THE INFLUENCE OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SACRED PARADIGM ON THE ACTIVATION OF THE ESOTERICAL SECRET SOCIETIES OF ENGLAND

Abstract

The purpose of the study is the disclosure of the ancient Egyptian sacred model and the history of Egyptology, as a science, in the context of the influence on the activation and establishment of esoteric secret organizations in England of the XIX century. The research methodology is based on the principles of historicism and scientific objectivity. In addition to general scientific methods: analysis, synthesis, induction and deduction, special historical methods were used in the study: the historical-comparative and historical-typological method, as well as for the comprehensive study of esotericism, as a religious component of society, the interdisciplinary method of empiric empiricism was used. The scientific novelty of the selected question lies primarily in the formulation and development of the topic as an independent and holistic research problem. At the same time, in the historiography of the esoteric secret societies of Western Europe of the New Age, the role of Egyptology in activating the esoteric movement is almost not disclosed. Findings. The facts analysed make it possible to establish a clear connection between the development of Egyptology and the formation of esoteric secret societies in England. Quite fundamentally, this was demonstrated in the facts of the increase in names among esoteric organizations, allegedly associated with ancient Egyptian mythology, the attraction of initiative practices of an Egyptian nature and ritual systems to societies, it would be impossible without Egyptology, as a science.