Return to Egypt

March 7, 2008

In February 2008, Grace and I, along with 20 others from around the world, found ourselves in Egypt.  Although this was my first visit there, it felt in many ways like we were returning to an ancient homeland.  We had come to reconnect with the spiritual energies of this ancient world, and to explore the mysterious connection with Akhenaton that we had each felt so strongly.  We also wished to touch the mystical sources of Ilahinoor, and to explore the initiatory possibilities of this morphogenetic field.

We started our trip at Gouda Fayed’s Sphinx Guest House, overlooking the magnificent Giza Plateau, directly across from the Sphinx.  Behind him were the three Pyramids of Khufu, Khafra, and Menkaura, majestic in their size and beauty, powerful in their ancient presence.  

We then began a long journey down the Nile, beginning with the temple of Philae in Aswan, and travelling through Komombo, Edfu, Luxor, Karnak, Hatshepsut, Dendera, Abydos, and finally to Tel el Amarna, the City of the Horizon built by Akhenaton, before returning once again to Giza. 

Our guide, Mohammed Fayed, was a professor of archaeology at the Cairo University, with a unique gift for being able to present us with the archaeological as well as spiritual significance of the sites we visited.  He explained that the temples we were visiting represented a network of chakras.  Our journey down the Nile thus symbolized the awakening of kundalini within our own bodies as well as along the Nile, beginning with the root chakra at Philae and culminating with the crown chakra at the Great Pyramid, where we once again returned for a final ceremony.

Approximately twelve thousand years ago, in the big picture, a great cataclysm took place.  In the wake of a galactic superwave, and the resulting sequence of events, the magnetic poles of the Earth got flipped around, perhaps simultaneously with a crustal plate displacement.  The resulting concussion caused continents to shift, and sent most of Atlantis to the bottom of the sea.

The collapse and realigment of the magnetic fields was like pressing a re-set button in Earth’s evolution, and brought about a massive shift of consciousness.  For those who were prepared for this, a tremendous burst of kundalini flowed through their bodies, dissolving the sense of separate ego identity held within the physical personality.  Simultaneously new levels of soul awareness were brought into embodiment, culminating in the transformation of the physical body into a body of light.  A select few were able to pass through these gates of ascension into higher dimensional worlds.

Those who were not prepared for this transformation went beneath the waves, or sailed off to far flung regions of the Earth to begin life anew.  The process of evolution began once again through slow incarnational cycles, and we have arrived once again as a species to the threshold of the divine human.  Those of us who remained behind in the previous cycle are preparing now to make another attempt to merge our bodies into light.

Egypt was one of the destinations of surviving Atlanteans.  The pharoahs and priesthood of ancient Egypt remembered clearly the events of 12,000 years ago, and were attempting through their initatory paths and mummification rites to recreate the possibility of ascension for an elite few.  The gateway to the higher dimensions was still open to them, a dimension which they referred to as the Halls of Amenti.  Their entire religion was based on their knowledge and access to these Halls of Amenti, an akashic library where the deeper understandings of divine evolution and cycles of time are forever preserved. 

The spiritual psychology of the ancient Egyptians reflected a deep understanding of cosmic forces. The physical body was known to them as the khat.  The physical personality, including all the etheric, mental, and emotional imprints of a given incarnation, was called the ka.  The luminous astral body was the akh,  which when refined through long spiritual training, enabled an initiate to consciously travel between dimensions, and to the Halls of Amenti.  The ba was the soul, eternal and undying.   And finally there were the neters.

The neters are the gods and goddesses of the Egyptian pantheon, divine personalities familiar to us as Thoth, Ra, Osiris, Isis, Horus, Set, Maat, Nut, Geb, Hathor, Sekhmet, Anubis, and so on. There are 22 primary neters, each representing an aspect of divine wholeness.

One of the primary myths of ancient Egypt has to do with the story of Osiris and Isis, and their betrayal by Set, who kills and dismembers Osiris, casting his body to the four winds.  Isis, using her magical arts, goes on a quest for the missing pieces, finally putting most of him back together and breathing life into him for a brief moment.  There is a divine conception and Horus is born, who avenges the death of his father by killing Set. 

Translations of the Egptian Book of the Dead, inscribed hieroglyphically along some of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings, indicate that this could have been a real life drama that took place during the last days of Atlantis.  It is even possible that all the neters had their origins in actual living beings during the early migrations from Atlantis, and later became deified.  Like the Greek and Hindu gods, the 22 neters of ancient Egypt embody a vast archetypal terrain.

As we connected with the energies of these neters by journeying through the sacred temples dedicated to them, we soon began to realize that these powers were not good or bad in themselves.  Each of these neters exist within each one of us, and each of them could have both a dark face and a light face.  They are simply reflections of archetypal qualities within our own psyches, and our human task is to grow in love, wisdom, and power as we integrate these qualities within our own psyches.

A touching example was the story Mohammed shared with us as we visited Sekhmet’s healing room in Karnak.  Like the Hindu goddess Kali, she demonstrated two distinct faces.  There was a time when mankind had degenerated into great evil and the creator gods chose the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet to obliterate the human race.  The dark face of Sekhmet was revealed as she went about her terrible work of destruction. 

Having accomplished her task, she remained in a state of fierce madness, and Osiris was chosen to find a way to bring her back to sanity.  Turning himself into a playful monkey, he slowly gained her trust, and finally revealing his true form, he accompanied her back to the realm of the gods, where she eventually learned to excel in the arts of healing.  Thus it happened that destruction and healing are both aspects of Sekhmet.  Like their counterparts on Earth, it could be that each of the neters have their corresponding dual aspects.

As we travelled, we also began to understand a little more about the controversial pharoah, Akhenaton.  As he opened himself to the divine archetype of Ra, he experienced the unity of all things as reflected in the symbol of the solar disk.  As a consequence, he revived the long forgotten mystery school traditions which provided initiates with direct access to their divine mastery.  

Yet, as powerful as his experience of cosmic consciousness may have been, and as sincere as his desire to share this experience with his people through the worship of the solar disk, Aton, his mistake lay in denying the reality of the other neters, and dismantling the old religion which was dedicated to serving them.  This was a costly mistake which created a massive schism within the priesthood, and eventually brought about the demise of ancient Egypt.

As we visited the city he built, Tel el Amarna, I experienced a momentary overlighting of his presence through my body.  Simultaneously standing over a beautiful temple city at the height of Akhenaton’s reign, while at the same time looking out over a vast expanse of desert sand where nothing now remains, there was a recognition that it was time for all truths to come together.  The many are returning to the one, even as the one is reflected in the many.  There was a sense that all was as it should be, and that the vision that had awakened through him, and later embodied through Sri Aurobindo, was soon to be realized.