..Says Franz Hartmann, M.D., in his ''The Life of Jehoshua, the Prophet of Nazareth:" "When the truth was driven away from its birthplace in the East by the king of all evils, the love of self, it found refuge dn Egypt. Her indestructible books hold the records of ancient wisdom, and sectarian bigotry has in vain sought to destroy them. With her they will rest safely, until selfishness dies and men wake up to a consciousness of their freedom.

Then will the truth return to them, and they may re-enter the Holy Land of knowledge. '' In vain the powers of darkness have attempted to silence the voice of the truth that speaks through thy stony lips. Sectarian vandals have broken thy tablets and plastered up thy hieroglyphics ; but thy stones cry out and proclaim the gospel of wisdom. Men have carried away thy monuments, and they have become messengers of light from the East to the West.

No more is thy ancient wisdom taught in subterranean eaves to the initiated ; thy secrets have been pro- faned by the profane ; thy sacred pears have been thrown before the swine of superstition and to the dogs of blind scepticism ; but the swine and the dogs turned away from the pearls and devoured only the dirt with which the treasures were covered. Men have robbed thy temples of precious gold, but the gold which they found turned to ashes in the hands of the selfish, because they did not know its true value.

They went to the fountain of truth, to drink of its waters ; but their cups were not purified. They com- municated to the water their own impurities, and it became a poison to them, causing villainous leprosy, which they communicated to others. They penetrated to the ark that contained the mystery, but they had no key to unlock it; so they carried away the ark and exhibited it in the West, but the mystery remained in Egypt,'' "To thee, Egypt, the true Redeemer was known; not as a man-made deity, or as a figure in history, hut as the spirit of truth, constituting all that is immortal in man.

Thy knowledge was too grand to be grasped by the pigmies that invaded thy soil, desecrated thy temples, profaned thy sanctuaries, travestied the truths which were taught end made of a sacred myth, that teaches an eternal truth, as historical falsehood. '..

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