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The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West
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The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West Hardcover - 2002

by Hornung, Erik

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  • Title The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West
  • Author Hornung, Erik
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Printing
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date January 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0801438470.G
  • ISBN 9780801438479 / 0801438470
  • Weight 2 lbs (0.91 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6.12 x 0.79 in (23.50 x 15.54 x 2.01 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Occultism - Egypt, Occultism - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001004361
  • Dewey Decimal Code 135.4

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Alchemy, astrology, and other secret sciences have Egyptian roots, and films, popular fiction, and comic books frequently draw upon Egyptian themes. Rosicrucianism, Mormonism, and Afrocentrism all share Egyptian-derived elements. Modern-day esoteric endeavors find an endlessly renewable intellectual reservoir in ancient Egyptian culture, Erik Hornung believes, and are almost inconceivable without Egypt. Although such persistence assures Egyptosophical ideas an extraordinarily widespread impact, the field of Egyptology has largely overlooked this phenomenon.In The Secret Lore of Egypt, Hornung traces the influence of the esoteric image of Egypt, especially as it is manifested by the god Thoth, on European intellectual history since antiquity and finds it reasserted even today in the United States. From Gnostic writings and Romantic poetry to Freemasonry and the Theosophist movement, Egyptian deities re-emerge in ever-surprising guises. Since ancient times, Egypt has been associated with esoteric practices and beliefs and regarded as the source of all secret knowledge--an association that, Hornung says, is only loosely connected with historical reality.

About the author

Erik Hornung is Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Basel. Among his many books are Akhenaten and the Religion of Light and The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife, both translated by David Lorton and available from Cornell. Lorton, an Egyptologist, lives in Baltimore, Maryland.