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60 The House of Osiris. [Ch.
of the unseen Father. At the tropical extremity
of Egypt, immediately below the celestial or
tropical arch traversed by the sun at the
summer solstice (at that epoch about 24° N.
the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane
of its orbit, being at that time about half a
degree greater than at present), was the cata-
ract or " Gate of the Nile," through which
the ancestors of the race entered the country.
That cataract or throne of the life-2;ivin<>'
waters, situated beneath the Royal Arch of
the solstitial throne, marks the point attained
by the Illuminate in the Ritual, when he has
achieved, in Aahlu, the " passage of the sun,"
and " opens the gate of the Nile," the cataract
of heavenly light.
As the deceased, in making that ascent,
entered into the presence of the forty-two
judges of the dead (the Gods of the Horizon
and the Gods of the Orbit), each judge supreme
in his particular province ; so also was all the
land of Egypt parcelled out into forty-two
of the unseen Father. At the tropical extremity
of Egypt, immediately below the celestial or
tropical arch traversed by the sun at the
summer solstice (at that epoch about 24° N.
the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane
of its orbit, being at that time about half a
degree greater than at present), was the cata-
ract or " Gate of the Nile," through which
the ancestors of the race entered the country.
That cataract or throne of the life-2;ivin<>'
waters, situated beneath the Royal Arch of
the solstitial throne, marks the point attained
by the Illuminate in the Ritual, when he has
achieved, in Aahlu, the " passage of the sun,"
and " opens the gate of the Nile," the cataract
of heavenly light.
As the deceased, in making that ascent,
entered into the presence of the forty-two
judges of the dead (the Gods of the Horizon
and the Gods of the Orbit), each judge supreme
in his particular province ; so also was all the
land of Egypt parcelled out into forty-two