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(iii) The Egyptians were the first to civilize the Greeks

History tells us that the Greeks received the influence of civilization from three sources:
colonizers first from Egypt, colonizers secondly from Phoenicia and colonizers thirdly from
Thrace. It also tells us that these colonies were under the government of wise men who subdued
the ferocity of the ignorant populace, not only by means of civil institutions, but also by the
strong chain of religion and the fear of the Gods. Those colonizers were Cecrops from Egypt,
Cadmus from Phoenicia and Orpheus from Thrace.

ARGUMENT V: The doctrines of Greek philosophers are the doctrines of the Egyptian Mystery
System

The proof of this proposition is really one of the main purposes of this book and hence chapters
five and six have been devoted to this purpose. The Egyptian teachings were expressed in
symbols of various types and therefore their origin can be established by reference to the
particular symbol in question. In these chapters therefore mention has been made not only of the
names of Greek philosophers and the doctrines which have been ascribed to them; but also the
necessary references to the particular types of symbology, in proof of their Egyptian origin.
These have been given in the Summary of Conclusions as follow:

1. The early Ionic philosophers have been credited with the doctrines that (a) all things
originated from water (b) all things originated from the boundless or primitive chaos and (c) all
things originated from air. But these doctrines could not have been those of the Ionic
philosophers; since we find the same ideas expressed in the first chapter of Genesis, where we
are told that at the beginning the world was in a state of chaos, without form and void
(boundless); and how the spirit of God (air) moved upon the waters and separated them from dry
land and earth from sky; and how step by step, living things came out of the waters and how
finally, through the breath of life (air) man came into existence. Genesis is the first book of the
Pentateuch whose date has been placed to the Eighth Century B.C.: a time when the early Ionic
philosophers did not even exist and who therefore could not have been the authors of these
doctrines. Similarly, the authorship of Genesis has been ascribed to Moses, who Philo tells us
was an Egyptian Priest, a Hierogrammat, and learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. But the
age in which Moses lived must be associated with the Exodus of the Israelites which he
conducted in the 21st Egyptian Dynasty: 1100 B.C. in the reign of Bocchoris. But the creation
story of Genesis coincides with the creation story of the Memphite Theology of the Egyptians,
which takes us back to between 4 and 5 thousand B.C. This means that the doctrines of the early
Ionians arose neither at their time (the fifth century B.C.), nor at the time of Pentateuch (the
eighth century B.C.), nor yet at the time of Moses (the eleventh century B.C.), but at the time of
the Memphite Theology (between 4 and 5 thousand B.C.) and therefore definitely point to
Egyptian origin.

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