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During the Persian, Greek and Roman invasions, large numbers of Egyptians fled not only to the
desert and mountain regions, but also to adjacent lands in Africa, Arabia and Asia Minor, where
they lived, and secretly developed the teachings which belonged to their mystery system. In the
8th century A.D. the Moors, i.e., natives of Mauritania in North Africa, invaded Spain and took
with them, the Egyptian culture which they had preserved. Knowledge in the ancient days was
centralized i.e., it belonged to a common parent and system, i.e., the Wisdom Teaching or
Mysteries of Egypt, which the Greeks used to call Sophia.

As such, the people of North Africa were the neighbors of the Egyptians, and became the
custodians of Egyptian culture, which they spread through considerable portions of Africa, Asia
Minor and Europe. During their occupation of Spain, the Moors displayed with considerable
credit, the grandeur of African culture and civilization. The schools and libraries which they
established became famous throughout the Mediaeval world; Science and learning were
cultivated and taught; the schools of Cordova, Toledo, Seville and Saragossa attained such
celebrity, that they, like their parent Egypt, attracted students from all parts of the Western
world; and from them arose the most famous African professors that the world has ever known,
in medicine, surgery, astronomy and mathematics. But these people from North Africa did more
than merely distinguish themselves in Spain. They were really the recognized custodians of
African culture, to whom the world looked for enlightenment. Consequently, through the
medium of the ancient Arabic language, philosophy and the various branches of science were
disseminated: (a) all the so-called works of Aristotle in metaphysics, moral philosophy and
natural science (b) translations by Leonardo Pisano in Arabic mathematical science (c)
translation by Gideo a Monk of Arezzo in musical notation. (Sedgwick and Tyler's Hist. of
Science C. IX.)

In addition, the Moors kept up constant contact with mother Egypt: for they had established
Caliphates not only at Baghdad and Cordova, but also at Cairo in Egypt. (Europe in the Middle
Ages by Ault p. 216–219). Just here it would be well to mention that all the great leaders of the
great religions of antiquity were Initiates of the Egyptian Mystery System: from Moses, who was
an Egyptian Hierogrammat, down to Christ.

It should also be of interest to know that European scientists like Roger Bacon, Johann Kepler,
Copernicus and others obtained their science through Arab or Berber sources. It is also
noteworthy that throughout the Middle Ages, European knowledge of medicine came from these
same sources. (History of The Arabs, by Hitti pages 370, 629, 665 and 572). (Philo; Esoteric
Christianity by Annie Besant p. 107; 128–129; Ancient Mysteries by C. H. Vail p. 59; 61; 74–75;
109).

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Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy by George G. M. James
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