Category: History - Ancient
In writing this treatise my object has been to give a clear exposition of the most important shape which the doctrine of immortality assumed in Egypt. This particular form of the doctrine was only one of many different ones that were held. The latter, however, were but occasio...
After judgment the righteous entered into blessedness, unchanged in appearance as in nature; the only difference being that, while the existence which they had led upon earth ha...
1. Part 1In writing this treatise my object has been to give a clear exposition of the most important shape which the doctrine of immortality assumed in Egypt. This particular form of th...
2. Part 2Thus the apprehension of the KA, of a man’s Personality, as his _Doppelgänger_, or _Double_, found even in some of the oldest texts, acquired a far-reaching significance which e...
4. Part 4[36] See MASPERO, _Recueil de Travaux relatifs à Égypt_, III., p. 105 _et seq._; and _Histoire Ancienne des Peuples de l’Orient_, Vol. I., p. 114. In _The Book of the Dead_, cha...