This chapter is addressed to the ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ _hammemit_, who are known from other quarters to be _human beings_, as the younglings of the god Shu. But the reference is not to men who have yet lived upon the earth. They are spoken of as _men of a future generation_. Queen Hatshepsu on her obelisk when speaking of them connects them with the period of 120 years, that is as if we said “men of the next century.” Before their appearance upon the earth they circle round the Sun, and the glorified dead hold converse with them (chapter 124, 6). The Egyptians, like many other ancient nations, held the doctrine of the preexistence of souls. They held it not like philosophers or poets, but as an article of their popular and traditional creed. ----- Footnote 64: The _Day-Spring_. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PLATE XVII. BOOK OF THE DEAD. CHAPTER XLVII. [Illustration: =Papyrus of Ani.=] CHAPTER L. [Illustration: =Nicholson Papyrus.= (Ægyptiaca, Plate 5.) ] CHAPTER L. [Illustration: =Papyrus of Ani.=] CHAPTER LVII. [Illustration: =Papyrus, British Museum, No. 9949.=] CHAPTER LVIII. [Illustration: =Papyrus of Ani.=] CHAPTER LXI. [Illustration: =Papyrus du Louvre, III, 93.=] CHAPTER LXIV. [Illustration: =Papyrus du Louvre, III, 93.=] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PLATE XVIII. BOOK OF THE DEAD. CHAPTER LXVIII. [Illustration: =Papyrus du Louvre, III, 93.=] [Illustration: LANZONE (Diz. Egiz.).] [Illustration: =Saquara.= LEPSIUS (Denkm., Abth. III, Bl. 264).] [Illustration] LANZONE (Diz. Egiz.). [Illustration: =Leyden Sarcophagus.=] [Illustration: WILKINSON (Mat. Hierog., Plate 23.)] [Illustration: LEPSIUS (Todt., Plate 21).] [Illustration: LEPSIUS (Todt., Plate 23).] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ CHAPTER XLVII. _Chapter whereby the Seat of a person is not taken from him in the Netherworld._ Chair and Throne of mine, which are coming to me and circling round to me; divine ones! I am a noble Sāhu(1.), grant that I may become one of those who follow the great god. I am the Son of Maāt, and wrong is what I execrate. I am the Victorious one. NOTE. 1. _Sāḥu_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ is not a mummy, as it is sometimes rendered, but a living personality in mummied form. ------------------------------------ CHAPTERS XLVIII and XLIX are identical with X and XI respectively. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER L.