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But originally, the position of Osiris was not messianic. Osiris was at first no more than an allegorical figurehead, a patron of corn, a
personification of the agricultural seasons. (Stewart The Witness of the Great Pyramid, 1928, pp. 64,65)
Much, much later he became “a god who had been originally a mortal and had risen from the dead.” (E.A. Wallis Budge, The Book of the
Dead.London: British Museum Publications, 1920)
And only then were the added attributes of the Promised One given to him.
Noted archaeologist Professor Budge points out:
"The beliefs which were conceived by the Egyptians in their lowest states of civilization were mingled with those which reveal the
existence of high spiritual conceptions [at first]." (Budge The Gods of the Egyptians,
1969 Vol. I, p.32)
PURER FAITH AT THE BEGINNING
Although modern Hinduism recognises a multitude of gods (possessing different influences on human affairs), yet the Indian sacred books
show that originally it had been far otherwise.
Speaking of the Supreme God (known in their language as Brahm):
* Of Him whose glory is so great, there is no image. (Veda)* [He] illumines all, delights all, whence all proceeded; that by
which they live when born, and that to which all must return. (Veda)* He whom the mind alone can perceive; whose essence eludes the
external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity…. The soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend. (Institutes of
Menu)
In these passages there is a trace of pantheism beginning to emerge, but the very language employed bears testimony to the existence
among the Hindus at one period of a far purer faith.
Brahm (the one infinite and eternal God) is just the original Hebrew Rahm with the ‘b’ prefixed, which is very frequent in Sanscrit
words derived from Hebrew or Chaldee.
The Hebrew Rahm means “the merciful, or compassionate One”. But Rahm also means “the Womb”, or “the Bowels” as the seat of compassion.
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