, and at last, having passed 
almost an eternity in that blissful state, to lose all self-identity, 
and to be again emanated from the Supreme Being as another 
soul, to live the life of another mortal upon earth, and again to 
be saved and strengthened by Ilorus the Deliverer. “ Et per 
sieculorum ssecula.” 
In connection with this great province of Redemption and of 
protection against all the attacks of venomous beasts, must be 
mentioned the amulets sacred to Ilorus, the stopper of snakes 
and the stopper of crocodiles. In many of these little statuettes 
representing Horus the serpent-headed, may be traced ideas and 
analogies which have been pictorially handed down to us by 
Christian artists. Horns treading on the head of a snake, whose 
sinuous body is wound around his own, is a subject in close 
agreement with those old wood blocks which were used by the 
Christian Knowledge or Tract Society, which represented our 
blessed Lord as a child similarly trampling a snake under his 
foot, in fulfilment of the prophetic promise, “ thou shalt bruise 
his head and he shall bruise thy heel.”* The snake twined around 
the cross, another common Christian monogram, and even the 
snake with his tail in his mouth, are all forms of the same idea 
derivable from the same source. 
In order here to concentrate the phases of the life of Horus 
which I have hitherto presented to you, I will ask you now to 
allow me to read a general summary of his various offices 
which occurs in a hymn to Osiris, dated, according to M. 
Chabas, who has translated it, from the XVIIIth Dynasty. I 
must begin with a brief sentence relating to the goddess 
Isis. 
“ She had a child, she suckled the baby in loneliness of heart, 
in secret, none knew where that happened. 
“ The arm (of the child) has become strong in the great 
dwelling of Seb. 
The gods are joyous at the arrival of Osiris (in his son), 
son of Horus, intrepid, 
Justified, son of Isis, heir of Osiris. The divine chiefs join him, 
the gods recognize the Omnipotent child himself. 
The Lords of J ustice there united to watch over iniquity and 
sit in the great dwelling of Seb 
are giving authority to its lord. The reign of justice belongs 
to him, 
Horus has found his justification, to him is given the title of 
his father ; 
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* Gen. iii. 15. 
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