Excerpts from Personal Journal, January 1, 1999
I woke up this morning, on New Year’s Day, with tears in my eyes and sadness in my heart. I had gone to bed just before dawn, a dream woke me up early in the morning. The dream, or ‘astral journey’, that awoke me was a visit I was paying to Dr. Khalil Messiha’s family. I spoke to his son Hanna, whom we call Janno, who told me something about the cemetery where his father was laid to rest, and showed me some lines written in a small notebook telling them about things related to our teachings, that they should ask me about. When I woke up I learned that Dr. Khalil had died just before midnight. I went to pay my respect to his family and could not stay very long, as I was so full of grief that I could not find the strength to speak. Dr. Khalil Messiha was my teacher, friend and companion along the way in a never-ending journey. He died unexpectedly, without any previous ailments. It was a terrible shock to his family and friends. His departure was a great loss to all those seekers that he took along the way. Although we didn’t meet much in the later days of his life, there was a spiritual bond between us that was very strong. We were actually three along the way, Dr. Fawzi Soliman being the third person in this unity. He was in fact the first, because it all started with him. Let me take you on a journey down memory lane.
When I came back from Switzerland in 1969, I was appointed as a consultant to the Minister of Health, Dr. Mahmoud Mahfouz (a great thinker and scientific philosopher, who also played a major role in my life, and has always put his weight and scientific credibility behind my achievements in BioGeometry). Dr. Fawzi Soliman, who was at the time Director of the Museum of Ancient Egyptian Medicine, approached me one day without any previous acquaintance, and asked me if I could be in charge of the renovation of the museum. It was in the Sakakiny Palace, a historical building which the government had taken from the Sakakiny family and converted into a museum. Dr. Fawzi had asked the Minister of Health to let me handle the work, but the Minister had refused, saying that I was too busy at that time with a USAID project (upgrading the deteriorated health centers and designing new ones), and referred him to another consultant.
Dr. Fawzi did not know anything about me except my name. We had never actually met, but he knew that no one else should do the renovation but me. That day, he approached me as I was going down the main staircase at the entrance to the Ministry of Health, and he asked me if I was the architect Ibrahim Karim? When I said “yes,” he requested that I ask the Minister to let me do the restoration and upgrading of the museum. He told me that it was very important for him that I, and no one else, do it. Then all of a sudden, he took aside, in a very secretive way, and opened his briefcase to show me some strange wooden objects. At first I did not know what they were? It turned out they were instruments of ‘Radiesthesia’, developed by the French physicists Chaumery and de Bélizal. I did not even know what the term ‘Radiesthesia’ meant at that time. He explained that it was a ‘scientific form of Dowsing’, but because I knew nothing about it, I was very skeptical. Nevertheless, I was intrigued and went to the Minister and insisted on doing the museum renovation.
We decided to meet the next day on Friday, our day off, so we could have enough time to look at the museum. As I entered the Sakakiny Palace, I felt really sad at how the government had neglected it. There was nobody there but Dr. Fawzi. We sat in his office, and he started again telling me about Radiesthesia. Later on, we were joined by his close friend Dr. Khalil Messiha. The three of us sat that day discussing Radiesthesia and different Ancient knowledge. I was very skeptical as many of the explanations did not fit into my mainstream scientific way of thinking or my background as an Engineer. It just was inexplicable by any of the theories of Physics that I had studied at university. I asked about some scientific literature. Dr. Khalil gave me the names of some old French books written in the thirties and forties by authors like Chaumery and de Bélizal, Turenne, Enel and others. He told me that these books might still be found at the ‘Maison de la Radiesthésie’ in Paris, France. This was the beginning of my journey, with a sign every day to guide me along the way.
A few days later, the Minister of Health sent me on an official assignment to Paris. This was a milestone in a journey that took me to the ‘Maison de la Radiesthésie’. At the Maison de la Radiesthésie, Madame Lambert, the owner, gave me as a present all the old books and instruments of the Physical Radiesthesia school, which included the works of Turenne, Chaumery, de Bélizal, Voillaume, among others. This treasure opened my eyes to a whole new world and was the foundation upon which I built and developed a very precise scientific system of Physical Radiesthesia, which I labeled ‘BioGeometry’.
From that time on, the three of us, Dr. Fawzi, Dr. Kahlil and I, were inseparable. I would finish work at the Ministry in the evening, go to my architectural office and then off to Dr. Khalil’s house. We would stay up talking and experimenting till very late at night. His wife, Marguerite, after putting the children to bed would bring us tea and cakes, and go to sleep leaving us to our research. Other times, we would go to Dr. Fawzi’s clinic after his patients left, and the three of us would work together. I became so obsessed that when I went home I diligently researched everything related to Ancient Knowledge, Radiesthesia and alternative disciplines.
Dr Khalil and Dr Fawzi took me into their inner circles where I became part of a very special group of friends. There was Ammo (uncle) Wadie Girgis, as we called him; a healer who used to blow the disturbed energy away from the body and with his deteriorating eyesight, he could actually see better in the spirit world than in the physical one! We also went to meetings at Dr. Fouad Wissa’s house. There, I met Dr. Raouf Obeid, a professor of law, and the well known author of the trilogy, ‘Al Insan Roh La Gasad’ (The Human Being is a Soul Not a Body). My friends also took me with them to the weekly Friday meetings at the Coptic Patriarchy to join a very select esoteric group studying with Anba Gregorious, the Cardinal responsible for scientific research in the Coptic Church. I was the only Muslim allowed in this group, to which even Copts were not permitted unless the Anba Gregorious himself invited them. From the very first day, I developed a special relationship with the Anba and we were honored to be granted several private meetings with him, where we discussed various spiritual teachings and energy-related topics. Dr. Khalil also introduced me to the Society for Ancient Wisdom, originally the Theosophical Society, which in typical Egyptian tradition was a closed group with only fourteen members at the time.
I got married on the 14th of December 1974; early next morning, Dr. Khalil called me, he was very excited and said that the famous Coptic seer from Luxor `Khoja Yacoub Al-Khouzamy’ was in Cairo for a day, and that we had been granted the rare opportunity to visit him. Dr. Khalil saw this timing as a blessing to my marriage, he felt that such an important visit would play a major role in my life. We took Rawya (my wife) with us that morning, and we went to meet him. Khoja Yacoub told us many stories, I felt that he was telepathically conveying a lot of information, as he would stop speaking and stare at me with huge wide open eyes. I received important clues to certain knowledge during that day, but I only understood many of those hidden messages as they unfolded with time. This was a memorable day in my life. What happened in that meeting will be part of an autobiography, which I have started, and which only God knows when I will finish. Dr. Khalil later drew a portrait of the master from Luxor and gave it to me (Fig. 3).
As the years passed by, I met less with Dr. Fawzi and more with Dr. Khalil, as we were founders of the Imhotep Scientific Society, along with Dr. Yahya Hamza Koshak, a Saudi Engineer who wanted to bring the Egyptian practitioners of the alternative sciences under one roof, around twenty years ago. Dr. Yahya, traveled around the world bringing back all the latest literature and equipment that he could find. Many of our old friends along the way who are great guides, healers, yogis and spiritual teachers, joined the society, and thus gave the members rich and diverse teachings. Dr. Khalil, however, was the main force behind the teaching. He held courses in Radiesthesia regularly, and taught many practitioners throughout the years. His older son, Dawoud, worked as an architect in my office for many years, and taught the foundation courses in Radiesthesia at our BioGeometry Center, while his younger son, Janno, was manufacturing some of our instruments. As time went by, my work in tourism planning for the Red Sea area took me away from Cairo, and prevented me from taking part in the Imhotep Society or in our group meetings, which was something I missed so much. Circumstances made my path an individual, lonely one, and I conducted my research alone, experimenting in my architectural projects, which developed into the science of ‘BioGeometry’.
Dr Khalil suggested that we start holding lectures for the foreign community in Egypt to introduce them to the science of Radiesthesia, which we considered a valuable key to unlocking the Ancient Knowledge. We started our weekly Monday lectures at my office in Maadi, a southern suburb of Cairo, home to most of the foreign community living in Egypt. Later on, we started the Arabic lectures on Tuesdays. We always gave two lectures, Dr. Khalil gave the first one and I gave the second one. Our way of teaching was holistic; along a path of spiritual development on an inner level achieving a unity of religion. The fact that the teachers were one Coptic and the other Muslim emphasized the unity between Muslims and Christians. We spent many years giving joint lectures, seminars, and courses. It was good being back together again.
In the eighties, I became advisor to the Minister of Scientific Research, Dr. Adel Ezz. It was thanks to him that I got the opportunity to introduce BioGeometry to the scientific community and patented the BioGeometry Design Language of Shapes. I was then appointed head of a research group in the new science of BioGeometry, at the National Research Center. In this research group, I managed to bring in Dr. Khalil Messiha, and Dr. Soheir Mahfouz (daughter of Dr. Mahmoud Mahfouz, the former Minister of Health with whom it had all started), as part of the team. Although we only met twice a week, and sometimes on Thursdays when I went to lecture at the Imhotep Society, I felt we were back together again, as in the old days.
Radiesthesia in Egypt is thousands of years old. In the 1940-50s there were several great Radiesthesists in Egypt (for example, Enel, who published several books in Egypt & France), but it is Dr. Khalil Messiha who will always be remembered as the first teacher of ‘Modern Scientific Radiesthesia’ to a wider audience in Egypt in our present time. We did so much research and contact with the spirit world together, that we will surely continue the work wherever he may be, which could only be in a spiritual place fit for such a master. Until we meet, may God bless you, dear teacher and friend, and help your family to overcome this great loss.
In the spring of 2001, while I was giving a seminar in the United States, I learned of the departure of Dr. Fawzi Soliman. I remembered the day we had sat together and shed tears when Dr. Khalil died, and that day I shed my tears alone when I learned of his departure. May God bless him in his journey to where the three of us will meet again someday.