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... Egypt , and later in India , China , Persia , and in the Andean and Mayan cultures : and they were never surpassed until the megamachine was reconstituted in a new form in our own time . Unfortunately these cultural advances were ...
... Egypt , and later in India , China , Persia , and in the Andean and Mayan cultures : and they were never surpassed until the megamachine was reconstituted in a new form in our own time . Unfortunately these cultural advances were ...
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... Egypt . New York : 1912 . Excellent . A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest . New York : 1905 . See also Hayes and Wilson . The Dawn of Conscience . New York : 1933 . Important interpretation of Egyptian ...
... Egypt . New York : 1912 . Excellent . A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest . New York : 1905 . See also Hayes and Wilson . The Dawn of Conscience . New York : 1933 . Important interpretation of Egyptian ...
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... Egypt , 166 ; crises in , 178 Egyptian kingship , 171 Egyptian magistrate , 193 Egyptian Pharaohs , power of , 182 , 184 Egyptian pyramid , cave- like interior of , 120 Egyptian Sakieh , [ 25 ] Egyptian tombs , endow- ments for , 215 ...
... Egypt , 166 ; crises in , 178 Egyptian kingship , 171 Egyptian magistrate , 193 Egyptian Pharaohs , power of , 182 , 184 Egyptian pyramid , cave- like interior of , 120 Egyptian Sakieh , [ 25 ] Egyptian tombs , endow- ments for , 215 ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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