The signs and symbols of primordial man : being an explanation of the evolution of religious doctrines from the eschatology of the ancient Egyptians / by Albert Churchward.
- Albert Churchward
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The signs and symbols of primordial man : being an explanation of the evolution of religious doctrines from the eschatology of the ancient Egyptians / by Albert Churchward. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Xlll life, of death, and of the rebirth into a new life from their own surroundings and experience,” and we suppose he also maintains they have evolved all their Totemic ceremonies from the same, because these are their ideas, acted in dramatic form. I think it greatly to be regretted that the hunt critique of such a magazine should be so lamentably ignorant of the whole subject as to be able to entertain those opinions against existing facts, and I think it much more to be regretted that he should have such an instrument in his hands through which to proclaim his own o])in- ions without any foundation except his own imaginings. In the same Transactions, June Brother Wynn statement that he does not see that much light is thrown by the “ Book of the Dead” upon that “very High Church Degree, the i8th, the ritual of which has no trace of any purely Egyptian symbols, etc.,” shows that he must have written the criticism in ignorance of anything pertaining to the subject, or simply to try and condemn wilfully any light that is shown which may elucidate the mysteries of the past and present. Firstly, let me assure him that the i8th degree is not a High Church or Low Church or any Church degree at all. It is a degree founded upon the new and better Covenant, certainly, but its prototype may be found amongst the Quiche at the present day, brought on by them from the Mayas, who had it from the Egyptians. Again, I would also only ask him to look upon the symbols on his apron and collar to see if he can find them in any High Church Degree. Let him also examine the symbols in the D. R. and C., as well as the jewels and the words on it of M. \V. S., the Hebrew of which has no real meaning, but the Egyptian, from which it is copied, has—see origin of the Cross. These words, let me inform him, are purely Egyptian, and cannot be found in any Church degree, high or low, but are clearly written in the Ritual, and if he will take the trouble to read this he will find them most clearly stated, but he will not find them elsewhere. His observation that a little Egyptian knowledge is dangerous is true, and most applicable to critics of his meUcr, but does not concern writers who have devoted many years to the study of Egyptology and Freemasonry. It would certainly add to the value of the Ars Quatuor Coronatorum if the reviewers learned something first of the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29010895_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
