After 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. Due to the
splendor of architecture, the hieroglyphs of the temples, the obelisks, the sphinxes before the shrines, the linen vestments, the shaven heads, the faces of the priests and the endless obscure rituals, the Greeks were filled with awe. Wonderful mysteries were consequently believed to have underlain these incomprehensible things; however the Egyptian religion impeded the rise of Christianity.
The success of the Egyptian religion was due no doubt, on the one hand due to its conservatism; while on the other hand due to the shadowy philosophical abstractions which constituted Graeco – Roman religion, so that the staunch faith of the Egyptians, together with their mysterious forms of worship, led to the universal conviction among the Ancients, that Egypt was not only the Holy Land but the Holiest of lands or countries, and that indeed, the Gods dwelt there.
The Nile became a centre for pilgrimages in the ancient world, and the pilgrims who went there and experienced the marvelous revelations and spiritual blessings which it afforded them, returned home with the conviction that the Nile was the home of the most profound religious knowledge.
The Greeks failed to imitate Egyptian conservatism and not only in Egyptian cities, with large Greek population, but in Europe,
Egyptian divinities were corrupted with Greek and Asiatic names and mythologies and reduced to vague pantheistic personalities, so that Isis [Auset] and Osiris [Ausar] had retained very little of their Egyptian origin. Consequently, as they failed to advance Egyptian Philosophy, so they also failed to advance Egyptian religion.
In other words, no religion of today is superior to the Egyptian religion codified by Africans because that religion was the most encompassing of the relationship of self to all else. This knowledge was hidden from the invaders and colonizers who went on to bastardize the principles in the Egyptian religion. That which was hidden is now being revealed.
Paraphrased from, James, George G. M.,
"Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy," The Journal of Pan African Studies, (2009) eBook, pp. 29-30 (originally published in New York by Philosophical Library in 1954).
Though the original people were made in the image of God, foolishness remakes God, moves the Holy Land, gives history a makeover...
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On The Origin Of Things
