The Creation of the Universe according to the Bible, Kabbalah, Ancient Egyptians, Gnostics, and Hermetic Texts: Concise Edition

Throughout the world we can find similarities between ancient mythologies and religions. The similarities are so strong that it indicates a common knowledge. This knowledge described how the universe was created. The ancients communicated this cosmology though symbolism just as modern science does today. Symbolism was the scientific language of the ancients through which they communicated their understanding of the universe. To understand ancient symbolism and the cosmology it described, we must first understand their underlying principles, which are concisely described and explained in this book.