A Second Series of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Religion, Agriculture, &c. Derived from a Comparison of the Paintings, Sculptures, and Monuments Still Existing, with the Accounts of Ancient Authors, Volume 1

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Page 319 - ... suscipit Anchises atque ordine singula pandit. 'principio caelum ac terras camposque liquentes lucentemque globum Lunae Titaniaque astra Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per artus mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet.
Page 187 - And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD: and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Page 319 - ... quin et supremo cum lumine vita reliquit, 735 non tamen omne malum miseris nee funditus omnes corporeae excedunt pestes, penitusque necesse est multa diu concreta modis inolescere miris. ergo exercentur poenis, veterumque malorum supplicia expendunt : aliae panduntur inanes 740 suspensae ad ventos ; aliis sub gurgite vasto infectum eluitur scelus, aut exuritur igni...
Page 236 - as the idea of the Spirit of God which moved upon the face of the waters...
Page 42 - It consisted of n share, two handles, and the pole or beam, which last was inserted into the lower end of the stilt, or the base of the handles, and was strengthened by a rope connecting it with the heel. It had no coulter, nor were wheels applied to any Egyptian plough; but it is probable that the ! point was shod with a metal sock either of bronze or iron. It was drawn by two oxen, and the ploughman guided and drove them with a long goad, without the assistance of reins, which are used by the modern...
Page 191 - Water, Spirit, or Air. From the Sidonians, Cronus, Love, Cloudy darkness. From the Phoenicians, Ulomus, Chusorus, The Egg. From the Chaldaean and Persian Oracles of Zoroaster, Fire, Sun, Ether. Fire, Light, Ether. From the later Platonists, Power, Intellect, Father. Power, Intellect, Soul or Spirit. By the ancient Theologists, according to Macrobius, the Sun was invoked in the Mysteries, as Power of Light of Spirit of the world, the world, the world. To which may perhaps be added, from Sanchoniatho,...
Page 152 - On consulting the god at the Oasis of Ammon, it was customary,' says Quintus Curtius, ' for the priests to carry a gilded boat, ornamented with numerous silver paterae hanging from both its sides, behind which followed a train of matrons and virgins singing a certain uncouth hymn, in the manner of their country, with a view to propitiate the deity, and induce him to return a satisfactory answer.
Page 192 - Of these three, intelligence, matter, and Kosmos," he says, " universal nature may be considered to be made up, and there is reason to conclude that the Egyptians were wont to liken this nature to what they called the most beautiful and perfect triangle, the same as Plato himself does in that nuptial diagram he has introduced into his Commonwealth.
Page 190 - The same idea of a Monad, and even of a triple Deity, was admitted by some of the Greeks into their system of philosophy ; and " Amelius," according to Proclus, "says, the Demiurge (or Creator) is triple, and the three Intellects are the three kings — he who exists, he who possesses, he who beholds. And these are different ; therefore the First Intellect exists essentially, as that which exists.
Page 175 - Though the priests were aware of the nature of their gods, and all those who understood the mysteries of the religion looked upon the Divinity as a sole and undivided Being, the people, as I have already observed, not admitted to a participation of those important secrets, were left in perfect ignorance respecting the objects they were taught to adore ; and every one was not only permitted, but encouraged, to believe in the real sanctity of the idol, and the actual existence of the god whose figure...

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