The book Personal Religion in Egypt Before Christianity was written by author Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942 Here you can read free online of Personal Religion in Egypt Before Christianity book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Personal Religion in Egypt Before Christianity a good or bad book?
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The later stages of its divinity and personification, found in the Secret Sermon, Poimandres and Philon, are ignored by Plutarch, who takes a position which was reached some three centuries before his time. Yet he recognised reason or logos as being also a divine attribute, io8 PLUTARCH'S ANALYSIS " for we think that by one common reason (logos) the gods have been ordained " ; he also writes " of the logos that orders all things," and that " we taking with us logos as our mystic guide out of ph...ilosophy, meditate upon each of the things said and done ... for that all must be referred to the logos we may learn from themselves ... for of all man's natural possessions nothing is more godlike than logos, and especially that concerning the gods " (Ixiv, 3 ; Ixvii, 2 ; Ixviii, i, 2, 6). And further, he says : *' And if Osiris is really Logos, I think that the object of our enquiry is found in the case of these animals that are admitted to have common honours with him . . . not even has the crocodile had honour paid it without some show of credible cause, for it alone is tongueless.
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