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Ptah EarsThe Menphite Theology is an inscription on a stone, now kept in the British Museum. It contaim the theological, cosmological and philosophical views of the Egyptians. It is dated 700 B. C., and bears the name of an Egyptian Pharaoh who stated that he had copied an inscription of his ancestors.

This statement is verified by language and typical arrangement of the text, and therefore assigns the original date of the Memphite Theology to a very early period of Egyptian history, i.e. the time when the first Dynasties had made their new capital at Memphis: the city of the God Ptah, i.e., between 4000 and 35OO B.C. (Intellectual Adventure of Man by Frankfort, p. 55).

This consists of three supplementary parts, each of which will be treated separately: Part I presents the Gods of Chaos. Part II presents the Gods of Order and arrangement in creation, and Part III presents: the Primate of the Gods, or the God of Gods, through whose (Logos) creation was accomplished. This Stela contain a prayer to the god Ptah, surrounded by ears to help him hear it.

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The Memphite Theology: Is The Basis Of Important Doctrines in Greek Philosophy.

Part One
The Primate of the Gods Ptah, conceived in his heart, everything that exists and by His utterance created them all. He is first to emerge from the primeval waters of Nun in the form of a Primeval Hill. Closely following the Hill, the God Atom also emerges from the waters and sits upon Ptah (The Hill). There remain in the waters four pairs of male and female gods
(the Ogdoad, or unity of Eight-Gods), bearing the following names:-

(1) Nun and Naunet, i.e., the Primeval waters and the counter heaven.
(2) Huh and Hauhet, i.e., the boundless and its opposite.
(3) Kuk and Kauket, i.e., darkness and its opposite.
(4) Amun, i.e., (Amon) and Amaunet, i.e., the hidden and its opposite.
(Egyptian Religion by Frankfort, p. 20; 23. Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man by Frankfort, p. 21).

B. The Philosophy of Part 1:
(1) Ptah has the following attributes; (a) The Primate of the Gods, i.e.. The God of Gods (b) The Logos. Thought and creative utterance and power (Egyptian Religion by Frankfort, p. 23). (c) The God of Order and form (d) The Divinity Artificer and Potter (Fire Philosophy by Swinburne Clymer Jamblichus; Ancient Egypt by John kendrick, Bk. I, p. 318. and 338).

Memphite Theology is the Source of Modern Scientific Knowledge.
The Ennead and the Nebular Hypothesis. The identity between the sun God Atom and the atom of science:

The Ennead and the Nebular Hypothesis coincide. Not is the Memphite Theology the source of Greek Philosophy or primitive science, it is also the basis of modern scientific belief. Nine Gods, in the Godhead called the Ennead, represent the Gods of Order and arrangement in the cosmos.

Atum (Atom), the Sun God, i.e., Fire God created eight other Gods, by naming four pairs of parts his own body, from which they came forth. Here are the names of the Gods created Shu and Tefnut (Air and Moisture), Geb and Nut (Earth and Sky) and two other pairs of opposites, Osiris and Isis, Seth and Nephthys, who are supposed to be the first creatures of this world (Frankfort's Intellectual Adventures of Man, p. 54).
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