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CONTENTS.
ix
PAGE
Myth and legend
104
Rā and his family
109
Osiris and his family
110
Horus
113
Set
116
Thoth
116
The reign of Law
119
 

LECTURE IV.

Communion with the Unseen World.
Sepulchral rites
124
The tombs and their inscriptions
127
The ka or genius
147
Souls, shadows, apparitions
152
Possession
154
Dreams
155
Oaths
157
Angels
158
Destiny
159
The king's divinity
161
 

LECTURE V.

The Religious Books of Egypt.
The Book of the Dead
172
Beatification of the dead
179
The renewed existence "as upon earth"
180
Transformation
181
Identification with Osiris and other gods
184