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The Doctrine Of Eternal Life.
Amset, have appeased the hunger of his belly and the thirst of his lips.[8] He abhors the hunger which he
cannot satisfy, and he loathes the thirst which he cannot slake;[9] but he is delivered from the power of
those who would steal away his food.[10] He is washed clean, and his ka is washed clean, and they eat
bread together for ever.[11] He is one of the four children of Horus who live on right and truth,[12] and
they give him his portion of the food with which they have been so abundantly supplied by the god Seb
that they have never yet known what it is to hunger. He goes round about heaven even as they do, and he
partakes of their food of figs and wine.[13]
[1. ###. Recueil de Travaux, t. v., p. 190 (l. 180).
2. ###. Ibid., t. v., p. 163 (l. 408).
3. Ibid., t. iv., p. 45 (l. 394).
4. Ibid., t. vii., p. j65 (l. 430).
5. ###. Ibid., t. v., p. 412 (l. 288), and t. vii., p. 167 (l. 442).
6. ###. Ibid., t. vii., p. 160 (l. 390).
7. Ibid., t. iii., p. 199 (1. 200).
8. Ibid., t. v., p. 10 (l. 54 ff.).
9. Ibid., t. iii., p. 199 (1. 195 f.)
10. Ibid., t. iv., p. 48 (l. 429).
11. Ibid., t. v., p. 167 (l. 66).
12 Ibid., t. viii., p. 106 (l. 673).
13 ###. Ibid., t. viii., p 110 (l. 692).]
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Those who would be hostile to the deceased become thereby foes of the god Tmu, and all injuries
inflicted on him are inflicted on that god;[1] he dwells without fear under the protection of the gods,[2]
from whose loins he has come forth.[3] To him "the earth is an abomination, and he will not enter into
Seb; for his soul hath burst for ever the bonds of his sleep in his house which is upon earth. His
calamities are brought to an end, for Unas hath been purified with the Eye of Horus; the calamities of
Unas have been done away by Isis and Nephthys. Unas is in heaven, Unas is in heaven, in the form of
air, in the form of air; he perisheth not, neither doth anything which is in him perish.[4] He is firmly
stablished in heaven, and he taketh his pure seat in the bows of the bark of Ra. Those who row Ra up into
the heavens row him also, and those who row Ra beneath the horizon row him also."[5] The life which
the deceased leads is said to be generally that of him "who entereth into the west of the sky, and who
cometh forth from the east thereof."[6] In brief, the condition of the blessed is summed up in the
following extract from the pyramid of Pepi I.:--
"Hail, Pepi, thou hast come, thou art glorious, and thou hast gotten might like the god who is seated upon
his throne, that is Osiris. Thy soul is with thee in thy body, thy form of strength is behind thee, thy crown
is upon thy head, thy head-dress is upon thy shoulders, thy face is before thee, and those who sing songs
of joy are upon both sides of thee; those who follow in the train of God are behind thee, and the divine
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