Ancient Egypt the Light of the World

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. CONTENTS VOL. I BOOK PAGE I. SIGN-LANGUAGE AND MYTHOLOGY AS PRIMITIVE MODES OF REPRESENTATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. TOTEMISM, TATTOO AND FETISHISM AS FORMS OF SIGN-LANGUAGE . . . 46 III. ELEMENTAL AND ANCESTRAL SPIRITS, OR THE GODS AND THE GLORIFIED . 111 IV. EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD AND THE MYSTERIES OF AMENTA . . . 120 V. THE SIGN-LANGUAGE OF ASTRONOMICAL MYTHOLOGY. The Primitive African Paradise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Egyptian Wisdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Drowning of the Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 269 287 VI. THE SIGN-LANGUAGE OF ASTRONOMICAL MYTHOLOGY. Part II. . . . . Horus of the Double Horizon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Making of Amenta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Irish Amenta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Mount of Glory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 332 344 366 376 VII. EGYPTIAN WISDOM AND THE HEBREW GENESIS . . . . . . . . . 398 VIII. THE EGYPTIAN WISDOM IN OTHER JEWISH WRITINGS . . . . . . . 470