The Egyptian Origin of Christianity
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A breakthrough book affecting the scientific, religious and literary communities, The Egyptian Origin of Christianity is a comprehensive look at the history of religion through the Literary Canon. As a culmination of years of research, this book fills the gaps between modern and ancient religious thought, providing us with the most valuable view of the Egyptian religion to date when compared with the The Bible and other classic literature. No other book has explored so well the origins of modern theology. This is done not only in terms of language, but also in terms of education, cosmology, physical symbolism and tradition.
As the first book to, in a scientific sound way, challenge the ecumenical system, The Egyptian Origin of Christianity represents the fulfillment of strategy that calls for a comprehensive shift in the way religion is presently understood.
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"I must admit that your ideas are very interesting, more fascinating [than I had anticipated.] I have read it with great interest. You illustrate your ideas [with] the Egyptian texts. The Egyptian Origin of Christianity can fill 'the scientific hole' in this problem."
Dr. Roman Szmurlo - PhD and Professor of Ancient Theology and Coptic Language at Warsaw University
"Lisa Ann Bargeman's The Egyptian Origin Of Christianity offers an informative, iconoclastic analytical survey of those non-Biblical contributions to the concepts and ecumenical development of Christianity drawn from the Egyptian religious myths and rituals of antiquity. The juxtaposing of texts from the Bible and from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the comparison of similarities between the story of Osiris and the story of Jesus, the observations of cosmology, physical symbolism, and tradition, are all revealed in startling and unexpected ways that will give serious students of both Egyptian and Christian metaphysics a great deal of food for thought and reflection. Lisa Bargeman adheres to a very high standard of scholarship both in her presentation and in her interpretative commentary. The Egyptian Origin Of Christianity is a welcome and much appreciated contribution to Metaphysical Studies."
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Lisa Ann Bargeman
Lisa Ann Bargeman graduated from Ramapo College of New Jersey in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature. She has written several books on World Religion and currently works for a scientific publisher. Ms. Bargeman, who also has a son, Jaye, continues to pursue academics as a consultant.
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The Egyptian Origin of Christianity - Lisa Ann Bargeman
Copyright 2002 Lisa Ann Bargeman. All rights reserved.
Front cover image from The Ancient Egyptian Book oof the Dead, trans. by R.O. Faulkner, ed. by Carol Andrews, copyright 1972, rev. ed. 1985; by permission of the University of Texas Press and The British Museum Press; p. 183.
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CONTENTS
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I: CEREMONY
RITES
TRINITIES
PART II: SACRED LANGUAGE
THE ORIGIN OF THE TEXTS
LEXICON
PERSONIFICATION
MOTIFS
PART III: DISSEMINATION
THE EGYPTIAN MYSTERY SYSTEM
MAAT
PART IV: REDEMPTION
THE JESUS/OSIRIS CONNECTION
THE MARY/ISIS CONNECTION
PART V: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE EIGHTEENTH DYNASTY
AKHENATEN
NEFERTITI
PART VI: CONSEQUENCES
ROLES OF WOMEN
RELIGIOUS CENSORSHIP
PART VII: CATACLYSMS
GENESIS
THE GREAT FLOOD
PART IIX: GENERAL PRACTICES
THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS
ANGELS
THE GATES OF SAINT PETER
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ENDNOTES
DEDICATION
For my Mother, Jaye, and David
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank all of my family and friends who encouraged me to write this book and to pursue my goals. Thank you!
Who can say whether Egyptian mummies may not have had something to do with the Christian concept of resurrection of the flesh
, which belongs neither to the Old Testament religion nor to that of the Greeks…. Other religions, such as those of the Israelites and of the ancient Greeks, teach that God’s power does not extend beyond the limits of this earthly existence: it cannot penetrate the dark realms of Sheol or the gates of Hades. This makes the Egyptian phenomena all the more important and specific…. [Their] sacred act[s]… entitle us to exempt the Egyptians from the charges hurled at them by Old Testament writers for pagan idol worship, which the Israelites themselves often copied…. It is… doubtful whether [Judaism] could gain so much influence as Egypt did upon the nascent Christian religion….ii
INTRODUCTION
Perhaps with the publication of this book it can finally be regarded as fact that Egypt’s influence on modern theology is most strongly perceived through Christian beliefs and practices. I will primarily be focusing here on the direct ceremonial parallels between the modern Roman Catholic Church and ancient Egyptian ceremony. In both systems, there is a great pride in tradition and the detailed specificity with which rituals are carried out. While all forms of Christianity display strong parallels to the rituals of ancient Egypt, perhaps the strongest examples can be seen in Roman Catholicism.
It might be said that it is impossible to compare ancient Egyptian practice with a religion which occurred much later and which on the surface appears to be entirely different. However, the case may be made that, like a staircase, each evolutionary step builds upon the one before it. Literary and historical evidence of the route can be directly traced to ancient Egypt.
Generally around 2250 B.C.E. invaders came through the English Channel "from Libya, by way of Spain, Southern and Northern France, or by way of Spain, Portugal and Brittany….iiii
"At different periods in the second millenium B.C.E., a confederacy of mercantile tribes, called in Egypt ‘the people of the sea,’ were displaced from the Aegean area by invaders from the northeast and southeast; that some of these wandered north, along already established trade routes, and eventually reached Britain and Ireland; and that others wandered west, also along established trade routes, some elements reaching Ireland by way of West Africa and Spain. Still others invaded Syria and Canaan, among them the Philistines, who captured the shrine of Hebron in southern Judea [and took it from] the Edomite clan of Caleb, but the Calebites, …allies of the Israelite tribe of Judah, recovered it about two hundred years later and took over a great part of