How were ancient Egyptians?
The Egyptians were a model society of balance and justice. In their golden age, they built a society where peace, wisdom and happiness reigned. They understood that God, the Universe and Man form a unity. They had a vast and profound spiritual, scientific and all-round knowledge of natural and cosmic phenomena, and of how man should live to be in harmony with all creatures in existence.
The Egyptian civilization had at its core the search for the Sacred and Divine, the search for God, the spiritual and material development of man at all levels and in all dimensions.
V.M. Samael Aun Weor, researcher, esotericist and founder of Gnostic Anthropology, explains that the vastness of the Egyptian culture is of Atlantean origin. This culture is preserved on the walls of temples, sculptures and monuments to this day. Its majestic silence teaches us the need for inner work and the search for the inner Self-realization of the Being.
What is the meaning of the sphinx?
The Sphinx represents the four elements of nature. The lion’s claws represent fire, the human face represents water, the wings symbolize air and the bull’s feet refer to earth. These four elements are fundamental to the Great Work and are synthesized in the Salt, Sulphur and Mercury of Alchemy.
It also represents the Self-realized Man, the one who, through conscious work, has achieved mastery over himself and his inner nature.
“The sphinx, which has withstood the passage of centuries, is only the image of the elemental sphinx of the goddess nature. This elemental sphinx is the supreme master of all the elemental magic of nature”.
V. M. Samael Aun Weor
How did ancient Egyptians understand death?
The Egyptians studied a book during all his life, the Book of the Dead, whose original title means “Formulas for returning to the Light”. This book had as its principal teaching the behavior of the human being. These were teachings to be followed in life, preparing the individual for death.
Maat, Goddess of Truth and Justice, had the function of deciding the fate of the Egyptians after death. For the deceased to ascend to the Higher Worlds of Consciousness, he had to declare the “Negative Confession”, consisting of a series of negative renunciations made in life, for example: I did not kill, I did not steal, I did not commit adultery, among others, which amounted to 42 confessions.
After the confessions, he would go to a second room where his heart would be weighed on a scale, using Maat’s feather as a counterweight. The heart had to weigh less than the feather for the deceased to gain access to eternal life; if the heart weighed more, the deceased was devoured by Ammit, a form of devourer of souls. The Ammit can be understood as a place that today we call hell.
At the moment of death, the disincarnated person falls into a faint that lasts three and a half days, during which he sees his whole life pass by in the form of images in retrospective order. Really, the human being prepares for many events during life, such as a birth or a marriage, but unhappily forgets to prepare for the inevitable event that crowns us all: death.
“It is urgent to create the Conscious Will, it is indispensable to submit all our thoughts and acts to inner judgement.”
– V. M. Samael Aun Weor
