*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 may have been a million years ago

The Light was kindled in the Old Dark Land
With which the illumined Scrolls are all aglow,
That Egypt gave us 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.
________________

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN TWO VOLUMES

LONDON 1907
NOW REPUBLISHED IN THIS EDITION 2007
WITH ADDITIONAL MATERIAL
BY
THE EDITOR
________________

*PREFATORY*
/I have written other books, but this I look upon as the exceptional
labour which has made my life worth living. Comparatively speaking, 'A
Book of the Beginnings <bbbk0.htm>' (London, 1881) was written in the
dark, 'The Natural Genesis <ngbk0.htm>' (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 the 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 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*
BOOK

PAGES
1 <aebk1.htm> SIGN-LANGUAGE AND MYTHOLOGY AS PRIMITIVE MODES OF
REPRESENTATION 1-45 <aebk1.htm>
2 <aebk2.htm> TOTEMISM, TATTOO AND FETISHISM AS FORMS OF SIGN-LANGUAGE
Fetishism 46-110 <aebk2.htm>
111-119 <aebk2.htm#111>
3 <aebk3.htm> ELEMENTAL AND ANCESTRAL SPIRITS, OR THE GODS AND THE
GLORIFIED 120-185 <aebk3.htm>
4 <aebk4.htm> EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD AND THE MYSTERIES OF AMENTA
186-248 <aebk4.htm>
5 <aebk5.htm> THE SIGN-LANGUAGE OF ASTRONOMICAL MYTHOLOGY Part I
The Primitive African Paradise
Egyptian Wisdom
The Drowning of the Dragon 249-268 <aebk5.htm>
269-286 <aebk5.htm#269>
287-320 <aebk5.htm#287>
6 <aebk6.htm> THE SIGN-LANGUAGE OF ASTRONOMICAL MYTHOLOGY Part II
Horus of the Double Horizon
The Making of Amenta
The Irish Amenta
The Mount of Glory 321-331 <aebk6.htm>
332-343 <aebk6.htm#332>
344-365 <aebk6.htm#344>
366-375 <aebk6.htm#366>
376-397 <aebk6.htm#376>
7 <aebk7.htm> EGYPTIAN WISDOM AND THE HEBREW GENESIS 398-469 <aebk7.htm>
8 <aebk8.htm> THE EGYPTIAN WISDOM IN OTHER JEWISH WRITINGS 470-544
<aebk8.htm>
9 <aebk9.htm> THE ARK, THE DELUGE, AND THE WORLD'S GREAT YEAR 545-628
<aebk9.htm>
10 <aebk10.htm> THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT AND THE DESERT OF AMENTA
The Seed of Ysiraal
The Title of Pharaoh 629-686 <aebk10.htm>
687-689 <aebk10.htm#687>
689 <aebk10.htm#689>
11 <aebk11.htm> EGYPTIAN WISDOM IN THE REVELATION OF JOHN THE DIVINE
690-726 <aebk11.htm>
12 <aebk12.htm> THE JESUS-LEGEND TRACED IN EGYPT FOR TEN THOUSAND YEARS
Child-Horus
The Jesus-Legend in Rome
The Egypto-Gnostic Jesus
Double Horus, or Jesus and the Christ
The Mysteries and Miracles
Jesus in the Mount
Sut and Horus as Historic Characters in the Canonical Gospels
The Group in Bethany
The Founders of the Kingdom
The Last Supper: the Crucifixion and the Resurrection
The Resurrection from Amenta
The Sayings of Jesus 727-737 <aebk12.htm>
738-755 <aebk12.htm#738>
756-770 <aebk12.htm#756>
771-785 <aebk12.htm#771>
786-804 <aebk12.htm#786>
805-818 <aebk12.htm#805>
819-830 <aebk12.htm#819>
831-840 <aebk12.htm#831>
841-852 <aebk12.htm#841>
853-867 <aebk12.htm#853>
868-889 <aebk12.htm#868>
889 <aebk12.htm#889>
890-905 <aebk12.htm#890>
Appendix 907-914 <aeapp.htm#907>
Index [omitted from this edition] 915-944
*LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS*
PAGE
1 <images/apt.jpg> APT, THE FIRST GREAT MOTHER 124 <aebk3.htm#124>
2 <images/krst.jpg> THE MUMMY-BABE 219 <aebk4.htm#219>
3 <images/meshken.jpg> ILLUSTRATIONS FROM A THEBAN TOMB 289
<aebk5.htm#289>
4 <images/hippopotamushaunch.jpg> HIPPOPOTAMUS AND HAUNCH 311
<aebk5.htm#311>
5 <images/shu.jpg> SHU THE KNEELER 315 <aebk5.htm#315>
6 <images/horus.jpg> HORUS STRANGLING SERPENTS 317 <aebk5.htm#317>
7 <images/horusinpisces.jpg> HORUS IN PISCES 343 <aebk6.htm#343>
8 <images/horuspap.jpg> HORUS THE SHOOT OF THE PAPYRUS 450
<aebk7.htm#450>
9 <images/assyriancylinder.jpg> ASSYRIAN CYLINDER 453 <aebk7.htm#4
53>
10 <images/flamingsword.jpg> THE FLAMING SWORD WHICH GUARDED THE TREE
455 <aebk7.htm#455>
11 <images/horuscat.jpg> HORUS BRUISING THE SERPENT'S HEAD 462
<aebk7.htm#462>
12 <images/starmap.jpg> STAR-MAP OF PRECESSION 601 <aebk9.htm#601>
13 <images/landing-place.jpg> THE LANDING-PLACE FOR SPIRITS, WITH THE
TREE OF THE POLE IN THE CONSTELLATION OF THE HIPPOPOTAMUS 603
<aebk9.htm#603>
14 <images/annunciation.jpg> THE ANNUNCIATION, CONCEPTION, BIRTH, AND
ADORATION OF THE MESSIANIC CHILD 757 <aebk12.htm#757>
15 <images/fourfishers.jpg> THE FOUR FISHERS FOR HORUS 806
<aebk12.htm#806>

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