The Natural GenesisEgyptologist Gerald Massey challenged readers in A Book of the Beginnings to consider the argument that Egypt was the birthplace of civilization and that the widespread monotheistic vision of man and the metaphysical was, in fact, based on ancient Egyptian mythos. In The Natural Genesis, Massey delivers a sequel, delving deeper into his compelling polemic. Volume II provides detailed discourse on the Egyptian origin of the delicate components of the monotheistic creed. With his agile prose, Massey leads an adventurous examination of the epistemology of astronomy, time, and Christology-and what it all means for human culture. 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 A Book of the Beginnings and Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World. |
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... head ; the Bull for neck and throat ; the Twins for arms ; the Crab for the breast ; the Lion for the heart and back ; the Virgin for the womb ; the scales for the lumbar region ; the Scorpion for the groin ; the Archer for the legs and ...
... head ; the Bull for neck and throat ; the Twins for arms ; the Crab for the breast ; the Lion for the heart and back ; the Virgin for the womb ; the scales for the lumbar region ; the Scorpion for the groin ; the Archer for the legs and ...
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... head , and shell under water , out of its back rises the stem of a great tree of brass , on the top of which sits a grotesque figure with four arms . One hand holds a cruse ; from this water issues continually ; another contains a ...
... head , and shell under water , out of its back rises the stem of a great tree of brass , on the top of which sits a grotesque figure with four arms . One hand holds a cruse ; from this water issues continually ; another contains a ...
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Gerald Massey. sages , one of the kings having the duplicated Janus head . Such is Ogilby's description ; and as the reader will see by comparison the imagery is substantially the same as in the Hindu churning of the ocean and the second ...
Gerald Massey. sages , one of the kings having the duplicated Janus head . Such is Ogilby's description ; and as the reader will see by comparison the imagery is substantially the same as in the Hindu churning of the ocean and the second ...
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... head of a figure seated on a rock below , where it divides as in the Egyptian picture of the one water becoming two . It then dashes itself into seven streams by means of the seven Rishis who receive it as if about to drink of it . Both ...
... head of a figure seated on a rock below , where it divides as in the Egyptian picture of the one water becoming two . It then dashes itself into seven streams by means of the seven Rishis who receive it as if about to drink of it . Both ...
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... heads , Pison , Havilah , Gihon and Euphrates . These correlate likewise with the Four Waters of the Avesta - Azi , Agenayo , Dregudaya , and Mataras.3 Mataras ( " the Mother , " ) agrees with the " Golden Mother " of the Chinese four ...
... heads , Pison , Havilah , Gihon and Euphrates . These correlate likewise with the Four Waters of the Avesta - Azi , Agenayo , Dregudaya , and Mataras.3 Mataras ( " the Mother , " ) agrees with the " Golden Mother " of the Chinese four ...
Contents
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Gods as Intelligencers in TimeThe True GodsKeepers of the Covenant | 170 |
Modes of identifying Time by various Seasons and keeping them as Festivals | 272 |
SECTION XIII | 378 |
PreChristian ChristologyPersian RevelationEnd of the Great YearFulfil | 503 |
INDEX | 523 |
Assyrian Deluge LegendThe Deluge of TimeEnd of a Period not of a World | 524 |
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Page 265 - The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches : and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
Page 126 - Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Page 80 - For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
Page 471 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
Page 157 - The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God : wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 414 - For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us, having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances ; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace ; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby.
Page 420 - Give me to drink. (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria 1 for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Page 373 - And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
Page 114 - And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.