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Sato Cal ‘ ed * he Z !’ ° f eVery ob j fict of nation 
meddled wl ? ff '■ Pe “l sp,nt , s -* or « enii < " hi <* inter- 
masterTnf o h i he affairs ,° f mankind > m "ere alternately 
CabbriX ? I ubse - rvient *° blm - Tl ' e favourite theories of the 
Cabbalists had again no place m the Egyptian theoeonv The 
aub nmty of the god Ha disdained to° co-operate.TLn to 
control such discordant and minor agencies. His glory might 
anoX"/ Wh ‘r a “ 0the !' deit ?’ but k couId not be shared by 
another While it was true the hierarchical laws declared the 
mg o ie an hypostasis of Ra while living and Osiris when 
d ead yet anthropomorphism, so to speak, ^as foreign tothe 
g.w lan sacred books. The actions of the gods of the Classic 
nations Greek or Roman, or even the barbarian Teutonic were in 
their nature as repugnant to them as to us. A Jupiter who was a 
murderer, a whoremonger and a tyrant, a parried and a liar 
who by turns threatened and cajoled; whowas seduced by one 
goddess into injustice, and terrified by another intoindUri 
Wh ° ™ f ° nd (n0t t0 put t0 ° fine a Point on 
tl L h h H tlful b T ; Wh ° l0Ved t0 take the forms of other men 
the better to violate their wives; who was frequently drunk' 
and often revelled in obscene amusements, such an^anthro- 
P f ti? iP ]j 1C dC - ty as that was rev °lting to the purer conceutions 
of the Egyptian theology. Amen Ra, Ra, and Atin Ra stand 
deitv 1W M e rr bl l height . of P urit y as distinct from such a 
\ li 1 ^ ac . 1 keen sai d of the analogy between the Grecian 
a * — w . "iK&sf.sss*. !vsze 
faith were never able, till the Roman period to areu J 
tende “ c J’ or to P r ove that its tenets could be logically 
worked to an obscene conclusion; but, on the other haifd tl ‘ 
ancent mysteries of Cybele inGreeA 0 the B^a 
Campagna and of the Saturnalia in Rome were eLntbdW 
impure. The gross invectives of Juvenal and flip Ati • *• *i 
parodies of Lucian, in the Dialogues of the Dead, were but the 
legitimate outcome of the tenets of their resneet P L; 
ndien witnessed by a mind not wholly denraved • nnrl l 
so-called religious element of the ISS? 5 a wh,le 1 the 
their best productions 
leachng, there is scarcely a sentence* in the whole' of the 
Egyptian mythological or sacred texts which might not be read 
* 806 Lenormant ’ La Ma( J ic chez les ChaUUans, cap. iv. 
