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| | INTRODUCTION | v |
| CHAPTER | | |
| I | THE STORY OF EGYPT | 1 |
| | Origin of the Egyptian Race (3); Beginning of Dynastic History (15); The Dynasties of Ancient Egypt (16); Thothmes of the Eighteenth Dynasty (18); Rameses II of the Nineteenth Dynasty (31). | |
| II | RELIGION OF ANCIENT EGYPT | 87 |
| | Egyptian View of Creation (37); The Gods of Ancient Egypt (40); Egyptian View of Future Life (49); The Worship of Animals of Ancient Egypt (56); The Groups of Gods (64); Gods in Human Form (72); Sun and Sky Gods (84). | |
| III | THE: PTAH-HOTEP AND THE KE'GEMINI: THE OLDEST BOOKS IN THE WORLD | 93 |
| | The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep (the God Ptah is Satisfied) (96); The Instruction of Ke'gemini (Ke'gemini--I Have Found a Soul) (117); The Instruction of Amenche'et (the God Amon is First) (119). | |
| IV | THE "BOOK OF THE DEAD" | 125 |
| | A "Discovery" 8400 Years Old (127); The Three Recensions (131); Selections from the "Book of the Dead" (134); Hymn and Litany to Osiris (136); Of Being Nigh unto Thoth (146); Of Knowing the Soul of the East (152); Transformation into a Lotus (165); p. xviii Of Bringing Charms to Osiris (171); Litany (174); Hymn to Ra (176). | |
| V | HERMES TRISMEGISTUS | 178 |
| | Hermetic Writings (181); The Kore Kosmou or The Virgin of the World (191). | |
| VI | EGYPTIAN MAGIC | 280 |
| | Egyptian Occultism and Symbolism (289). | |
| VII | THE VISION OF HERMES | 263 |
| VIII | THE STORY OF THE BOOK OF THOTH | 279 |
| | OSIRIS KHENTI AMENTI, THE GREAT GOD; THE EYE OF HORUS AND THE GODDESSES ISIS AND NEPHTHYS, | Frontispiece |
| PLATE I | EGYPTIAN TALISMANS Facing page | 244 |
| PLATE II | EGYPTIAN TALISMANS | 248 |
| PLATE III | EGYPTIAN TALISMANS | 252 |
| PLATE IV | EGYPTIAN AND GNOSTIC TALISMANS | 268 |