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fringed with a symbolical fringe along one side of it (the 
origin possibly of the Jewish arbang kanpboth,* niaaa V^) 
and then, while Thoth writes the decree of acquittal upon the 
rolls of Heaven, the deity and assessors, jointly addressing the 
Osirian, exclaim, (C Go forth, thou who hast been introduced. 
Thy food is from the eye of God, thy drink is from the eye 
of God, thy meats are from the eye of God. Go thou forth, 
0 Osirian, justified for ever.” 
85. After the confession (cxxv.) commences the third part ot 
the Ritual, or the Adoration of the Sun. The chapters in this 
are more mystical and obscure than any of the preceding. 
The Osirian, henceforth identified with the sun, traverses with 
him, and as he, the various houses of heaven, fighting again 
with the Apophis, and ascending to the lake of celestial fire, 
the antipodes of the Egyptian hell,f and the source of all light. 
In its closing chapters the work rises to a still more mystical 
and higher practical character, and the deceased is finally 
hypostated into the form of every sacred animal and divinity 
in the Egyptian Pantheon, and with this grand consummation 
the Ritual closes. But even in heaven itself the serpent myth 
is dominant. Hot only does the deceased, as the sun, declare 
“ that he puts forth blows against the Apophis (fig. 79), strang- 
ling the wicked in the west” (chap, cxxvi.), but even m the 
* See Mill’s The British Jews. . 
f What this fearful lake was may be gathered from the following descrip- 
tion of the Egyptian Hell. . 
“ Oh i the place of waters— none of the dead can stand m it, its water is of 
fire, its flow is of fire, it glows with smoking fire ; if wished there , is no 
drinking it. The thirst of those who are m it is inextinguishable. Through 
the greatness of its terror, and the magnitude of its fear, the gods, the 
deceased, and the spirits, look at its waters from a distance. Their thirst 
inextinguishable ; they have no peace ; if they wish, they cannot escape it. — 
Ritual, chap. cl. xiii. above. 
