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Religion of Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian religion can be summarized as shamanism under the influence of nationalism. Like the Native American cultures, they saw the world as a spiritual place and the relationship between the ancient tribes of Egypt changed over time before the organization of the two kingdoms. They didn’t have a Cartesian view like modern thinkers do,…
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Egyptian Soul and Hell
Egyptian religion was both intuitive and rationalistic. Since its focus was so pragmatic the Greeks and Romans actually saw no reason to compromise it, and translated some of their concepts into Greek or Roman terms. Thus the cult of Osiris gave birth to the elusian mysteries, and other imagery became very wide spread. There was…
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Mana and Justice
I tend to use the kahuna concept of mana to evaluate any path. Mana is a concept of “proven effectiveness.” It plugs into the idea that whoever or whatever was more in synch with the over arching order would be stronger and more able than those who worked against it or were just resistant to…
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Field of Stars
Can anyone name the worlds oldest religious texts? Bahagavida? Good guess, but in written form it isn’t as old as another. The Egyptian tomb texts predate any religious cannon. They even predate the Book of the Dead which was later published. For the Egyptians, life and death weren’t separate things. They were seen as parts…
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Walking With Spirit
There was a goddess named Hathor, the hippo who governed the Nile. You were considered to need to cross the Nile so they invoked the aid of the Bison Goddess by imitating her act of creation. The shaping of human bodies from clay. Except in this case the clay was linked to the spirits of the…
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Kingdom of Osiris
The Egyptian Pharaoh was both King and High Priest. At first, the ascension (not unlike the Buddha’s ascension) was considered possible only to the Pharaoh. It was only later that they came to believe that all souls could ascend, and when they transformed into the Akh they were able to wander the whole world though…
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Egypt’s Tradition of Magic
Shall we discuss Heka? I have made reference to Maat in previous classes, but in fact ancient Egyptian civilization had no word for religion. Maat was more akin to the Chinese concept of Tao than an actual codified religion. Maat forms the backdrop for the practice of Heka. The opposite of Maat is called Isfet,…
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Use of Heka
In Heka, you have both your personal path and the paths walked by the Neter or glorious ones, and were thought even to be able to achieve immortality and even equality with the gods, more or less. Could you give us a bit of an historical time-frame for this way of thinking? Are we talking…
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Everything Whisperer
There is a current neuroscience specialist who feels we are moving toward a psycho-social homoeostasis. He feels all human cognitive function, specifically all brain function, evolved as a life regulation mechanism, and thus as we have evolved past the age of humans in small family groupings like other simians live in even today. By extension, we are…
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Seeing the Infrastructure
I read a novel by someone who said she was writing about a past life in Egypt and she mentioned a mental network the priests had. Did anything like that exist? Well, memetically? Certainly. Also through their understanding of the omniscience of the Ka, so important point, thank you. Heka is gnostic in nature, and…
Category: Ancient Egypt
My spiritual affinity for Anubis is just an instinctive recognition of a symbol that didn’t die, just transformed. We are all dealing with the same spiritual forces. If you want to reduce the spirit world to cellular memory and to the collective unconscious, or see a connection between that and actual activities in the world which do in fact impact epigenetic development, it is up to you. The gods live. All the modern rationalistic thought hasn’t abolished subconscious influence. All the scientific understanding has not changed our fundamental connection to nature. Give a spiritual force whatever face you want.
In modern reckoning, as popularly depicted in movies like the Mothman Prophecy, when the spirits are questioned about what they “look like”, the answer is and always will be the same. “Depends on who’s looking.”
“Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.” Akhenaton (King of Egypt, 14th century BC)