Anthony,

Avry wrote:
> Hermeticism and
> Gnosticism have definitive roots in AE.

You answered:
>I don't think so....


Hmmm, guess who wrote the following:

It is to Alexandria that we must look for the origin of two great systems of thought, Gnosticism and Hermeticism, in which a modicum of the Ancient Egyptian belief system survived the Middle Ages to re-emerge in the Renaissance. Today it survives in the guise of Masonic thought and New Ageism.

Hint: page XVII in The Oxford Essential Guide to Egyptian Mythology.




Ritva