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INTRODUCTION.
Corporeal pleasures.
“ standest avenged, endowed with all things like unto a god, and equipped with all the forms of
“ Osiris upon the throne of Khent-Amenta. Thou doest that which he doeth among the
“ immortal shining ones ; thy soul sitteth upon its throne being provided with thy form, and
“ it doeth that which thou doest in the presence of Him that liveth among the living, by
“ the command of Ra, the great god. It reapeth the wheat, it cutteth the barley, and it
“ giveth it unto thee. Now, therefore, O Pepi, he that hath given unto thee life and all
“ power and eternity and the power of speech and thy body is Ra. Thou hast endued
“ thyself with the forms of God, and thou hast become magnified thereby before the gods
“ who dwell in the Lake. Haii, Pepi, thy soul standeth among the gods and among the
“ shining ones, and the fear of thee striketh into their hearts. Hail, Pepi, thou placest thyself
“ upon the throne of Him that dwelleth among the living, and it is the writing which thou
“ hast [that striketh terror] into their hearts. Thy name shall live upon earth, thy name shall
“ flourish upon earth, thou shalt neither perish nor be destroyed for ever and for ever.”
Side by side, however, with the passages which speak of the material and
spiritual enjoyments of the deceased, we have others which seem to imply that the
Egyptians believed in a corporeal existence,1 or at least in the capacity for corporeal
enjoyment, in the future state. This belief may have rested upon the view that
the life in the next world was but a continuation of the life upon earth, which it
resembled closely, or it may have been due to the survival of semi-savage gross
ideas incorporated into the religious texts of the Egyptians. However this may
be, it is quite certain that in the Vth dynasty the deceased king Unas eats with
his mouth, and exercises other natural functions of the body, and gratifies his
passions.2 But the most remarkable passage in this connection is one in the
1 Compare (j> /VSAAAA CIQ.
“ O flesh of Teta, rot not, decay not, stink not.” Recneil de Travaux, t. v., p. 55 (1. 347).
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^ *0=^ “ Pepi goethforth with his flesh”; ibid., t. v., p. 185 (1. 169).
“ thy bones shall not be destroyed, and thy flesh
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shall not perish”; ibid., p. 55 (1. 353).
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INTRODUCTION.
Corporeal pleasures.
“ standest avenged, endowed with all things like unto a god, and equipped with all the forms of
“ Osiris upon the throne of Khent-Amenta. Thou doest that which he doeth among the
“ immortal shining ones ; thy soul sitteth upon its throne being provided with thy form, and
“ it doeth that which thou doest in the presence of Him that liveth among the living, by
“ the command of Ra, the great god. It reapeth the wheat, it cutteth the barley, and it
“ giveth it unto thee. Now, therefore, O Pepi, he that hath given unto thee life and all
“ power and eternity and the power of speech and thy body is Ra. Thou hast endued
“ thyself with the forms of God, and thou hast become magnified thereby before the gods
“ who dwell in the Lake. Haii, Pepi, thy soul standeth among the gods and among the
“ shining ones, and the fear of thee striketh into their hearts. Hail, Pepi, thou placest thyself
“ upon the throne of Him that dwelleth among the living, and it is the writing which thou
“ hast [that striketh terror] into their hearts. Thy name shall live upon earth, thy name shall
“ flourish upon earth, thou shalt neither perish nor be destroyed for ever and for ever.”
Side by side, however, with the passages which speak of the material and
spiritual enjoyments of the deceased, we have others which seem to imply that the
Egyptians believed in a corporeal existence,1 or at least in the capacity for corporeal
enjoyment, in the future state. This belief may have rested upon the view that
the life in the next world was but a continuation of the life upon earth, which it
resembled closely, or it may have been due to the survival of semi-savage gross
ideas incorporated into the religious texts of the Egyptians. However this may
be, it is quite certain that in the Vth dynasty the deceased king Unas eats with
his mouth, and exercises other natural functions of the body, and gratifies his
passions.2 But the most remarkable passage in this connection is one in the
1 Compare (j> /VSAAAA CIQ.
“ O flesh of Teta, rot not, decay not, stink not.” Recneil de Travaux, t. v., p. 55 (1. 347).
0 j Q /W\AAA ^ ^
^ *0=^ “ Pepi goethforth with his flesh”; ibid., t. v., p. 185 (1. 169).
“ thy bones shall not be destroyed, and thy flesh
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□ ©
shall not perish”; ibid., p. 55 (1. 353).
s Compare the following passages
(■a) 4* ^ C^y]
1
12 n n
Ibid., t. iv., p. 76 (11. 628, 629).
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I fi J (
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ra
5)
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)
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(*>)
irai o — ll“l
n o
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^^ P P t\ 4=*^ P l\ "l3'■ Ibid■* v., P- 37 0- 277)