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Religion, Magic & the Occult, including Secret Societies
 

(Author?).  2003.  Egyptomania.  Freemasonry Today 23 (Winter):??-??.

Balch, David L.  2003.  The suffering of Isis and Paul's portrait of Christ crucified (Ga. 3:1): frescoes in Pompeian and Roman houses and in the Temple of Isis in Pompeii. Journal of Religion 81.1:24-56. Comparison of Pauline Christology and the Roman cult of Isis.

Bernand, André. 1994. Les sorciers égyptologues. In: Hommages à Jean Leclant. Volume. Volume 3: Études isiaques.  Ed. Catherine Berger, Gisèle Clerc; Nicolas Grimal. Le Caire: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1994 = Bibliothèque d'étude, 106/3: 33-40. Egypt as the source of magic, according to the ancient Greeks.

Castelli, Patrizia. 1991. I geroglifici e la Controriforma. In: L'Egitto fuori dell'Egitto. Dalla riscoperta all'Egittologia. Ed. Cristiana Morigi Govi, Silvio Curto, Sergio Pernigotti [Atti del Convegno Internazionale Bologna 26-29 marzo 1990], Bologna, Editrice CLUEB [Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice]: 55-68.

Fodor, Sándor. 1992. Traces of the Isis Cult in an Arabic Love Spell from Egypt. In: The Intellectual Heritage of Egypt. Studies presented to László Kákosy by Friends and Colleagues on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday. Ed. Ulrich Luft.  Budapest: Studia Aegyptiaca, 14: 171-186.

Freud, Sigmund. 1939. Moses and Monotheism. Translated by Katherine Jones. ??:??. The Egyptian origin of monotheism.

Galtier, Gérard.  1989.  Maçonnerie Egyptienne, Rose-Croix et Néo-Chevalerie.  Paris: Editions du Rocher. The history of certain Western occult movements of the 18th through 20th centuries (Freemasonry, Rosicrucians, etc.), which considered Egypt as the ultimate source of their own traditions. 

Gillman, Susan. 1996. Pauline Hopkins and the occult: African-American revisions of nineteenth-century sciences. American Literary History 8:47-82.

Görg, Manfred. 1995. Bythos und Nun: Zur ägyptischen Basis einer altchristlich-gnostischen Gottesidee. In: Meilenstein. Festgabe für Herbert Donner zum 16. Februar 1995.  Ed. Manfred Weippert, Stefan Timm. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz Verlag in Kommission = Ägypten und Altes Testament. Studien zu Geschichte, Kultur und Religion Ägyptens und des Alten Testaments, 30: 52-59.

Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.   1960.  Masonic Temple, Philadelphia. A history of the Masonic temple at Broad and Filbert Streets, Philadelphia, including a chapter on the Egyptian Hall. 

Griffiths, J. Gwyn. 1994. Divine judgement in the Hermetic writings. In: The Unbroken Reed. Studies in the Culture and Heritage of Ancient Egypt in Honour of A.F. Shore. Ed. Christopher Eyre, Anthony Leahy, Lisa Montagno Leahy. London: The Egypt Exploration Society = Occasional Publications, 11:125-137.

Griffiths, John Gwyn. 1994. Possible Egyptian elements in Tractate XIII of the Corpus Hermeticum. In: Aspekte spätägyptischer Kultur. Festschrift für Erich Winter zum 65. Geburtstag. Ed. Martina Minas, Jürgen Zeidler. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern  = Aegyptiaca Treverensia. Trierer Studien zum Griechisch-Römischen Ägypten 7: 97-102.

Hornung, E. 1982. The rediscovery of Akhenaten and his place in religion. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 29: 43-49.

Kákosy, Lászlo. Hermes and Egypt. In: Studies in Pharaonic Religion and Society in honour of J. Gwyn Griffiths. Ed. Alan B. Lloyd. London: Egypt Exploration Society: 258-261.

Larson, John A. 1993. Joseph Smith and Egyptology: an early episode in the history of American speculation about ancient Egypt, 1835-1844. In: For His Ka. Essays Offered in Memory of Klaus Baer. Ed. David P. Silverman. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago = Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, 55:159-178. (fig.). The history of the Joseph Smith Papyri, owned by the Mormon prophet.

Merkelbach, Reinhold. 1993. Astrologie, Mechanik, Alchimie und Magie im griechisch-römischen Ägypten. In: Begegnung von Heidentum und Christentum im spätantiken Ägypten. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung (= Riggisberger Berichte 1): 49-62.

Meltzer, Edmund S.  2000.  Reflections on Egypt and alchemy. Discussions in Egyptology 46: 23-24.

Rudolph, Kurt. 1995. Zweierlei Jenseitsreisen: Die altägyptische Nachtfahrt der Sonne und die gnostisch-mandäische Himmelsreise der Seele. In: Divitiae Aegypti. Koptologische und verwandte Studien zu Ehren von Martin Krause. Ed. Cäcilia Fluck, Lucia Langener, Siegfried Richter, Sofia Schaten, Gregor Wurst. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag:  271-278.

Scholz, Piotr O. 1993. Die Kontinuität des Altägyptischen in der Ikonizität und Theologie des Orientalischen Christentums. In: Atti sesto Congresso Internazionale di Egittologia. Volume II. Torino: Comitato Organizzativo del Congresso:  471-477.

Washington, P. 1993. Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: Theosophy and the emergence of the Western guru. London: Secker & Warburg.


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