Rosicrucian Beacon Magazine - 2011-03 - AMORC

y Constance Dreyzel, SRC
HE FOLLOWING APPEARED IN
an issue of an old magazine devoted to
archaeology over a century ago in 1893. It is
an observational account by the Rev. J Hunt
Cooke referring to the sarcophagus of the
19 th dynasty pharaoh, Seti I.
“It is covered with inscriptions. These have recently
been deciphered. They give a highly imaginative account of
the supposed journey of the sun through the nether world,
from its setting in the west to its rising in the east. This
appears to be a medium for religious ideas and teachings
in regard to the unseen. There are extant other copies of
the same work, which was in all probability a sacred classic
of that age. Could we apprehend fully the meaning of the
figurative language, it would doubtless be a storehouse of the
spiritual thinking of ancient Egypt. Its significance may be
gathered from the fact that the grand idea of celestial glory
in those days was, or was figured by, a voyage across the sky
The Rosicrucian Beacon -- March 2011
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