chaosophia218: “Athanasius Kircher - Obeliscus Caesare, “Obeliscus Pamphilius”, 1650. “Obeliscuc Pamphilius” promised a complete restoration of the hieroglyphic doctrine, all the lost secrets of religion and science that ancient Egyptians supposedly...

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Athanasius Kircher - Obeliscus Caesare, “Obeliscus Pamphilius”, 1650.

“Obeliscuc Pamphilius” promised a complete restoration of the hieroglyphic doctrine, all the lost secrets of religion and science that ancient Egyptians supposedly encoded on their monuments. The manuscript gathered almost every hieroglyphic inscription known to Europeans at that time, as well as other ancient artifacts, including mummies, sarcophagi, Canopic jars, sphinxes, idols, lamps, and amulets, found in Rome, other Christian cities, Istanbul, and Egypt. Kircher glossed each object with a learned explanation of its ancient significance. Without a Rosetta Stone, he translated the hieroglyphic inscriptions, character by character, into Latin prose. Kircher interpreted the hieroglyphs by comparing Egyptian inscriptions with evidence from other traditions that supposedly preserved elements of the hieroglyphic doctrine. 

At the dawn of time, Kircher, explained, that Adam, instructed by God and the Angels, and guided by experience acquired during his centuries-spanning life, possessed perfect wisdom, which he passed on to his children. Noah and his sons preserved Antediluvian knowledge from destruction by the Flood, which Kircher placed 1,656 years after the Creation of the world and 2,394 years before the birth of Christ. But Noah’s son Ham polluted the Adamic wisdom with Magic and superstition. Eventually the great Egyptian sage Hermes Trismegistus recovered the pure Antediluvian Wisdom and invented hieroglyphic writing to preserve it for posterity. But later Egyptian priests mixed the Hermetic Wisdom with Magic and superstition, creating, yet again, an ambiguous legacy, which was passed on to other nations.

Oct 14, 2018