What Ancient Egypt Can Teach Us

An obscure text has some surprisingly modern answers

Mitch Horowitz
5 min readNov 8, 2017

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Egypt’s Ibis-headed god of intellect, Thoth

“O Egypt, Egypt, there will remain of thy religion only fables.” — Hermetica

Does ancient Egyptian religion hold anything for today’s seeker? (Okay, if you finished that line, you know you’ve left the politics section.)

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China