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THE SECRET BOOKS OF THE EGYPTIAN GNOSTICS* HANS SONAS* Te discovery, about 1945, at Nag Hamadi in Egypt (the ancient. Chenoboskion), of what was prob- ably the complete sacred library of a Gnostic sect is one of those sensational events in the history of religious-his- torical scholarship that archeology and.
scriptures of Egyptian spirituality, the Hermetica became the secret inspiration for an important undercurrent in Islamic philosophy, and the holy book of unorthodox religious sects such as the Sabaeans.
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Riggs draws upon sociological theories on secrecy as a means of exerting power to show that signaling possession of secrets in ancient Egypt (e.g. in tomb inscriptions) aided the construction of religious and political hierarchies.
A quick perusal of the material covered will soon demonstrate that Egypt deserved its title as mother of magicians, for within the ancient Egyptian practices will be found the forerunners of most techniques used today by practising occultists. From the techniques used for creation of sacred space to
This MA-thesis looks at different kinds of religious knowledge in Ancient Egypt. The first part of the thesis, an analysis of CT spells 154-160, is now partly obsoleted by the more detailed study done by Gyula.
• 14th Century—Used to keep scientific discoveries secret: Treatise on the Astrolabe Geoffrey Chaucer. • 15th Century—The revival in the arts, sciences and scholarship during the Renaissance nurtured the capacity for cryptography, while an explosion in political machinations offered ample motivation for secret communication.
