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1155 An image expressing the succession of divine functions, the transmutation of one form into another, or the correlation of forces. Aam is the electro‐positive force, devouring all others, as Saturn devoured his progeny.

1156 Aanroo is in the domain of Osiris, a field divided into _fourteen_ sections, “surrounded with an _iron_ enclosure, within which grows the _corn of life seven_ cubits high,” the Kâma Loka of the Egyptians. Those only of the dead, who know the names of the janitors of the “seven halls,” will be admitted into Amenti _for ever_; _i.e._, those who have passed through the Seven Races of each Round—otherwise they will rest in the _lower fields_; and it represents also the seven successive Devachans, or Lokas. In Amenti one becomes pure spirit for the eternity (xxx. 4); while in Aanroo the “soul of the spirit,” or the Defunct, is _devoured_ each time by Uræus—the Serpent, Son of the Earth (in another sense the primordial vital principles in the Sun), _i.e._, the Astral Body of the deceased or the “Elementary” fades out and disappears in the “Son of the Earth,” _limited_ time. The soul quits the fields of Aanroo and goes on earth under any shape it likes to assume. (See chapter xcix ., _Book of the Dead_.)

1157 See _Book of the Dead_, chapter cviii . 4.

1158 Maspero in the _Guide au Musée de Boulaq_, p. 152. Ed. 1883.

1159 See _Book of the Dead_, ch. xciv.

1160 _Revue des Deux Mondes_, 1865, pp. 157 and 158.