…carried about in this case was a jar full of Nile water encircled by a snake. It represented the death and rebirth of Osiris. Some scholars believe that this was the model for the Grail procession which Percival saw in the Grail castle. In our Christian…

…stone was linked with the idea of death. The Prima Materia, the basic material from which they started the opus, was called Osiris, lying in his lead coffin overcome by Seth and waiting for resurrection. And the making of the stone is compared in the…

…become deified. The linen bandages which were wound around the corpse symbolized the goddesses Isis and Nephthys, the two wives of Osiris, or the mother goddess Nut. The dead person thus became Osiris and rested then in the eternal embrace of his feminine…

…corpse symbolized the goddesses Isis and Nephthys, the two wives of Osiris, or the mother goddess Nut. The dead person thus became Osiris and rested then in the eternal embrace of his feminine partners. At the very end of the Egyptian death liturgy, when…

…Again, we must turn to the Egyptian tradition, to Gnostic and alchemical writings to understand it better. The Egyptian god Osiris, with whom every person became identical after death, was simply called wheat. The dead person lived in the afterlife in…

…a fertile land where, quotes, the wheat and barley grow much higher than in our world. And one coffin text runs, O Osiris, N-N-X-Y, I, Osiris, N-N, that means the name of the person comes after Osiris, have nourished the herbs, and what is withered…

…land where, quotes, the wheat and barley grow much higher than in our world. And one coffin text runs, O Osiris, N-N-X-Y, I, Osiris, N-N, that means the name of the person comes after Osiris, have nourished the herbs, and what is withered I let become…

…in our world. And one coffin text runs, O Osiris, N-N-X-Y, I, Osiris, N-N, that means the name of the person comes after Osiris, have nourished the herbs, and what is withered I let become green again. The soil in which the dead was buried is Osiris…

…after Osiris, have nourished the herbs, and what is withered I let become green again. The soil in which the dead was buried is Osiris himself, and also Osiris is called the farmer. I sow and I reap and I prepare a feast. My tomb is opened. Light…

…the herbs, and what is withered I let become green again. The soil in which the dead was buried is Osiris himself, and also Osiris is called the farmer. I sow and I reap and I prepare a feast. My tomb is opened. Light comes into the darkness, and…

…which says, I went in unconscious, and I came out again as one who knows. I will be seen forever in my human form. Osiris is the principle of germination which lets everything grow. In one coffin text, the dead person says, I am Osiris. I come forth…

…in my human form. Osiris is the principle of germination which lets everything grow. In one coffin text, the dead person says, I am Osiris. I come forth from you, wheat. I went into thee. I grew fat in thee. I grew in thee. I fell into thee. I…

…self. And death is a joyful moment when we are reunited with our lost other half. In the old Egyptian religion, the dead being Osiris is also called the one who has now two souls. That means they thought that the dead person comes up and embraces the…