“The Book of the Dead even has a spell intended to assure that the deceased will have the tools of the scribe in the next world. The hieroglyph for ‘writing’ (𓏞) depicts these tools....If the deceased had [them] in the next world, he would know all the magical secrets contained in the writing of Toth. The spell to obtain these tools instructs the deceased to say:
“O Eldest who looks upon his Father, secretary of Thoth, behold, I am come blessed, possessed of a soul, mighty, equipped with the writings of Thoth. I have purified myself while [I] tarried [with] Sokar. Bring me water-bowl, bring me palette, even this outfit of Thoth, and the secrets that are in them, [the secrets of] the Gods. Behold, I am a scribe. Bring me the putrid effluent of Osiris, that I may write therewith. ‘Do [what] the great God says,’ says Re, ‘[every day,] namely the good things that Harakhte commands thee.’ [I] do righteousness, that I may go [to] Re every day.”
— Bob Brier, Ancient Egyptian Magic, p.33
