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midst of the vast unornamented and uninscribed intended as a model for all generations of sucnot chamber, was ceeding corn and seedsmen, bnt as a sarcophagus for living men, for those Initiates who were there tanght the solemn problems of life and death, and through the instrumentality of that very that second coffer attained to that glorious birth of the Spirit birth so significantly described by the great Hierophant of Nazareth when he answered those who came to inquire of him by night, saying: "Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again .... Mcodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be ? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a Master in Israel and knowest not these things? We might ask the same question of the learned Professors, but the succession of ideas revealing the sublime metaphysics of being, transmitted from God through nature to his first Priests, coffer, in the
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the ancient Priests of the Aryan tribes, from them to the Hinon to the Egyptians, forward through Moses to the Hebrews, the "Masters in Israel/' and chief of them all, to the Essenes, of whom Jesus of Nazareth was the best type these items of pure metaphysics, form no part of the learning of great Edinburgh professors, and so the huge sarcophagus of the mighty Temple of Cheops, in which Initiates were designed to be typically born again of water and of the Spirit, became a corn measurer in the eyes of the great British mathematician! When an angel spoke at the baptism of Jesus, the by-standers said, "it thundered." Such by-standers are not all dead yet. The time was when Egypt, the young untutored child of the desert, was not the Queen of arts and sciences, who sat enthroned over the intellectual world. Then did she become the prey of the spoiler. She was invaded and conquered by the "Pali" Shepherd Kings or "Hyksos," who, according to Manetho, overran the land, put the inhabitants to chains and tributary service, and became for awhile the Rulers of Egypt. What this country was before the advent of these Shepherd Kings we can hardly conjecture, but after their rule, every monument, pyramid, and inscription, bore the stamp of Oriental ideality. It needs not that we particularize the details of these revolutionary changes; we doos,
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