From first to last the Book of the Dead is filled with spells and prayers for the preservation of the mummy and for everlasting life.  As instances of these the following passages are quoted from Chapters 154 and 175.  “Homage to thee, O my divine father Osiris, thou livest with thy members.  Thou didst not decay.  Thou didst not turn into worms.  Thou didst not waste away.  Thou didst not suffer corruption.  Thou didst not putrefy.  I am the god Khepera, and my members shall have an everlasting existence.  I shall not decay.  I shall not rot.  I shall not putrefy.  I shall not turn into worms.  I shall not see corruption before the eye of the god Shu.  I shall have my being, I shall have my being.  I shall live, I shall live.  I shall flourish, I shall flourish.  I shall wake up in peace.  I shall not putrefy.  My inward parts shall not perish.  I shall not suffer injury.  Mine eye shall not decay.  The form of my visage shall not disappear.  Mine ear shall not become deaf.  My head shall not be separated from my neck.  My tongue shall not be carried away.  My hair shall not be cut off.  Mine eyebrows shall not be shaved off.  No baleful injury shall come upon me.  My body shall be established, and it shall neither crumble away nor be destroyed on this earth.”  The passage that refers to everlasting life occurs in Chapter 175, wherein the scribe Ani is made to converse with Thoth and Temu in the Tuat, or Other World.  Ani, who is supposed to have recently arrived there, says:  “What manner of country is this to which I have come?  There is no water in it.  There is no air.  It is depth unfathomable, it is black as the blackest night, and men wander helplessly therein.  In it a man may not live in quietness of heart; nor may the affections be gratified therein.”  After a short address to Osiris, the deceased asks the god, “How long shall I live?” And the god says, “It is decreed that thou shalt live for millions of millions of years, a life of millions of years.”

As a specimen of a spell that was used in connection with an amulet may be quoted Chapter 156.  The amulet was the tet, which represented a portion of the body of Isis.  The spell reads:  “The blood of Isis, the power of Isis, the words of power of Isis shall be strong to protect this mighty one (i.e. the mummy), and to guard him from him that would do unto him anything which he abominateth (or, is taboo to him).”  The object of the spell is explained in the Rubric, which reads:  “[This spell] shall be said over a tet made of carnelian, which hath been steeped in water of ankham flowers, and set in a frame of sycamore wood, and placed on the neck of the deceased on the day of the funeral.  If these things be done for him the powers of Isis shall protect his body, and Horus, the son of Isis, shall rejoice in him when he seeth him.  And there shall be no places hidden from him as he journeyeth.  And one hand of his shall be towards heaven and the other towards earth,