Show THE BOOK OF or ABRAHAM abeaham I 1 I 1 I 1 ll 11 t if genull genuineness enesa eness t BY ELDER GEORGE REYNOLDS CHAP V gospel ideas believed in M by the ancients first departures from th tas bue vue maith faith rhe the egyptian worship of adam and and the patriarchs 2 tig tie book of f the oca I 1 dead bea f a it ignot ia not dilli difficult cult for those who believe in the bible as it ia ki written to understand that immediately after the flood there was wag but one form of 0 faith upon theearta the earth and that the true one noah was waa a preacher of righteousness both before ahad abad after the deluge and be cause of their obedience to gods laws he and bis hia family were saved from tho the universal destruction that came upon the wicked but their descendents in an early day began t to 0 depart dopart from the purity of uhe ibe truths that had the fathers and a knowledge of tha the forms of alq iniquity daty that existed amongst the antediluvians was in some manner conveyed to td theland the mand incorporated in their debased new now systems of worship noah and ot others heis battled with but partial success against these growing ies les and abraham was especially called of the lord to usher in a new dispensation we have seen lif in part how he this call we shall now refer to some gospel ideas that for many centuries afterwards w ads were found incorporated amongst the filth and rubbish of Pagani paganism sms some in egypt some in persia some in la chaldea some borne in greebe greece rome borne and other nations brona from this thia almost universal admixture of tho the true and the false it is evident that there was home iome beval source from which the ancient gentile nations drew that which was waa good and true in their thein religions in our into the my of these peoples we find amongst others the following gos goss s pel ideas the belief in the existence of bf one great father God the prophecy of asoh of god in the flesh tiesh A reverence for adam as thel the great greab prince of hib his bis racel race raco in some nations extended to tol hla hia worship as the father of the terrestrial gods the belief in a and in future rewards and punishments the nece noce necessity y of faith in the gods im and dunder binder certain very re circumstances to be hereafter noticed of repentance anor baptism the of washings and anoint ings traditions more ot or less perfect orthe great war in hea bea heaven ven van ahel when his angels were cas cast down upon the earth the belief in good and bad angels ministers of the will of heaven A belief in the eternity of matter and 1 1 the almost universal practice of sacrifice to give strength the above as sections bert eert ions fons we shall now appeal to fi a number of weir well known authors the rev bev mr goodair in his worl wor on ethnic inspiration writes the the principles of mythology enable us ua to discern the true trub order in in which w the various erroneous and developments of human hulban belief arose it proves bothi both that mono theism athe the kno knowledge wedge of the brud tru god preceded the varlo vario various Us foil torl forms liv iii ot 0 poly theis mand and especial especially lythe lytho the worship of the heavenly bodies ano anc that the worship of dead men proceeded other forms of false faise or idolatrous worship and the same facts which show that the worship of dead men was the first step in false religion prove at the same time the joni jori original ginal rinal graft ine lne of this ori orl on the belief of a heavenly crea ear tar and r IV no other than the single case of egypt as explained from its language hieroglyphics and bonu by dax uv sax babuin it would a place the matter beyond all doubt BO so clear and well supported is that that case adam and eve noah and tamer ham mizraim and were all dallied there while the supreme god was incontrovertibly known knowd and the sun was only a symbol and the supposed abode of adam there is reason to believe that the state of things in chaldea and babylon was substantially the kameas bame same as this to this we may append the remark that the egyptians appear to have recognized the partial truth that there be that are called gods goda whether in heaven or br onearth on earth as there be gods many and lords many but were ignorant of the corollary but tous tons their Is isbutt butone bulone one god the father t 1 I cor corvini vill viii v aj 5 6 it must be bd evident from the light thrown on the early history of the world more 4 especially of egypt by the book of abraham that under tho the almost universally existing form of patriarchal government that 49 the fa theirs fathers were not only high arit ats unto god by right of their fatherhood but also the tho kings of the earth by that same a and it basone wab was one of the easiest things in the world for the descendants of these men who ruled by right divine conot to not only reverence them as ministers of heavens will in all ail things teda teta temporal and spiritual but albo also to deify and afterwards worship them indeed in the case of most of these holy patri patriarchs archin archil it was but a very small step in advance of their true position in relation to the sons 1 of nien men for he I 1 called them goda gods unto whom the word of god came esme and the scriptures cannot be broken john x 35 we mr author of the religious of the word in writing of the egyptian ddn mythology he states this most moat ancient mythology as described by authors who lived be before fore the christian era and as set bet forth on the walls of the temples in which its ritual or worship was performed was waa taught to the initiated and concealed from the vulgar that god created all ail things at the first by the primary emana omana tion from himself his first born who author and giver of all knowledge in heaven and on earth being at the same time the tho wisdom and the word hordof of god the birth of this all powerful being tation as an infant his bia nurture and education through all the succeed 4 ing perlo perio periods di childhood of and of boyhood con cop constituted the tho grand mystery of the entire system so convinced were tha the b a priests 0 of o this people of the coming of a son of god that they hd had chambers pre pared in their temples for his nativity V i A another quotation from mr Q 03 born porn wil will we trust make the matt fer far er yf yet clearer to our readers he bay s inthe the fd founders of the nation nabon knew know not only of ham and mizi i raim but of various men and wo wen men with them even of eur our first parents adam and nd eve eyo o t as well weil asor our noah a and nd his wife timer adam adali has bastou thus abeen been handed banded down to us ms as the guide or governor of the sun eve aa as hambar who presided over the abah AS as nuh h who presided ofir over phd nile while ham mizraim no ei e i yeth I 1 the wi ap hami ham and others athers occupied singular 0 oi r sometimes times multiform poa luion ilion san ban ma 4 offices in the egyptian panthel i 1 on t we will now writ ers eke and draw attention to that thag wonderful alie aile aha Ahe ancient lelit egyptian eg kitral alor or book of th dead arld and from its ita show the relation stood in their mythology remind i ing our readers that the abode of the great father of humanity was supposed by them to be the suns sun bun and that the chief seat beat of his hia worship wasat was at the city of the sun the on of thet tho scriptures a daughter ot dt one oi of whose priests was married to joseph 1 joheph the son of jacob our extracts are necessarily brief and simply intended ta td prove the trustworthiness of the thie quotations already made in the fifteenth chapter it is written fifth the a praise of when he sets from the land of life J saith the asir ralrh jill glory 03 dory be to settin setting g fr from om the gate of life nis nia western gate of the horizon amito hall to thee setti setting hig fig from the land of alifas life ilfe somi sovi the goda 11 again agal chap chaij adam is represented assaying saying as cri crl s am arn the great god creat creating irig myself 1 I 1 rani raul am the great phoenix which la Is in on I 1 am the creator of and existences in another place it proclaims glory be to thee 0 sun bun glory be to thee 0 akhom when ilou thou adest down downs perfect crowned and glorious adam is also called othe the old man whose palace is at ons on the T god od alone in the firmament it 9 fa father ther akhom ay righteous akhom 11 and much more probably were we better versed in the mysteries of its hieroglyphics and idioms the translation of this wonderful testimony to the belief of the ancients in the immortality of the soul which this ritual lai is would be yet plainer and more mord instructive As it is much of its imagery is very difficult for modern minds td grasp mizraim 13 identified with chief of 0 the land of the I 1 max mailer Muller says king kin originally meant rather father Rell reil religions gions rions of thew the world oric i ll 11 yau I 1 I 1 the egyptian fon for forgot X the thie namo adam I 1 the deceased f ab tto be continued |