Horus, or the Astrognostic Final Judgment

XIII

Preface.

...for one nation in these, and for another in those dark shrouds, so that the profane original: Profanen; those considered uninitiated or outside the circle of "learned tribes", who did not belong to their learned tribes, could not find the key to their secret science. Thus it also happened that people eventually mistook the shells for the kernels, the fictions for truths, the shadows for the essence, and the figurative representations of celestial and natural events for divine revelations. They cut up the mantle of truth to make a new one out of it, and they believed they had created a new truth themselves, although it remained hidden unnoticed beneath the fragmented mantle. They turned the mantle inside out: but they still did not recognize the truth wrapped within it. In general, they looked only at the mantle, and not at the truth itself.

Jews, Christians, Turks original: Türken; in this period, the term was frequently used to refer to Muslims in general, and all pagans have, at their core, only a single religion, regardless of how differently their mythologies turn out, and regardless of the fact that they believe they have very different religions. These supposedly different religions have all flowed from the great book of heaven, from the book of nature. They also all unite in celestial and natural events, like many spread-out threads that converge in a common knot.

Regarding the reflection on Jesus and his disciples, there is nothing further to report than that I am ready to publicly recant as soon as I have been thoroughly refuted. But perhaps...