Egyptian Magic

"Hail, ye who carry away hearts! Hail, ye who " hearts, and who make the heart of a man to go "through its tranformations according to its deeds, let "not you, O ye lords eternity, ye possessors of everlastingness, take ye not  this heart Osiris into your "grasp, and cause ye not words of evil to spring up "against it; for it is the heart of Osiris, and it belongeth "unto him of many names, the mighty one whose words "are his limbs, and who sendeth forth his heart to dwell ''in his body. THe heart of Osiris is triumphant, and ''it is made new before the gods; he hath gained power " over it, and he hath not been judged according to what '' he hath done. He hath gotten power over his own ''members. His heart obeyeth him, he is the lord '' there from. I Osiris, victorious in peace, and triumphant in the beautiful Amenta and on the mountain '' of eternity, bid thee { o Heart} to be obedient unto ''me in the underworld.'' I an Bennu, the soul of Ra, and the ''guide of the gods who are in the underworld. Their ''divine souls came forth upon earth to do the will of '' their doubles, let therefore the soul of the Osiri come '' forth to do the will of his double.'

The Bennu bird is usually identified with the phoenix