Revelations of Egyptian mysteries : history of the Creation, the causes and the progress of the degeneration of nature, the conflagration and manner of the resurrection of the world, as allegorically represented by the Egyptian philosophy: showing the justice of the inculcations of the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men, teaching that salt was fatally hurtful to human nature : with a discourse on the maintenance and acquisition of health, on principles in accordance with the wisdom of the ancients / by Robert Howard.

  • Howard, Robert, approximately 1812-1854.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Revelations of Egyptian mysteries : history of the Creation, the causes and the progress of the degeneration of nature, the conflagration and manner of the resurrection of the world, as allegorically represented by the Egyptian philosophy: showing the justice of the inculcations of the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men, teaching that salt was fatally hurtful to human nature : with a discourse on the maintenance and acquisition of health, on principles in accordance with the wisdom of the ancients / by Robert Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER 1. OF THE LIFE OF HESIOD. The following discourses will consist greatly of explanations of portions of the allegoric writings of the poet Hesiocl; we will, therefore, first take a transient view of the history of that great and good man. We shall find it convenient to make use of Cooke's translation of Hesiod's works, and that of Elton. Cooke has taken much care not, by too great a freedom of speech, to change the original signification, and in this he has evidently been, on the whole, very successful: the original grandeur is also, to a great extent, preserved in the picture, which, by a change of language he has presented to our view; but in some instances the real significa- tion is more clearly set forth by Elton. It is ob- viously impossible for any man to make an ex- cellent translation of a work without understanding the subject of his author. Hesiod was a priest, a native of Boeotia, he is supposed to have lived about one thousand years before the Christian era, and is one of the earliest and most celebrated authors of whom we have any knowledge. He is said to have been the author of many works which have not come down to us; one of which was on medicine, and another on the circle of the earth ; his Theogony, and the Works and Days, are all that now remain. They have been much admired in all succeeding ages, and especially for the high morality of the lessons addressed to his