A Book of the Beginnings Vol.1 (Cosimo Classics: Metaphysics)

After enjoying years as a popular journalist and poet intellectual and freethinker Gerald Massey turned his vast studies in the field of Egyptology into A Book of the Beginnings a bold statement that the origin of all civilization lays in ancient Egypt. His assertions radical at the time-indeed almost a century before the discovery of three-million-year-old human remains in Africa-resonate loudly today when molecular biology is making corresponding discoveries alongside the still-raging creation-versus-evolution controversy. In Volume I Massey lays the foundation of the Egypt-centric position through a scholarly comparative analysis of language names and mythology-delving not only into our most basic actions of naming and communicating but also mans beloved universal myths of death awakenings and love. British author GERALD MASSEY (1828-1907) published works of poetry spiritualism Shakespearean criticism and theology but his best-known works are in the realm of Egyptology including The Natural Genesis and Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World.