Aztec Tree of Life. Right: Egyptian Ankh cross of Life. Both depict tau crosses.
In both images there are twin deities facing inward, toward the cross. The
positions of their arms, hands, feet and legs are almost perfectly parallel.
In both images there are twin deities facing inward, toward the cross. The
positions of their arms, hands, feet and legs are almost perfectly parallel.
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The child Horus holds in each hand both a serpent and a scorpion. To symbolize his magic powers, Horus holds snakes and scorpions as well as an antelope (by its
horns) and a lion (by its tail) in his closed fists. The magical and religious texts of the Egyptians of all periods contain spells intended to be used against serpents, scorpions, and noxious
reptiles of all kinds
Now that you’ve read that brief description, read this portion of text from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the title which you know by now is more correctly translated as the Book of Coming into the Light.
I know the names of the scorpions and they are these: anger, bitterness and doubt. And I know the names of the serpents: ego, concern for the self of the body; relinquishment of destiny, the attribution of suffering to god; false pity that stifles another man’s becoming; mediocre virtues and the denial of passion; sentimentality wherein passion is artifice; satisfaction wherein he fails to attain the great; common thought wherein a man seeks not to push himself beyond the limits of his own imagination.
Normandi Ellis-Awakening Osiris. The Egyptian Book of the Dead.
I find it very interesting that the Book of Coming into the Light, makes it clear that scorpions or snakes etc. represented various qualities within us or issues about ourselves that we had to deal with. The spells to address these were not necessarily always about dealing with a “flesh and blood” creature, but dealt instead with addressing those things that we struggle with. Those things that hinder us on our path towards manifesting the divine.
As I reread this I notice one phrase that now sticks out…relinquishment of destiny. Have you forgotten who you really are?
On Your Journey, You are not Alone.
Even in the dark, a fire burns in the distance. Long years the hearth-keeper keeps his silence, lightening the dark, leading children home. There is food for the hungry, rest for the weary. Warm and light is the fire. Along the road, life’s children sing. Voices join in the darkness.
I have known terrors in the night, eaters of flesh, the teeth of evil. I have known anger and hatred, more terrible even by day because they were unexpected. And I learned to relax in the jaws of death, to relax my grasp on ruby life and let the world go on. I find joy in the advent of stars, in the song rising out of darkness. My heart fills with the spirit of wind..
Lift your heads, throw down your hands and weep no more. The eye of creation looks upon you. Look back. You are crystal reflecting fire. In your own becoming there is light— enough to lead you home.
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Hymn to Asar/Osiris
The doors of perception open; what was hidden has been revealed. It is myself I see and a thousand colors swirling in liquid light. I am where the sun sets below the mountains. I am in this body. I am that star rising above the clouds hung by a thread from its ocean moon. Hail myself traversing eternity walking among gods, a shuttle flying across the loom through the threads of time. This is all one place, one cloth: a man’s life endures. On earth flowers grow, snakes crawl and wisdom lies in the palm of a hand. All that is will be - hawks and sparrows, the thousand lives within.
I have come home. I have entered humanhood, bound to rocks and plants, men and woman, rivers and sky. I shall be with you in this and other worlds.
-The Egyptian Book of the Dead. More correctly translated as the Book of Coming into the Light. Translated by Normandi Ellis.
Image Credit- Osiris by chevsy
This about what is being said for a minute….this is an extremely powerful description of what a person understands and “sees” when they begin to understand the Oneness of all things, the connection between all things, the true reality. This is a person that understand the illusion or the dream that we are currently in, yet also understand the truth of a reality that exists outside of this illusion.
Answers to the Questioner
Forget “elites” and recognize the true Elite. It is formed of individuals who have already gone beyond Nature. To be of the Elite is to want to give and to be able to give; it is to know how to draw on the inexhaustible source and to give this food to those who are hungry and thirsty in the form which is suited to them. Altruism is the criterion by which to recognize the man who goes beyond humanity.
R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz - Nature Word
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Bless the Darkness
I know the terrible truth of darkness, and I say, bless the darkness, for in darkness I stumbled and fell on the crystal road. After years of doubt, the dark mind turns again to light.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead. More correctly titled the Book of Coming into the Light
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Bless the Darkness…
I know the terrible truth of darkness, and I say, bless the darkness, for in darkness I stumbled and fell upon the crystal road. After years of doubt, the dark mind turns again to light. In the black mountain of the heart, I found my way home again. I am that light in the darkness. I am a diamond, a bright secret veiled in black cloth. The light beyond heaven is the light within.
Egyptian Book of the Dead (Awakening Osiris by Normandi Ellis)
Image Credit- Darkness by ChrisCold
“As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are. If these people are also not themselves, the result is terrible.”
— Malidoma Patrice Some - Of Water and the Spirit: ritual, magic, and Initiation in the life of an African shaman.
Do you Know Magic?
“Do you know magic? Can you utter the name of your soul and bring yourself back to light? Can you speak your destiny, create life for yourself from yourself as Temu created Ra? From the light of your works do you know who you are?”
Normandi Ellis. Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
More correctly translated as The Book of Coming into the Light.
Egyptian Book of Coming into the Light-Full Text Hymn to Asar/Osiris
I think i am doing a disservice by not including the entire hymn. Yes, it’s that deep. So here it is.
The doors of perception open; what was hidden has been revealed. It is myself I see and a thousand colors swirling in liquid light. I am where the sun sets below the mountains. I am in this body. I am that star rising above the clouds hung by a thread from its ocean moon. Hail myself traversing eternity walking among gods, a shuttle flying across the loom through the threads of time. This is all one place, one cloth: a man’s life endures. On earth flowers grow, snakes crawl and wisdom lies in the palm of a hand. All that is will be - hawks and sparrows, the thousand lives within.
I have come home. I have entered humanhood, bound to rocks and plants, men and woman, rivers and sky. I shall be with you in this and other worlds. When the cat arches in the doorway, think of me. I have sometimes been like that. When two men greet each other in the street, I am there speaking to you. When you look up, know that I am there - sun and moon pouring my love around you. All these things am I, portents, images, signs. Though apart, I am a part of you. One of the million things in the universe, I am the universe, too. You think I disguise myself as rivers and trees simply to confuse you? Whatever I am, woman, cat or lotus, the same god breathes in every body. You and I together are a single creation. Neither death nor spite nor fear nor ignorance stops my love for you.
May we come and go in and out of heaven through the gates of starlight. As the houses of earth fill with dancing and song, so filled are the houses of heaven. I am come, in truth. I sail a long river and row back again. It is joy to breathe under the stars. I am the sojourner destined to walk a thousand years until I arrive at myself.
-The Egyptian Book of the Dead. More correctly translated as the Book of Coming into the Light. Translated by Normandi Ellis in her book Awakening Osiris.
when you read this, please remember that you are the person speaking. Do not think that it is someone or something outside of yourself…it is you speaking. Your spirit communicating absolutely timeless truths unfettered by any weights of the illusion that surrounds you now. That is the power of the pyramid texts and the Egyptian Book of the Dead/Coming forth into the Light.
The love my deities give me is an overwhelming one. This is the best written text I’ve seen of it so far. I am them, and they are me. I am here because of them. I walk this earth, protected, knowledgeable, and guided by them, because of them. I am the light, I am everything. Initiated once, and forever in this world I remain, life after life. To teach, to guide, by their hand. And when I am through, I will walk among my gods.
This portion of text is honestly one of the most powerful reminders of our true connection to life beyond our illusions. Our spirit reminding us of our true form even when we get bogged down by work, life, issues, hurts, challenges, and relationships. We are more. We’ve been more and we’ve seen more then we could ever imagine.
Darkness and Light
“Among the Dagara, darkness is sacred. It is forbidden to illuminate it, for light scares the Spirit away. Our night is the day of the Spirit and of the ancestors, who come to tell us what lies on our life paths. To have light around you is like saying that you would rather ignore this wonderful opportunity to be shown the way. To the Dagara, such an attitude is inconceivable. The one exception to this rule is a bonfire. Though they emit a powerful glow, they are not prohibited because there is always drumming around them, and the beat of the drum cancels out the light.”
-Malidoma Some
“True Sex-power is God-power,” as he put it. As the moment when new life is infused from the spiritual realm into the material, it is crucial moment one the soul is suddenly opened up to the spiritual energies of the cosmos: “at the instant of intense mutual orgasm the souls of the partners are opened to the powers of the cosmos and anything truly willed is accomplished.”
Paschal Beverly Randolph