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The Secret Lore of EgyptErik Hornung

Rosicrucians, Freemasons & Secret Societies

The Secret Lore of Egypt

Its Impact on the West

by Erik Hornung · David Lorton (trans.)

A leading Egyptologist's survey of how Europeans imagined Egypt as a source of hidden wisdom, from Hermes Trismegistus to Freemasonry and modern esotericism. Hornung contrasts this 'esoteric Egypt' with the historical civilisation.

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