ABSTRACT
This chapter explores Book of the Dead proves that there existed among the followers of Osiris many men who were fully conscious of their sins and wickednesses and who expressed their contrition with no uncertain voice. The so-called 'Negative Confession' as we have it in the XVIIIth dynasty papyri is probably a reduction of a very much older set of declarations of sinlessness which the king was supposed to recite when after death, he appeared in the presence of R-C and the other gods. In the hymns to Amen and other gods there is abundant evidence that the religion of Egypt had become 'humanized', and that men had cast aside the ancient royalist and feudal forms of it. The belief that good came to the good and evil to the evil remained unchanged from the days of the Memphite theologians of the Old Kingdom to the Roman period, even as SA-ASAR declared.
