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==95:2. EARLY EGYPTIAN RELIGION==     

==95:2. EARLY EGYPTIAN RELIGION==     

95:2.1 The [[original]] [[Melchizedek]] teachings really took their deepest [[root]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Egypt], from where they subsequently spread to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe]. The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION evolutionary religion] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_valley Nile valley] was periodically augmented by the arrival of superior strains of [[Nodite]], [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:2._THE_ADAMITES_IN_THE_SECOND_GARDEN Adamite], and later [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andite] peoples of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphrates_valley Euphrates valley]. From time to time, many of the Egyptian civil administrators were [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:8._THE_SUMERIANS.E2.80.94LAST_OF_THE_ANDITES Sumerians]. As [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_India India] in these days harbored the highest mixture of the world races, so [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_religion Egypt] fostered the most thoroughly blended type of [[religious]] [[philosophy]] to be found on [[Urantia]], and from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_valley Nile valley] it spread to many parts of the world. The [[Jews]] received much of their [[idea]] of the [[creation]] of the world from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_religion Babylonians], but they derived the [[concept]] of [[divine]] [[Providence]] from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_religion Egyptians].

95:2.1 The [[original]] [[Melchizedek]] teachings really took their deepest [[root]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Egypt], from where they subsequently spread to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe]. The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION evolutionary religion] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_valley Nile valley] was periodically augmented by the arrival of superior strains of [[Nodite]], [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:2._THE_ADAMITES_IN_THE_SECOND_GARDEN Adamite], and later [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andite] peoples of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris%E2%80%93Euphrates_river_system Euphrates valley]. From time to time, many of the Egyptian civil administrators were [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:8._THE_SUMERIANS.E2.80.94LAST_OF_THE_ANDITES Sumerians]. As [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_India India] in these days harbored the highest mixture of the world races, so [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_religion Egypt] fostered the most thoroughly blended type of [[religious]] [[philosophy]] to be found on [[Urantia]], and from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_valley Nile valley] it spread to many parts of the world. The [[Jews]] received much of their [[idea]] of the [[creation]] of the world from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_religion Babylonians], but they derived the [[concept]] of [[divine]] [[Providence]] from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_religion Egyptians].

95:2.2 It was [[political]] and [[moral]], rather than [[philosophic]] or [[religious]], [[tendencies]] that rendered [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Egypt] more favorable to the [[Salem]] teaching than [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia]. Each tribal [[leader]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pharaohs Egypt], after fighting his way to the throne, sought to perpetuate his [[dynasty]] by [[proclaiming]] his tribal god the [[original]] [[deity]] and creator of all other gods. In this way the Egyptians [[gradually]] got used to the [[idea]] of a supergod, a steppingstone to the later [[doctrine]] of a [[universal]] [[creator]] [[Deity]]. The [[idea]] of [[monotheism]] wavered back and forth in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_religion Egypt] for many centuries, the [[belief]] in one God always gaining ground but never quite [[dominating]] the evolving [[concepts]] of [[polytheism]].

95:2.2 It was [[political]] and [[moral]], rather than [[philosophic]] or [[religious]], [[tendencies]] that rendered [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Egypt] more favorable to the [[Salem]] teaching than [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia]. Each tribal [[leader]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pharaohs Egypt], after fighting his way to the throne, sought to perpetuate his [[dynasty]] by [[proclaiming]] his tribal god the [[original]] [[deity]] and creator of all other gods. In this way the Egyptians [[gradually]] got used to the [[idea]] of a supergod, a steppingstone to the later [[doctrine]] of a [[universal]] [[creator]] [[Deity]]. The [[idea]] of [[monotheism]] wavered back and forth in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_religion Egypt] for many centuries, the [[belief]] in one God always gaining ground but never quite [[dominating]] the evolving [[concepts]] of [[polytheism]].