The Egyptian Book of the Dead.
The Egyptian ' Book of the Dead' on ' Funeral Kitual' contains, probably, the oldest existing record of the faith of man in the immortality the soul Its chapters are found on mummy caseß or written on the rolls of papyrus within them. The book recounts the experience of the soul after death, from its passage across the land of darkness into the bleßsed fields, to its final judgment and admission into the preBence of its Father in the eternal • dwelling place of the prepared spirit.' 'I he following passages show its expresajdeelaration of a future life : •' The osiris (the soul) lives after he diea ; the osiris rejoices with life as they rejoice.' ' 0 God, the protector of him who brought his cry to Tbee, he is Thine, let him have no harm, let him be ns one of Thy flying servants ! Thou art he ; he is Thou ! Make it well with him in the world of spirits !' It is supposed that the ' Book of the Dead 1 had its origin 2,000 years before the birth of Christ.
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 573, 22 January 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)
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182The Egyptian Book of the Dead. Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 573, 22 January 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)
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