LETTER XV.

Conclusion of funeral ceremonies of the lord of the royal gardens--The Sacred Way--Processions of mourners--Avenue to the tombs--The "dead-life" of the Egyptians--Awful ceremony of the judgment of the dead--Burial of the unworthy dead prohibited--False accusers stoned away--Myth as to the state of the soul after death--Metempsychosis--The mystery of the tribunal of Osiris--Reception of the justified soul into the celestial kingdom--Doom of the reprobate soul--Monkeys, emblems of the god Thoth--The gate of the pyramids--Colossal Andro-sphinx, or Watcher before the pyramids--Beautiful temple of Osiris--The twin pyramids, Cheops and Chephres--pp. 245-261.