The Mysteries of Osiris: Or Ancient Egyptian Initiation Kindle Edition

The happiest person to know that this is a 5-star book is me. I paid $75 for a used copy. But let me tell you, it is worth every penny. This is an amazing book. Every page has a truth on it.Everything is a parable, but the masses never went beyond images. The symbol became the person. The problem is that the masses have no desire to investigate the inner meaning of the names. As it is often said, to the lesser it isn't given. They prefer to have the few think for them and tell them what to do. The masses rejected what was not easy to comprehend.The seekers of the deeper meaning are the Initiates. Clymer shows the process by which men arrive at spiritual consciousness through knowledge, not mere belief. Who is pagan? One who glorifies God and tries to obey his laws or one who professes but does not obey?All religions started from Egypt. From there, others, like the Greeks, gave new names to the old ideas and deities.Some of the reasons behind current customs are given. Clymer explains where "dog days of summer" originated. He also explained that the greatest increase in the Nile occurred when the sun passed through Leo. So the Egyptians made the lion the emblem of inundation. All effusions of water were thus symbolized. That's why fountains have water passing through the mouths of lions. (We're a very idolatrous people.)It is easy to see that the stories of "heavenly" drama were transformed into the story of actions of human beings, instead of stars and planets. The exoteric became the esoteric. As Hermes put it, "As without, so within; as above, so below.The book starts out in the Introduction stating that the greatest destroyer of life on our planet is the war of creeds, religious wars. It ends by stating that if God is God, he must be the personification of our highest concept of love.Looks like we need to go back to Mystery School.