Table Of ContentT N G
HE ATURAL ENESIS
First published London, Williams and Norgate, 1883.
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THE
NATURAL GENESIS:
OR SECOND PART OF A BOOK OF THE BEGINNINGS,
CONTAINING AN ATTEMPT TO RECOVER AND RECONSTITUTE THE LOST ORIGINES
OF THE MYTHS AND MYSTERIES, TYPES AND SYMBOLS, RELIGION AND LANGUAGE,
WITH EGYPT FOR THE MOUTHPIECE AND AFRICA FOR THE BIRTHPLACE
BY
GERALD MASSEY.
VOLUME II.
Leeds
CELEPHAÏS PRESS.
2008
LONDON:
R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR.
BREAD STREET HILL.
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS.
SECTION IX.
Astronomical Nature of Mythology—Mystery of the Seven Stars—Creation
Commenced with Time-keeping—Finally Perfected by the Sun-God—The
Mother of Beginnings—Her First Birth in Time—Her Various Types—Inner
African Origin of Adam and Eve—Eden the Primary Circle of Creation—
Paradise a Celestial Formation—The Starting-point in Heaven—Origin of the
Aryans—Division of the Earliest Heavens—Birthplace in the North—Mount of
the Pole—Of a Double Heaven—and of the Four Corners—Octagonal Heaven—
Formation of Man—Many Modes—Various Types—Stellar, Lunar, and Solar
Series of Creations—Seven Different Creations Traced in Heaven--
Creation of Man in the Likeness of Zoötypes—Culmination of the Kronian
Creations in the Mythical Nirvana . . . . . . . . . Pages 1—92
SECTION X.
Gods as Intelligencers in Time—The True Gods—Keepers of the Covenant—
Attack of the Evil One on the Time-keepers—The Seven who failed and fell—
Revolt in Heaven—Various Versions of the Fall—Its Physiology—Loss of the
Glory—The Immortal Principle—Inexpiable Sins—Dark Sins against the
Light—Teachers of Pure Tillage—The Descent of Man a reversal—Consequent
Degradation of Matter and the Mother—Several forms of the Fall—Doctrine
of the Gnosis—Christian Doctrine of Degradation—No Fall in Reality—The
Regio Paradisi . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 93—170
SECTION XI.
Assyrian Deluge Legend—The Deluge of Time—End of a Period, not of a World
—Various Modes of Preparing for the Deluge—Lost Atlantis—Kamite Origin
of the Deluge Typology—A War against the Waters—Zodiacal Signs, Egyptian
—Their Relation to the Deluge and Art—Also to the Seasons—First Deluge
and the Seven Giants—Stones of the Deluge—Pyramids and Towers—Atlantis
Celestial not Geological—Escape of the Duad, the Tetrad, the Ogodad from the
Deluge—Various Arks in Heaven and on Earth—The Last of all Zodiacal as
in Revelation . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 171—266
vi SUMMARY OF CONTENTS.
SECTION XII.
Modes of identifying Time by various Seasons, and keeping them as Festivals—
Celebration of Puberty as the First Coming of Age—The Female Time-keeper
—Time Synonymous with No. 5—The Five-day Time, or Negative Period—
No. 6 synonymous with Cessation and Breath—Six-day or Positive Time—
Sabbath of the Sixth day and its Origin—Extended to the Seventh day—A
Phallic Festival—Mysteries of Time and Number—Other Time-reckonings—
The “terrene moon” of 28 days—Changes in the Computation of Time—Time
of the Seven Patriarchs—And of the Ten—Time Extended to the Cycle of
Precession or Great Year of the World—The various Celestial Time-keepers as
Logoi or Words of Announcement—Great Bear first and Solar Christ final—
The Logoi of Pubesence, Female and Male, culminating at last in Charis and
the Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 267—377
SECTION XIII.
Pre-Christian Christology—Persian Revelation—End of the Great Year—Fulfil-
ment of Astronomical Prophecy—Cross-type of the Equinox in the Bull, Ram,
and Fishes—Pyramid of Har-Khuti—“Mystery of the Seven Stars”—The God
AW—Equinox in Pisces—The Fish-Man—Horus as Ichthys, the Christ—The
Birthplace in Heaven—Its Localization on Earth—Egyptian Annunciation,
Conception, Birth, and Adoration of the Babe—Khunsu and the Christ—Child
born in the Cave of the Solstice—Decree of Augustus—Horus-type of the
Christ—Ra-type—The Christ born of Seb or Earth—Iu-em-hept type of Christ
—Two halves of Horus united to form the Christ—Khunsu the expeller of
Demons as Christ—Anup and Horus the twins as John and Jesus—Osiris the
Well of Life—The Twelve in Hades—Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes—
Gnostic Interpretations—Hermetic Sermon on the Mount—Child older than the
Father—Mysteries of the Solar God converted into History—The Karast or
Mummy-Christ—The Mythos worked over twice—The two Dates of the
Crucifixion—The Ass and the Colt, Lunar—John an earlier Messiah—Two
Christs continued in Rome—The Seven Women who fed the Christ identified—
The four Genii of the Mount—The Seven Fishermen—Origin of the four
Gospels—Matthias, the Egyptian Mati—Gosepl of Truth, Egyptian—Types of
Christ in the Catacombs—The Gnostic Link—Jehoshua ben Pandira—Paul the
opponent of the Carnalizers—Why the A-Gnostics conquered—False teaching
and coming end of Equinoctial Christolatry . . . . . Pages 378—503
VOCABULARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
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HE ATURAL ENESIS
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SECTION IX.
NATURAL GENESIS AND TYPOLOGY OF THE MYTHICAL CREATIONS.
THE 149th Chapter ot the Ritual suffices of itself to demonstrate
the astronomical nature of the Egyptian mythology after it had
passed out of the first elementary phase. This chapter, said to be
the most profoundly mystical and absolutely incomperable is the
“Book of instructing the Spirit, the Delight of the Sun, who prevails as
Atum, and is rendered great as Osiris.” “There is not known any
other such, at any time, or anywhere. No men hath spoken it; no eye
hath perceived it; no ear hath heard it; not any other face hath looked
in it to learn it. Do not thou multiply its chapters,1 or do not thou let
any face except thy own see it and eat thy heart, doing it in the midst of
the Hall of Clothes (the Judgement Hall). It is put forth by the God
with all his power. It is a true Secret; when it is known all the
providers in all places supply the dead (Spirit) in Hades; food is given
to his soul on earth; he is made to live for ever; nothing prevails
against him.”2 The contents of this chapter show that the secret of
its revelation, considered to be of such supreme importance in the
eschatological phase, belonged to the Gnosis of the celestial allegory,
the earliest formation of the starry heavens, and a knowledge of the
Seven Cows and the Bull; the Four mystical Eyes; the Four paddles of
the boat of the Sun, which are arranged according to the four corners
or points of the compass. The Seven Cows, or Seven Hathors, are
but a later form of the Water Cow, the seven-fold one of the Great
Bear, first represented by the Hippopoatamus, the old Typhon whose
son Sut, or Sevekh, was the Bull of the Seven Cows, as Sut-Anta
1 Cf. Rev. xxii. 18, 19. 2 Ritual, ch. cxlix.; Birch.
2 THE NATURAL GENESIS.
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before he had been superseded by Taht in the lunar mythos, and
Osiris in the Solar.
When the tail of the Great Bear points to the West at night-fall,
the Chinese say it is Autumn. That is the position of the constel-
lation in the planisphere copied into the previous volume. The Cow-
sign is the type of Hathor, and the Seven Stars in that position are
the Seven Hathors, the fore-tellers of coming events, and therefore
they were connected at this point with the innundation and the future
harvest, which is indicated by the Seven Ears of Corn in the hands
and crown of Hathor-Isis who represents the sign of Virgo. It can
be proved by their names that the Seven Cows are not the supposed
“Seven Pleiads.”2 The Pleiads never were the “Seven Stars” out of
Greece. The Pleiads are Six only, as the Mothers, or Sucklers of Kârti-
kêya in India; Six only as the Hen and Chickens of the planisphere;3
Six only as the “Tau-ono,” or the Six, of the Mangaian Matariki.4
In the Avesta the typical Seven Stars are the female companions
of Sothis (Tistrya), and these are the Stars Hapto-iringa, the Seven
Bears.5
The first one of the Cows is called “Hat-ka-neb-ter,” i.e. the
maternal abode in which the Lord (Osiris) was re-constituted, re-
imaged, or reborn; for the Great Bear constellation, designated the
Car and Coffin of Osiris, was also the Meshken of new birth, the womb
of the genitrix who first gave birth to time in heaven, and the elements
or seasons on earth; next, to the manifestors of time and season,
the Kronotypes, including the solar god; and lastly, to souls in the
psycho-theistic phase of the mythos.
The Seven Cows passed into the Seven Ploughing Oxen of the
Romans, the Septentriones in Cicero’s Aratus, as the Seven of the
Great Bear. The Seven Cows are also the Seven Arushis of the
Veda, which, like the Seven Hathors, are called the Seven Sisters.
“He brought the Seven Sisters, the Arushis,”6 the bright Cows, says
the Vedic poet. These are no indefinite daughters of the Dawn.
The number Seven has no foundation in the phenomena of Dawn.
Moreover, “When the Sun flew up the Arushis refreshed their bodies
in the water.”7 This description applies to the Seven Stars, or Cows,
becoming invisible by day, when they retire once more into the
celstial waters, like other teachers of time in heaven.
The Persians also have the Seven Sisters, who are the Wise
Women considered to be present at birth as fore-tellers of fate, like
the Seven Hathors, or Cows, in Egypt. The Four Paddles and Eyes
are Amset, Hapi, Tuautmuft, and Kabhsenuf, the genii of the four
1 Ritual, ch. xlii.
2 Ernest de Bunsen, for example, is wrong from first to last in assuming that the
“Seven Stars” of mythology are the Pleiades.
3 Plate in previous vol. 4 Gill, Myths, p. 45.
5 Tistar Yasht, 6, 12. 6 Rig-Ved. x. 5, 5.
7 Rig-Veda. x. 8, 3.
