A treatise on salt, showing its hurtful effects on the body and mind of man, and on animals ; its tendency to cause consumption, insanity and other diseases : as taught by the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men, and by scripture ; in accordance with the author's experience of many years / by Robert Howard.

  • Howard, Robert, -1854.
Date:
1851
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    within Him. Acts xvii. 27, 28. Are we not the offspring of the earth, living in its atmosphere, which is a part of itself existing in a state of fluidity, and do we not return to the earth after death ? The earth, as we have shown in the Egyptian Mysteries, is organized like an animate creature; as taught by the wisdom of the ancients, and by Scripture, in that man was originally made after its image. Here is the true interpretation of these dark and mysterious passages. I say this is their true signifi- cation ; because I find such explanation of them to be in strict accordance with all the most ancient and best authenticated parts of Scripture, and with all other ancient history; and on consulting nature, with the result of many years experience, I most distinctly see and feel its truth. The same is clearly set forth in the very highly interesting and most important Egyptian allegory or enigma of the Sacri- fice of Prometheus, as interpreted in the above mentioned work : the above identical passages were in this way understood by the ancient Egyptians, and the other great nations of antiquity, as I have shown. Here we see that according to the inculca- tions of Scripture, there is no such thing as creatural spiritual existence distinct from, and unconnected with material substance; that is one of the mis- chievous deceptions of modern times, alike opposed to reason, and to Scripture. This reception of mi- neral matter into the body, is also what is meant in
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