Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy:
*The Teachings of the Egyptian Mysteries Reached Other Lands Many Centuries Before It Reached Athens:
According to history, Pythagoras after receiving his training in Egypt, returned to his native
island, Samos, where he established his order for a short time, after
which he migrated to Croton (540 B.C.) in Southern Italy, where his
order grew to enormous proportions, until his final expulsion from that
country. We are also told that Thales (640 B.C.) who had also received
his education in Egypt, and his associates: Anaximander, and Anaximenes,
were natives of Ionia in Asia Minor, which was a stronghold of the
Egyptian Mystery schools, which they carried on. (Sandford's The
Mediterranean World, p. 195–205). Similarly, we are told that Xenophanes
(576 B.C.), Parmenides, Zeno and Melissus were also natives of Ionia
and that they migrated to Elea in Italy and established themselves and
spread the teachings of the Mysteries.
In like manner we are
informed that Heraclitus (530 B.C.), Empedocles, Anaxagoras and
Democritus were also natives of Ionia who were interested in physics.
Hence in tracing the course of the so-called Greek philosophy, we find
that Ionian students after obtaining their education from the Egyptian
priests returned to their native land, while some of them migrated to
different parts of Italy, where they established themselves.
Consequently, history makes it clear that the surrounding neighbours of
Egypt had all become familiar with the teachings of Egyptian Mysteries
many centuries before the Athenians,who in 399 B.C. sentenced Socrates
to death and subsequently caused Plato and Aristotle to flee for their
lives from Athens, because philosophy was something foreign and unknown
to them. For this same reason, we would expect either the Ionians or the
Italians to exert their prior claim to philosophy, since it made
contact with them long before it did with the Athenians, who were always
its greatest enemies, until Alexander's conquest of Egypt, which
provided for Aristotle free access to the Library of Alexandria.
The Ionians and Italians made no attempt to claim the authorship of
philosophy, because they were well aware that the Egyptians were the
true authors. On the other hand, after the death of Aristotle, his
Athenian pupils, without the authority of the state, undertook to
compile a history of philosophy, recognized at that time as the Sophia
or Wisdom of the Egyptians, which had become current and traditional in
the ancient world, which compilation, because it was produced by pupils
who had belonged to Aristotle's school, later history has erroneously
called Greek philosophy, in spite of the fact that the Greeks were its
greatest enemies and persecutors, and had persistently treated it as a
foreign innovation. For this reason, the so-called Greek philosophy is
stolen Egyptian philosophy, which first spread to Ionia, thence to Italy
and thence to Athens. And it must be remembered that at this remote
period of Greek history, i.e., Thales to Aristotle 640 B.C.–322 B.C.,
the Ionians were not Greek citizens, but at first Egyptian subjects and
later Persian subjects.
