Egyptian mysteries : new light on ancient spiritual knowledge
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TextSeries: (The illustrated library of sacred imagination)New York Crossroad c1981Description: 96p.; illus. (some col.) ;bibliogContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0-8245-0055-5
- BL 2441.2 .L3513
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Trans. from the French by Deborah Lawlor.". "With 173 illustrations, 14 in color.
1 Creation, becoming and return. 2 Prologue: the Nile. 3 Creation: the four centres of instruction; Heliopolis; Memphis; Thebes; myth and magic. 4 Becoming: the Egyptian mind; eternity and perpetuity. 5 Return: initiation; the subtle elements of the being; funerary rites; royal tombs, the two ways. 6 Plates. 7 Themes: predynastic symbols; mysterious origins; the house of the seat of life; space-time; geodesic measures; genesis and number; Hathor of Dendera and Horus of Edfu; hymn to Hathor; music and cosmic harmony; mysteries of Osiris; the writings of the secret chamber; the room of gold; the book of the coming forth into day; the four sons of Horus. 8 Sources and further reading
'The Egyptian view of creation, life and death can be understood only in the light of other traditions of spiritual growth and development, and in that of modern science. The mummy is a cocoon, enshrining the mystery of transformation, and the "Book of the Dead" echoes the universal message of shamanism...; with 173 illustrations, 14 in colour.'
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