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I would like to suggest that students who are interested in tracing the influence of Egyptian
philosophy upon Christian thought, should read this portion of my book together with the first
chapter of St. John's gospel. The problem of permanence and change is also traced in the
Creation story of the Memphite Theology in which eternal matter is represented by chaos, and
change by the gradual formation of order.

(e) The doctrine of Mind or Nous, has been ascribed not only to Anaxagoras, but also to
Democritus who spoke of it as being composed of fire atoms distributed throughout the universe
and Socrates who has been credited with the teleological premise: that whatsoever exists for a
useful purpose is the work of an Intelligence. This doctrine has been traced to the Egyptian
Mystery System, in which the God Osiris was represented by an Open Eye; signifying not only
omniscience, but also omnipotence. All Masonic lodges carry this symbol with the same
meaning today.

(f) The doctrine of the atom has been ascribed to Democritus, who does not define but describes
its properties. It is the basis of life; it is immortal and does not die; and when many of them are
mixed in certain ways the result is a radical change. These properties coincide with the properties
of Atom the Sun God and the Demiurge in creation, who created other Gods from various parts
of himself. He was the basis of life and giver of life. But Atom the Sun God occurs in the
creation story of the Memphite Theology and shows the Egyptian origin of the atom.

4. The system of Pythagoras seems to have been so comprehensive that nearly all subsequent
philosophers have copied ideas from his teachings. Interpreting nature in the form of
mathematics, Pythagoras is credited with teaching the following doctrines:

(a) The properties of Number include opposite elements: odd and even, finite and infinite, and
positive and negative. This principle of opposites was copied by and used in the teachings of
Heracleitus, Parmenides, Democritus, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.

(b) The doctrine of Harmony, defined as the union of opposites. This idea was copied by and
used in the teachings of Heracleitus, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.

(c) Fire (central and peripheral) was taught to be the basis of creation. This doctrine was also
used by and in the teachings of Heracleitus, Anaxagoras, Democritus, Socrates and Plato.

(d) The immortality of the soul and The Summum Bonum. This was taught by Pythagoras in the
form of a transmigration of the soul. It was also taught by Socrates as the purpose of philosophy
through which, the soul feeding upon the truth congenial to its divine nature, was enabled to
escape the wheel of rebirth and to attain the final consummation of unity with God. All the
doctrines of Pythagoras have been shown to originate from the Egyptian Mystery System.

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