“INSPIRED BY DEITY”

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 91, 12 January 1932, Page 7

“INSPIRED BY DEITY”

Englishman’s Amazing Claim HE WRITES TO DICTATION London, December 17. Astounding is the description given by scientists to an instance of socalled inspired writing in which an Englishman claims to be actuated by the Egyptian deity Osiris. This was revealed by the recent discovery that the supposed mummy of King Akhenaton was really that of his successor, Hmenkakere. The supposed mummy of Akhenaton was among those recently transferred from the Cairo Museum to the great Mausoleum built by order of Zn"hlul Pasha when he was Premier. Normal, Athletic Type. The “Daily Mail” says the Englishman, who is of 'normal athletic type, has not been abroad except at the time of the war, when he went to trance, and is ignorant of Egyptology. He began without warning in 1f)25 to write at what he believed $o be the dictation of Osiris. It is now interesting to relate that the Chronicles of Osiris published in < 1927 pointed out that Akhenaton’s mummy had not yet been discovered. The book recalled that Akhenaton, the so-called heretic king, forsook the worship of the ordinary gods, and incurred the anger of the priests. Shrine to Be Uncovered. He built an underground shrine at Thebes, which was entered by a doorway opened by- secret levers, to which followers, when he died, his mummy to itvoid desecration. The book says: “This ‘subterranean chamber will shortly be uncovered owing to the accidental discovery' of a lever, revealing a body in a gold and alabaster*.sarcophagus beside the ossified remains of the King’s chief singer, Hareesh. who bore him a son who later became King Tutankhamen." •