AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY 2780-330 B.C., EXCERPT....

"Before the Bible, before the Koran, long before the Greek philosophers, ancient Egypt had conceived a lucid doctrine of the agency of the Word, 'Logos,' in the establishment of the real. 'In ancient Egypt, the demiurge created the world by pronouncing the names of beings and things. Sovereign speech is enough for the establishment of any reality simply through the pronunciation of its name.' "Hieroglyphics too, comprised a set of special ontological signs. Physical containers of meaning, they marked a level of substantial discourse where words engaged with nature as vehicles of human value in the larger flux of existence. In their translucence, Egyptian hieroglyphics constituted, for eyes trained to see, a complete vision of reality. They were representations, after all, of living beings, essential forms flowing through all things , the better to make their presence palpable. "Plotinus, who was born in Egypt, and lived around 203-270 B.C., was right to consider hieroglyphic writing 'a science, a body of wisdom,' an essential way of being: 'Hieroglyphics, as understood by Plotinus, actually expresses the reality of complete organic ensembles.' The implication is that in doing so , quite without straining , they bring humanity to the edge of perfection ." P.88-89, "The Birth of the World According to the Philosophical Tradition of Memphis ( The Inscription of Shabaka)," AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY : THE PHARAONIC PERIOD, 2780-330 BC (2004) by Dr. Theophile Obenga