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Notice how an ancient poet contemplated this prophecy:
*A golden progeny from heaven descends,O chaste Lucinda! speed the mother’s pains,
And haste the glorious birth!
...virtue shall restore,
And crimes shall threat the guilty world no more...
The warring nations he in peace shall bind,
And with paternal virtues rule mankind.
And here are the words of another poet of old:
* Hail, great Physician of the world! all hail!
Hail, mighty Infant, who, in years to come,
Shall heal the nations and defraud the tomb!...
Thy daring art shall animate the dead,
And draw the thunder on Thy guilty head;
For Thou shalt die, but from the dark abode
Rise up victorious, and be twice a God!
* The Babylonians and Persians expected a king-redeemer and hero-sage, who would establish a new age of happiness.
* The Chinese also believed that a great wise man would appear.
* The Hindus believed that the supreme God would reveal himself to humans and that ultimately would come a new world.
* The ancient Germans looked forward to the renewal of the present world.
* The Druids of Britain expected the coming of the “Curer of all ills."
* Likewise, in the earliest Egyptian texts are found prophecies proclaiming the coming of this Savior of the human race - prophecies
that were already ancient.
In these Egyptian texts we are brought face to face with prophecies concerning a Messiah who was to come.
It was held that “the teacher awaited since the creation of the world” had not yet been manifested on earth. His coming was to end in his
sacrifice and bring about the regeneration of mankind.
The ancient Egyptian messianic prophecies refer to the Messiah as “The Lord of Death and Resurrection”.
In course of time these prophecies of the Messiah became paganised by the substitution of Osiris (the god of Vegetational Decay and
Regeneration) and other deities.
Osiris then usurped the attributes and functions of the promised Messiah that had been known in earlier Egyptian prophecy.
Only in the late Egyptian literature (from late in the 18th and early in the 19th Dynasty) did Osiris and other gods usurp the functions and
attributes of the Promised One.
That was after religious degeneration had set in well and truly.
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