Masonic, Occult and Esoteric Online Library
Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity
By Samuel Sharpe
Contents
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THE RELIGION OF UPPER EGYPT. |
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The gods created out of visible objects and attributes |
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The goddesses |
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Gods who had been mortals |
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Their families |
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The biography of Osiris |
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His birthplace and burial place |
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Monotheism and polytheism compared |
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Their number increased by division and by union |
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The trinities |
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The animals worshipped |
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Wars about the animals |
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Worship of ancestors |
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Worship of kings |
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Their miraculous birth |
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The sacred tree of life |
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Reasons for this worship |
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The temples described |
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The intercolumnar separation between priest and laity |
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The priesthood |
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The priests' cells |
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The orders of priesthood |
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Their ornaments copied by the Jews |
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Their duties |
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Their ventriloquism, serpent charming, divining |
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Their wives, priestesses |
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Their dress, tonsure, offerings |
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The sacrifice of criminals |
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The pyramids of Memphis and cave tombs of Thebes |
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That of Oimenepthah I. |
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The love for the gods |
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The conquest of the serpent of evil |
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The mummies |
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The four gods of the dead |
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Ceremonies of burial |
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The trial by Osiris |
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The mediators and their atonement |
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Two views of the resurrection |
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The funereal tablets |
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The employments after death |
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Opinions about the future state borrowed by Greeks |
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THE RELIGION OF LOWER EGYPT. |
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The rise of Lower Egypt, its foreign population |
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The pigmy Pthah |
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The Cabeiri, or punishing gods |
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They are worshipped in fear |
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Chiun, the foreign Venus |
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Ranpo or Remphan |
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The Persian Anaita |
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The goddess Neith of Sais |
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The funereal Papyrus or Ritual |
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Bigotry and persecution |
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Egyptian opinions in Palestine, Etruria, Cyprus, Malta, and Sardinia |
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The Theory of the Creation |
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THE RELIGION UNDER THE PERSIAN CONQUERORS. |
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Persian Sun-worship |
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Plato and the School of Heliopolis |
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THE RELIGION UNDER THE PTOLEMIES. |
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The rise of Alexandria |
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The Greek translation of the Bible by the LXX |
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Its peculiarities |
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The Apocryphal Books |
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Philo and the Jewish Monks |
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The Eleusinian mysteries |
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The Alexandrian character |
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THE RELIGION UNDER THE ROMANS. |
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The worship of Serapis |
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The worship of Horus |
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The trinities |
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Horus a Child |
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Isis with Horus in her arms |
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This worship introduced into Rome |
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CHRISTIANITY UNDER THE ROMAN EMPERORS. |
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Christianity in Egypt |
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Its corruption |
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It raises the Egyptians |
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Gnosticism; its sculptured gems |
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Serpent worship |
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Its Æons, the Ogdoad |
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Its Trinity |
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The Book of Revelation |
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Clemens and Origen |
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The Trinity of Dionysius |
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The Docetæ |
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Christians persecuted as political disturbers |
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The rebellions against Rome |
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The worship of Mithra and Manicheism |
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CHRISTIANITY UNDER THE BYZANTINE EMPERORS. |
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The rise of Egyptian opinions and the Arian Controversy |
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The Council of Nicæa and Athanasius |
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The Nicene Creed |
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The Athanasian Creed |
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Temples turned into Churches |
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St. George and the Dragon |
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Italy and the West adopt the Egyptian opinions |
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The monastic institutions |
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St. Ambrose, St. Augustin, St. Jerome |
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Theodosius makes Constantinople take Egyptian opinions |
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Egyptian MSS.; relics |
