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124 the "Hidden Place." It was there that Osiris himself had ascended to an Eternal Life, and the king offered there a prayer to Osiris—a prayer that is quoted in the Egyptian Book of the Dead in the chapter titled "Chapter of Making His Name": May be given to me my Name in 1 the Great House of Two. May in the House of Fire a Name to me be granted. In the night of computing the years and of telling the months, May I become a Divine Being, may I sit on the east side of Heaven. As we have already suggested, the "Name"—-Shem in He- brew, MU in Sumerian—that ancient kings prayed for was a rocketship that could take them heavenward, and by making them immortal become "that by which they are remem- bered." The king can actually see the Ascender for which he prays. But it is in the House of Fire that can be reached only through the subterranean passages. The way down leads through spi- raling corridors, hidden chambers, and doors that open and close mysteriously. In each of the twelve parts companies of Figure 35 DIVINE ENCOUNTERS