MASSEY'S LECTURES
NOTES
Notes to Massey's First Lecture
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[38] [Bk. 1. 10. 'To denote an only begotten, or generation, or a father, or the world, or a man, they delineate a SCARABÆUS. And they symbolise by this an only begotten, because the scarabæus is a creature self-produced, being unconceived by a female; for the propagation of it is unique after this manner:—when the male is desirous of procreating, he takes dung of an ox, and shapes it into a spherical form like the world; he then rolls it from the hinder parts from east to west, looking himself towards the east, that he may impart to it the figure of the world, (for that is borne from east to west, while the course of the stars is from west to east): then, having dug a hole, the scarabæus deposits this ball in the earth for the space of twenty-eight days, (for in so many days the moon passes through the twelve signs of the zodiac). By thus remaining under the moon, the race of scarabæi is endued with life; and upon the nine and twentieth day after having opened the ball, it casts it into water, for it is aware that upon that day the conjunction of the moon and sun takes place, as well as the generation of the world. From the ball thus opened in the water, the animals, that is the scarabæi, issue forth. The scarabæus also symbolizes generation, for the reason before mentioned —and a father, because the scarabæus is engendered by a father only—and the world, because in its generation it is fashioned in the form of the world—and a man, because there is no female race among them. Moreover there are three species of scarabæi, the first like a cat, and irradiated, which species they have consecrated to the sun from this similarity: for they say that the male cat changes the shape of the pupils of his eyes according to the course of the sun: for in the morning at the rising of the god, they are dilated, and in the middle of the day become round, and about sunset appear less brilliant: whence, also, the statue of the god in the city of the sun is of the form of a cat. Every scarabæus also has thirty toes, corresponding with the thirty days duration of the month, during which the rising sun [moon?] performs his course. The second species is the two horned and bull formed, which is consecrated to the moon; whence the children of the Egyptians say, that the bull in the heavens is the exaltation of this goddess. The third species is the one horned and Ibis formed, 1 which they regard as consecrated to Hermes [Thoth], in like manner as the bird Ibis.']
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[80] [Alexandra, lines 31 on. See also Jonathan Edwards' Evidence and Facts Concerning Christianity (www.apuritansmind.com) where Edwards uses this same passage by Lycophron as proof of Christ's reality!]
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Notes to Massey's Second Lecture
[94] [Discuss. Elaine Pagels refers to Paul as a Gnostic in her book, The Gnostic Paul: Exegesis of the Pauline Letters, Fortress Press; Philadelphia, 1975, where strangely she takes Massey's stance in that Paul, rather than remonstrating against the Gnostics, like the Valentinians, in his epistles, is demonstrating gnostic biases. I say 'strangely' because she too, like all other scholars, ignores Massey and particularly this lecture of his.]
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Notes to Massey's Third Lecture
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[268] [Most printed copies of this lecture have Massey's misspelling of 'Peiquot'. This has now been silently corrected. Peignot was the well-known bibliographer who, like a good respecting bookworm himself, complained of the pernicious damage the bookworm larvae does to precious volumes in libraries throughout the world. It is now, fortunately, quite extinct. See William Blade's Enemies of Books, London, 1888 (second edition), particularly chapter 6, 'The Bookworm' at www.djmcadam.com/bookworm. I think this is where Massey got his reference from. The entire book can be viewed at www.worldwideschool.org and elsewhere.]
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Notes to Massey's Fourth Lecture
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[285] [Source. Arthur Lillie, Buddhism in Christendom, or Jesus the Essene, London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1887.]
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[298] [John 6:39, 40, and 11:24.]
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[344] [Compare Deut. 30:12-14, with Romans 10:6, 7.]
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[356] [Luke 8:9.]
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[375] [de Civ. Dei, 7, 24.]
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Notes to Massey's Fifth Lecture
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[387] [This statement by Massey forms the cornerstone of his philosophy; it subsumes everything he has written in BB, NG, and AE, and in fact reaches it fulfilment in the latter.]
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[402] [Aesop's Fables, fable 39, 'A
NURSE, who was endeavouring to quiet a froward bawling child, among other
attempts, threatened to throw it out of doors to the Wolf, if it did not leave
off crying. A Wolf, who chanced to be prowling near the door just at that time,
heard the expression, and believing the woman to be in earnest, waited a long
while about the house in expectation of seeing her words made good. But at last
the child, wearied with its own importunities, fell asleep, and the poor Wolf
was forced to return back to the woods empty and supperless. The Fox meeting
him, and surprised to see him going home so thin and disconsolate, asked him
what the matter was, and how he came to speed no better that night ? Ah ! do not
ask me, says he, I was so silly as to believe what the Nurse said, and have been
disappointed.
THE APPLICATION.
All the moralists have agreed to interpret this fable as a caution to us never
to trust a woman. What reasons they could have for giving so rough and uncourtly
a precept, is not easy to be imagined: for however fickle and unstable some
women may be, it is well known there are several who have a greater regard for
truth in what they assert or promise, than most men. There is not room in so
short a compass to express a due concern for the honour of the ladies upon this
occasion, nor to show how much one is disposed to vindicate them : and though
there is nothing bad which can be said of them, but may, with equal justice, be
averred of the other sex; yet one would not venture to give them quite so
absolute a precaution as the old mythologists have affixed to this fable, but
only to advise them to consider well and thoroughly of the matter, before they
trust any man living.' Fables of Aesop and Others, trans., Samuel Croxall,
pp. 91-3.]
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[423] [Confer Fuerst, p. 1166.]
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Footnotes to Massey's Fifth Lecture (continued)
[fn1] [HL p. 136.]
[fn2] [Ibid., p. 435.]
[fn3] [Burton Excerpta Hieroglyphica, p. 34.]
[fn4] [HL p. 138.]
[fn5] [Rit., ch. 17.]
[fn6] [HL p. 267.]
[fn7] [Denkmäler 3, 46 C.]
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[fn9] [HL p. 257.]
[fn10] [Champollion, Gram : 1292.]
[fn11] [Macrobius, Saturn. 121.]
[fn12] [RP 4.95.]
[fn13] [Sayce, p. 233.]
[fn14] [Ibid., pp. 227-9.]
[fn15] [Plutarch.]
[fn16] [Ibid., p. 392.]
[fn17] [Ibid., p. 358.]