Note 411 — Chapter IV · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ORPHICI

This is the suggestion of Foucart, Myst. d’Él. p. 72. That the Egyptian dead was supposed to become one with Osiris himself is an idea that appears as early as the Pyramid Texts, cf. Maspero, Les Pyramides de Saqqarah, passim, where the dead kings are each in turn hailed as “this Osiris.”