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The story of history does not make much sense; but unfortunately throws a cloud of darkness
over the life of Aristotle.

(ii) Another discrepancy is to be found in connection with three lists of books said to belong to
him, but which differ in source, in date and in quantity, (a) His own list which must receive the
date in which he lived: the 4th century B.C. This contains the smallest number of books. (b) A
list from Hermippus of Alexandria two centuries later, i.e., 200 B.C. containing 400 books and
(c) A list from Arabian sources, compiled at Alexandria, three centuries later, i.e., 1st century
A.D. containing a thousand books. One is forced to ask the questions: Did Aristotle write a
thousand books in his life time? How has his small list increased after his death to 400 after the
lapse of two centuries, and to one thousand after the lapse of five centuries? These circumstances
make the authorship of Aristotle very doubtful, for it is incredible that a single individual could
write a thousand books on the various fields of science in a single life time.

2. The doctrines of Aristotle have all been shown to originate from the Egyptian Mystery System

(i) The doctrine of Being in the metaphysical realm has been explained as the relation between
potentiality and actuality, which acts according to the principle of opposites. The Egyptians were
the first scientists to discover the principle of duality in nature and therefore represented it by
male and female Gods and by pairs of pillars in front of their temples. This is the source of this
doctrine.

(ii) In the proof of the existence of God, Aristotle used two doctrines, (a) Teleology, showing
purpose and design in nature as the work of an Intelligence and (b) the Unmoved Mover. Both
doctrines have been traced to the creation story of the Memphite Theology of the Egyptians
where it is shown that creation moved from chaos to order and indicated the work of an
Intelligence; and also where Atom the Demiurge and Logos while sitting unmoved upon the
Primeval Hill projected eight Gods from various parts of His body and thus became the
Unmoved Mover.

(iii) The doctrine of the origin of the world, according to Aristotle, states that the world is eternal
because matter, motion and time are eternal. This same view was expressed by Democritus in
400 B.C. in the dictum ex nihillo nihil fit (out of nothing, nothing comes), indicating that matter
is permanent and eternal. The same view has been traced to the creation story of the Memphite
Theology of the Egyptians in which chaos or primitive matter is represented by the Primeval
Ocean Nun out of which arose the Primeval Hill. These are supposed to have always been in
existence.

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