Ancient Churches Lexicon Entry:
Hieroglyphics
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The Ancient Church was spread throughout a large part of the Asiatic world, and also existed in Egypt. However, in Egypt the church’s factual knowledge was more fully developed than elsewhere. Consequently, the people of Egypt surpassed all others in their knowledge of correspondences and representations (AC 9391). This knowledge formed the basis of the Egyptian hieroglyphics (TCR 833). These hieroglyphics were shapes designed to depict various moral virtues and spiritual truths; they were nothing other than correspondences, representatives and significatives (CL 76, SS 20, AC 7097). Hieroglyphics demonstrate that the people of Egypt were acquainted with a large number of the representatives that had belonged to the Ancient Church (AC 6917). The Egyptians used these images of natural things to represent spiritual things in their sacred worship (AC 7926, AC 6692). Those who did not live charitable lives, however, used representatives in an evil way by applying them to magical practices, and so used hieroglyphics to pervert Divine order (AC 6917, AC 6692).
See also:
Communication with the Spiritual World,
Correspondences, Egypt,
Magic, Representatives,
Significatives
Passages relating to Hieroglyphics and the Ancient Churches:
AC 6692; AC 6917; AC 7097; AC 7926; AC 9011; AC 9391; AE 827; AR 503;
CL 76; CL 182; CL 342; Coro 44; DP 255; HD 51; Letters 33; SS 20; SE 6083;
TCR 201; TCR 693; TCR 833; TCR 851; Verbo 7; WHapp 1
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