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pole and turn it over.      
With scarcely a glance at these floating bodies, the proces- 
sion went on into the inner chamber.  There, resting upon      
planks of sweet smelling wood, was the body of the dead       
Pharaoh, wrapped tightly with linen bandages, powdered       
well with sweet smelling herbs, and anointed with unguents.    
    "The men entered, and four bearers took the body and       
turned it about; and put it in a light wooden shell which     
had been standing against a wall.  Then, raising it to         
shoulder height, they turned and followed the torch bearers    
out of the underground room, past the baths of nitre, out     
of the rooms of the embalmers of Egypt.  Nearer the surface  
the body was taken to another room where dim daylight         
filtered in.  Here it was taken out of the crude wooden shell  
and placed in another one the exact shape of the body.  The    
hands were placed across the breast and tightly bound with    
bandages.  A papyrus was tied to them giving the history of     
the dead man.                                          
    "Here, days later, the priests of Osiris, of Isis, and of    
Horus came.  Here they chanted their preliminary prayers      
conducting the soul through the Underworld.  Here, too,       
the sorcerers and the magicians of old Egypt prepared their    
Thought Forms, Thought Forms which would guard the          
body of the dead man and prevent vandals from breaking         
into the tomb and disturbing his peace.                     
    "Throughout the land of Egypt were proclamations of         
the penalties which would befall any who violated the         
tomb.  The sentence: first the tongue of the violator would    
be torn out, and then his hands would be severed at the       
wrists.  A few days later he would be disemboweled, and      
buried to the neck in the hot sand where he would li