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Burke, Kenneth | December 11, 1935 issue

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Historians of ancient Egypt tell that at first the privileges of immortality were restricted to the Pharaohs; later, an ever-widening circle of priests and royal followers acquired the same benefits and eventually, as the "democratization of Osirianism" progressed, it became possible for even very humble men to purchase a few magic scrips by which they might safeguard their destiny after death. Similarly, in contemporary America, though one fellaheen cannot yet rejoice in the taking over of material wealth from the great commercial dynasts, he may at times profit by a partial democratization of spiritual goods.

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IMMORTALITY; DEMOCRATIZATION; PHARAOHS; MAGIC tricks; DEATH; WEALTH; EGYPT
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