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CONTENTS.

THE RELIGION OF UPPER EGYPT.

PAGE

The gods created out of visible objects and attributes

2

The goddesses

5

Gods who had been mortals

7

Their families

8

The biography of Osiris

9

His birthplace and burial place

10

Monotheism and polytheism compared

11

Their number increased by division and by union

12

The trinities

14

The animals worshipped

15

Wars about the animals

16

Worship of ancestors

17

Worship of kings

17

Their miraculous birth

18

The sacred tree of life

19

Reasons for this worship

20

The temples described

21

The intercolumnar separation between priest and laity

24

The priesthood

26

The priests' cells

27

The orders of priesthood

28

Their ornaments copied by the Jews

30

Their duties

33

Their ventriloquism, serpent charming, divining

37

Their wives, priestesses

39

Their dress, tonsure, offerings

39

The sacrifice of criminals

41

The pyramids of Memphis and cave tombs of Thebes

42

That of Oimenepthah I.

43

The love for the gods

45

The conquest of the serpent of evil

45

The mummies

47

The four gods of the dead

49

Ceremonies of burial

50

The trial by Osiris

50

The mediators and their atonement

52

Two views of the resurrection

53

The funereal tablets

55

The employments after death

56

Opinions about the future state borrowed by Greeks

57

THE RELIGION OF LOWER EGYPT.

 

The rise of Lower Egypt, its foreign population

59

The pigmy Pthah

60

The Cabeiri, or punishing gods

62

They are worshipped in fear

62

Chiun, the foreign Venus

63

Ranpo or Remphan

64

The Persian Anaita

64

The goddess Neith of Sais

65

The funereal Papyrus or Ritual

66

Bigotry and persecution

68

Egyptian opinions in Palestine, Etruria, Cyprus, Malta, and Sardinia

69

The Theory of the Creation

69

THE RELIGION UNDER THE PERSIAN CONQUERORS.

 

Persian Sun-worship

73

Plato and the School of Heliopolis

74

THE RELIGION UNDER THE PTOLEMIES.

 

The rise of Alexandria

76

The Greek translation of the Bible by the LXX

79

Its peculiarities

80

The Apocryphal Books

81

Philo and the Jewish Monks

83

The Eleusinian mysteries

84

The Alexandrian character

85

THE RELIGION UNDER THE ROMANS.

 

The worship of Serapis

87

The worship of Horus

87

The trinities

88

Horus a Child

89

Isis with Horus in her arms

89

This worship introduced into Rome

90

CHRISTIANITY UNDER THE ROMAN EMPERORS.

 

Christianity in Egypt

92

Its corruption

93

It raises the Egyptians

94

Gnosticism; its sculptured gems

95

Serpent worship

96

Its Æons, the Ogdoad

97

Its Trinity

99

The Book of Revelation

100

Clemens and Origen

101

The Trinity of Dionysius

102

The Docetæ

 

Christians persecuted as political disturbers

103

The rebellions against Rome

103

The worship of Mithra and Manicheism

104

CHRISTIANITY UNDER THE BYZANTINE EMPERORS.

 

The rise of Egyptian opinions and the Arian Controversy

106

The Council of Nicæa and Athanasius

108

The Nicene Creed

109

The Athanasian Creed

109

Temples turned into Churches

111

St. George and the Dragon

112

Italy and the West adopt the Egyptian opinions

113

The monastic institutions

114

St. Ambrose, St. Augustin, St. Jerome

115

Theodosius makes Constantinople take Egyptian opinions

116

Egyptian MSS.; relics

117

 


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