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The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West

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Alchemy, astrology, and other secret sciences have Egyptian roots, and films, popular fiction, and comic books regularly draw upon Egyptian themes. Rosicrucianism, Mormonism, and Afrocentrism all share Egyptian-derived elements. Modern-day esoteric endeavors find an eternally renewable intellectual reservoir in ancient Egyptian culture, Erik Hornung believes, and are almost unimaginable without Egypt. Even though such persistence assures Egyptosophical ideas an extraordinarily widespread affect, the field of Egyptology has in large part lost sight of this phenomenon.In The Secret Lore of Egypt, Hornung traces the influence of the esoteric image of Egypt, especially as it is manifested by the god Thoth, on European intellectual history since antiquity and finds it reasserted even today in america. From Gnostic writings and Romantic poetry to Freemasonry and the Theosophist movement, Egyptian deities re-emerge in ever-surprising guises. Since precedent days, Egypt has been associated with esoteric practices and beliefs and considered the source of all secret knowledge―an association that, Hornung says, is only loosely connected with historical reality.

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