Title: Egyptian religion
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: Undated
Whitman Archive ID: duk.00198
Source: Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the marginalia and annotations, see our statement of editorial policy.
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existing in nascence or developement through many thousand years five, or ten, or perhaps even twice ten thousand years
The central idea seems
to have been the
wonderfulness and divinity
of Life,. exemplified
in any object, a The be
beetle, a the bull, athe
snipe were divine in that they exemplified the inexplicable mystery of life.—It was a pro‑
found and exquisite
religion
existing through several thousand years— certainly th two thousand —very likely several more
Central idea, a combination of Love, Intellect, and the Esthetic, (the beautiful and harmonious,)—A rRefined perceptions, the presence of perfect human bodies, the climate, the singular developed peculiar adhesiveness ^or friendship of the people, all are in the Greek mythology
The most ethereal and elevated Spirituality—this seems to be the what subordinates all the rest—The soul—the spirit— rising in vagueness—