Item #65152 Gerald Massey's Lectures. Gerald MASSEY, Sybil Ferguson.

Gerald Massey's Lectures.

New York, NY: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1974. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large octavo. viii + 290pp. Original rust cloth with gilt decorated spine, gilt titling to spine. First published circa 1900, this is an attractive facsimile edition of this work by Gerald Massey (1828 - 1907). Massey was a self-taught Egyptologist, prolific poet and author who taught himself to read the hieroglyphs at the British Museum. He was particularly interested in the symbolism, myth and religion of ancient Egypt, which he saw reflected in later civilizations. His writings were largely rejected - or at least ignored - by the mainstream Egyptologists and historians of religion, but embraced by many occultists and Masons, including Albert Churchward, with whom Massey collaborated, and Mme. Blavatsky, who cited Massey on numerous occasions in The Secret Doctrine. Most recently Massey was noticed by occultist Kenneth Grant who draws heavily on Massey, and cites him frequently in the first of the Typhonian trilogies. This collection of his essays was originally privately published in 1900, this is the first Weiser edition. Contents: Foreword; Introduction; The Historical (Jewish) Jesus and the Mythical (Egyptian) Christ; Paul as a Gnostic Opponent, not the Apostle of Historic Christianity; The Logia of the Lord; or the Pre-Christian Sayings ascribed to Jesus the Christ; Gnostic and Historic Christianity; The Hebrew and other Creations fundamentally explained; The Devil of Darkness; or Evil in the Light of Evolution; Luniolatry: Ancient and Modern; Man in Search of his Soul, during Fifty Thousand Years, and how he found it; The Seven Souls of Man, and their Culmination in the Christ; and The Coming Religion. Cloth a bit rubbed and with several darkened patches, upper board very lightly warped, corners & spine ends lightly bruised, page edges are darkened and lightly foxed, NYC Weiser bookshop sticker on front pastedown, pages toned, internally clean and unmarked. Overall a tight, clean near VG copy (no dust jacket issue). Item #65152
ISBN: 0877282498

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