The Spiritual Side of Embalming.
All the funeral processes of the Pharaohs in Egypt had but one object—to insure the non-dccomposition of purity of the body, because by that means, it was imagined, only could the spirit’s existence be perpetuated. The incense and natron offerings, fumiga lions, and libations at the annual funeral feasts were all but copies of the provisions that had been made after death for the preservation of the corpse and were intended annually to renew tl?bir efficacy. Even the sarcophagus was but a replica of the great natron bath o, in which the body had been steeped. Before these later means of obtaining the object of preservation had been perfected the dryness of the desert sand, according to the “Lancet,” had been relied on and the body had been compressed to preservers form intact.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 201, 10 May 1902, Page 4
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138The Spiritual Side of Embalming. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 201, 10 May 1902, Page 4
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