Note 298 — Chapter III · THE ORIGIN OF GNOSTICISM
Reading edition
Chabas, Le Papyrus Magique Harris, 1860, pp. 151, 162 sq. Erman, Life in Ancient Egypt, Eng. ed. p. 355, while admitting that the Egyptians thought the words in question belonged to a foreign tongue, says that they were “pure inventions.” He is certainly wrong, for some of them can be identified.