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Preface

Epitome of the Development

Contents

Chronology

Lecture I. The Origins: Nature and the State in their Impression on Religion—Earliest Systems

Lecture II. Life After Death—The Sojourn in the Tomb—Death Makes its Impression on Religion

Lecture III. The Realms of the Dead—The Pyramid Texts—The Ascent to the Sky

Lecture IV. Realms of the Dead—The Earliest Celestial Hereafter

Lecture V. The Osirianization of the Hereafter

Lecture VI. The Emergence of the Moral Sense—Moral Worthiness and the Hereafter—Scepticism and the Problem of Suffering

Lecture VII. The Social Forces make their Impression on Religion—The Rise of Social Reformers—The Earliest Social Regeneration

Lecture VIII. Popularization of the Old Royal Hereafter—Triumph of Osiris—Conscience and the Book of the Dead—Magic and Morals

Lecture IX. The Imperial Age—The World-State Makes its Impression on Religion—Triumph of Re—Earliest Monotheism—Ikhnaton (Amenhotep IV)

Lecture X. The Age of Personal Piety—Sacerdotalism and Final Decadence

Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt

by James Henry Breasted