Osiris is the Egyptian Lord of the Underworld and Judge of the Dead, brother-husband to Isis, and one of the most important gods of ancient Egypt. The name `Osiris' is the Latinized form of the Egyptian Usir which is interpreted as 'powerful' or 'mighty"Excerpt from the introduction:The work before the reader is not an original one, for nearly all that it contains has been in book form before. However, it has not been our desire to produce an original one, for even had it been, it would be impossible since there is very little original along these lines. In saying this, we naturally refer to the outer symbolism of the Egyptians, for nearly all of this has been given to the world at some time or another.Our desire, therefore, is not to simply place symbolism before the people, but to explain and make clear, a part of the inner meaning of this sublime symbolism, so that those who really care for the truth will be able to find it.In the year 1859, work was issued by G. C. Stewart under the title of "The Hierophant." This work, while far from correct, is possibly the best and most fair of all such works ever published, there is but one shortcoming, and that is, the fact that he knew nothing of the inner meaning of these things or Egyptian teachings for the reason that he was not an Initiate.The present work has for a base, this book by Stewart and has been so edited that it brings it within the exact truths known to the Initiates of the Inner Egyptian Mysteries. All such parts as are taken from "The Hierophant" are started with quotation marks, and the reader will thus know at once what is selected material to corroborate the statements, and which is the matter which appeared in "TheHierophant." The notes to the work are absolutely correct and in perfect harmony with the Ancient Egyptian Initiation; this is said by the authority of that Sublime Order which still has the conservation of those secrets and which will always retain them. Naturally, these things are not made plain, but they are so plain that all may understand them.The small work, as edited by G. C. Stewart, was not original, but had its foundation upon the writings of the Philosopher Dupuis, Professor Fellows, C. G. Squier, Robert Taylor, Nott and Gliddon, Higgins' Anacalypsis, O'Brien's Round Towers of Ireland, Mrs. Child's Progress of Religious Ideas, Prof. Rhodes, Ovid, Homer, Virgil, and fragments from older writings, such as the Hebrew Bible, the Greek Testament, English Bible, Catholic and Protestant creeds, and is therefore not original itself. To this has now been added extracts from the Rosicrucian books and from the secret manuscripts now held by an order which is the legitimate successor to the Fraternity of Osiris, the descendant of the true Ancient Egyptian Initiation."We have but one desire in placing this work before the reader, and that desire is an honorable one: To show that all religions, no matter what the name, originally came from the same source; that they are actually still the same, —but that they use the symbols of the Ancient Religions under different names. This is proven throughout the present work.