Mendes: Difference between revisions

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|description=The name of the ''demon‐goat, ''alleged by the Church of Rome to have been ''worshipped ''by the Templars and other Masons. But this goat was a myth created by the evil fancy of the ''odium theologicum. ''There never was such a creature, nor was its worship known among Templars or their predecessors, the Gnostics. The god of Mendes, or the Greek Mendesius, a name given to Lower Egypt in pre‐Christian days, was the ram‐headed god Ammon, the living and holy spirit of ''Ra'', the life‐giving sun; and this led certain Greek authors into the error of affirming that the Egyptians called the “goat” (or the ''ram''‐ headed god) himself, Mendes. Ammon was for ages the chief deity of Egypt, the supreme god; ''Amoun‐Ra ''the “hidden god”, or ''Amen ''(the concealed) the ''Self''‐''engendered ''who is “his own father and his own son”. Esoterically, he was ''Pan'', the god of nature or nature personified, and probably the cloven foot of Pan the ''goat‐footed'', helped to produce the error of this god being a goat. As Ammon’s shrine was at ''Pa‐bi‐neb‐tat, ''“the dwelling of ''Tat ''or Spirit, Lord of Tat” (''Bindedi ''in the Assyrian inscriptions), the Greeks first corrupted the name into ''Bendes ''and then into ''Mendes ''from “Mendesius”. The “error” served ecclesiastical purposes too well to be made away with, even when recognized {{ctd-source|TG}}.

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