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The Lost Light:
An Interpretation of Ancient Scriptures
By Alvin Boyd Kuhn
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The Lost Light
AN INTERPRETATION OF ANCIENT SCRIPTURES
Alvin Boyd Kuhn
To
THE MEMORY OF
DR. ROBERT NORWOOD
WHOSE CHARGE TO ME TO WRITE THIS
BOOK WAS AN IMPELLING AND SUS-
TAINING INSPIRATION TO THE
TASK, THIS WORK IS
AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED
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CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
I. TRAGEDY DIES IN LAUGHTER
II. ECCE HOMO-EOCE DEUS
III. TRUTH CRUSHED TO EARTH
IV. WISDOM HIDDEN IN A MYSTERY
V. LOOSING THE SEVEN SEALS
VI. THE DESCENT TO AVERNUS
VII. COLONISTS FROM HEAVEN
IX. ALIVE IN DEATH
X. THE MUMMY IN AMENTA
XI. DISMEMBERMENT AND DISFIGUREMENT
XII. AMBROSIA AND NECTAR
XIII. EARTH, WATER, AIR, FIRE
XIV. FIRE ON HEAVEN’S HEARTH
XV. NOXIOUS FUMES AND LURID FLAMES
XVI. BAPTISM AT THE CROSSING
XVII. THE ARK AND THE DELUGE
XVIII. THE LAKE OF EQUIPOISE
XIX. WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE
XX. SUNS OF INTELLECT
XXI. AT THE EAST OF HEAVEN
XXII. SKYLARK AT HEAVEN’S GATE
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NOTES
INDEX
PROLOGUE
Coming forth in a day when theology has long been discredited--even in its own ecclesiastical
household--and religion itself is threatened with obliteration by rampant forces hostile to it, this
book aims to rehabilitate theology and to stabilize true religion. It must be said at the very outset
and with blunt insistence that it is for religion and not in any way against it. It is written to
establish religion again as the cornerstone of human culture, when civilization has largely turned
away from it to seek elsewhere the guiding light. It is designed to redeem Di