a bit of lit: on the power of the word

From The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (which is really a misnomer of The Book of Going Forth By Day) -- translated by R O Faulkner:

"As for whoever knows this book, he shall go out into the day, he shall walk on earth among the living and he shall never suffer destruction. A matter a million times true." -- from Spell 68

"As for him who knows this book on earth, he shall come out into the day, he shall walk on earth among the living, and his name shall not perish for ever." -- from Spell 70