The Chapter of Making the Soul
to be Joined to its Body in Khert-Neter
The Osiris Ani saith: Hail, thou
god Aniu! Hail, thou god Pehreri, who dwellest in thy
hall, the Great God. Grant thou that my soul may come to
me from any place wherein it may be. Even if it would
tarry, let my soul be brought unto me from any place
wherein it may be. Thou findest the Eye of Horus standing
by thee like unto those beings who resemble Osiris, who
never lie down in death. Let not the Osiris Ani, whose
word is truth, lie down dead among those who lie in Anu,
the land wherein [souls] are joined to their bodies in
thousands. Let me have possession of my Ba-soul and of my
Spirit-soul, and let my word be truth with it (the
Ba-soul) in every place wherein it may be. Observe then,
O ye guardians of Heaven, my soul [wherever it may be].
Even if it would tarry, cause thou my Ba-soul to see my
body. Thou shalt find the Eye of Horus standing by thee
like [the Watchers].
Hail, ye gods who tow along the
boat of the Lord of Millions of Years, who bring it over
the sky of the Tuat, who make it to journey over Nent,
who make Ba-souls to enter into their Spirit-bodies,
whose hands hold the steering poles and guide it
straight, who grasp tightly your paddles, destroy ye the
Enemy; thus shall the Boat rejoice, and the Great God
shall travel on his way in peace. Moreover, grant ye that
the Ba-soul of the Osiris Ani, whose word is truth before
the gods, may come forth with your navel cords in the
eastern part of the sky, and that it may follow Ra to the
place where he was yesterday, and may set in peace, in
peace in Amentet. May it gaze upon its earthly body, may
it take up its abode and its Spirit-body, may it neither
perish nor be destroyed for ever and for ever.
These words
shall be said over a model of the Ba-soul made of gold,
and inlaid with precious stones, which shall be placed on
the breast of the Osiris.
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