A Book of the BeginningsCosimo, Inc., 2007 M03 1 - 700 pages After enjoying years as a popular journalist and poet, intellectual and freethinker Gerald Massey turned his vast studies in the field of Egyptology into A Book of the Beginnings, a bold statement that the origin of all civilization lays in ancient Egypt. His assertions, radical at the time-indeed, almost a century before the discovery of three-million-year-old human remains in Africa-resonate loudly today, when molecular biology is making corresponding discoveries alongside the still-raging creation-versus-evolution controversy. In Volume II, Massey intelligently argues an Egyptian origin for Biblical symbology, lexicography, and mythology. Here, he not only asks if the oldest Jewish and Christian axioms were really born on the banks of the Nile, he offers a stalwart and profound "Yes!" 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 The Natural Genesis and Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World. |
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... says , were driven out , and as they were afflicted with the BUBOS , they rested on the seventh day and called it the Sabbath , after the disease . Apion was playing upon words . Josephus asserts of him , " He then assigns a certain ...
... says , were driven out , and as they were afflicted with the BUBOS , they rested on the seventh day and called it the Sabbath , after the disease . Apion was playing upon words . Josephus asserts of him , " He then assigns a certain ...
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... say that Sabu ( Eg . ) , not only means to circumcise but to castrate . This was the earlier form of excision practised ... says the Jewish women call a son when circum- cised the bridegroom . Further , the seal and signet Khet is a ring ...
... say that Sabu ( Eg . ) , not only means to circumcise but to castrate . This was the earlier form of excision practised ... says the Jewish women call a son when circum- cised the bridegroom . Further , the seal and signet Khet is a ring ...
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... say of the hidden things which belonged to the earliest science , and were the secrets of the learned , but hard ... says there was a flute in the Temple which had been preserved from the days of Moses . It was smooth and thin , and ...
... say of the hidden things which belonged to the earliest science , and were the secrets of the learned , but hard ... says there was a flute in the Temple which had been preserved from the days of Moses . It was smooth and thin , and ...
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... says the writer , " and it is far from us . " This was the region of the judgment seat , and the place of the fourteen . trials in the Book of the Dead , half the number of the lunar mansions , through which passed the moon - god . And ...
... says the writer , " and it is far from us . " This was the region of the judgment seat , and the place of the fourteen . trials in the Book of the Dead , half the number of the lunar mansions , through which passed the moon - god . And ...
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... says Menka . " 1 According to the present writer's view , this goddess is the earliest form of Maat , the divinity of law , right rule , and true measure , but she was representative of the time of ten months or moons , whereas Mâ bears ...
... says Menka . " 1 According to the present writer's view , this goddess is the earliest form of Maat , the divinity of law , right rule , and true measure , but she was representative of the time of ten months or moons , whereas Mâ bears ...
Contents
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XV | 163 |
Egyptian Origin of the Exodus | 176 |
XVI | 191 |
The Egyptian Origin of the Jews Traced from | 363 |
XIX | 406 |
Egyptian Words | 443 |
XX | 457 |
XXI | 523 |
African Origines of the Maori | 535 |
Roots in Africa Beyond Egypt | 599 |
Notes to Vol I | 675 |
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Page 98 - And again, when he bringeth in the first-begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
Page 115 - And they saw the God of Israel : and there was under his feet, as it were, a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Page 555 - And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Page 198 - And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass he lived.
Page 390 - Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, That he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, The land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
Page 99 - Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink : let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Page 105 - And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth...
Page 193 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Page 179 - Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, Shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, And His strength, and His wonderful works that He hath done.
Page 238 - Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.