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must take thy way to the land whence none return. Good for thee then an honest life. For he who loveth Right is blest.

'Brave nor coward flee the grave. Proud and humble meet one fate. Give, then, freely, as 'tis meet. Isis will bless the good. Happy shall thine old age prove.'

The memorial chambers in which these feasts were celebrated were adorned with pictures and carving representing the familiar scenes of daily life, but in the gloomy recesses beyond mystic and awful scenes are depicted. The representations of the gods, not often met with in earlier times, had now become common and familiar; and so does Amenti itself cease to be the 'hidden' world, and the scenes and events of the life after death appear in visible though mystic shape. The Egyptian from of old believed in the judgment before Osiris, but now it was depicted. The heart is seen weighed in the balance; Osiris is enthroned as judge; Thoth records the result. The trials that await the spirit take bodily form as foul and hideous monsters that must be encoun-*