"The two great religions, Judaism and Christianity represent somewhat divergent defections from the ancient occult heritage emanating from the shades of remote antiquity, but transmitted out of historical darkness into historical day by the ancient Egyptians. There may not be scholarly unanimity on the question of the primeval divine illumination from which came our revered holy scriptures, but th...

ere is a weight of academic opinion that the wisdom emanated from Egypt, or at least that Egypt transmitted it to such nations as Greece and Palestine from some remoter source...it is almost a universal tradition that the flowering of philosophical genius that gave the world the Platonic wisdom in Greece was fostered by contact with the Egyptian culture." -- Alvin Boyd Kuhn, A Rebirth for Christianity, pp. 9-10 (Quest Books, Theosophical Publishing House, Wheaton, IL, Madras, India: 2005)