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II. In the case of the Eleatic philosophers, history regards Zenophanes as a Satirist, not a
philosopher, and Zeno as paradoxical concerning his treatment of the problems of plurality,
space and motion, which ultimately leads to a reduction ad absurdum. Parmenides introduced no
new teaching when he spoke of Being (To on) as that which exists; and Non-Being (To mē on) as
that which does not exist. He only reemphasized the doctrine of opposites as a principle of
nature: a doctrine taught not only by the Pythagoreans, but also the Athenian philosophers,
chiefly Socrates. But the doctrine of opposites owes its origin to the Egyptian Mysteries which
take us back to 4000 B.C. when it was demonstrated not only by double pillars in front of
temples, but also by the pairs of Gods in the Mystery System, representing male and female,
positive and negative principles of nature. It is also clear that the electric Philosophers drew their
teachings from Egyptian sources. (Plato Phaedo; Memphite Theology: Intellectual Adventure of
Primitive Man by Frankfort p. 55; 66–67; 51–60. Plutarch: Isis et Osiris, p. 364C; 355A; 371B;
868, Ancient Egypt: John Kendrick vol. I p. 339).

III. The later Ionic philosophers have been given credit for the following doctrines:

(1) Heraclitus, (a) that the world was produced by fire through a process of transmutation, and
(b) since all things originate from fire, then Fire is the Logos: The Creator.

(2) Anaxagoras (a) the Nous or mind is the source of motion or life in the universe and that
sensation is produced by the stimulation of opposites.

(3) Democritus (a) that atoms under-lie all material things, and (b) that the phenomena of life and
death are merely changes in the mixture of the atoms, so that the atoms never die, because they
are immortal.

These doctrines were by no means produced by the late Ionic philosophers, but could be shown
to have originated from the Egyptian Mystery System. The Egyptians were fire worshippers,
because they believed that fire was the creator of the universe, and built their great pyramids (pyr
= fire) in order to worship the God of Fire, and the pyramid age goes back to something like
3300 B.C., several thousands of years before the Greeks were said to have come into the
Mediterranean area.

According to Jamblichus the Egyptian God Ptah was the God of order and form in creation, an
Intellectual Principle. This God was also recognized as the Divine Artificer who fashioned the
universe out of fire. (Rosellini: mon del sults; John Kendrick's Ancient Egypt vol. I p. 318.).
Furthermore, Swinburne Clymer in his Philosophy of Fire p. 18 has made the following
statement "The study of the Mysteries of Isis and Osiris (Egyptian Goddess and God) quickly
proves to the student that it was a pure Fire Philosophy. Zoroaster carried those mysteries into
Greece, while Orpheus carried them into Thrace.

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