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I am fully convinced by these references and quotations that an Egyptian Grand Lodge of ancient
mysteries actually existed some five thousand years ago or more, on the banks of the Nile in the
city of Thebes, and that it was the only Grand Lodge of the Ancient World whose ruins have
been found in Egypt, and that it was the governing body which necessarily controlled the ancient
mysteries together with the philosophical Schools and minor Lodges wherever they happened to
have been organized.

C. (iv) The Rebuilding of the Temple of Delphi

The temple of Delphi was burnt down in 548 B.C. and it was King Amasis of Egypt, who rebuilt
it for the brethren, by donating three times as much as was needed, in the sum of one thousand
talents, and 50,000 lbs. of alum. According to information at hand, the temple had organized its
members into an amphictyonic league for protection against political and other forms of
violence; but they were too poor to raise sufficient funds from the membership, and they decided
upon a public contribution from the citizens of Greece.

Accordingly they wandered throughout the land soliciting aid, but failed in their efforts. Having
decided to visit the brethren in Egypt, they approached King Amasis, who as Grand Master,
unhesitatingly offered to rebuild the Temple, and donated more than three times as much as was
needed for the purpose.

Here it would be well to note that: (1) the Greeks regarded the Temple of Delphi as a foreign
institution, hence (2) they were unsympathetic towards it and for the same reason destroyed it by
fire. (3) Clearly, the Temple of Delphi was a branch of the Egyptian Mystery System, projected
in Greece. Sandford's Mediterranean World p. 135; 139. John Kendrick's Ancient Egypt Bk. II.
P. 363.

3. The Abolition of Greek Philosophy together with the Egyptian Mysteries

From the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great, the Greeks, who were always attracted by
the mysterious worship of the Nile-land, began to imitate the Egyptian religion in its entirety;
and during the Roman occupation, the Egyptian religion spread not only to Italy: but throughout
the Roman Empire, including Brittany.

This assimilation of the Egyptian religion was confined to the Gods of the Osirian cycle and the
Graeco-Egyptian Serapis, and aimed at a close imitation of the ancient traditions of the Nile-
land. Owing to the splendor of architecture, the hieroglyphs of the temples, the obelisks and
sphinxes before the shrines, the linen vestments and the shaven heads and faces of the priests, the
endless and obscure ritual, filled the Greeks with awe, and wonderful mysteries were
consequently believed to have underlain these incomprehensible, and the Egyptian religion stood
in the way of the rising Christianity.

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