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RE: The Curse II

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The only schools, including most crafts, were taught in the
temple colleges. A child would be sent to a college to learn a craft
between the ages of 6-10. If the family had a tradition of priest/-
esses then usually the children would go to the temple college to be
interviewed and tested for the priesthood. Exactly how the priest/-
esses at the college tested the would be initiate is not well known
yet, but we do know that usually the following priests would be
involved:

1. A Divine Scribe (reader and writer initiate)
2. A Prophet (who uses divination of some sort and inner visions)
3. A Purification Priest
4. A Priest of Anubis (or some other sort related to traveling in
Egyptian heavens (astral plane directly related to Egyptian
heavens).

Every Egyptian temple had 2 types of staff, a magical one and a
working one (working meaning the scribes, bakers and people who run the every day part).

If the would be initiate was found wanting in the magical staff
(called People of the Circle, which we will get to when we talk about
temple organization), the person may be sent back, or taught a craft, or go into the working temple staff.

One of the first things that any initiate is taught is Egyptian
Philosophy, which is really less like Voltaire, and more like Ethics
and Conscious. The would be priest needs to come up with his own
ethics or philosophy before embarking on to magical training.

Therefore ethics and morals was the beginning of the training. If
one had to make a "Readers Digest Condensed" version of all of the
Egyptian ethics and philosophy teachings it would be; as one Egyptian Philosopher put it (but not quite as well).

Do anything you want, but only in moderation, and while doing so, do not harm anyone physically or psychology.

Almost exactly like the Wiccan motto : Do what they wilt, but
harm none.

But to the ancient Egyptian, theirs also says, "don't harm
yourself, and don't go overboard on anything: Moderation.

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DIVINATION OF BES, BAST, OR HATHOR
(from Leyden Papyrus)

Use a divining bowl of pottery. Use green or some vegetable based ink. Preferable to use hieroglyphics, but try it a few times without
them and use english (but if you can, do as the Egyptians do) Write
your request or formula in base and inner sides of bowl using the
vegetable ink. Also write in either Bes, Bast, or Hathor's name three

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times while meditating on the goddess and your request. (pick one
goddess, not all three)

Pour consecrated water in it to dissolve the writing.
Swallow water
Go to sleep

(If you can sleep in a temple, sacred area, so much the better,
otherwise at home, and record your dreams when you wake up.)

A divination bowl, in Egypt, was specially made for the purpose;
however, if you're not a potter, pottering around, find one out of
pottery, usable (no lead based paint or in the clay), about the size
of rice bowl. Consecrate and bless it, and viola, a divining bowl.

Back in those days, green paint was either a vegetable dye or
green ochre. They didn't use the ochre, but a vegetable dye would
work. Although I know of people who specifically prepare a vegetable ink (macerated herbs in a small bowl of water), a food coloring would be okey, but I would still suggest using a mortar and pestle and
grinding some herbs you specially selected, and putting it into the
food colored water and let it seep for a bit, and then use that. It
would definitely be closer to the spirit of the occasion. I know, next
you are going to ask, what herbs?

Well, the ancient Egyptians had comfrey and you can heal thyself at the same time. Lettuce was considered an aphrodisiac, sacred to Min (so if your request or question is along that line, add that); they
also used mint a lot.

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF EGYPT

Egypt wasn't always a thin ribbon of life surrounded by desert.
From 200,000 to 10,000 bce most of what is now known as the Sahara desert used to be verdant grasslands and plains with many trees and several rivers. There was an accumulation of different cultures down
to 5,000 bce.

From 6,000-4,000 bce different belief structures, and both
matrilineal and patrilineal societies existed along the Nile, for by
then the Sahara was rapidly turning to desert and the cultures went to the only remaining source of water, the Life Giving Nile. Agriculture
was already developed, and irrigation systems in use. There was
already predominant Goddess and God worship in these societies.

From 4,000-3,100 bce, Egypt now evolved into states, between
36-44 of them, called Nomes. From time to time, Egypt became united into two kingdoms, the Upper Kingdom, from about Aswan down to Cairo, with its capital at Nekhen, whose chief god was a goddess, Nekhebit,
the Vulture Goddess; and Lower Egypt in the Delta with it's capital at
Uatchet, whose chief god was also a goddess, Uatchet.

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Nekhebit, the Vulture Goddess was an Earth Mother, and considered
very maternal (the type of vultures in Egypt are very maternal birds).
She also symbolized regeneration of life, from Death comes Life, as
the vulture is one of the few animals that can survive and mainly
subsists on bodies of animals that would poison others.

Uatchet, the Snake Goddess, was also venerated as protection from snakes, and of fertility (snakes lay many eggs).

The two goddess, Nekhebit and Uatchet, Vulture and Snake goddess became the part of the crown over the third eye, look at the two on
most crowns of egypt. Later, the snake goddess became associated with the Serpent Fire of the Egyptian equivalent of the Kundalini, and it's
power came out at the third eye, instead of the top of the head (which
became associated with another god).

The worship of Hathor, Amon, Thoth, Horus, Bast, Sekhmet and a few others have already been well established. Isis is yet to be found or mentioned.

The first three Dynasties: I

The 1st king, Narmer, united the kingdoms forever (after a brief
unification prior), and on the famous palette of Narmer is found not
only the Nome standards (our equivalents of flags), but the 1st known name of Hathor.

The 2nd king of the 1st Dynasty established the right of women to rule Egypt.

It was during the 1st Dynasty that a woman ruled Egypt, to take
that into perspective, if the US followed that, we would have a woman president well before the Civil War. She was one of
the 11 women to rule one of the greatest civilizations in the world.
And it, like most of the others, was peaceful.

Rights of women were established. they could marry and divorce; there was no community property; women could establish their own
businesses without a man's consent or cosignature; they could conduct them before, during and after marriage. Married couples were con-
sidered co-partners and co-equals. Pregnant women, by law, had to be taken care of by the husband or the police came and beat him up!

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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ASTRAL HEAVEN(S)

Ancient Egypt had more than one heaven, and most of their heavens were subdivided into sections or parts akin to, and probably best
equated with the astral plane.

As the astral plane has many different levels, the lowest next to
the earthly plane, and highest sections up to and pass most of earth's religions concept of heaven, the astral plane is like a onion with the
material world in the center, and the layers going outward (or inward,

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or higher, or whatever). As most religions heavens are manifested in
the astral plane, they are also separate from each other.

This is also true in Egyptian heavens of the astral plane. The
Book of the Dead (a misnomer as the egyptians never called it that), lists the sections of the Heaven of Osiris. As you read the book, you
also see that there is a specific way to get to the heaven and through it.

There is an ancient Egyptian writing from a scribe that says, in
effect: "If you don't use the specific directions to get to a par-
ticular heaven, you won't get there but to a false heaven."

As most of us are aware, the astral plane is composed and made up of the thoughtforms of mankind and of the gods, hence, there is an
Egyptian heaven that was formed by the thousands of people who have conceptualized it since the beginning of the 1800's, made stronger
through the Rosecrucians and Blavatsky's, and into the modern metaphy-sical movement. But it is NOT the ancient Egyptian heaven. Hence, you can't simply just astrally project in order to get to a real Egyptian
heaven.

You have to follow the directions by the ancient Egyptians in
order to make it to one of their specific heavens.

You may even have to change your astral form to conform to a
certain type in order to enter. For example, one of the ways to get to the Horus heaven is to have project to the Nile, and do certain things in order for a boat with a hawk on it to come over to the bank and
pick you up to take you to the Horus Heaven.

One of the things you have to do, and not the only thing, in
order to get into the Heaven of Isis is to change your astral body
into the shape of a bird, a Swallow!

So if someone, no matter how much you respect them, tells you
that they dreamed or astrally projected to astral Egypt, they are
wrong, unless they know the specific ways to do it. The Egyptians
then, have a sort of astral lock on the proverbial doors to the
entrance of their heavens, and you can't just blindingly end up there
without the right keys to get there. I can probably safely say that no
more than a couple of dozen people in the last century have been able to enter these heavens, and no one who has written a book about
Egyptian metaphysics has (including Eliz. Hatch who wrote Initiation;
who knows nothing about Ptahhotep).

The teachers are still pretty much in the Egyptian heavens,
waiting to teach the student who is able to get there.

Although the ancient Egyptians had the wherewithal to go into
drug induced states (they had mandrake and poppies for medicine), I have yet to find one example of them using them for magic or astral projection.