Chapter XXVI of the Book of the Dead to be inscribed on, or recited
over, a figure in lapis lazuli.[567]
Chapter whereby the Heart is given to a person in the Netherworld.
He saith: Heart mine to me, in the place of Hearts! Whole Heart mine
to me, in the place of Whole Hearts!
Let me have my Heart that it may rest within me; but I shall feed upon
the food of Osiris, on the eastern side of the mead of amaranthine
flowers.
Be mine a bark for descending the stream and another for ascending.
I go down into the bark where thou art.
Be there given to me my mouth wherewith to speak, and my feet for
walking; and let me have my arms wherewith to overthrow my
adversaries.
Let two hands from the Earth open my mouth: Let Seb, the Erpâ of the
gods, part my two jaws; let him open my two eyes which are closed, and
give motion to my two hands which are powerless; and let Anubis give
vigor to my legs that I may raise myself upon them.
And may Sechit the divine one lift me up, so that I may arise in
Heaven and issue my behest in Memphis.
I am in possession of my Heart, I am in possession of my Whole Heart,
I am in possession of my arms and I have possession of my legs.
[I do whatsoever my Genius willeth, and my Soul is not bound to my
body at the gates of Amenta.]
Chapter XXVII of the Book of the Dead to be inscribed on, or recited
over, a figure in green feldspar.[568]
Chapter whereby the Heart of a person is not taken from him in the
Netherworld.
O ye gods who seize upon Hearts, and who pluck out the Whole Heart;
and whose hands fashion anew the Heart of a person according to what
he hath done; lo now, let that be forgiven to him by you.
Hail to you, O ye Lords of Everlasting Time and Eternity!
Let not my Heart be torn from me by your fingers.
Let not my Heart be fashioned anew according to all the evil things
said against me.
For this Heart of mine is the Heart of the god of mighty names
[Thoth], of the great god whose words are in his members, and who
giveth free course to his Heart which is within him.
And most keen of insight is his heart among the gods. Ho to me! Heart
of mine: I am in possession of thee, I am thy master, and thou art by
me; fall not away from me; I am the dictator to whom thou shalt obey
in the Netherworld.
Were there sufficient evidence as to the use of jade by the ancient
Egyptians, we might be justified in finding an allusion to this
substance in the 160th chapter of the Book of the Dead. This chapter was
to be inscribed upon a small column made of a green stone (Renouf
translates “green feldspar”), as appears in the text, which reads, in
part, as follows:
I am the column of green feldspar which cannot be crushed, and which
is raised by the hand of Thoth.
Injury is an abomination for it. If it is safe, I am safe; if it is
not injured, I am not injured; if it receives no cut, I receive no
cut.
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