From the PREFACE. The author's simple design in this work, as in the "Pyramid Facts and Fancies," was to collect information for those with little leisure for research. In this age of enquiry, when the foundations of belief are being rudely disturbed, when ancient authority is less respected as it is discovered less reasonable and worthy, but when men, as ever, seek to know what can be known of the Future Life, a resume of the doctrines of the wise Egyptians cannot be unacceptable. No other race so dwelt upon the life ...
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From the PREFACE. The author's simple design in this work, as in the "Pyramid Facts and Fancies," was to collect information for those with little leisure for research. In this age of enquiry, when the foundations of belief are being rudely disturbed, when ancient authority is less respected as it is discovered less reasonable and worthy, but when men, as ever, seek to know what can be known of the Future Life, a resume of the doctrines of the wise Egyptians cannot be unacceptable. No other race so dwelt upon the life to come. The frontispiece illustrates the hopes of the Nile men. It was taken from the coffin of Aroeri-Ao, a priest of Ammon. The red figure is the dying Egyptian. The heavenly blue one is the resurrected person, with his arms extended toward the representation of Nout, the goddess of celestial space. On each side is the god Kneph-Ra, the sun-spirit, who was the risen and the returning one; consequently, the type of the human soul. Whether the wonderful religion of Egypt was evolved from inner consciousness, or appeared as fragments of a primitively revealed faith, it is not less the fact that the sacerdotal notions of other nations seem mysteriously related to it. In that supposed birthplace of Symbolism many find the genesis of religious ideas. While the Pyramid Age is placed variously from B.C. 2700 to B.C. 4500, it is astonishing to find that, at least, five thousand years ago men trusted an Osiris as the risen Saviour, and confidently hoped to rise, as he arose, from the grave. The writer had no views of his own to propound. He honestly sought to gather the facts of ancient religion. The relation of these to Modern Thought was too obvious to need observations of his own. The necessary condensation of a mass of material within a limited space has occasioned some sacrifice of literary proprieties, for which the indulgence of the critic is requested.
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