Insights into The Ancient Egyptian Wisdom
The Boat of Millions of Years by Naomi Ozaniec
The Sacred Science of Ancient Egypt has much to offer us as we search to make a new paradigm a reality. Although the complex Egyptian pantheon can appear confusing, the application of a few simple keys will reveal a practical and profound understanding of nature and the cosmos.
Key 1 Divine Templates – The Neteru
The divine figures so often called, ‘gods’ and ‘goddesses’ are more properly called, neter and in the plural neteru which translates more properly as, ‘cosmic power.’ Often depicted traveling through the sky in the Boat of Millions of Years, the Neteru belong to eternal time.
These ‘gods’ are not grand projections of human qualities but eternal and everlasting powers, divine templates of truth-justice, knowledge-learning, death-renewal, wisdom-compassion, beauty-love, and power-purification among them. Egyptian life was based upon the conscious manifestation of these powers as cultural and spiritual realities at different levels of life, in the cosmos, in nature, in human life and in the temple.
Key 2 Being and Becoming
Although we cannot help but think of gods and worship in the same breath, the Egyptians had no word for ‘worship’! In the temple tradition, the relationship with the neteru was one of recognition, identification and assimilation. In other words, the relationship between the human and the divine was one of Being and Becoming.
This dynamic relationship opens the way for a practical creativity and the exaltation of human consciousness. The Sacred Science as a body of knowledge and tradition enshrined the various ways of manifesting these powers in the physical world through rituals, offerings, festivals and ceremonies.
Key 3 Thinking Anew
It is not possible to enter into the relationship of Becoming with the intellectual-rational mind that characterizes our typical Western mentality. A new paradigm characterised by wholeness and connectivity can only arise from a different mindset. Here we may learn directly from the Ancient Wisdom.
Rosemary Clarke summarises this difference: ‘The communicating bridge between the Neteru and the human condition is the innate intelligence….the intelligence of the heart.’
This awakened consciousness is marked by three qualities: Simultaneity, Pairing and Association. If you apply this simple approach to even a single thought, it is easy to see how these qualities begin to knit the experience of life together and form the basis of a holistic consciousness.
The Egyptians understood and represented the innate connectivity of all life and endowed human consciousness with the potential for spiritual exaltation and co-creation in harmony with the Neteru. Egyptian culture shows us the results of this practical wisdom, we too might benefit from manifesting the Neteru, the cosmic powers.
Naomi Ozaniec is the Director of Studies for the House of Life. She is a priestess, author and workshop facilitator. Naomi’s books include practical guides to many aspects of the Western Mystery Tradition. For more information see Amazon and www.thehouseoflife.co.uk
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