THE SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF PRIMORDIAL MAN – THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES FROM THE ESCHATOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS
Book Details + Condition: George Allen and Co. / E.P. Dutton and Co. (London and New York). Second Edition, 1913. Scarce. Hardcover. 491 pages with index at the rear. Original red cloth with gilt title to spine and front cover, gilt device to front board, color fold-out frontis, color fold-out plates, b&w in-text illustrations. A study of the symbolism of ancient cultures, particularly Egypt, which Albert Churchward, (1852-1925), an active Mason, traces in the development of modern Freemasonry. As written in the Introduction: "In writing the explanation of the Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, I have gone back to the foundation of the human as a beginning, and traced these signs from the first Pygmies, and their then meaning, up to the latter-day Christians, and shown the evolution and meaning of the same, back to the Primordial Signs and Symbols and Sign Language, which have never been studied or taken into account either in Freemasonry, the Christian doctrines or the Eschatology of the Egyptians, and without which it is impossible to form a true conception of how these later doctrines came into existence." An overall firm and clean copy, with tight binding; lightly rubbed and bumped corners and edges; light wear to boards, with some scattered discoloration; slight fading to spine; interior is clean and free of markings save owner name and ex-libris on front endpapers.
