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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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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    Eschatology (or doctrine of final things). We have traced how the Solar Mythos was spread over some part of the world, follow- ing the Stellar, the priests merging all the latter with the former, as far as they were able, and adding more attributes in the form and names of other gods to the One Great One. We have shown when the Father was the Father of the Son and the Son was the Father of the Father, and how Miit was brought on as Isis, and Horus I. as the child, in the Osirian doctrines at the time when their Eschatology was completed. We see how Osiris has taken the name and place of Horus I., the first Man-God mummified : how he died and rose again in spiritual form as Ra, taking the name and place of Amsu, with all the divine titles, attributes and names which have been attached to the same. In Horus, the child of Isis, we discover the beginning of the Christian doctrines, which will form the subject of another book. All which we have brought forward are facts, as far as the remains of the same are to be found, written on stone and papyri still extant, for all to read who are interested in these researches. Of course, in draw- ing the reader’s attention to these signs, symbols and ceremonies, partially described, we have been obliged to safeguard the secrets of the same both in forms, words and descriptions of the true character, now enacted ” by our brother Freemasons ; but all will be sufficiently lucid for those who are initiated, in the various degrees we have considered, to understand the proof of which, be they P2gyptologists or not, cannot be denied, as the evidence is unmistakable. We have shown how primiti^'e man first began to think and observe the laws of nature, and how from observa- tion of these his spiritual ideas and'the divination of things began to dawn upon him—how his s])iritual beliefs grew, and how the first religious ideas and conceptions took place, which, from want of articulate sounds, he primarily represented by various signs and symbols, which his awakened sense of awe and wonder suggested, and out of which religion was born. All else have been built up by time and evolution. It is only by comparison of all that we find in various parts of the world that we can arrive at a correct conclusion. To com- pare part of man’s history from one or two nations alone, however great or numerous, would not lead to a right conclusion. It is only by studying the whole history of the world, and all nations from the beginning, and then comparing one with the other, that
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