This is the second of three volumes, first published in 1906, which
explore the Egyptian theology of the afterlife. It contains the
complete hieroglyphic text of the short form of the Am-Tuat and of
the Book of Gates, with translations and reproductions of all the
illustrations. In the Book of Gates the doctrines of the
sophisticated cult of Osiris are prominent: they affirm that the
beatified live for ever in the kingdom of Osiris, and feed daily
upon his eternal body. The object of all the Books of the Other
World was to provide the dead with a 'guide' or 'handbook, '
containing a description of the regions through which their souls
would have to pass on their way to the Kingdom of Osiris, and which
would supply them with the words of power and magical names
necessary for an unimpeded journey from this world to the next
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