Salt, the forbidden fruit, or food : and the chief cause of diseases of the body and mind of man, and of animals; as taught by the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men, and by scripture ... / by Robert Howard.

  • Howard, Robert, -1854.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Salt, the forbidden fruit, or food : and the chief cause of diseases of the body and mind of man, and of animals; as taught by the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men, and by scripture ... / by Robert Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    world, does nature prepare, and present, a para- dise to the mind. The numbers of books which have lately been published, and are now being published, on sub- jects relating to these matters, is a common source of wonder: all sorts of hypotheses, and conjec- tural doctrines, all tending to lead to a discovery of the wisdom of Egypt, have lately issued from the i^ress. This shows that a widely extensive desire is now prevalent in the mind of man to become possessed of this ancient knowledge. The wisdom of Egypt shows that man has the power of climbing the tree of knowledge, and of arriving at, and gathering its best, and richest fruits, from its topmost branches, and of revelling thereon to satiety. And this is now about to happen amongst ourselves: it is certain that the greatest, and most wonderful knowledge is now about to be revealed to the mind of man, according to the declaration of Scripture, “ there is 7iotking hid which shall not he revealed'’’ Previously to the publication of the Revelations of Egyptian Mysteries, I clearly foresaw* that that book would open a new and inexhaustible mine of literature; that men would speedily confess the truths revealed in it; and that they w^ould prevail generally. Already, since the publication of the above work, many essays have issued from the press, all of which tend to uphold, and to demonstrate the truth of some one of the different features of the wisdom of Egypt, as set forth in that book. There