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<blockquote>The Supreme God, Creator and Architect of the world, at length accorded to earth for a season, thy father Osiris and the great Goddess Isis, that they might bring the expected salvation. By them life attained its fulness; savage and bloody wars were ended; they consecrated temples to the Gods their ancestors, and instituted oblations. They gave to mortals law, nourishment, and raiment.<ref>''The Virgin of the World of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus'' (London: George Redway, 1885), pp. 20–21.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>The Supreme God, Creator and Architect of the world, at length accorded to earth for a season, thy father Osiris and the great Goddess Isis, that they might bring the expected salvation. By them life attained its fulness; savage and bloody wars were ended; they consecrated temples to the Gods their ancestors, and instituted oblations. They gave to mortals law, nourishment, and raiment.<ref>''The Virgin of the World of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus'' (London: George Redway, 1885), pp. 20–21.</ref></blockquote> | ||
The story of Isis and Osiris is the story of [[twin | The story of Isis and Osiris is the story of [[twin flame]]s: the [[Father-Mother God]] who come in the person of the [[Manu]]s, who are the lawgivers, sponsors of the root races, sponsors of the great religions of the world, and the sponsors of ordered life and government. | ||
<blockquote>“They shall read,” Hermes said, “my mystic writings, and dividing them into two parts, they shall keep certain of them, and inscribe upon columns and obelisks those which may be useful to man.” Institutors of the first tribunals, they established everywhere the reign of order and justice. With them began the faith of treaties, and the introduction into human life of the religious duty of oaths. They taught the rites of sepulture [burial] towards those who cease to live; they interrogated the horrors of death; they shewed that the spirit from without delights to return into the human body, and that if the way of entry be shut against it, it brings about a failure of life.</blockquote> | <blockquote>“They shall read,” Hermes said, “my mystic writings, and dividing them into two parts, they shall keep certain of them, and inscribe upon columns and obelisks those which may be useful to man.” Institutors of the first tribunals, they established everywhere the reign of order and justice. With them began the faith of treaties, and the introduction into human life of the religious duty of oaths. They taught the rites of sepulture [burial] towards those who cease to live; they interrogated the horrors of death; they shewed that the spirit from without delights to return into the human body, and that if the way of entry be shut against it, it brings about a failure of life.</blockquote> | ||