A Book of the BeginningsAfter 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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... signifies a 1 Josh . v . 2 . 3 Buxtorf , Synag . Jud . pp . 102 , 103 . Eirochin , f . x . 2 . 2 Josh . v . 2 . 4 Psalms , lxxviii . 2 . sunbeam . Suti , the sunbeam , has the determinative HEBREW CRUXES WITH EGYPTIAN ILLUSTRATIONS . 25.
... signifies a 1 Josh . v . 2 . 3 Buxtorf , Synag . Jud . pp . 102 , 103 . Eirochin , f . x . 2 . 2 Josh . v . 2 . 4 Psalms , lxxviii . 2 . sunbeam . Suti , the sunbeam , has the determinative HEBREW CRUXES WITH EGYPTIAN ILLUSTRATIONS . 25.
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... signifies a CADENCE . And still further , SERAH is an Egyptian word meaning to reveal and exhibit . " HUKNU - SERAH " would indicate the supplication for the god to manifest his presence . This was done by means of repre- sentative ...
... signifies a CADENCE . And still further , SERAH is an Egyptian word meaning to reveal and exhibit . " HUKNU - SERAH " would indicate the supplication for the god to manifest his presence . This was done by means of repre- sentative ...
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... signifies to be in flower , some kind of flower , probably golden . This would make it , " I cursed his flowering , or his flourishing appearance ; " and it agrees with the Hebrew , to be lovely , celebrated , beautified . It would also ...
... signifies to be in flower , some kind of flower , probably golden . This would make it , " I cursed his flowering , or his flourishing appearance ; " and it agrees with the Hebrew , to be lovely , celebrated , beautified . It would also ...
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... signifies the washing or laving and purifying of the water . The Hebrew for a watering may be the remnant of this Rekh , to wash and water . The word ap , rendered " prevented " in the passage " Who hath PREVENTED me , that I should ...
... signifies the washing or laving and purifying of the water . The Hebrew for a watering may be the remnant of this Rekh , to wash and water . The word ap , rendered " prevented " in the passage " Who hath PREVENTED me , that I should ...
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... signifies a revelation . Reading the Sha as sight , Sha - tam is the double sight , and as tam is second , Shatam is literally second - sight or clairvoyance . The seer is a person credited with dual vision , so that " Shatham " signifies ...
... signifies a revelation . Reading the Sha as sight , Sha - tam is the double sight , and as tam is second , Shatam is literally second - sight or clairvoyance . The seer is a person credited with dual vision , so that " Shatham " signifies ...
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 54 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
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 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 385 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into Heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God : I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.
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.
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 96 - Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven.