Thou shalt come in and go out, thy heart rejoicing, in the favour of the Lord of the Gods, a good burial [being thine] after a venerable old age, when age has come, thou assuming thy place in the coffin, and joining earth on the high ground of the west.
Thou shalt change into a living Ba(1) and surely he will have power to obtain bread and water and air; and thou shalt take shape as a heron or swallow, as a falcon or a bittern, whichever thou pleasest.
Thou shalt cross in the ferryboat and shalt not turn back, thou shalt sail on the waters of the flood,
and thy life shall start afresh. Thy Ba shall not depart from thy corpse and thy Ba shall become
divine with the blessed dead. The perfect Ba's shall speak to thee, and thou shalt be an equal
amongst them in receiving what is given on earth. Thou shalt have power over water, shalt inhale
air, and shalt be surfeited with the desires of thy heart. Thine eyes shall be given to thee so as to see,
and thine ears so as to hear, thy mouth speaking, and thy feet walking. Thy arms and thy shoulders
shall move for thee, thy flesh shall be firm, thy muscles shall be easy and thou shalt exult in all thy
limbs. Thou shalt examine thy body and find it whole and sound, no ill whatever adhering to thee.
Thine own true heart shall be with thee, yea, thou shalt have thy former heart. Thou shalt go up to
the sky, and shalt penetrate the Netherworld in all forms that thou likes.
1 The dead man conceived as hving an animated existence after death was called Ba.... The word Ba means 'animation, manifestation.'
