IV. EGYPT ... 73

Foundation of Serapis Worship, 73.--The Egyptian Religion Hellenized,

75.--Diffusion in Greece, 79.--Adoption at Rome, 80.--Persecutions,

82.--Adoption Under Caligula, 84.--Its History, 85.--Its Transformation,

86.--Uncertainty in Egyptian Theology, 87.--Insufficiency of Its Ethics,

90.--Power of Its Ritual, 93.--Daily Liturgy, 95.--Festivals, 97.--Doctrine

of Immortality, 99.--The _Refrigerium_, 101.

{iv} V. SYRIA ... 103

The Syrian Goddess, 103.--Importation of New Gods by Syrian Slaves,

105.--Syrian Merchants, 107.--Syrian Soldiers, 112.--Heliogabalus and

Aurelian, 114.--Value of Semitic Paganism, 115.--Animal Worship,

116.--Baals, 118.--Human Sacrifice, 119.--Transformation of the Sacerdotal

Religion, 120.--Purity, 121.--Influence of Babylon, 122.--Eschatology,

125.--THEOLOGY: God is Supreme, 127.--God is Omnipotent, 129.--God is

Eternal and Universal, 130.--Semitic Syncretism, 131.--Solar Henotheism,

133.

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