The destiny of the Double was to continue to lead the shadow of its terrestrial life, and fulfil it in the chapel; the destiny of the Soul was to follow the sun across the sky, and it, therefore, needed the instructions which it read on the walls of the vault.
It was by their virtue that the absorption of the dead into Osiris became complete, and that they enjoyed hereafter all the immunity of the divine state.

Above, in the chapel, they were men, and acted as men; here they were gods, and acted as gods.
[Illustration: Fig.

141 .-- Mastabat el Faraun.] [Illustration: Fig.

142 .-- Pyramid of Medum.] The enormous rectangular mass which the Arabs call _Mastabat el Faraun_, "the seat of Pharaoh" (fig.

141), stands beside the pyramid of Pepi II.
Some have thought it to be an unfinished pyramid, some a tomb surmounted by an obelisk; in reality it is a pyramid which was left unfinished by its builder, King Ati of the Sixth Dynasty.