Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1920 — SOUL’S ORDEAL AFTER DEATH [ARTICLE]

SOUL’S ORDEAL AFTER DEATH

Old Volume, Known as "Judgment of the Dead,* Is a Fancy of the Ancient Egyptians. -Book of the Deed” Is a very old book, known In ancient Egypt as the -Judgment of the Dead," and It contains the funeral of the ®gyptians, describing In mystical language the experiences of the soul after death and the teat it must quote to -escape, the torments and trials of the lower world. In one chapter, the longest In the book, .is a picture showing toe judgment which the defunct, before enterlng into the fields of the blessed, will undeago in the lower world, in the presence of Osiris and 42 judges of monstrous form, who are on hand to devout the. guilty and drink bis blood. Anubis, the god of the dead, and Thoto, the god of wisdom, ekamine the deceased by weighing his heart in the “sacred” balances of Justice. The famous “negative confession” enumerates 42 calptal sins from which the deceased must be free. Should he fall to tM ordeal, he is either banded over to be devoured by the monster, part hippopotamus, part crocodile and part lion, which represents the Haitian Cerebus, or is thrown into, the fiery lake.