Footnotes
[1]. Shamanism: "A general name applied to the idolatrous religions of a number of barbarous nations. * * These nations generally believe in a supreme being, but to this they add the belief that the government of the world is in the hands of a number of secondary gods, both benevolent and malevolent toward man, and that it is absolutely necessary to propitiate them by magic rites and spells. The general belief respecting another life appears to be that the condition of man will be poorer and more wretched than the present, hence death is regarded with great dread." (Century Dictionary.)
LESSON XIII.
(Scripture Reading Exercise.)
ANCIENT CONCEPTIONS OF GOD.—(Continued.)
ANALYSIS. | REFERENCES. |
V. Belief of the Egyptians: 1. Origin of the Egyptians. 2.Egyptians a Deeply Religious People. 3. Esoteric and Exoteric Religion in Egypt. 4. Significance of Animal Worship by Egyptians. | Book of Abraham (P.G.P.), Ch. i, 16-31. Hist. of Ancient Egypt (Rawlinson 1882), Ch. iii. Book of Abraham, A Divine and Ancient Record (Reynolds), Ch. iv. Notes 1, 2. Hist. Ancient Egypt (Rawlinson), Ch. x. Burder's "Hist. of All Religions," Part vi, pp. 505 et seq. "Story of the World's Worship" (Dobbins), Ch. v. Notes 3, 4, 5. |
SPECIAL TEXT: "And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the Lord and shall perform it." Isaiah xix:21.