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Egypt was the home of the first human civili- 

 zation, of the earliest institutional associ- 

 ation of man, and perchance the breeding- 

 nest of Life itself. Very suggestive from this 

 point of view is that old recumbent statue 

 of the Nile-God still to be seen in a Roman 

 gallery of sculpture, with all sorts of crea- 

 tures crawling over and indeed out of his 

 body, which seems at every point to be 

 sprouting into living things. Ancient Art 

 would appear, accordingly, to have grasped 

 and embodied the divine paternity of Life 

 in old Father Nile, who was also an object 

 of worship in this character to his immediate 

 human children strown along his stream. 



' The conscious man is not only aware of 

 himself but also of his fellow-man as con- 

 scious, and as participating in the All-Self. 

 Thus they have something in common, yea 

 the common universal Self, known to both 

 equally in the very act of consciousness. Here 

 is the primal uniting point for man's asso- 

 ciation in institutions. Undoubtedly the non- 

 human animals, even the insects manifest al- 

 ready an instinctive association for mutual 

 security and co-operation, marvelously fore- 

 showing conscious association, which, how- 

 ever, indicates the passage of a grand nodal 

 epoch. Conscious men first unite in their 

 common All-Self (Pampsychosis) and build 



