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PART 1 - From Egyptian Sources ___________________________________________________ - Jesus said: “The kingdom of heaven is within you.” - Luke 17:21. An ancient Egyptian proverb, long predating the time of Christ, likewise stated: “The kingdom of heaven is within you; and whosoever shall know himself shall find it.” - Ancient Egypt, the Light of the World, Gerald Massey. - Christ talked about the way to destruction being broad, and how the path to eternal life is narrow. Similarly, an Egyptian proverb recorded on stone at Luxor states: “The way of knowledge is narrow.” - “Seek, and ye shall find” is a phrase assigned to Christ in Matthew 7:7. Correspondingly, a Luxor proverb states: “Seek peacefully, you will find.” - In John 14:13 Jesus said: “And I will do whatever you [the disciples] ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.” Christ was further quoted in Matthew 28:20 as saying: “I will be with you always, even unto the end of the world.” These concepts were lifted right out of the Greek-translated Egyptian magical text (PGM I.54), where PGM stands for Papyri Graecae Magicae, which states: “For he [the evoked deity] will respond concisely to whatever you wish. You, then, make him swear with this [specified] oath that he will remain inseparable from you…” - John 14:23, 26 cites Jesus as saying: “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them....But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” Jesus borrowed these general concepts from Egyptian magical texts as well, several of which promise that the petitioned deity: “…will tell you all things clearly and will be a companion, eating with you and sleeping with you.” - “I am the son of God.” - John 10:36. “I am the son.” - PGM IV.535. “I am the son of the living god.” - DMP XX.33 (DMP stands for Demotic Magical Papyrus). - “I am…the one come down from heaven” - John 6:51. “I am the one come down from heaven.” - PGM IV.1018. - “I am…the truth.” - John 14:6. “I am the truth.” - PGM V.148. - “I and the father are one.” - John 10:30. “You [Father] are in me and I in you.” - John 17:21. “I am you [Hermes] and you are me [says the magic practitioner].” - PGM VII.50. “I am your [Hermes’] image.” - PGM VIII.37. - “None knows the son but the father, and none knows the father but the son.” - Matthew 11:27. “I know you, Hermes, and you, me.” - PGM VIII.49. - “No one has seen the father…” - John 6:46. “I am the god whom no one sees.” - PGM XII.230. - “Thy will be done.” - Matthew 6:10. “Thy will be done.” - PGM XII.189. [Cont]