Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Mysteries of AmentaCosimo, Inc., 2008 M01 1 - 56 pages 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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... words of the gnostic Paul , " broke down the wall of partition " and " made both one " , " that he might create in ... power . Previously he had been the resurrection and the life as solar vivifier in the physical domain , or otherwise ...
... words of the gnostic Paul , " broke down the wall of partition " and " made both one " , " that he might create in ... power . Previously he had been the resurrection and the life as solar vivifier in the physical domain , or otherwise ...
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... powers that pass through various phases , elemental , stellar , or lunar , always ... words of a divine wisdom in the later eschatology when the mysteries were ... power of returning from the lowest depth and thus completing the eternal ...
... powers that pass through various phases , elemental , stellar , or lunar , always ... words of a divine wisdom in the later eschatology when the mysteries were ... power of returning from the lowest depth and thus completing the eternal ...
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... words - the words of Ra - to the men of the present generation , and I repeat his words to him who is deprived of ... power , the magical invocations , the funeral ceremonies , the purgatorial trials , is the resurrection of the mortal to the ...
... words - the words of Ra - to the men of the present generation , and I repeat his words to him who is deprived of ... power , the magical invocations , the funeral ceremonies , the purgatorial trials , is the resurrection of the mortal to the ...
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