ANCIENT EGYPT: THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

A WORK OF RECLAMATION AND RESTITUTION IN TWELVE BOOKS


by GERALD MASSEY

AUTHOR OF "A BOOK OF THE BEGINNINGS" and "THE NATURAL GENESIS"

It mav have been a Million years ago
The Light was kindled in the Old Dark Land
Withi which the illumined Scrolls are all aglow,
That Egypt gave us with her mummied hand :
This was the secret of that subtle smile
Inscrutable upon the Sphinx's face,
Now told from sea to sea, from isle to isle ;
The revelation of the Old Dark Race ;
Theirs was the wisdom of the Bee and Bird,
Ant, Tortoise, Beaver, working human-wise ;
The ancient darkness spake with Egypt's Word ;
Hers was the primal message of the skies:
The Heavens are telling nightly of her glory,
And for all time Earth echoes her great story.

VOLUME -1-

London
T.Fisher Unwin
Adelphi Terrace

1907

 

EDITION LIMITED TO FIVE HUNDRED COPIES

 

PREFATORY

I have written other books, but this I look on as the exceptional labour which has made my life worth living. Comparatively speaking, " A Book of the Beginnings" (London, 1881) was written in the dark, "The Natural Genesis" (London, 1883) was written in the twilight, whereas" Ancient Egypt" has been written in the light of day. The earlier books were met in England with the truly orthodox conspiracy of silence. Nevertheless, four thousand volumes have got into circulation somewhere or other up and down tlte reading world, where they are slowly working in their unacknowledged way. Probably the present book will be appraised at home in proportion as it comes back piecemeal from abroad, from Germany, or France, or maybe from the Country of the Rising Sun.

To all dear lovers of the truth the writer now commends the verifiable truths that wait for recognition in these pages.


Truth is all-potent with its silent power
If only whispered, never heard aloud,
But working secretly, almost unseen,
Save in some excommunicated Book;
'Tis as the lightning with its errand done
Before you hear the thunder.

For myself, it is enough to know that in despite of many hindrances
from straitened circumstances, chronic ailments, and the deepening shadows of encroaching age, my book is printed, and the subject-matter that I cared for most is now entrusted safely to the keeping of John Gutenberg, on this my nine-and-seventieth birthday.

 

CONTENTS VOL. I and 2
Page Number Size
in K
Pages
(Approx.)
ANCIENT EGYPT- The Light of the World
Introduction Introduction [you are here now]  Roman
23
4
Book -1- Sign-language and mythology as primitive modes of representation. 1
172
39
Book -2- Totemism, Tattoo and Fetishism as forms of sign-language. 46
579
60
Book -3- Elemental and ancestral spirits, or the gods and the glorified 120
256
53
Book -4- Egyptian book of the dead and the Mysteries of Amenta. 186
473
51
Book-5- The sign-language of astronomical mythology.. Part I of II  
868
88
-The Primitive African Paradise 249
- Egyptian Wisdom 269
-The Drowning of the Dragon 287
Book -6- The sign-language of Astronomical mythology. Part II of II. 321
472
95
-Horus of the Double Horizon 332
-The Making of Amenta 344
-The Irish Amenta 366
-The Mount of Glory 376
Book -7- Egyptian Wisdom and the hebrew genesis
398
996
88
Book -8- The Egyptian Wisdom in other jewish writings 470
 
 
Book 9  The Ark, the Deluge, and the world's great year 544-627
294
  
Book 10  The exodus from Egypt and the desert of Amenta 628-688
222
  
Book 11  Egyptian wisdom in the Revelation of John the Divine 689-725
135
  
Book12A  The Jesus-Legend traced in Egypt for 10,000 years 726-804
285
  
Book12B  The Jesus-Legend traced in Egypt for 10,000 years 805-904
347
  
Appendix   905-
  
  

 

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS - Volume -1-
ANCIENT EGYPT- The Light of the World
Book
No.
  Page No.:
1 APT, THE FIRST GREAT MOTHER 124
1 THE MUMMY-BABE 219
III ILLUSTRATION FROM A THEBAN TOMB 289
IV HIPPOPOTAMUS AND HAUNCH 311
v SHU THE KNEELER 315
VI HORUS STRANGLING SERPENTS 317
VII HORUS IN PISCES 343
VIII HORUS THE SHOOT OF THE PAPYRUS 450
IX ASSYRIAN CYLINDER 453
X THE FLAMING SWORD WHICH GUARDED THE TREE 455
XI HORUS BRUISING THE SERPENT'S HEAD . 462



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