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RE: The Curse II

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An animal does not reason, it experiences directly. Man is
deceived by the incomplete testimony of his senses and his reason and has allowed the instinctive consciousness to atrophy without having
learned to use his intuitive faculties which to the Egyptians, is the
wisdom of the heart. Therefore there are ancient rituals to strengthen the heart.

Raise your eyes to know what relates to the laws of the heavens, Look around you to study the principles of nature,
Look inside you to determine your attributes, to integrate your
personality, and identify it with the heavens and nature,
One can cast your heart ahead on the Chosen Way,
then go and retrieve it, and let your steps loyally follow its voice.
The Egyptian Way of Life is of Harmony;
Within the All-Inclusive Unity of God/desses,
Nature and Society;
Man can move with Dignity, Safety and Happiness.

The Egyptian essential Unity in the conviction that man can find
immortality and peace by becoming part, or as one, with the perennial cyclic rhythms of Nature, a recurring movement, part of the estab-
lished and unchanging Order of the Universe.

With the occasional exception, I will start posting notes on the
different traditions; The Ceremonial Tradition, the Philosophical, The
Arts and Crafts, the Hermetic like, the Wiccan like, the Alchemical,
etc.

Stuck in between will be the occasional hymn to a god/dess,
observations on astronomical god/desses; parts of man, temple struc-ture, etc. Make any comments or questions that you want that are
related. Michael Ankh em Maat

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THE PATH OF THE CRAFTSMEN IN ANCIENT EGYPT

One of the traditions in ancient Egypt was that of the artists
and craftsmen. All of the best artists and craftsmen were trained in
one place, the Temple of Ptah in Memphis (presently 20 min south of Cairo). all other artists and craftsmen were usually trained at the
Temple or by people who were trained there.

These artists and craftsmen include: Architects, draftsmen, stone
workers (large stones and small), jewelers, painters, eventually glass workers, dyers, (but not weavers, who studied at the Temple of Neith in the Delta). All the architects and draftsmen who produced all of
the pyramids, temples, palaces, royal tombs, and even forts were
trained here.

Have you noticed how all the men and women in paintings and
statues have a similar body? Unlike the Greeks, who wanted to show how a persons body really looked like, the Egyptian were interested in showing the "inner essence" of the person. Therefore only in the
background, the workers, and not the central family, are people shown

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as they really were, crippled people, occasional starvation, over
weight persons, etc. Therefore the Egyptians were interested in the
"inner man (or woman)".

Look at a book on Egyptian art and check out what the god/desses are holding or wearing. That is important to see what powers and attributes are being portrayed. For example, if Bes is holding a
knife, she/he becomes a protector and avenger; if holding a sistrum, he/she (it's hard sometimes to tell which sex Bes is), becomes the
God/desses of joy, pleasure, music, dance, and another kind of protec-tor; if holding other objects or wearing other outfits, she/he becomes a Protector of Women and of the Family, of Mothers. The same holds true with all of the other gods and goddesses. Hence, Isis can be a
Mother Goddess or a Goddess of Women, or of the Visible World depen-ding on what she is wearing or carrying. All of this is taught by the
temple of Ptah to the artists.

The similar thing occurs with amulets and talismans. Some amulets and talismans are always shown in a certain color or always made of certain material. The Buckle of Isis is almost always of red carnelian
or garnets. The Ankh is almost never down in silver (because the ankh is associated with the Sun, and gold is the metal of the Sun).

The temple of Amon at Luxor is patterned after a human body; in fact, in the sanctuary part, if you observe the stones in the floor,
you see that two different stones were used. If you had an archaeolog-ical map of the temple with the floor stones shown, and color in the darker stones, you end up with a huge side profile of a face! So the
Temple of God reflected the Temple of Man!

Ptah had other powers and attributes than just artists and
craftsmen (he was one of the Great Creator Gods), and was married to Sekhmet (who was into other traditions including healing). Ptah is also associated with the Science and Art of Alchemy. Their offspring
is Nefertum, the God of perfumes and aromatherapy, and of the Lotus.

As you will see in future discussions, more than one god/dess is
associated with a tradition. Ptah is one of the few gods who ever
since predynastic periods, was always portrayed as a human.

Remember that most of the popular literature is from material of
the New Kingdom and later periods. By then Horus was associated in the popular ancient Egyptian mind as the son of Isis, and especially
popular as that during the Greco-Roman period.

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RITUALS and RITUAL ELEMENTS

How many times do you get into a Book of Shadows and look at the rituals? How many of these rituals are complete from opening or
drawing the circle, invocation of the four directions, blessings,
consecrations, invocation, and closing? And how many are incomplete; in other words, missing some of the elements to the rituals, but maybe referring to use a certain 4 direction invocation or closing rite? Or

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missing complete elements; such as a hymn or invocation to a Goddess
but no rituals around it?

To the major ancient Egyptian temple colleges, the elements of
ritual were emphasized. A magician, priest/ess, magic worker

at home would end up with several invocations to the four quarters,
several closings, etc.

To the Egyptian; The Way of the Ritual; it's chief god/dess to be
invoked and the way the ritual is to be directed (weather magic for
example) will determine which other ritual elements are used.

Also remember that the Egyptians had generic ritual elements,
usually blessings, consecrations and hymns. A generic hymn to a
goddesses will have spaces in which the goddesses name, titles and
some of her powers would be included.

There were more than one set of god/desses for the four
directions; and even the direction that you started your ritual
changes with the orientation of the ritual.

For example; if you wanted to do a ritual for fertility of the
land, you start off facing south (the Life Giving Nile), then West (to
appease the desert), then North (symbol of fertility), then the East
(rising sun, cosmic fertility), then back to South. Naturally if you
are solar oriented using gods like Amon, Ra, Horus, and goddesses like Sekhmet or Bast, you started with the east and work your way around (clockwise).

If you are invoking a goddess in your ritual you DO NOT invoke
the four sons of Horus, UNLESS it is Isis or Nepthys that you are
invoking. There are 2 sets of goddesses of the four directions, and
one of the sets would do better.

There are at least three different sets of gods for the four
directions, more, since Thoth has his own set, as does some cities.

I have a hand written 35 page list of powers and the god/desses
associated with them. It probably corresponds to a book listed in the
Library of the Temple of Horus called "The Book of God and Goddesses and their Powers".

So a magician at home would have more of a recipe collection of
ritual elements rather than a book of Shadows of complete rituals, and would have the know how of how to put them together. I have about
3,000 such recipes, from Astral projection to Zoomorphic projections, including blessings, opening and closing rites, spells, divination,
consecration, initiation, weather, tantric, etc. The Pyramid Texts
contain about 700 more, and the Coffin Texts, over 1,200 more. Orig-inal, not new.

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IMPORTANT METAPHYSICAL SPOTS IN EGYPT TODAY

Since the Great Pyramid was built by the ancient Egyptians for a
king, Khufu, that is not an important metaphysical spot. Before we get into an argument about that let me point out that the Great Pyramid
has tombs around it by the workers who built it and mention it's
building and its use as a burial place. There are also ancient Egyp-
tian records of the Keeper Priests who lived
there providing food to Khufu. There is absolutely no mention of it as an initiation place, and beside the stone coffin, Khufu's viscera was
found there! However, Europeans are impressed by what is large and commanding (it embarrassed the ancient Egyptians) and put greater
stock in the Great Pyramid than the Egyptians. Also what with the vast number of people in the occult who have visited there, it now has it's own aura added to it, and most people today can't tell the difference.
So let's list the truly sacred.

The Temple of Bast at Bubastis; Delta area. Although not much
remains there, it still exudes a feeling of serenity and peace there.
Center to the Bast cat tradition.

Memphis: Temple of Ptah: also not well preserved, but serene with the ponds of water within the temple enclosure.

Sakkara: The tombs of Ptahhotep and Kaegemni are extremely mag- ical, housing at one time two of the greatest teachers of Egypt.

the Labyrinth, near the Fayyum; Herodutus described it as having 3,000 rooms; 1,500 above, and 1,500 below ground that was so sacred, no one but high priests could enter the underground rooms. Extremely magical, and what is better, almost no tourists, even at the height of
the tourist season! Initiations took place here.

Temple of Hathor at Denderah. Magical place with secret chambers and passageways, Initiation center of Hathor. The Zodiac ceiling was found in the Temple of Hathor at Denerah (original in British Museum, replica in temple).

Osirieon at Abydos: Center of the highest initiations of Osiris
(his tomb is located nearby but has not yet been discovered). You can visit the once underground chambers where the initiations took place, surrounded by a pond, with a secret passageway (now underwater) sup- posedly going to Osiris's tombs.

The Ramesseum: west bank of Thebes; Luxor. Sit on the stone
throne of Rameses, feel the power, or go find the initiation chamber
there (the only one that utilizes a coffin). Highly magical.

The Temple of Hatshepsut, same general area.

Temples of Amon and Mut at Karnak and Luxor; if size impresses, this will! The courtyard itself can easily hold Notre Dame! Too bad so many tourists, but seek out the small temple of Sekhmet (but beware of doing rituals there, Sekhmet is unforgiving).

Temple of Horus, Edfu: Most complete temple in modern Egypt, lots of subtle power waiting to be reawakened, doing a gentle chant in the sanctuary can be heard over the entire temple!

Temple of Isis, Philae; despite being moved from the original
island; still very magical, especially because of the surroundings.

Temple of Shahabu: The Egyptian equivalent of Tantric magic, it's place is unknown, and even to the ancient Priests, it's location was
kept a secret!

Oracle of Amon; Siwa Oasis, where Alexander the Great went and never spoke of his prophecy!