The Ancient Egyptians called the Nature Powers ‘NTR’, from which the word Nature could have its roots (provisionally pronounced NeTeR, since they did not write the vowels, and we do not know the exact ones used in each place).
To the Ancient Egyptians the underlying fabric of the universe was governed by the NTRs. These NTRs are often erroneously referred to by Egyptologists as ‘gods’36, while they were, in fact, in Ancient Egyptian belief attributes of the one God, which they perceived as an abstract, universal, omnipresent, omnipotent, unnamable Divinity. Comparing them to our concept of angels representing the functions of the Universal Laws in nature, would be a more appropriate interpretation. The Ancient Egyptians were actually practicing a kind of universal harmony, which involved invocation of the NTR. These NTRs, being the manifestation of the animated powers of nature, were invoked through rituals based on Harmonic Resonance to manifest within the human energy field.
This form of interaction with nature forces, angels or whatever traditional disciplines or cultures call them, are still practiced in different forms in many spiritual disciplines and mystical paths. The Sufis, for example, perform certain rituals to achieve dissolution (fanaa) in the Divine Attributes of the one God, and also the manifestation (holoul) of these Divine Attributes in the human psyche. This is similar to what the Ancient Egyptians did in the invocation of the Powers of Nature.
Once we acknowledge that energy in all its forms is conscious and intelligent, then we can view the energy functions and laws behind the powers of nature as animated with a form of life of their own, and understand the scientific truth behind what we label as ‘mythology’ in Ancient Egypt. This acknowledgement will enable Egyptologists to interpret their findings about this great civilization in a new light that will change our modern worldview of nature and help us realize a future where we and nature are in harmony. Mythological tales about living entities were in fact describing the attributes and interactions of subtle energy principles governing the animated powers of nature.
The most popular tale in Ancient Egyptian mythology is that of Isis and Osiris. The essence of this tale has been repeatedly revived and culturally adapted through the ages down to our present time. Isis has become the universal symbol of the mother goddess and the feminine attributes of spirituality through the ages (Fig. 82)37. It is the classical story of love and sacrifice, which even includes a form of miraculous birth of their son ‘Horus’. We might ask, did Osiris really exist or was he a fictional mythological figure representing a personification of a NTR? If we go back to a time before the recorded history of Ancient Egypt, a time that has been labeled ‘Mythological’ (future archeological discoveries will probably bring this period into history), we might very well find out that there was an actual king called Osiris. It actually does not really matter since the legend of ‘Isis and Osiris’ was inherently used symbolically to explain the working of certain animated powers in nature, such as the laws of birth, death, and rebirth after a sojourn in the judgment of the underworld.
Today symbolism works differently; it has moved from the energy quality resonant mode to an intellectual one. In our left-brain perception worldview, a symbol is a representation of a complex idea to get a literal message across. For example, a policeman in uniform represents the law, but he is not the law, he just enforces it. To the Ancient Egyptians there was no representation, they became that thing. They would be invoking the abstract power of order in the universe behind the laws, and became one with it. So we see here that symbolism in their world view was different. They expressed an animated power of nature through a personified image containing its energy-quality attributes, which they used to connect through a form of resonance with that power. They would be invoking the NTR as an entity. Furthermore, using geometrical shapes in specific proportions and angles, they developed scepters that were actually subtle energy devices in the hands of the NTRs.
Let us consider the relationship of a multiplicity of NTRs (which are Divine Attributes) to the ultimate transcendental, uncreated Divinity, which mystics refer to as the ‘Godhead’, to differentiate it from the word ‘God’, when applied to the Divine Attributes. This erroneous labeling of the NTRs as ‘gods’, and not as animated powers of nature, misleads the modern reader into thinking that there was a form of Pantheism at the time that was incompatible with Monotheism. This mistaken interpretation has relegated Ancient Egypt to a land of ancient black magic, whose ‘heretical beliefs’ were ‘corrected’ with the emergence of the Abrahamic family of religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam).
Many scholars make the mistake of regarding the Pharaoh Akhenaton, who ruled Egypt from about 1353 B.C. to 1335 B.C., as the first monotheist in recorded history. Akhenaton rejected the old religion and initiated a new form of sun worship of the one god ‘Aton’ (Fig.83). From our contemporary point of view, we consider his idea of monotheism as revolutionary at the time, as we assume that up until then, the Ancient Egyptians worshiped many gods. This however was not the case. As we explained earlier, the established state god ‘Amon’, as well as all the other gods, were the manifestation of the Powers of Nature: all attributes of the ‘Godhead’. So here we find a shift to a form of monotheism that had only one symbol for ‘god’, in contrast to the established ones with a huge number of attributes in the form of animated nature powers.
The religion of ‘Aton’ lasted only through Akhenaton’s reign. Upon his death, everything related to his religious revolution was obliterated. Why were all traces of that period removed in such a way? Why did the Ancient Egyptians destroy his tomb and erase nearly all of the documented history of that period from their monuments? To understand why this annihilation occurred, we need to take a close look at the historical circumstances of that era.
Towards the end of the old Dynasty, Egypt was occupied for about 70 years by the Semitic nomadic tribes of the Hyksos. In that period, many nomadic tribes settled in Egypt; among them were the Mithanis, who originated from around the area where Syria is today. The Pharaoh Amenhotep III fell in love with Tiye, the daughter of a Mithani priest couple Yuja and Tuya, and took her as his consort and second wife. Yuja, Tuya and their daughter Tiye coming from a nomadic culture, had a simple way of perceiving the Forces of Nature based on the sun and the moon cycles. This perception is typical to desert environments that lack the diversity and richness of nature as found in the Nile valley; and so it was natural for them to take the ‘solar disc’ as their representation of the one and only God.
Yuja and Tuya brought this Mithani way of thinking to the court of Amenhotep III. The Pharaoh was influenced by their beliefs and went against the traditional rules of succession to make Tiye the great royal wife to guarantee that her children would be the legal successors to his throne. From their marriage was born Amenhotep IV, later known as Akhenaton.
Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, inspired by the faith of his mother, decided to enforce aspects of this nomadic religious belief, to form the type of Monotheism that we can relate to today. At the beginning, the Egyptians accepted and tolerated the ‘Mithanian’ belief system. Resentment however, started after the Pharaoh changed his name from Amenhotep IV to Akhenaton, which meant ‘he who pleases the god Aton’. He then instituted a comprehensive strategy to place Aton as the sole representation of god with the solar disc as his symbol, instead of Amon as the foremost of the old gods of Egypt. The priests of Amon who had considerable power, especially in Thebes, which was the religious and civil capital of Egypt at the time, were angered. Akhenaton built his new capital at a location known today as ‘Tell El-Amarna’, in the province of Minya, three hundred kilometers north of the then-existing capital at Thebes, which is modern Luxor today, and named it ‘Akhet-Aton’, which means The ‘Horizon of Aton’.
The power of the priests of Amon was swept from under their feet. A political struggle ensued. This was not a conflict between monotheism and polytheism, but a new form of monotheism in the presence of an old established pantheistic form of monotheism. So it was not really a struggle of belief, but more of a political shift of power.
One of the things Akhenaton did that created severe resentment, was to prohibit the use of amulets and proclaim the Aton sun disk as the only symbol for the abstract, omnipotent, omnipresent, unnamable Divinity. Amulets in the Ancient Egyptian religion were not just representations: they were the tools of the science of subtle energy quality, esoteric geometry, and active symbolism, which achieved a resonant connection with the NTRs to bring the support of the divine forces of nature to the Egyptians’ everyday activities, as well as to provide protection from harmful, invisible forces of nature. This prohibition of amulets was very disturbing to the priests and to the population in general, who relied on them in all aspects of their life, and was probably a major factor that eventually brought about the destruction of Akhenaton’s religion. The Egyptians could not accept the prohibition of amulets. To the Ancient Egyptians, banning the wearing of amulets or placing them on the mummies of the dead, was like sending soldiers to war without their weapons. Akhenaton further upset the Egyptians when he required the builders and artisans to stop drawing the typically stylized art, and start depicting more lifelike representations. This departure from the old laws governing sacred ritualistic art, in favor of a more natural concept, infuriated the temple priests. It was a disregard for the essence of their art, which through the right-brain perception translated the forces and powers of nature into geometrical shapes, connecting them to the archetypal plane behind the forces of nature, where the energy laws and patterns of everything exist. They felt lost and disconnected from the sacredness of everything around them in nature.
After Akhenaton’s death, the controversial figure of Smenkaure ruled for a few years. He is thought to be Akhenaton’s younger brother, his son, or his son-in-law. Some Egyptologists even claim it might be the renowned beauty Nefertiti, his wife, ruling as a Pharaoh for three years. In any case, Smenkaure abandoned the Aton religion, brought back the supremacy of the ‘Amon cult’ and moved the seat of power back to Thebes. Three years later, at the age of nine, Akhenaton’s son Tutankhaton became Pharaoh. Tutankhaton continued the reconciliation by restoring the old Amon faith. He changed his name which meant ‘the image of Aton’ to ‘Tutankhamun’ to show reverence to ‘Amon’. Tutankhamun, however, died very young and that was the end of the ‘Amarna period’.
What is remarkable is that, even though Akhenaton governed for about seventeen years, there are hardly any details left about how his life ended since most of the records of his reign were completely erased. The whole of Akhenaton’s Amarna period, which was an early precursor of our modern way of belief, but a heresy to the Ancient Egyptians, was erased from Ancient Egyptian history. The Egyptians went back to their old religion because it was their science of harmony and way of life, in which every aspect of their environment had a sacred role. A seed had, however, been planted that would soon herald the birth of contemporary religions.
Because of similarities between Akhenaton’s faith and the Jewish religion, some scholars believe that the Hebrew prophets’ concept of a universal God, as preached seven or eight centuries later in a land that Akhenaton once ruled, was derived in part from his cult. Others go as far as to suggest that he might be the prophet Moses himself! Historically however, this does not hold. The Pharaoh of the exodus was Merenptah, who ruled after Ramses II, several generations after Akhenaton.
Many centuries later, and after the link to right-brain perception of the ‘Ancient Man’ was lost through the slow shift to ‘Modern Man’, the old beliefs lost their hold. We can, however, still find many aspects of the ancient beliefs in the form of religious traditions and rituals that have been passed in different forms down through the centuries.
Where are the Ancient ‘NTRs’ Today?
The Ancient ‘gods’, as we now understand, are the animated powers of nature; so they are ever present. In different cultures and different eras, they take different names. What the ancients called NTRs are in a way similar to what we call angels. Let us take the Archangel Gabriel as an example. The root of the name is ‘Gabar’, which in Arabic and some other Semitic languages refer to an attribute of God meaning ‘Power’. Therefore, we find that the Archangel Gabriel is a personified law of nature expressing power. An angel is the expression of a law in the universe: It has no free will beyond the limits of the Divine law of the nature it represents. It is only through right-brain perception that we are able to perceive and personalize this power.
The Angel of Death, for example, expresses the law of transition to the after-life. Sometime before dying a person starts to enter into resonance with the law of death. This law of death might be a formula of energy interaction with five or six variables or criteria. One criterion could be the state of the physical body, or the loss of the body’s vital forces. Some of the other criteria deal with the time and place of birth, astrological aspects and other universal laws. So the formula is there, it is real. At one point, as the criteria are fulfilled, the person is in full resonance with the law of death. At that time, the law of death manifests in him, and the dying process begins on the energy level. His subconscious personifies and shapes this abstract energy form into the picture his memory data bank produces for the angel of death. During this process, which can sometimes take a few days, he might say: “the Angel of Death came to me.” In Arabic we call the Angel of Death ‘Azra-El’. This name probably refers to ‘Auser’ or ‘Azer’, the Ancient Egyptian name of Osiris who governed the underworld. So we see that our pantheon of angels is not so different from the Ancient Egyptian NTRs!
For the Ancient Egyptians, invoking the powers of the NTRs to bring harmony with the laws of nature was an innate thing to do. Through their sciences they interacted with the harmonizing energy quality of sacred places on earth and in the sky, as well as sacred times to bring the right balance to the powers of nature. This was the way of the Ancient Egyptians; they lived with the blessing of Divine Wisdom and played an active role with the Laws of Nature.
The shifting process from right-brain perception to left-brain perception, was a progressive process. Consequently, left-brain perception gradually became stronger and right-brain perception became weaker. To better illustrate this, we can imagine a magnifying lens, to represent the functioning of the senses. With a weak lens, the difference between what is under the lens and what is outside it is very little, so we can get the whole picture in focus. As the magnification of the lens gets stronger, we start seeing what is under it in detail, and what’s outside it becomes blurred; slowly we lose sight of the whole picture. Similarly, what is under the lens becomes the ‘I’ and it gets sharper, and more separate from its surroundings, which get hazier with every magnification. The ‘I’ created by the senses is the ego of the left-brain perception, which keeps getting stronger, while the surrounding, holistic perception of what is outside it, referred to as right-brain perception, gets weaker and we slowly lose identification with it. That is our ‘I’ in Modern Man, creating the illusion that we are separate from everything else.
The great shift in perception was gradual. Towards the end of the Ancient Egyptian Civilization came the moment when the shift moved completely to left-brain consciousness, losing the connection with the archetypal world which was its backbone. With the emergence of the perception of Modern Man, the whole meaning and function of symbols changed. Today we see a symbol as representing a whole idea or concept that we relate to intellectually. When we see an ancient symbol, we cannot invoke the archetype with which it was in resonance.
As new civilizations arose, the focus shifted towards a left-brain evolution that gradually led to our modern world. We developed an advanced technology on a level never reached by any ancient civilization. However, with the lost harmony and communication with the forces of nature, we are threatening the life of our planet. By using left-brain perception to create a scientific interaction with the hidden possibilities of the right brain, we can bridge the gap between modern technology and the subtle energy powers of nature. This would lead to humanizing modern technology.
I want to share with you a story I often use in my lectures that can shed light on where I believe our modern technology as it is now is taking us. An Egyptologist, scientist from the 21st century builds a time-machine and zaps himself to Ancient Egypt in the year 3000 BC. Of course he takes with him his computer, with a full pictorial documentation of the achievements of our modern era. At his destination, a large crowd of friendly, curious Egyptians greet him. He shows them the pictures depicting our modern way of life, and the leisure provided by our technological accomplishments. They marvel at what they see and take him to the royal temple. At the temple, he is brought to the presence of the Pharaoh and the temple Priests. Our scientist is very excited and starts telling them about our way of life and raves about the achievements of our era. He then takes out his ‘iPod’ and is very happy to see the surprised look on all their faces. The Pharaoh and Priests are very impressed, so our scientist proposes to teach them how to produce and use this new energy to totally transform their civilization. The High Priest then asks him to show them how these things work, and all about this new energy he is talking about. Proudly, our scientist produces two of his latest lithium batteries.
The Ancient Egyptian priests look at the batteries and take out their strange scepters and pendulum devices; they start taking some strange types of measurements. Then they look at each other and shake their heads. The High Priest tells the Pharaoh that this type of energy is harmful to man; it works on a level so strong that it disrupts the harmony of the subtle energy interactions in nature, which eliminates the possibility of the energy from the batteries directly interacting with man or nature without causing harm.
The Pharaoh tells the proud scientist from our era that his technology separates man from the natural harmony of the universe. He tells him that this civilization from the future is at the expense of man; while theirs has been built to reinforce the pillars of man’s inner development that connect him to his ‘original home’ on a spiritual level. Without this connection, man’s inner constitution would show irreparable cracks. The Pharaoh and the priests then introduce our friend to the holistic sciences of Ancient Egypt that interact directly with the powers of nature.
Our scientist is totally converted to their way of thinking, and wants to stay and become a disciple of the temple in order to be properly initiated into their sciences and wisdom. He discovers that their knowledge, science, spirituality and religious beliefs, unlike our present concepts, are one and the same. The Pharaoh tells him that instead of spending a lifetime studying in the temple, he should stay just long enough to grasp the holistic approach to life, and to get his own experiences in interacting with the higher subtle levels of energy. He should find the answers to his own questions practically, and not go into the details of their culturally bound applications within their everyday activities, which do not stem from the unconscious make-up of his own era. It is important that the collective unconscious of his own society work in harmony with the laws of nature, to integrate and reinforce the individual awareness. This is the way the universal truth of natural law and order which they called ‘Maat’ would prevail.
The Priests explain that there are some aspects of Ancient Egyptian holistic knowledge which cannot be transported over the millennia to become part of a new modern holistic science. With our different psychological and mental make-up, some of those aspects which have emerged from the interaction with a different collective subconscious, might actually disrupt the integrity of a new holistic worldview. Those aspects can be studied metaphorically to gain insight into the universal hidden values behind their culture and perception-bound rituals. The exact performance of the rituals would not bring any benefit to a society with a different collective mindset, as the rituals acquire their power from the collective, as well as the universal, levels.
The Pharaoh and the priests explain to our scientist that his duty is to return to the future in the 21st century and use Ancient Egyptian wisdom to create a new holistic science that employs new energies for interacting harmoniously with our present, unconscious make-up. He is also told that there is a way of using the types of energy of his own future in a way that benefit the human energy system holistically. Modern technology should not be discarded, but only transformed for the benefit of man.
The Pharaoh gives him a farewell present. It isn’t gold as he had hoped, but a pendulum in the form of an ‘Ouadj’ amulet representing a papyrus bundle (Fig. 84). It is about 7 cm in length, made of pottery, and covered with a green, glazed coating. “This,” says the High Priest “is an important and very effective energy device, which the Nature goddesses hold as a scepter that not only represents a certain aspect of their power, but is also used practically for energy emanation (Fig. 85). The Pharaoh and the priests are amused as they notice the disappointment that our scientist tries to hide and tell him that “some day, when he is ready, he would understand the immense worth of this extremely valuable present.”
Here I might sound more like an Ancient Egyptian priest while I am, in fact, speaking through the paradigm of a ‘Physics of Quality’ whose scales of measurement are attributes of effects and relationships, and not the numeric quantitative scales we are used to in modern science. The achievements and capabilities of BioGeometry, as a modern science of shape and subtle energy quality, which is only thirty five years old, can only give us a glimpse of what the Ancient Egyptians could have achieved in five thousand of years or more.
Ancient Egyptian Components of the Soul
It is important to understand the Ancient Egyptian way of looking at the components of the soul. We generally perceive ourselves holistically as body, soul, and spirit. In the Ancient Egyptian system, the soul is seen as a hierarchy of several levels of being. These were regarded as ‘entities’ which together formed our whole being38.
| Akh or Akhu | Immortal spiritual being | |
| Sahu | Immortal spiritual body | |
| Sekhem | Immortal spiritual life force | |
| Rn | Secret name/energy formula | |
| Ab or Ib | Heart/inner essence | |
| Ba | Immortal soul | |
| Ka | Mortal soul | |
| Khaibit | Vitality/shadow | |
| Khat or Kha | The physical body |
The Ancient Egyptians had rituals for practical energy interaction with each level. The ‘Ka’, which is the lower mortal soul on the vitality level, contains basic instincts and other primitive aspects of our psyche on the lower emotional and mental levels, which it acquires during our lifetime. The ‘Ka’ does not have our full mental or emotional make-up, so it has a very weak personality. After death, it takes three to four days for the vitality of the ‘Ka’ to dissipate. This is what is sometimes referred to as the ghosts of the dead haunting the cemeteries for a few days after their death.
The Ancient Egyptians mummified the physical body to use it as a connection to the ‘Ba’ (immortal soul), and as an abode for the ‘Ka’ that they wanted to keep alive to perform certain tasks in its new life in the grave. The ‘Ka’ is a pure form of elemental energy that has a weak personality, and could therefore be programmed to guard the tombs from robbers or bad spirits, by energetically attacking trespassers. Here there might be an explanation for some of the incidents that we label ‘The Curse of the Pharaohs’. In the lifetime of the deceased, the ‘Ka’ was always regenerating from his vital energy. Since a dead body cannot feed the ‘Ka’ with its vital energy any more, it was the family’s duty to provide fresh food, so that the ‘Ka’ can take the energy it requires directly from the offering. The ‘Ka’s’ actions came from the old habits during the lifetime of the person. It saw food, took the energy from it, and became rejuvenated. An apple for example, was still physically there afterwards, but there was no subtle energy left in it because the ‘Ka’ had absorbed it. That was the way the ‘Ka’ was kept alive. If the family stopped feeding the ‘Ka’, the ancestors’ mummies were left unprotected and a curse would fall on them. After several generations, there were so many dead ancestors, that the family was spending more money feeding the dead than taking care of the living. So a more sustainable solution had to be found.
The Ancient Egyptians knew that the geometric archetype of anything in our physical world is the energy pattern upon which this physical form is built. When they created an archetypal image of a fruit on the wall of the tomb, the ‘Ka’ could connect with it through resonance. The archetypes of all kinds of animals, birds, fish and vegetation reproduced their physical world in a subtle energy dimension, with which the ‘Ka’ could interact to sustain itself. Once the energy connection was achieved, the ‘Ka’ could continue eating and drinking to maintain its energy forever. From an energy point of view, the whole landscape was alive for it to dwell in.
These examples clearly demonstrate the power of art and sculpture in the Ancient Egyptian tradition. Drawing a picture according to specific criteria could make what it represents ‘immortal’.
Ancient Egyptian religious and funerary art was not meant for mere decoration, but first and foremost, as a functional tool for the harmonious transition and sustain ability in the afterlife. When the master draughts man came to execute the drawings in a tomb, he made modular grids upon which the craftsmen sketched the drawings according to very precise proportions and principles. The dimensions of the grid itself had a subtle energetic quality effect on the figures drawn upon it. They had to reproduce the symbols in an exact manner, according to the archetype kept as one of the secrets of the temple. It was important to keep the drawings unchanged to the smallest detail over thousands of years because they were not just drawings, but energy devices. The priests and artisans were connecting to the archetypal world, and summoning the related NTR when they drew a flower.
We can now, fully comprehend how the Amon priests and the people in general felt when Akhenaton decided to deviate from the sacred tradition in their art in favor of a more realistic representation. They knew that the archetype would be gone, and the images would be rendered lifeless. There would be no spiritual harmony through the archetypal connection, and the land of Egypt and its people would be cursed.
The Hidden Dimensions of the Human Archetype
The use of the human archetype in art and sculpture played a very important role in Ancient Egypt. The archetypal human figure in the drawings and reliefs on the tombs empowered and kept the energy system of the lifeless mummy intact, as well as that of the Ka. This might explain what Paul Brunton wrote in his book, ‘A Search in Secret Egypt,’ about mummies he had seen that displayed a nearly lifelike condition, but started to deteriorate when the bandages and amulets were removed. The same thing was witnessed by my friend the late Dr. Fawzi Soliman, then Director of the Museum of Ancient Medicine in archeological diggings at Giza.
The stylized archetypal statue of the Pharaoh was enclosed in the tomb in a small chamber referred to today as the ‘serdab’ (Fig. 86). The serdab was a completely enclosed space with only a very small hole to connect it with burial chamber. In this way the statue was inaccessible to any person who could contaminate its energy quality. This statue became the abode of the Ka in which it could reside.
The archetypal dimension contains the subtle energy-forming laws, which manifest as the natural forming process of shape in the physical dimension. An archetype is like a perfect geometrical template representing the forming patterns behind physical shapes. The archetypal template, when manifesting in the forming process in the physical dimensions, is modified through environmental, genetic, social, psychological and other factors of the physical world. It produces the different shapes in nature, which are usually slightly imperfect due to the modifications of the original template.
Our extensive research in this area, in which resonance with the gometric archetype was used to empower the physical subtle energy system and induce harmony with the environment, has given us the key to formulate our theories about the Ancient Egyptian use of archetypes in sculpture and wall reliefs (Fig. 87).
A breakthrough in my research came when I was able to decipher the ‘Human Geometric Archetypal Code’. This code empowers and harmonizes the human subtle energy system on all levels. We now use it in several configurations to evaluate the subtle energy quality of the whole human subtle energy system on the different levels. Our measurement tool, the ‘Archetypal code ruler’ has become the qualitative scale by which we assess the effect of any object on the human subtle energy system. In this context we now use ‘man’ as the measure of all things.
In the illustration, we can see the archetypal 2-D code of the human body (Fig. 88). It represents the code for the complete multi-level pattern (physical, vitality, emotional, mental and spiritual). The different human forms vary from the archetype as they interact with their environment, but only show disturbance when they go beyond the variations allowed within the code. When making a statue of a pharaoh, they had to find the right balance between the likeness and the ideal archetypal proportions, in order to link the harmonizing effect to the pharaoh without losing the resonance with the archetype.
In this context, the huge statues of Ancient Egypt must be seen as having a new function: that of providing harmony to the surrounding environment. Giving such functions to the statues, while keeping the secrecy of the knowledge in the temples, has given rise to a great deal of misunderstanding by the civilizations that followed, once the knowledge was lost. This misunderstanding opened the way to idolatry. This unfortunate turn of events must not lead us to the erroneous belief that the Ancient Egyptians were idolaters and had many gods. This is definitely not the case. It should also not detract us from finding the secret knowledge of working with the invisible dimensions of our being, which is crucial to bringing the natural, universal harmony to take our civilization to another level.
With a solid understanding and belief in the monotheism of Islam, Christianity and Judaism, the discovery that all ancient beliefs had their essence in monotheism, that manifested in one way or another before they were misunderstood, gives us a huge trust in the guidance of God for all humanity, at all times, to see the Divine light as the driving force behind all belief.
Discovering the power of geometric archetypes (especially the human as one of the most complete and advanced archetypes in nature) and working with them has made the students and practitioners of BioGeometry understand and see new depths in their respective religions.
The shift that gradually took place from Primitive Man’s holistic perception to Ancient Man’s more left-brain analytical perception, led to the emergence of scientific thinking and analysis. Ancient Man, however, still kept the link to right-brain perception, keeping the animated powers of nature as an integral part of the scientific paradigm of the period. The next shift, however, from Ancient Man to Modern Man, closed the door to those powers of nature, and relegated them to the realm of myths, traditions, fables and fiction.
We lost our knowledge and recognition of those Nature Powers when we lost the focus on our right-brain perception. The NTRs are omnipresent, but we lost the ability to perceive them. In the left-brain perception, symbols don’t work anymore the way they did in ancient times. It is an analytical area where we break down and add up things. We break up meanings into letters; an alphabet, for example, symbolizes phonetically just one letter. We can re-arrange those alphabetical symbols and make up different words. This is the left-brain world of the Modern Man.
To appreciate an archetype, we must have a feeling for the pattern in its entirety40. The overview of the whole shows us the qualities of the entire system. Focusing on details will not give us a feel of the totality of the scheme. In the shift from right-brain perception to left-brain perception, the holistic meaning of the symbol is lost. When we see a symbol of an apple, we probably start thinking of fruit, color, nature, instead of ourselves becoming part of the essence of the apple in a process of exchange of information and energy quality. Our reaction to the symbol is purely intellectual. The symbol no longer works as it did for the ancients because the symbol belongs to right-brain perception. We have moved the location of the ‘I/ego’ to left-brain perception, so when the animated symbol tries to reach us through our right-brain perception, we are not there anymore. When the shift began, the written languages with their different alphabets were invented as literal expressions of the spoken word. Hieroglyphics became a sacred language used mainly by the priests in the temples.
Pythagoras, Plato, and many of the other classical Greek philosophers, were introduced to the sciences of the ancient civilizations of Egypt and other cultures of the Middle East. They kept the practical right-brain, inner teachings of those ancient temple sciences to their inner circles, while adapting them to the new, emerging shift of focus to a left-brain type, scientific way of thinking. They spoke of archetypes, not the esoteric ancient way, but more from an intellectual approach representing the world of ideas and symbols. The Greeks were the promoters of the intellectual, philosophical way of looking at things. All ancient sciences were remodeled by them into an emerging left-brain system, which became the root of modern western thought. When we learned how to think ‘logically’, we put up barriers between our conscious and unconscious realms. Today, we try to reach beyond the veil that we created, through a doorway that may be slightly opened and accessed through spiritual exercise that transcends the mind or arts that are of timeless nature manifesting the universal laws of creation.
Most of those Greek scholars came to Egypt to study in Alexandria. Pythagoras, for instance, spent 22 years in Egypt.39 When one was accepted into the teachings of the temple, there was a vow of secrecy taken since the esoteric part of the knowledge was for the scholars, while the practical applications were given for common use. One of the most secret and sacred sciences was Ancient Harmonics. This is the harmonic interaction of everything in the universe through resonance. It teaches the laws of Harmonics as the way of creation, and manifests them in Music, Mathematics, and other sciences. These were all a way of expressing the laws of creation to our sensory world.
When Pythagoras said ‘everything is number’ he was speaking about the interaction of subtle energy qualities in the universe expressed in their quantitative aspect. The Ancient Egyptian sciences’ (such as Harmonics and Radiesthesia) were guarded and preserved as secret temple sciences, and as time went by, they were completely forgotten. Harmonics was partly kept alive by what came down to us from the Pythagorean tradition, and later on by Kepler, Von Thymus and Chaldni. In the 1950s it found a new revival in the works of the Swiss, Hans Kayser.
In Roman times, Radiesthesia was practiced in a simplified form by the ‘Augurs’ for Earth Energy Grid Line surveys for city planning. The Jesuits later on preserved this science, which they used in herbal medicine and water detection. The fact that the popular dowsing techniques (which are basically psychic in nature, and are a form of divinatory art) also used pendulums and divining rods, completely eclipsed the science of Radiesthesia and its harmonic origin. In the medieval period in Europe, anyone using pendulums, dowsing rods or other forms of dowsing tools, was labeled as a ‘magician’, and risked being persecuted or even burned at the stake. Radiesthesia was therefore kept secret in Jesuit monasteries as a valuable tool in their missionary work. Many years later, when it was safe, the science of Radiesthesia began to surface again. In the Middle Ages the scientific knowledge and intellectual freedom of the classical Greek and Roman Civilizations came to a halt, as Europe entered the Dark Ages. At that time, the culture of the Islamic Empire, which was at its peak, helped bring Europe out of the ‘Dark Ages’ and into the Renaissance Era. This revival brought with it, among other sciences, the sophisticated methods of earth energy detection to support the energy forming process in architecture. These methods, which have been used by the Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans in the planning of their temples and cities, were being implemented in Islamic architecture of the Empire of Islam that stretched along the coast of North Africa all the way to Spain. The detection of subtle energy power spots and earth energy Grid Lines was practiced by specialists, often depicted in Arab garb (Fig. 20).
To the Western world, Pythagoras and the Greek scientists and philosophers of that era, best represent the shift from the right-brain perception of Ancient Man, to the left-brain perception of Modern Man. He was there at the time of transition that marked the end of the Ancient Egyptian civilization and the rise of the Greek civilization. The Greek civilization marks the beginning of Modern Man, when the intellectual shift to ‘I/ego’ was completed. Ancient Egyptian Civilization lost its foundation. All the sciences of Ancient Egypt, and all the greatness of living and working on an archetypal level, as well as living in perfect harmony with the laws of nature, were lost. Philosophy, which was seen by Pythagoras as the ‘Love of Wisdom’ in a religious sense, was degraded to an intellectual practice. The philosophers started worshipping the logical, analytical mind, putting philosophy and the intellect on a pedestal. Everything that did not fit within the framework of the mind was put aside as myth, even religion was put aside as a system of belief, and its links with the powers of nature were relegated to mythology. The split between science and religion was born.
To give you an example that highlights how things are perceived differently from left-brain perception versus right-brain perception: Egypt was called KMT (pronounced Khemet) which means the ‘Black Land’. The River Nile flooded the land and left black silt every year, which made the soil fertile and the vegetation rich. The people who came from other countries found this lush, green vegetation unusual and unique. The prosperity of Egypt came from this ‘Black Gold’. The Egyptian civilization at that time had risen to the peak of excellence. It had the highest form of knowledge anywhere in the world, known as the ‘science of the Black Land’. When the shift to Modern Man took place, and qualitative sciences were misunderstood and classified as magic, what had been the powerful science of the Egyptians then became seen as a very potent form of magic. The ultimate form of that ancient magic was the magic from the ‘Black Land’. The fear of the unknown made the people use the term ‘black’ to mean ‘evil’ as opposed to ‘white’ in total contrast to the original concept of ‘Black Gold’ which connoted the fertile soil.
Contemporary religions as we know them emerged then, with a modern concept of monotheism in which the powers of nature as inadequately pictured by Egyptologists, were erroneously characterized as multiple ‘gods’. The ancient knowledge and rituals were labeled ‘heretical’ and anyone practicing them or using their symbols was persecuted. The great heritage of the ancient world perished with the burning of the Library of Alexandria by religious fanatics, who were determined to put an end to the ancient ‘pagan’ world.
From the dawn of humanity the invisible realms played a major role that influenced many aspects of man’s interaction with his surroundings. This relationship with the invisible is at the core of most belief systems. Beliefs in the existence of Heaven and Hell, as well as angels and demons, has always had a tremendous impact on our actions and the way we view our physical reality.
The names may change depending on the process of personification involved, which is largely affected by culture. We can say angels or spirits instead of nature powers or Ancient Egyptian ‘gods’. However, it all amounts to the same thing expressed differently, according to the era and culture. When we tackle these themes from a contemporary, religious perspective, we speak about them as things that are separate from us. When a Sufi speaks of the divine attributes of God in Islam, we are not aware that these Divine Attributes are also within us. We perceive them as attributes of God and know the inconceivable Divinity through them. There is a harmonic, resonant relationship between all the different ranges and dimensions of the universe; meaning that the energy functions of the Divine Attributes outside of us have their counterparts on another scale inside of us.
Let us examine the Divine Attributes as laws of nature or universal energy functions. Different motions of a primordial energy produce different patterns, and every pattern in turn, produces a different function. As all energy patterns are part of energy living systems, we can safely label them or personify them on the basis of their life functions or attributes. Those living energy patterns have within them the power to exercise their functions, and can be perceived as animated nature powers. These are the NTRs or what we call the ‘gods’ of the Ancient Egyptians. These NTRs have their resonant counterparts within us. So we can say that the holy attributes, labeled as Ancient Egyptian ‘gods’ or nature powers, are alive inside us. They are at work outside, as well as within all living species. We can also say that angelic entities are interacting or supervising the functions of our body, or that the Divine Attributes are functioning within us.
This means that, as the energy functions within us have their counterparts outside of us in a more abstract form, the biological functions of our organs work in a harmonic relationship on a much wider universal scale. We can say that every biological function is affected by what goes on at the furthest part of the universe. It is all one symphony. We cannot invent new powers for the body, totally separate from the powers of nature outside. Those functions must be the same NTRs interacting inside and outside of us. The interactions of nature powers in our subtle energy system support the functions of our biological system. If we look at each organ’s energy function with the understanding that a particular power of nature is working within it, we can say that some Universal Law of nature is at work (call it what you like: energy quality, Divine Name, attribute, NTR, angel, or just energy pattern). In this way, we can detect the correspondences between the organ’s energy function, and any of the above systems. Let’s say you have a problem with a particular organ, if you become aware through right-brain perception that these powers are working inside of you, you can connect to them through a specific prayer, through rhythm, number, sound, color; or maybe use the sustainable physical manifestation of the language of nature in the form of BioGeometry shapes, that can bring balance to your system and hopefully support the medical treatment. Subtle energy balance is a vital factor in the success of any kind of orthodox or complementary medical treatment.
The name of an angel encompasses an attribute (e.g. Archangel Gabriel: Gabr = power, El = God), which expresses the function of a divine law manifesting as an intelligent power of nature. It could be in resonance with a name, a number, a frequency, or a symbol among many other things. They are all the same Divine powers, but with different manifestations. We have, for example, the Divine Names of the attributes of God. In the Jewish tradition, there are 72 names. In various Christian traditions there are some that have 72 names and others that have 81. In Islam, we find 99 names. According to ancient systems of numerology, all of these numbers when reduced to one digit add-up to ‘9’. In the physical manifestation, ‘9’ is the number leading to the transformation from one decade to the other, the ultimate attainment in human development. Yet the numbers are incomplete: none of them are ‘10’. In many traditions, it is said that completion is the ultimate name of God. The ‘10’ is the One and the Zero taking completion to another dimension beyond time and space. From here, in this physical dualistic dimension, we will never reach it. In reality, the Divine Names are innumerable. Choosing a certain quantity is a means of expressing their attributes in a symbolic numerical context, often used in ancient scriptures.
We can find the names that resonate with us in the Divine attributes, or the names of NTRs in Egypt. If you speak English, Dutch or other languages, you will be looking at translations of the ancient sources for this information. You would do well to go to the Aramaic or the old Hebrew or something closer to the original source. In the Ancient Egyptian Language, for example, the name of the NTR Sekmet (Fig. 89) evokes its nature power and activates the throat chakra. This energy center is the seat of the word of power, called ‘Hekau’ in Ancient Egypt.
In Islam, we have the original Arabic pronunciation of the Divine Names in the ‘Holy Koran’. As those names represent universal attributes of the Divine, so every energy function must somehow be linked to those attributes. This applies to everything in the universe, including the biological energy functions of all living systems. In our research, we found a high correlation between specific Divine Names and individual body organs. Rhythmic repetition of the Divine Names resonated with the Divine Attributes in the universe and seemed to balance the organs’ subtle energy functions. It is a way of inducing harmony between the inner environment and the universal laws of nature.
What Can Ancient Egypt Teach Us?
If we are looking at what Ancient Egypt can teach us, we must look at ‘Ancient Man’ and not ‘Primitive Man’ based on Jung’s categorization (Fig. 73).
Primitive Man was simply one with nature, like the animals, birds and plants. When we hear the song of a bird, we assume it’s a form of communication; but this is probably not always the case, at least not in our modern sense of ‘communication’. The bird is not focused on the detailed meaning of its ‘tones’ in a similar manner to our left-brain type perception. It is in tune in a holistic, spontaneous way with the laws of nature. The sounds it makes play a role in the overall balance of the subtle energy quality of nature. Maybe the sounds are needed by a certain tree or play a role in the activation of a specific ‘nature powers’. When a species is in tune with nature, it does not need to learn a language as humans do; it uses primordial types of communication that are imprinted within its system.
Through the shift from Primitive Man to Ancient Man, humans were able to use the primordial language intellectually, while retaining its original essence as the connection with the laws of nature was still open. Ancient Egyptians had the knowledge to produce magic through ‘Hekau’, the ‘words of power’. They used special words that had the capability to activate natural powers to produce the desired effects. Today, a word has no power to produce anything beyond conveying a meaning, basically aimed at those persons who understand that particular language. No matter how eloquent the words are, we are not able to affect the powers of nature or interact with the surrounding subtle energy qualities in a direct way. If only we could again become one with the powers of nature, and have this holistic perception! The Ancients possessed this primordial knowledge that accessed the powers to become one with the universe. Every hieroglyph,40 number, and sound existed in resonance with a specific concept or power. The word was put together not just to convey a meaning, but mainly to produce an effect on the powers of nature.
When the biblical prophet Moses led the twelve tribes into Sinai, they camped at a place known today as ‘Oyoun Moussa’ (Moses springs). There, he used his staff to dowse for water to dig a well for each tribe. In the 1980’s when I was working as a planning consultant to the Governor of Suez, General Tahseen Shanan, we undertook the project of locating the twelve wells of Moses and excavated them from under the sand dunes that had completely covered them. We planned to develop the spot into an open-air museum with huge stone tablets on which words from the religious scriptures of the three major religions relating the event would be engraved. This was an effort to shed more light on the archeological findings and emphasize the unity of the three religions. Unfortunately, this project was never realized and the wells were lost again under the sand. In the picture (Fig. 90) we are standing next to the only one of the Moses wells that, although covered with sand, was still visible. Ironically, the sign that now marks the well dates it back to the Roman period, even though the name of the whole of that area suggests its true origin.
Prophets and saints, through connection with the higher transcendental dimensions, had right-brain perception in full function. They became spokesmen for the higher powers and invisible dimensions of nature. They had connected with a certain attribute of Divinity through which they performed their miracles. Whether it was the prophets and seers or the Ancient Egyptian priests, the belief in the one almighty powerful God was always there at the core of the powers that produced the miracles.
There are indices of the existence of a very ancient, predynastic monotheism in Egypt from which the pantheon of the NTRs or secondary ‘gods’ emerged, manifesting the attributes of the one God. In her book, ‘New Light on Ancient Knowledge, Egyptian Mysteries’,41 Lucy Lamy sheds light on this belief within the teachings of the four centers of instruction (Heliopolis, Memphis, Thebes, and Hermopolis) in Ancient Egypt. The same passages about the ‘One Uncreated Creator’, ‘Almighty God’ in the Ancient Egyptian scriptures (such as the book of ‘Emerging forth into the light’ known as the ‘Book of the Dead’, because it was found in all the tombs), are found in the later Judeo-Christian and Islamic Holy Scriptures.
What might seem to be miracles to us today were, to the ancients, applications of their sacred Ancient Sciences. In the same way, a modern mobile phone or a television would seem like a miracle to them, and to anyone who is not familiar with our type of power or energy (electricity). The difference is the type of power used. The Powers of Nature that we use today in the form of electricity, magnetism or gravity, work mainly on a physical level. The Ancient Egyptians, however, worked with the powers of nature in their holistic form affecting physical, vital, emotional, mental and spiritual levels.