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Occultism: The Occult Sciences and the Occult Revival

The Myth of Egypt and Its Hieroglyphs in European Tradition

by Erik Iversen

A classic study by a Danish Egyptologist of how Europeans from antiquity to Champollion misunderstood hieroglyphs as symbolic wisdom. It traces the Horapollo tradition through Renaissance emblematics to Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus and its eventual collapse.

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