Page 355 - Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock

Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

It was hard to disagree with sentiments like these: the Texts did
disclose a vanished world. But what intrigued me most about this world
was the possibility that it might have been inhabited not only by primitive
savages (as one would have expected in remote prehistory) but,
paradoxically, by men and women whose minds had been enlightened by
a scientific understanding of the cosmos. The overall picture was
equivocal: there were genuinely primitive elements locked into the
Pyramid Texts alongside the loftier sequences of ideas. Nevertheless,
every time I immersed myself in what Egyptologists call ‘these ancient
spells’, I was impressed by the strange glimpses they seemed to afford of
a high intelligence at work, darting from behind layers of
incomprehension, reporting on experiences that ‘prehistoric man’ should
never have had and expressing notions he should never have been able
to formulate. In short, the effect the Texts achieved through the medium
of hieroglyphs was akin to the effect the Great Pyramid achieved through
the medium of architecture. In both cases the dominant impression was
of anachronism—of advanced technological processes used or described
at a period in human history when there was supposed to have been no
technology at all ...

1944, p. 69.

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