Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . fected,there had been practised the rites of the Sabians, aworship of the heavenly bodies similar to that of thePersians and Chaldeans; and still more ancientlythere are evidences of the practice of the dark ritesof Fetichism. The mythology of the Egyptians is so full of namesof gods and demons, that it would require a largespace to
Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . fected,there had been practised the rites of the Sabians, aworship of the heavenly bodies similar to that of thePersians and Chaldeans; and still more ancientlythere are evidences of the practice of the dark ritesof Fetichism. The mythology of the Egyptians is so full of namesof gods and demons, that it would require a largespace to describe them, and the data is also imperfect,as the Egyptian priests invented a system of secretwriting called hieroglyphic (sacred writing) on pur-pose to conceal their knowledge from all but the i^ii-ated. But within the last half century these hiero-iglyphics have been so far deciphered as to afford usa fair knowledge of their esoteric teachings, rites, andceremonies. Kneph is the great creator, appearing under thesymbol of a man with a rams head and horns, alwaysseated when in the act of creating. The central myth was that of Osiris and Isis, the sunand moon, and of Hermes, and contains the ideas andnotions concerning the three most important !^ ^<</lt
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