If you want to get into that harmony-of-nature/design idea (how "New Age" of you) which is that ancient natural revelation of the human mind, you had better get off your rocking chair & look to the source---->Egyptians. If you want to get into the aspects of human love, adoration, poetry,virtues, respect, honor, ethics, morality, harmonious heavens with that clear aspect of hell & destruction, you go to them as well. Then you can add Metaphysics, Mathematics, Grammar, Arithmetic, Rhetoric and Dialectic, Geometry, Astronomy, Music, Architecture, Masonry, Carpentry, Engineering, Sculpture, Metallurgy, Agriculture, Mining, Forestry, Art and Magic. to round off the entire exercise.
European/Hebrews were by no means the pioneer of human civilization or discoverers of any original revelations. Half of man's recorded history had passed before anyone in Europe could read or write. The priests of Egypt began to keep written records between 4000 and 3000 B.C., but more than two thousand years later we find the poems of Homer still being circulated in the Greek city-states by word of mouth. Shortly after 3000 B.C., while the pharaohs were building the first pyramids, Europeans were creating nothing more distinguished than huge garbage heaps. |
