Massey - 'Ancient Egypt' -

"The Egyptians had all that ever went to the making of the one god, only they built on foundations that were laid in nature, and did not begin en I'air with an idea of the "sole god" in any abstract way.     Their one god was begotten before he was conceived.     Egypt did not accept the idea.      She evolved and revealed it from the only data in existence, including those of phenomenal spiritualism which supplied the idea of a holy ghost that was divinized in the likeness of the human - the only data, as matter of fact, from which the concept could have ever been evolved; and but for the Egyptians, neither Jews nor Christians would have had a god at all, either as the one, or three, or three-in-one.     There is no beginning anywhere with the concept of a "one god" as male ideationally evolved.      But for thousands of years before the era called Christian the Egyptians had attained the idea, and were trying to express it, of the one god who was the one soul of life, the one self-generating, self-sustaining force, the one mind manifesting in all modes of phenomena; the self-existent one, the almighty one, the eternal one; the pillar of earth, the ark of heaven, the backbone of the universe, the bread of heaven and water of life ; the Ka of the human soul, the way, the truth, the resurrection, and the life everlasting; the one who made all things, but himself was not made.

      But, once more, what is the idea of the one god as a Christian concept?      The one god of the Christians is a father manifesting through one historic son by means of a virgin Jewess.       Whereas the father was the one god of the Egyptians in the cult of Atum-Ra which was extant before the monuments began ten thousand years ago.      Only, the son of the one god in Egypt was not historic nor limited to an individual personality.      It was the divine nature manifesting as the soul of both sexes in humanity.      The one god of the Christians is a trinity of persons consisting of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and these three constituted the one god in the religion which is at least as old as the coffin of Men-Ka-Ra, who is called "Osiris living eternally, king of the double earth, nearly six thousand years ago.

      Finally, in the Egyptian theology Osiris is Neb-U a, the one and only lord.       All previous powers were united in his power.      Where Ra had seventy-two names denoting his attributes, Osiris has over one hundred and fifty.      All that was recognized as beneficent in nature was summarized in Osiris.      All the superhuman powers previously extant were combined and blended in the final form of the all-in-one - the motherhood included.       For in the trinity of Osiris, Horus, and Ra, which three are one, the first person is imaged in the likeness of both sexes.      Osiris as male with female mammae is a figure of the nourisher and source of life, who had been from the beginning when the mother was the "only one".      The one god of the Egyptian theology culminated as the eternal power of evolution, reproduction, transformation, renewal, and rebirth from death to life, on earth in food, and to a life of the soul that is perpetuated in the spirit.      The oneness of the godhead unified from all the goddesses and gods was finally compounded in this supreme one inclusive deity, in whom all others were absorbed - Horus and Sut, as twins of light and darkness; the seven elemental powers, as the seven souls; Nnu, father of the celestial water, as the water of renewal in Osiris ; Seb, the father of food on earth, as the father of divine food or bread of heaven in Amenta.      The mother and father were combined in Ptah as the one parent.      Atum-Horus assumed the form of man, as son of Seb on earth; Osiris-Sekeri that of the mummy in Amenta, as god the ever-Iiving in matter; and Ra, bird-headed, as an image of the holy spirit.      Horus the elder was the manifestor as the eternal child of Isis the virgin mother and his foster-father Seb, the god of earth; and at his second advent in Amenta Horus became the son of the father in heaven as a final character in the Osirian drama.       Taht gave place to Osiris in the moon, Ptah to Osiris in the Tat, Anup to Osiris as the guide of ways at the pole.       It is said in the Hymn to Osiris that "he contains the double ennead of the double land".      He is "the principle of abundance in Annu ; he gives the water of renewal in the Nile, the breath of life in the blessed breezes of the north, the bread of life in the grain. And, lastly, he is the food that never perishes; the god who gives his own body and blood as the sacramental sustenance of souls; the Bull of Eternity who is reincorporated periodically as the calf, or, under the anthropomorphic type, as Horus the ever reincarnating, ever-coming child who rose up from the dead to image an eternal soul.       Such was the god in whom the all at last was unified in oneness and as One.