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Index
  

 

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

1

 

A
T
U
M
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R
A
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A
R
-
M
U
T
A
1
20
21
13
-
18
1
-
1
18
-
13
21
20
1
1
2
3
4
-
9
1
-
1
9
-
4
3
2
1
A
T
U
M
-
R
A
-
A
R
-
M
U
T
A
1
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
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1
-
2
-
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-
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2
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3
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-
3
-
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
A
T
U
M
-
R
A
-
A
R
-
M
U
T
A

 

 

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-
-
-
9
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
-
1
-
-
-
-
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
1
A
T
U
M
R
A
-
A
R
M
U
T
A
1
20
21
13
18
1
-
1
18
13
21
20
1
1
2
3
4
9
1
-
1
9
4
3
2
1
A
T
U
M
R
A
-
A
R
M
U
T
A
1
2
3
4
9
1
-
1
9
4
3
2
1
A
T
U
M
R
A
-
A
R
M
U
T
A

 

 

-
-
-
4
-
4
-
-
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
2
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
A
T
U
M
-
M
U
T
A
1
20
21
13
-
13
21
20
1
1
2
3
4
-
4
3
2
1
A
T
U
M
-
M
U
T
A
1
2
3
4
-
4
3
2
1
A
T
U
M
-
M
U
T
A

 

 

6
A
T
U
M
-
R
A
-
-
-
-
-
--
-
-
`-
1
20
21
13
-
18
1
+
=
74
7+4
=
11
1+1
2
-
1
2
3
4
-
9
1
+
=
20
2+0
=
2
-
2
6
A
T
U
M
-
R
A
-T
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
1
occurs
x
2
=
2
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
occurs
x
1
=
2
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
3
occurs
x
1
=
3
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
-
4
occurs
x
1
=
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
9
occurs
x
1
=
9
6
A
T
U
M
-
R
A
-
-
19
-
-
6
-
20
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
10
-
-
-
Q
2+0
6
A
T
U
M
-
R
A
-
-
1
-
-
6
-
2

 

 

4
A
T
U
M
-
-
-
-
-
--
-
-
`-
1
20
21
13
+
=
55
5+5
=
10
1+0
1
-
1
2
3
4
+
=
10
1+0
=
1
-
1
4
A
T
U
M
-T
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
1
occurs
x
1
=
1
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
2
occurs
x
1
=
2
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
3
occurs
x
1
=
3
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
4
occurs
x
1
=
4
4
A
T
U
M
-
-
10
-
-
4
-
10
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+0
-
-
-
Q
1+0
4
A
T
U
M
-
-
1
-
-
4
-
1

 

 

4
ATUM
55
10
1
6
OSIRIS
89
35
8
10
Add Reduce Deduce
144
45
9
1+0
-
1+4+4
4+5
-
1
Essence of Number
9
9
9

 

 

4
PTAH
45
18
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
SEKHMET
81
36
9
6
SPHINX
90
36
9
13
Add Reduce Deduce
171
72
18
1+3
-
1+7+1
7+2
-
4
Essence of Number
9
9
9

 

 

-
8
R
E
D
E
E
M
E
R
-
-
-
-
-
--
-
-
-
-
-
-
18
5
4
5
5
13
5
18
+
=
73
7+3
=
10
1+0
1
=
1
-
-
9
5
4
5
5
4
5
9
+
=
46
4+6
=
10
1+0
1
=
1
-
8
R
E
D
E
E
M
E
R
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
4
occurs
x
2
=
8
=
8
-
=
-
5
-
5
5
-
5
-
-
-
5
occurs
x
4
=
20
2+0
2
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
9
occurs
x
2
=
18
1+8
9
27
8
R
E
D
E
E
M
E
R
-
-
18
-
-
8
-
46
-
19
2+7
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
1+8
-
-
-
-
4+6
-
1+9
9
8
R
E
D
E
E
M
E
R
-
-
9
-
-
8
-
10
-
10
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+0
-
1+0
9
8
R
E
D
E
E
M
E
R
-
-
9
-
-
8
-
1
-
1

 

 

8
R
E
D
E
E
M
E
R
-
-
-
-
-
--
-
-
-
-
-
18
5
4
5
5
13
5
18
+
=
73
7+3
=
10
1+0
1
=
1
-
9
5
4
5
5
4
5
9
+
=
46
4+6
=
10
1+0
1
=
1
8
R
E
D
E
E
M
E
R
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
4
occurs
x
2
=
8
=
8
=
-
5
-
5
5
-
5
-
-
-
5
occurs
x
4
=
20
2+0
2
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
9
occurs
x
2
=
18
1+8
9
8
R
E
D
E
E
M
E
R
-
-
18
-
-
8
-
46
-
19
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
1+8
-
-
-
-
4+6
-
1+9
8
R
E
D
E
E
M
E
R
-
-
9
-
-
8
-
10
-
10
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+0
-
1+0
8
R
E
D
E
E
M
E
R
-
-
9
-
-
8
-
1
-
1

 

 

8
REDEEMER
-
-
-
1
R
18
9
9
2
E+D
9
9
9
-
E
5
5
5
-
E
5
5
5
2
M+E
18
9
9
1
R
18
9
9
8
REDEEMER
73
46
46
-
-
7+3
4+6
4+6
8
REDEEMER
10
10
10
-
-
1+0
1+0
1+0
8
REDEEMER
1
1
1

 

 

-
8
R
E
D
E
E
M
E
D
-
-
-
-
-
--
-
-
-
-
-
-
18
5
4
5
5
13
5
4
+
=
59
5+9
=
14
1+4
5
=
5
Q
-
9
5
4
5
5
4
5
4
+
=
41
4+1
=
5
=
5
=
5
-
8
R
E
D
E
E
M
E
D
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
4
-
4
-
-
4
occurs
x
3
=
12
1+2
3
-
=
-
5
-
5
5
-
5
-
-
-
5
occurs
x
4
=
20
2+0
2
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
occurs
x
1
=
9
=
9
27
8
R
E
D
E
E
M
E
R
-
-
18
-
-
8
-
41
-
14
2+7
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+8
-
-
-
-
4+1
-
1+4
9
8
R
E
D
E
E
M
E
D
-
-
9
-
-
8
-
5
-
5

 

 

8
DIVINITY
-
-
-
1
D
4
4
4
2
I
9
9
9
-
V
22
4
4
2
I
9
9
9
1
N
14
5
5
2
I
9
9
9
1
T+Y
45
9
9
8
DIVINITY
112
49
49
-
-
1+1+2
4+9
4+9
8
DIVINITY
4
13
13
-
-
-
1+3
1+3
8
DIVINITY
4
4
4

 

DIE VANITY I VANITY DIE

 

-
DIE + VINITY
-
-
-
3
DIE
18
18
9
6
VINITY
99
36
9
9
DIE VINITY
117
54
18
-
-
1+1+7
5+4
1+8
9
DIE VINITY
9
9
9

 

 

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13
D
I
V
I
N
E
-
T
H
O
U
G
H
T
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
-
4
-
-
5
-
-
8
6
-
-
8
-
+
=
45
4+5
=
9
=
9
=
9
-
-
4
-
22
-
-
5
-
-
8
15
-
-
8
-
+
=
63
6+3
=
9
=
9
=
9
-
13
D
I
V
I
N
E
-
T
H
O
U
G
H
T
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
-
4
-
-
5
-
2
-
-
3
7
-
2
+
=
27
2+7
=
9
=
9
=
9
-
-
4
-
22
-
-
5
-
20
-
-
21
7
-
20
+
=
99
9+9
=
18
1+8
9
=
9
-
13
D
I
V
I
N
E
-
T
H
O
U
G
H
T
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
9
22
9
14
5
-
20
8
15
21
7
8
20
+
=
162
1+6+2
=
9
=
9
=
9
-
-
4
9
4
9
5
5
-
2
8
6
3
7
8
2
+
=
72
7+2
=
9
=
9
=
9
-
13
D
I
V
I
N
E
-
T
H
O
U
G
H
T
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
2
occurs
x
2
=
4
=
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
3
occurs
x
1
=
3
=
3
-
-
4
-
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
occurs
x
2
=
8
=
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
5
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
occurs
x
2
=
10
1+0
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
occurs
x
1
=
6
=
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
-
-
7
occurs
x
1
=
7
=
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
-
-
8
-
-
-
8
occurs
x
2
=
16
1+6
7
-
-
-
9
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
occurs
x
2
=
18
1+8
9
1
13
D
I
V
I
N
E
-
T
H
O
U
G
H
T
-
-
44
-
-
13
-
72
-
45
-
1+3
-
9
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4+4
-
-
1+3
-
7+2
-
4+5
1
4
D
I
V
I
N
E
-
T
H
O
U
G
H
T
-
-
8
-
-
4
-
9
-
9

 

 

7
MERCURY
-
-
-
1
M+E+R
36
18
9
2
C+U
24
6
6
-
R
18
9
9
2
Y
25
7
7
7
MERCURY
103
40
31
-
-
1+0+3
4+0
3+1
7
MERCURY
4
4
4

 

 

7
MERCURY
-
-
-
1
M+E
18
9
9
-
R
18
9
9
2
C+U
24
6
6
-
R
18
9
9
2
Y
25
7
7
7
MERCURY
103
40
40
   
1+0+3
4+0
4+0
7
MERCURY
4
4
4

 

 

-
7
M
E
R
C
U
R
Y
-
-
-
-
-
--
-
-
-
-
-
-
13
5
18
3
21
18
25
+
=
103
1+0+3
=
4
=
4
=
4
-
-
4
5
9
3
3
9
7
+
=
40
4+0
=
4
=
4
=
4
-
7
M
E
R
C
U
R
Y
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
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THE PROPHET

Kahil Gibran 1923

ON DEATH

Then Almitra spoke, saying, "We would ask now of Death."

And he said:

You would know the secret of death.

But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?

The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.

If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;

And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.

Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king

whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king?

Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

And what is to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides,

that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

 

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THE BIOLOGY OF DEATH

Lyall Watson 1974

Page 49

"As long ago as 1836, in a Manual of Medical Jurisprudence, this was said: 'Individuals who are apparently destroyed in a sudden manner, by certain wounds, diseases or even decapitation, are not really dead, but are only in conditions incompatible with the persistence of life. '231 This is an elegant and vital distinction. Death is not 'incompatible with the persistence of life'. Our ability to bring all kinds of death back to life is limited only by the state of our technology."

 

 

THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA

Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 - 1900

Page 97

Of Voluntary Death

MANY die too late and some die too early. Still the doctrine sounds strange: 'Die at the right time.'
Die at the right time: thus Zarathustra teaches.
To be sure, he who never lived at the right time could hardly die at the right time! Better if he were never to be born! - Thus I advise the superfluous.
But even the superfluous make a great thing of their dying; yes, even the hollowest nut wants to be cracked.
Everyone treats death as an important matter: but as yet death is not a festival. As yet, men have not learned to consecrate the airest festivals.
I shall show you the consummating death, which shall be a spur and a promise to the living.
The man consummating his life dies his death triumphantly, surrounded by men filled with hope and making solemn vows.
Thus one should learn to die; and there should be no festivals at which such a dying man does not consecrate the oaths of the living!
To die thus is the best death; but the second best is: to die in battle and to squander a great soul.
But equally hateful to the fighter as to the victor is your grinning death, which comes creeping up like a thief - and yet comes as master.
I commend to you my sort of death, voluntary death that comes to me because I wish it.
And when shall I wish it? - He who has a goal and an heir wants death at the time most favourable to his goal and his heir.
And out of reverence for his goal and his heir he will hang up no more withered wreaths in the sanctuary of life.
Truly, I do not want to be like the rope-makers: they spin out their yarn and as a result continually go backwards themselves.
Many a one grows too old even for his truths and victories; / Page 98 / a toothless mouth has no longer the right to every truth.
And everyone who wants glory must take leave of honour in good time and practise the difficult art of - going at the right time.
One must stop permitting oneself to be eaten when one tastes best: this is understood by those who want to be loved long.
To be sure, there are sour apples whose fate is to wait until the last day of autumn: and they become at the same time ripe, yellow, and shrivelled.
In some the heart ages first and in others the spirit. And some are old in their youth: but those who are young late stay young long.
For many a man, life is a failure: a poison-worm eats at his heart. So let him see to it that his death is all the more a success.
Many a man never becomes sweet, he rots even in the summer. It is cowardice that keeps him fastened to his branch.
Many too many live and they hang on their branches much too long. I wish a storm would come and shake all this rottenness and worm-eatenness from the tree!
I wish preachers of speedy death would come! They would be the fitting storm and shakers of the trees of life! But I hear preached only slow death and patience with all 'earthly things'.
Ah, do you preach patience with earthly things? It is these earthly things that have too much patience with you, you blasphemers!
Truly, too early died that Hebrew whom the preachers of slow death honour: and that he died too early has since been a fatality for many.
As yet he knew only tears and the melancholy of the Hebrews, together with the hatred of the good and just ­the Hebrew Jesus: then he was seized by the longing for death.
Had he onI y remained in the desert and far from the good and just! Perhaps he would have learned to live and learned to love the earth - and laughter as well!
Believe it, my brothers! He died too early; he himself / Page 99 / would have recanted his teaching had he lived to my agel
He was noble enough to recant !
But he was still immature. The youth loves immaturely and immaturely too he hates man and the earth. His heart and the wings of his spirit are still bound and heavy.
But there is more child in the man than in the youth, and less melancholy: he has a better understanding of life and death.
Free for death and free in death, one who solemnly says No when there is no longer time for Yes: thus he understands life and death.
That your death may not be a blasphemy against man and the earth, my friends: that is what I beg from the honey of your soul.
In your death, your spirit and your virtue should still glow like a sunset glow around the earth: otherwise yours is a bad death.
Thus I want to die myself, that you friends may love the earth more for my sake; and I want to become earth again, that I may have peace in her who bore me.
Truly, Zarathustra had a goal, he threw his ball: now may you friends be the heirs of my goal, I throw the golden ball to you.
But best of all I like to see you, too, throwing on the golden ball, my friends! So I shall stay on earth a little longer: forgive me for it!
Thus spoke Zarathustra.

 

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Page 99

Of the Bestowing Virtue

WHEN Zarathustra had taken leave of the town to which his heart was attached and which was called 'The Pied Cow' there followed him many who called themselves his disciples and escorted him. Thus they came to a cross-road: there Zarathustra told them that from then on he wanted to go / Page 100 / alone: for he was a friend pf going-alone. But his disciples handed him in farewell a staff, upon the golden haft of which a serpent was coiled about a sun. Zarathustra was delighted with the staff and leaned upon it; then he spoke thus to his disciples:­
Tell me: how did gold come to have the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and shining and mellow in lustre; it always bestows itself. .
Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold come to have the highest value. Gold-like gleams the glance of the giver. Gold-lustre makes peace between moon and sun.
The highest virtue is uncommon and uSyless, it is shining and mellow in lustre: the highest virtue is a bes~owing virtue.
Truly, I divine you well, my disciples, you aspire to the bestowing virtue, as I do. What could you have in common with cats and wolves? '
You thirst to become sacrifices and gifts yourselves; and that is why you thirst to heap up all riches in your soul.
Your soul aspires insa\iably after treasur.es and jewels, because your virtue is insatiable in wanting. to give.
You compel all things to come to you and into you, that they may flow back from your fountain as gifts of your love.
Truly, such a bestowing love must become a thief of all values; but I call this selfishness healthy and holy.
There is another selfishness, an all-too-poor, a hungry selfishness that always wants to steal, that selfishness of the sick, the sick selfishness.. .
It looks wIth the eye of a thief upon all lustrous things; with the greed of hunger it measures him who has plenty to eat; and it is always skulking about the table of the givers.
Sickness speaks from such craving, and hidden degeneration; the thieving greed of this longing speaks of a sick body.
Tell me, my brothers: what do we account bad and the worst of all? Is it not degeneration? - And we always suspect degeneration where the bestowing soul is lacking.
Our way is upward, from the species across to the super­species. But the degenerate mind which says 'All for me' is a horror to us.
Page 101
Our mind flies upward: thus it is an image of our bodies, an image of an advance and elevation.
The names of the virtues are such images of advances and elevations.
Thus the body goes through history; evolving and battling. And the spirit - what is it to the body? The herald, companion, and echo of its battles and victories.
All names of good and evil are images: they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks 'knowledge from them.
Whenever your spirit wants to Ispeak in images, pay heed; for that is when your virtue has its origin and beginning. .
Then your body is elevated and risen up; it enraptures the spirit with its joy, that it may become creator and evaluator and lover and benefactor of all things.
When your heart surges broad and full like a river, a blessing and a danger to those who live nearby: that is when your virtue has its origin and beginning.
When you are exalted above praise and blame, and your will wants to command all things as the will ofa lover: that is when your virtue has its origin and beginning.
When you despise the soft bed and what is pleasant and cannot make your bed too far away from the soft-hearted: that is when your virtue has its origin and beginning.
When you are the willers of a single will, and you call this dispeller of need your essential and necessity: that is when your virtue has its origin and beginning.
Truly, it is a new good and evil! Truly, a new roaring in the depths and the voice of a new fountain!
It is power; this new virtue; it is a ruling idea, and around it a subtle soul: a golden sun, and around it the serpent of knowledge.

Here Zarathustra fell silent a while and regarded his disciples lovingly. Then he went on speaking thus, and his voice was different:"

 

 
 
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