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This expansive and fascinating treatment of ancient Egyptian
mythology and its influence on the traditions that followed from it
includes explorations of sign language in mythological
representation, totemism, fetishism, spirits and gods, the Egyptian
Book of the Dead and Egyptian wisdom in the Hebrew Genesis. Readers
will enjoy the wealth of information offered by Gerald Massey, as
well as his clear and readable style.
In presenting my readers with some of the data which show that much
of the Christian history was preextant as Egyptian mythology. I
have to ask you to bear in mind that the facts, like other
foundations, have been buried out of sight for thousands of years
in a hieroglyphical language, that was never really read by Greek
or Roman, and could not be read until the lost clue was discovered
by Champollion, almost the other day In this way the original
sources of our mytholatry and Christology remained as hidden as
those of the Nile, until the century in which we live. The mystical
matter enshrouded in this language was sacredly entrusted to the
keeping of the buried dead, who have faithfully preserved it as
their Book of Life, which was placed beneath their pillows, or
clasped to their bosoms, in their coffins and their tombs.
Secondly, although I am able to read the hieroglyphics, nothing
offered to you is based on my translation. I work too warily for
that The transcription and literal rendering of the hieroglyphic
texts herein employed are by scholars of indisputable authority.
There is no loophole of escape that way. I lectured upon the
subject of Jesus many years ago. At that time I did not know how we
had been misled, or that the 'Christian scheme' (as it is aptly
called) in the New Testament is a fraud, founded on a fable in the
Old
A WORK OF RECLAMATION AND RESTITUTION IN TWELVE BOOKS Vol. I and 2.
It may have been a million years ago The Light was kindled in the
Old Dark Land With which the illumined Scrolls are all aglow, That
Egypt gave us her mummied hand: This was the secret of that subtle
smile Inscrutable upon the Sphinx's face, Now told from sea to sea,
from isle to isle; The revelation of the Old Dark Race; Theirs was
the wisdom of the Bee and Bird, Ant, Tortoise, Beaver, working
human-wise; The ancient darkness spake with Egypt's Word; Hers was
the primal message of the skies: The Heavens are telling nightly of
her glory, And for all time Earth echoes her great story. I have
written other books, but this I look upon as the exceptional labour
which has made my life worth living. Comparatively speaking, 'A
Book of the Beginnings' (London, 1881) was written in the dark,
'The Natural Genesis' (London, 1883) was written in the twilight,
whereas 'Ancient Egypt' has been written in the light of day. The
earlier books were met in England with the truly orthodox
conspiracy of silence. Nevertheless, four thousand volumes have got
into circulation somewhere or other up and down the reading world,
where they are slowly working in their unacknowledged way. Probably
the present book will be appraised at home in proportion as it
comes back piecemeal from abroad, from Germany, or France, or maybe
from the country of the Rising Sun. To all lovers of the truth the
writer now commends the verifiable truths that wait for recognition
in these pages. Truth is all-potent with its silent power If only
whispered, never heard aloud, But working secretly, almost unseen,
Save in some excommunicated book; 'Tis as the lightning with its
errand done Before you hear the thunder. For myself, it is enough
to know that in despite of many hindrances from straitened
circumstances, chronic ailments, and the deepening shadows of
encroaching age, my book is printed, and the subject-matter that I
cared for most is now entrusted safely to the keeping of John
Gutenberg, on this my nine-and-seventieth birthday. GERALD MASSEY
There is no death in the Osirian religion, only decay and change,
and periodic renewal; only evolution and transformation in the
domain of matter and the transubstantiation into spirit. In the
so-called death of Osiris it is rebirth, not death, exactly the
same as in the changes of external nature. At the close of the day
the solar orb went down and left the sun god staring blankly in the
dark of death. Taht the moon god met him in Amenta with the eye of
Horus as the light the was to illuminate the darkness of the
subterranean world. from Egyptian Book of the Dead and the
Mysteries of Amenta It goes unappreciated by modern Egyptologists,
but it is embraced by those who savor the concept of a hidden
history of humanity, and those who approach all human knowledge
from the perspective of the esoteric. Gerard Massey 's massive
Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World first published in 1907 and
the crowning achievement of the self-taught scholar redefines the
roots of Christianity via Egypt, proposing that Egyptian mythology
was the basis for Jewish and Christian beliefs. Here, Cosimo
proudly presents Book 4 of Ancient Egypt, in which Massey discusses
the Egyptian Book of the Dead as the pre-Christian word of God, and
explores the idea that Amenta, the threshold to the Egyptian
underworld, is the first overt expression of a human desire for a
noncorporeal afterlife. Massey goes on to connect the mystery of
the mummy to the mystery of the Christ by likening the Christian
dogma of physical resurrection to the Egyptian impetus for
mummification. Peculiar and profound, this work will intrigue and
delight readers of history, religion, and mythology. British author
GERALD MASSEY (1828 1907) published works of poetry, spiritualism,
Shakespearean criticism, and theology, but his best-known works are
in the realm of Egyptology, including A Book of the Beginnings and
The Natural Genesis.
Volume one of a two volume set. (This description is for all
volumes.) Containing an Attempt to Recover and Reconstitute the
Lost Origines of the Myths and Mysteries, Types and Symbols,
Religion and Language, with Egypt for the Mouthpiece and Africa as
the Birthplace. Vol. I, Physical Beginnings; Totemic Typology and
Customs; Origin of the Myth in a Twofold Phase of Fact; Origin of
Language in Gesture-Signs and Involuntary Sounds; Darkness the
first Adversary, Deluder, or Devil, typified as the Serpent-Serpent
Wisdom-Origin of Elementaries; The Mount and Tree as Feminine Types
of the Birthplace-Tree as Giver of Food and Drink-Unity of Cross
and Circle-Various Forms and Meanings of Cross; Mythology the
Mirror of Prehistoric Sociology-Sut, Horus, Mother Trinity-Origins
of the Triads Male and Female and of the Trinity-Survival of the
Mythical Types in the Dogmas of the Final Religious Phase. Vol. II,
Astronomical Nature of Mythology-Sun God-Eden-Culmination of the
Kronian Creations in the Mythical Nirvana; Gods as Intelligencers
in Time-True Gods-Keepers of the Covenant-The Fall-Doctrine of the
Gnosis-Christian Doctrine of Degradation; Assyrian Deluge
Legend-Lost Atlantis-Pyramids and Towers; Modes of Identifying Time
by Various Seasons and Keeping them as Festivals; Pre-Christian
Christology.
Volume two of a two volume set. (This description is for all
volumes.) Containing an Attempt to Recover and Reconstitute the
Lost Origines of the Myths and Mysteries, Types and Symbols,
Religion and Language, with Egypt for the Mouthpiece and Africa as
the Birthplace. Vol. I, Physical Beginnings; Totemic Typology and
Customs; Origin of the Myth in a Twofold Phase of Fact; Origin of
Language in Gesture-Signs and Involuntary Sounds; Darkness the
first Adversary, Deluder, or Devil, typified as the Serpent-Serpent
Wisdom-Origin of Elementaries; The Mount and Tree as Feminine Types
of the Birthplace-Tree as Giver of Food and Drink-Unity of Cross
and Circle-Various Forms and Meanings of Cross; Mythology the
Mirror of Prehistoric Sociology-Sut, Horus, Mother Trinity-Origins
of the Triads Male and Female and of the Trinity-Survival of the
Mythical Types in the Dogmas of the Final Religious Phase. Vol. II,
Astronomical Nature of Mythology-Sun God-Eden-Culmination of the
Kronian Creations in the Mythical Nirvana; Gods as Intelligencers
in Time-True Gods-Keepers of the Covenant-The Fall-Doctrine of the
Gnosis-Christian Doctrine of Degradation; Assyrian Deluge
Legend-Lost Atlantis-Pyramids and Towers; Modes of Identifying Time
by Various Seasons and Keeping them as Festivals; Pre-Christian
Christology.
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