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
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    subject they attempt to criticise, and did not hazard an opinion on a subject of the alphabet of whose language they are ignorant. I contend that the information contained in the following pages is right and true, the same having been obtained from existing facts, which can be proved by any person devoting his attention to the subject. It will also be of profound interest to those studious persons, who are not Freemasons, who take an interest in the ancient signs and symbols found throughout the world, the origin and meaning of which have hitherto been un- known in most instances or an erroneous decipherment given of the various sacred signs and symbols, which are found on ancient temples, rocks and stones, papyri, etc., in many ways throughout the world. I have not given the whole of the passages of the different degrees, as these are secrets for the initiated only, and for the brethren who belong to the higher degrees in Freemasonry, never- theless, I have laboured to simplify the “ parts ” of the various degrees that they may be explicit to all who have taken them up as far as the 30th degree. At the same time the secrets are unin- telligible except to those who are initiated ; for to follow them separately and accurately one must have attained the 33rd degree, and know and understand “ The Egyptian Ritual or Book of the Dead,” and the Primordial and Sign Language. I have divided this work into “ Chapters ” and “ Parts,” as I think it will be more convenient for the reader to follow and trace from one point to another. I am deeply indebted to the following for information :— especially to my friend Gerald Massey ; ^ “The Book of the Dead,” with Papyri of Hunefer-Anhar, Kerasher and Netchemet ; and of Nil. Demotic Papyri of the Priests of Memphis ; Dr Le Plongeon ; Mr Holmes, Chief of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institute, D.C. ; Mr Marsh Adams ; Brugsch Pacha ; Messrs Since writing this book, and] before I could get it published, my dear old friend for twenty years, Gerald Massey, has died, very soon after he published the greatest woilv of his life. Ancient Egypt,” and althoiigh there ai*e a few passages in this work similar to his, I am indebted to him for them during his lifetime ; he was never tired of discussing the subject and assisting me. No one ever understood the mythology, and Ritual of Ancient Egypt so well as Gerald iMassey since the time of the Ancient I hilosophers of Egypt. He has left a written record in ” Ancient Egypt ” of the facts which will be an everlasting light on the subject.
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