Egyptian belief and modern thought / by James Bonwick.

  • James Bonwick
Date:
1878
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    are no longer permitted to live in the terrestrial world, neither do they hear the voice of god when he traverses their zone.” It is a terrible conception. The sun is there, but it gives no light. God speaks there, but his voice is not heard. While the doctrine of everlasting torment has support from the monuments of Egypt, the Annihilationists, or believers in the final destruction of the wicked, are not without Egyptian support. Mr. Baring-Gould says, “ A high degree of education must be attained before the notion of annihilation can be apprehended.” That is an argument for the intuitional teaching of immortality. To this Marietta Bey alludes, when he says of the truly impenitent, “ for these a second death, that is to say, a definitive annihilation, is reserved.” In another place he writes ; “ The definitive annihilation in the midst of the torments of a true hell was the suffering reserved for the condemned.” Roug6 writes: “ As to the condemned souls, they are forced to submit to the second death.” Their sacred writings support this idea. Annihilation furnishes the subject of many prayers ; as, “ Let me not be annihilated.” In a prayer to Osiris for the departed, it is said, “ He sees in thee and he lives in thee, it is in thee he will never be annihilated.” In the 93rd chapter of the Ritual, one reads, “ The rebels become immovable things during millions of years.” The worm utterly devours them ; the fire absolutely consumes them. The man may be beheaded, or swallowed by a hippopotamus. Madame Blavatsky, in His Revealed, refers to “ the gradual dissolu- tion of the astral form into its primal elements.” Pierret says: “ The tomb is piteously closed upon those whose faults condemn them to annihilation.” Lenormant asserts that the wicked, “ before being annihi' lated, are condemned to suffer a thousand tortures, and.