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(v) The Social Order and Its Protection

The Priests of Egypt were also Lawyers, Judges, officials of government, Business Men and
Sailors and Captains. Hence, they must have been trained in Economics, Civics, Law,
Government, Statistics, census taking, navigation, ship building, military science, the
manufacture of chariots and horse breeding.
If we compare 3A with 3B which immediately follows, we would discover that the curriculum of
the Egyptian Mystery System covered a much wider range of scientific subjects than those of
Aristotle's list, which it includes.

N.B.

Note also that The Seven Liberal Arts: The Quadrivium and Trivium originated from the
Egyptian Mysteries. (The Mechanical Triumphs of the Ancient Egyptians by F. M. Barber). (The
Book of the Foundation of Temples by Moret). (A short history of Mathematics by W. W. R.
Ball). (The Problem of Obelisks by R. Engelbach). (The Great Pyramid Its Divine Message by
D. Davidson). (History of Mathematics by Florian Cajori).

B. Aristotle's list of books, prepared by himself.

(1) Aristotle is said to have prepared a list of books in the following order (B. D. Alexander's
Hist. of Phil. p. 97; Wm. Turner's Hist. of Phil. p. 129).

(i) Theoretic whose purpose was truth, and which included (a) Mathematics (b) Physics and (c)
Theology.

(ii) Practical, whose purpose was usefulness, and which included (a) Ethics (b) Economics (c)
Politics and

(iii) Poetic or Productive, whose purpose was beauty, and which included (a) Poetry (b) Art and
(c ) Rhetoric. An examination and comparison of 3 A. with 3 B. show that (a) The Curriculum of
the Egyptian Mystery System included all the scientific and philosophic subjects credited to the
authorship of Aristotle. (b) The books attributed to Aristotle's authorship cannot be dissociated
from Egyptian origin, as elsewhere referred to, both through the plunder of the Royal Library of
Alexandria and through research carried on at the centre by Aristotle himself. As has been
mentioned elsewhere, the writings of Aristotle are disputed by modern scholarship (Wm.
Turner's Hist. of Phil. p. 127) and I feel more justified in making the comparison between the
curriculum of the Mystery System and the list said to be drawn up by Aristotle himself; rather
than with the notorious list of one thousand books, whose subjects are nevertheless included
under the curriculum of the Egyptian Mystery System. (Zeller's Hist. of Phil. p. 173).

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