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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