Religion

Historical Reprint : A look at the history and the view of the Ancient Egyptians of the afterlife.

It will soon be: 1500 years since the decision of the Council of 543 A.D.1 condemned to oblivion sublime teachings which ought to have been carefully preserved and handed down to future generations as a beacon amid social reefs; teachings that would have uprooted that frightful egoism which threatens to annihilate the world, and instilled patience into the hearts of such as were being crushed beneath the wheel of the cosmic law, by showing them the scales of Justice inclining to the side filled with their iniquities of bygone times; teachings which would have been welcomed by the masses, and the understanding of which would not have called for any lofty intellectual culture.

In spite of all that has been done in the way of applying scientific principles to religious ideas, there is much that yet remains to be accomplished. Generally speaking science has only dealt with the subject of religion in its more normal and more regularised forms.

Fundamentally the religion of the Indians of California was very similar to that of savage and uncivilized races the world over.

Fundamentally the religion of the Indians of California was very similar to that of savage and uncivilized races the world over.

The first and greatest of religious perplexities, the source of all the rest, arises in the mysterious fact of our existence as individual souls. Our perplexities spring from the very root of life. Why are we here at all?

Facsimile reprint of an 1850 edition of this long forgotten book. No Pages Are Missing. Large Print 14 point font. Physical size 8.5X11