Lecture VII. Osiris And The Osirian Faith. 163
the lord god who dwelleth in his solar disc. Deliver me from
the Typhon who feedeth on entrails, O chiefs! in this hour of
supreme judgment; grant that the deceased may come unto you,
he who hath not sinned, who hath neither lied, nor done evil, [177]
nor committed any crime, who hath not borne false witness, who
hath done nought against himself, but who liveth on truth, who
feedeth on truth. He hath spread joy on all sides; men speak
of that which he hath done, and the gods rejoice in it. He hath
reconciled the god to him by his love; he hath given bread to the
hungry, water to the thirsty, clothing to the naked; he hath given
a boat to the shipwrecked; he hath offered sacrifices to the gods,
sepulchral meals to the dead. Deliver him from himself, speak
not against him before the lord of the dead, for his mouth is pure
and his hands are pure!”^146
Meanwhile the heart of the dead man—his conscience, as we
should call it in our modern phraseology—was being weighed
in the balance against the image of truth. Something more
convincing was needed than his own protestation that he had
acted uprightly and done no wrong. The heart was placed in the
scale by Thoth, who, knowing the weakness of human nature,
inclined the balance a little in its favour. Anubis superintended
the weighing, while Thoth recorded the result. If the verdict were
favourable, he addressed Osiris in the following words:“Behold
the deceased in this Hall of the Twofold Truth, his heart hath
been weighed in the balance, in the presence of the great genii,
the lords of Hades, and been found true. No trace of earthly
impurity hath been found in his heart. Now that he leaveth the
tribunal true of voice (justified), his heart is restored to him, as
well as his eyes and the material cover of his heart, to be put back
in their places, each in its own time, his soul in heaven, his heart
in the other world, as is the custom of the followers of Horus.
Henceforth let his body lie in the hands of Anubis, who presideth
(^146) Maspero,Dawn of Civilisation, p. 190.