I am trying to distinguish the pre-Mosaic Egyptian teaching from the post-Mosaic, as in the Papyrus of Hunifer and the Papyrus of Ani. Akhenaton and this montheism seems to have occurred before Moses, but after Joseph went into Egypt with the teaching of Abraham of the name "God Most High," given by Melchizadek. The Pyramid texts, with the earliest copy of the Book of Life, contain spells and negative commandments, but lack anything like the transcendent theology attributed t

In Progress. Preface: On Oaths I am not a Mason, nor a professor at a Catholic college, having given priority to the saying of Jesus, ..."do not swear at all" (Matthew 5:34). Hence, we will not bind ourselves by oaths of fidelity, obedience or secrecy. Thomas Jefferson, too was not a Mason, because he would not swear an oath. Madison in his remonstrance gives the reason, too: What we owe to God, we cannot give to men. That said, the Catholics and the Masons were the two group