peculiar manner appropriated to "the People of the I AM": "From thence is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel" (Gen. 49:24); "Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock" (Psalm 80:1); "The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want" (Psalm 23:1); "I am the Good Shepherd"; and similarly in many other passages. If, then, this conception of the Shepherd and the Sheep represents the mental attitude of "Israel", we may reasonably expect it to be precisely opposite to all that is symbolically meant by "Egypt". If "Israel" takes for its Stone of Foundation the principle of Guidance by the Supreme Power, then "Egypt" must base itself on the contrary principle of making its own choice without any guidance --- that is to say, determined self-will. And hence we find it written that "every Shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptian" (Gen. 46:34).

Subconscious Mind

Now it is a very remarkable thing that tradition points to the Great Pyramid as having been erected by a "Shepherd" power which dominated Egypt, not by force of arms, but by a mysterious influence which, although they detested it, the Egyptians found it impossible to resist. These "Shepherds" built the Great Pyramid and then, having accomplished their work, returned to the land from whence they came. So says the tradition. The Pyramid remains to this day, and the researches of modern science show us