A few further extracts may be given from his _Occult Masonry_, as they bear directly upon our subject. However learned and erudite, some of the chronological mistakes of that author are very great. He says: After deified man (Hermes) came the King‐Priest [the Hierophant] Menes was the first legislator and the founder of Thebes of the hundred palaces. He filled that city with magnificent splendour; it is from his day that the sacerdotal epoch of Egypt dates. The priests reigned, for it is they who made the laws. It is said that there have been three hundred and twenty‐nine [Hierophants] since his time—all of whom have remained unknown. After that, genuine Adepts having become scarce, the author shows the Priests choosing false ones from the midst of slaves, whom they exhibited, having crowned and deified them, for the adoration of the ignorant masses. Tired of reigning in such a servile way, the kings rebelled and freed themselves. Then came Sesostris, the founder of Memphis (1613, they say, before our era). To the sacerdotal election to the throne succeeded that of the warriors.... Cheops who reigned from 1178 to 1122 built the great Pyramid which bears his name. He is accused of having persecuted theocracy and closed the temples. This is utterly incorrect, though Ragon repeats “History.” The Pyramid called by the name of Cheops is the Great Pyramid, the building of which even Baron Bunsen assigned to 5,000 B.C. He says in _Egypt’s Place in Universal History_: The Origines of Egypt go back to the ninth millennium before Christ.(547) And as the Mysteries were performed and the Initiations took place in that Pyramid—for indeed it was built for that purpose—it looks strange and an utter contradiction with known facts in the history of the Mysteries, to suppose that Cheops, if the builder of that Pyramid, ever turned against the initiated Priests and their temples. Moreover, as far as the Secret Doctrine teaches, it was not Cheops who built the Pyramid of that name, whatever else he might have done. Yet, it is quite true that Owing to an Ethiopian invasion and the federated government of twelve chiefs, royalty fell into the hands of Amasis, a man of low birth. This was in 570 B.C., and it is Amasis who destroyed priestly power. And Thus perished that ancient theocracy which showed its crowned priests for so many centuries to Egypt and the whole world. Egypt had gathered the students of all countries around her Priests and Hierophants before Alexandria was founded. Ennemoser asks: