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Study Guide to George G. M. James’s Stolen Legacy

This is an original companion, not a reprint. It presumes you have your own copy of Stolen Legacy by George G. M. James and walks beside it chapter by chapter. Nothing here confers initiation, degree, or membership in the Craft of Amen Ra. Study is open to the Outer Court; the door to formal petition is a separate path.

The Craft of Amen Ra is an independent initiatic order and religious-educational body in the Kemetic Mystery tradition. It is not affiliated with, chartered by, or claiming recognition from any Masonic Grand Lodge or Prince Hall body. Rooted in the scholarship of Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan (1918–2015).

How to use this guide

Read, sit, write, build

Twelve weeks of study, one chapter or theme per week, anchored in the 1954 table of contents and the AWP 1992 edition.

Read

Work through the assigned chapter or section in the 1992 AWP edition. Note James’s claims and the evidence he offers.

Sit with Ma'at

Take one Declaration of Ma'at for the week. Read it aloud, then hold it in silence before the discussion begins.

Write the Examination

Respond to the study questions in a notebook kept only for this work. The writing is for you, not for grading.

The Building

Carry one practice into ordinary life — a conversation, a habit, a small act — so the text does not stay theoretical.

Each week’s work contains: a reading assignment, a focus principle, an Examination of no more than one page, and a Building to carry into daily life. The guide keeps its questions close to the text; it does not ask you to believe James uncritically, but to read him carefully and test his evidence.

Edition lock

Use the 1992 Africa World Press edition

The guide follows the pagination and apparatus of this printing. Cross-check chapter titles if you use another edition.
Author
George G. M. James
Original publication
1954
Locked edition
Africa World Press, 1992
ISBN-13
978-0-86543-361-8

1954 table of contents

James’s 1954 book carries these principal divisions. Use them as weekly signposts, whatever printing you hold in your hands.Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive edition of Stolen Legacy.

  1. Introduction
  2. The Aims of the Book
  3. Chapter I: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy
  4. Chapter II: So-called Greek Philosophy was Alien to the Greeks and their Conditions of Life
  5. Chapter III: Greek Philosophy was the Offspring of the Egyptian Mystery System
  6. Chapter IV: The Egyptians Educated the Greeks
  7. Chapter V: The Pre-Socratic Philosophers and the Teachings Ascribed to Them
  8. Chapter VI: The Athenian Philosophers
  9. Chapter VII: The Curriculum of the Egyptian Mystery System
  10. Chapter VIII: The Memphite Theology is the Basis of all Important Doctrines in Greek Philosophy
  11. Social Reformation through the New Philosophy of African Redemption
  12. Appendix
  13. Notes
  14. Index

Questions answered

Frequently asked questions

Where to go next

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