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THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

without being repulsed.

Let him follow Osiris, with the gods of Kerti.

He is favored among the faithful,[1]

(and) divinized among the perfected.

Let him live!

Let his soul live!

His soul is received wherever it willeth.

(He) hath received the Book of Respirations,

that he may breathe with his soul,

(with) that of the Lower Heaven,

and that he may make any transformation at his will,

like (the inhabitants) of the West;[2]

that his soul may go wherever it desireth,

living on the earth forever and ever.

He is towed (like) Osiris into the Great Pool of Khons.

When he has retaken possession of his heart[3]

the Book of Respirations is concealed in (the coffin).

It is (covered) with writing upon Suten,

both inside and outside (and)

placed underneath his left arm,

evenly with his heart; . . .

When the Book has been made for him then he breathes with the souls of the gods forever and ever.[4]

It is finished.

  1. Another version: "the living."
  2. Literally, "the Westerners."
  3. Illegible passage restored by means of the manuscripts of the Louvre.
  4. Another version: "this volume of the Book of Respirations is made for him and the souls of the gods."