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( 38 ) originated in the most ancient times. This book claims to be a revelation from Thoth. The oldest monumental evidence of the existence of Thoth is available in the oldest existing Egyptian temple belonging to the reign of Chefren (Shafra), the builder of the second pyramid. He belonged to the Fourth Dynasty and lived Circa 2800 B. C. Thoth is the same as Tet. Tet was son of Menes (Narmer of Petrie and Breasted) who flourished Circa 3350 B. C. This Thoth was later regarded as essentially the god of learning; he was the master of the words of god i. e. the heiroglyphs ; he was the scribe and messenger of the gods; he was the measurer of time and the Mathematician. Hesepti or Hesep is mentioned in several copies of the Book as the author of the two of its most important chapters. Thoth or Tet and Hesepti or Hesep, the plebians, certainly do belong to the first Dynasty and lived also during the times of Menes. The first peaceful colonisers of Egypt under the leadership of Menes, as just later shown, came from Bhārata. Hence it may safely be alluded that the Bhāratīyan immigrants brought the truths contained in the Book with them in the middle of the fourth millennium B. C.?
The most ancient original chapters of the Book contained the fundamental conceptions of the continuance of soul after death. The thought of the future life occupied a very large space in the Egyptian thought. It was felt so real and so substantial that no subsequent thought about future life could match it. This process of birth and rebirth re-iterated until a mystic cycle of years became complete, when finally the good and the blessed attained the crowning joy of union with God. God, a later interpolation, in this context, is a pure spirit, perfect in every respect-allwise, almighty, supremely good. God is not abstract and
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