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We learn the following facts from the above quotations:

(i) The Egyptian Mysteries had become the Ancient World Religion, spreading throughout the
Roman Empire and including Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, and various parts of Europe including
Brittany. This continued under different names, long after Justinian's Edict of toleration granted
to the Christians.

(ii) Egypt was the Holy Land of the ancient world, that pilgrimages were made to that land
because of the marvellous revelations and spiritual blessings which it afforded the ancient
peoples, and because of the universal conviction among the Ancients that Egypt was the land of
the Gods.

(iii) The Edicts of Theodosius in the fourth century A. D, and that of Justinian in the sixth
century A.D. abolished alike not only the Mystery system of Egypt, but also its philosophical
schools, located in Greece and elsewhere, outside Egypt.

(iv) The abolition of the Egyptian Mysteries was to create an opportunity for the adoption of
Christianity. This was the problem: the Roman government felt that Egypt was now conquered in
arms and reduced to her knees, but in order to make the conquest complete, it would be
necessary to abolish the Mysteries which still controlled the religious mind of the ancient world.

(v) There must be a New World Religion to take the place of the Egyptian religion. This New
Religion, which should take the place of the Mysteries, must be equally powerful and universal,
and consequently everything possible must be done in order to promote its interests.

This explains the rapid growth of Christianity following Justinian's Edict of toleration. Since the
Edicts of Theodosius and Justinian abolished both the Mysteries of Egypt and the schools of
Greek philosophy alike, it shows that the nature of the Egyptian Mysteries and Greek philosophy
was identical and that Greek philosophy grew out of the Egyptian Mysteries.

4. How the African Continent gave its culture to the Western World

As mentioned elsewhere, the Egyptian Mysteries and the philosophical schools of Greece were
closed by the edicts of Theodosius in the 4th century A.D. and that of Justinian in the 6th century
A.D. (i.e., 529); and as a consequence, intellectual darkness spread over Christian Europe and the
Graeco-Roman world for ten centuries; during which time, knowledge had disappeared. As
stated elsewhere, the Greeks showed no creative powers, and were unable to improve upon the
knowledge which they had received from the Egyptians (Hist. of Science by Sedgwick and Tyler
p. 141; 153; Zeller's Hist. of Phil. Introduction p. 31).

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