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The Doctrine Of Eternal Life.<br />
1. Thes-thu Teta pu un-thu aaa peh-tha hems-k<br />
Rise up thou Teti, this. Stand up thou mighty one being strong. Sit thou<br />
xent neteru ari-k ennu ari en Ausar em Het-aa amt Annu<br />
with <strong>the</strong> gods, do thou that which did Osiris in <strong>the</strong> great house in Annu.<br />
sesep-nek sah-k an t'er ret-k em pet an<br />
Thou hast received thy sah, not shall be fettered thy foot in heaven, not<br />
xesef-k em ta<br />
shalt thou be turned back upon earth.[3]<br />
2. anet' hra-k Teta em hru-k pen aha tha xeft Ra<br />
Hail to <strong>the</strong>e, Teta, on this thy day [when] thou art standing before Ra [as]<br />
[1. Brugsch, Liber Metempsychosis, p. 22.<br />
2. Compare Coptic ###, "magister."<br />
3. Recueil de Travaux, t. v., p. 36 (1. 271). From line 143 <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> same text it would seem that a man had more than one<br />
sahu, for <strong>the</strong> words "all thy sahu," occur. This may, however, be only a plural <strong>of</strong> majesty.]<br />
{p. lxi}<br />
per-f em aabt t'eba-tha em sah-k pen am baiu<br />
he cometh from <strong>the</strong> cast, [when] thou art endued with this thy sah among <strong>the</strong> souls.[1]<br />
3. ahau pa neheh t'er-f pa t'etta em sah-f<br />
[His] duration <strong>of</strong> life is eternity, his limit <strong>of</strong> life is everlastingness in his sah.[2]<br />
4. nuk sah em ba-f<br />
I am a sah with his soul.[3]<br />
In <strong>the</strong> late edition <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Book</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Dead</strong> published by Lepsius <strong>the</strong> deceased is said to " look upon his<br />
body and to rest upon his sahu,"[4] and souls are said "to enter into <strong>the</strong>ir sahu";[5] and a passage extant<br />
both in this and <strong>the</strong> older Theban edition makes <strong>the</strong> deceased to receive <strong>the</strong> sahu <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> god Osiris.[6] But<br />
that Egyptian writers at times confused <strong>the</strong> khat with <strong>the</strong> sahu is clear from a passage in <strong>the</strong> <strong>Book</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Respirations, where it is said, "Hail Osiris, thy name endureth, thy body is stablished, thy sahu<br />
germinateth";[7] in o<strong>the</strong>r texts <strong>the</strong> word "germinate" is applied only to <strong>the</strong> natural body.<br />
The ab or heart.<br />
In close connection with <strong>the</strong> natural and spiritual bodies stood <strong>the</strong> heart, or ra<strong>the</strong>r that part <strong>of</strong> it which<br />
was <strong>the</strong> seat <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> power <strong>of</strong> life and <strong>the</strong> fountain <strong>of</strong> good and evil thoughts. And in addition to <strong>the</strong><br />
natural and spiritual bodies, man also bad an abstract individuality or personality endowed with all his<br />
characteristic attributes. This abstract personality had an absolutely independent existence. It could move<br />
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