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by Lewis Spence
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ISBN: 0486443698 Dover Publications Price: $12.95 |
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This outstanding study examines the origin and philosophy of Egyptian rituals, their transplantation to other cultures, and their surviving vestiges. Among the topics covered: funerary rites intended to help equip departed souls for a higher, more exalted spiritual existence; transmigration of the soul; and the rites of rebirth.
Republication of the London, 1929 edition.
Table of Contents for The Mysteries of Egypt: Secret Rites and Traditions
| Preface | |||||||
| Introductory | |||||||
| The Literary Sources | |||||||
| Origin of the Mysteries | |||||||
| The Philosophy of the Mysteries | |||||||
| Mysteries of Other Lands | |||||||
| The Ritual of the Mysteries | |||||||
| The Ritual of Rebirth | |||||||
| Reconstruction of the Mysteries | |||||||
| Illusion and Phantasmagoria in the Mysteries | |||||||
| Temples and Sites of the Mysteries | |||||||
| The Survival of the Mysteries | |||||||
| The Significance of Initiation |