s only from certain effects that it
becomes clear that there is a meaning of some kind. What that meaning
may be is what we want to know. Look at the top and bottom of the
vacant space, which lies West and East corresponding to the head and
foot of the sarcophagus. In both are duplications of the same
symbolisation, but so arranged that the parts of each one of them are
integral portions of some other writing running crosswise. It is only
when we get a coup d'oeil from either the head or the foot that you
recognise that there are symbolisations. See! they are in triplicate
at the corners and the centre of both top and bottom. In every case
there is a sun cut in half by the line of the sarcophagus, as by the
horizon. Close behind each of these and faced away from it, as though
in some way dependent on it, is the vase which in hieroglyphic writing
symbolises the heart--'Ab' the Egyptians called it. Beyond each of
these again is the figure of a pair of widespread arms turned upwards
from the elbow; this is the determinative of the 'Ka' or 'Double'. But
its relative position is different at top and bottom. At the head of
the sarcophagus the top of the 'Ka' is turned towards the mouth of the
vase, but at the foot the extended arms point away from it.

"The symbolisation seems to mean that during the passing of the Sun
from West to East--from sunset to sunrise, or through the Under World,
otherwise night--the Heart, which is material even in the tomb and
cannot leave it, simply revolves, so that it can always rest on 'Ra'
the Sun-God, the origin of all good; but that the Double, which
represents the active principle, goes whither it will, the same by
night as by day. If this be correct it is a warning--a caution--a
reminder that the consciousness of the mummy does not rest but is to be
reckoned with.

"Or it may be intended to convey that after the particular night of the
resurrection, the 'Ka' would leave the heart altogether, thus typifying
that in her resurrection the Queen would be restored to a lower and
purely physical existence. In such case what would become of her
memory and the experiences of her wide-wandering soul? The chiefest
value of her resurrection would be lost to the world! This, however,
does not alarm me. It is only guess-work after all, and is
contradictory to the intellectual belief of the Egyptian theology, that
the 'Ka' is an essential portion of humanity." He paused and we all
waited.