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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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.
After enjoying years as a popular journalist and poet, intellectual
and freethinker Gerald Massey turned his vast studies in the field
of Egyptology into A Book of the Beginnings, a bold statement that
the origin of all civilization lays in ancient Egypt. His
assertions, radical at the time-indeed, almost a century before the
discovery of three-million-year-old human remains in
Africa-resonate loudly today, when molecular biology is making
corresponding discoveries alongside the still-raging
creation-versus-evolution controversy. In Volume I, Massey lays the
foundation of the Egypt-centric position through a scholarly
comparative analysis of language, names, and mythology-delving not
only into our most basic actions of naming and communicating, but
also man's beloved, universal myths of death, awakenings, and love.
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 The
Natural Genesis and Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World.
Egyptologist Gerald Massey challenged readers in A Book of the
Beginnings to consider the argument that Egypt was the birthplace
of civilization and that the widespread monotheistic vision of man
and the metaphysical was, in fact, based on ancient Egyptian
mythos. In The Natural Genesis, presented here in an omnibus
edition, Massey delivers a sequel, delving deeper into his
compelling polemic. In Volume I, he offers a more intellectual,
fine-tuned analysis of the development of society out of Egypt.
From the simplest signs (numbers, the cross) to the grandest
archetypes (darkness, the mother figure), Massey carefully and
confidently lays the cultural and psychosocial bricks of
evolutionism. Volume II provides detailed discourse on the Egyptian
origin of the delicate components of the monotheistic creed. With
his agile prose, Massey leads an adventurous examination of the
epistemology of astronomy, time, and Christology-and what it all
means for human culture. 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 The Book of the Beginnings, The Natural
Genesis, and Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World.
THIS 60 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Book of the
Beginnings Part 2, by Gerald Massey. To purchase the entire book,
please order ISBN 0766126536.
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.
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