Churchward argues that the signs, symbols, and rituals found in the world's religions and in Freemasonry descend from a single original stellar religion developed in ancient Egypt and carried across the globe by its priests. Reading Egyptian texts, monuments, and comparative mythology side by side, he treats familiar emblems as survivals of humanity's earliest spiritual system. The book is a cornerstone of the early twentieth-century "Egyptian origins" school that later African-centered scholarship drew on heavily.
Author: Albert Churchward · Original publisher: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. (London) / E. P. Dutton & Co. (New York), 1910 (2nd edition: George Allen, 1913)
