Status Updates From The Natural Genesis

With the Chinese, for example, their symbols can be read in various parts of the empire by words and sounds so entirely different that the speakers who interpret the typology cannot understand each other when they talk.

But the foundation of the image is planetary, or stellar motion, and on this basis of visible things he sought to establish all that was invisible, and build up the human soul backwards, according to the celestial geometry of the Egyptians. Philo complains that the Greeks had brought a mist upon learning which made it impossible to discover the truth.

The utterly misleading way in which Egyptian physics were converted by Plato and his followers into Greek metaphysics, makes Platonism only another name for imposture. Time, says Plato finely, is the moving image of eternity.

Yet it was necessary for the learned to retain a knowledge of the beginnings. This it was that led to the hidden wisdom, the Gnosis, the Kabalah, the inner mysteries. The knowledge was concealed because of its
primitiveness, and not on account of its profundity.

When at least attained, the “one God” of Egypt is as much a result of evolution and survival of the fittest types, as in the case of any other species, ranging through the four series of elemental, stellar, lunar, and solar deities.

The non-evolutionist is still infected with the notion of a primeval monotheism and a lapse into polytheism and idolatry, whereas mythology arose out of typology, and religion was developed from the mythology, not the mythology from religion....

None but the evolutionist is entirely freed from the falsehood of the “Fall” and the hallowed beginning at the wrong end of things, called the “Creation.”

In vain the non-evolutionist, who is likewise a metaphysician, would deal with the problem of the religious origines. None but the evolutionist can go back far enough.

The “Fall in Heaven” was an Egyptian mythos previous to its being turned into a Hebrew history of man in the garden of earth.

We hear of a Pictish language disappearing along with a lost race and only leaving a word or two on the surface.

Professor Huxley has asserted that Iberian (or African) blood remains in Britan even though “all traces of language may have been obliterated

"The method is typological";


[not historical?]

AT times I had to tread
Where not a star was found
(...)
[Yet] I felt the unseen hand.


[Massey's poem]

It was written by an Evolutionist for Evolutionsts, and is intended to trace the Natural Origines and teach the doctrine of development

“THE NATURAL GENESIS” contains the second half of “A BOOK OF THE BEGINNINGS,” and completes the author’s contributions to the new order of thought that has been inaugurated in our own era by the writings of Darwin and Wallace, Spencer and Huxley, Morgan and McLennan, Tylor and Lubbock.

The present writer has been charged with being “sublimely unconscious that words have a history;” but he knew that certain words were also pre-historic, that they are older than languages, and that words, like myths, customs, laws, or beliefs, do not always begin where we may first meet with them.

Explanatory.

During a dozen years the writer has put his whole life into his
labour..