Egyptian Religion And Mysteries [Paperback]

Subjects covered in these pages include:

Egyptian Spirituality

The Akhenaten Heresy and Its Impact on Religion and Mystical Thought

Creation Mythology of the Four Centres

The Soul and Its Journey in Egyptian Metaphysical Thought

Secrets of the Book of the Dead

The Nature of the Human Being

Ra's Journey through the Underworld and Its Initiatory Significance

Egyptian Mysteries as the Prototype of Ancient Mystery Schools

Shamans, Hierophants, and the Initiatory Process

Wisdom of the Egyptian Sages, from Ancient Egypt to the Hermetic Mystics of Alexandria

The Heart as the Spiritual Self and Monitor of Morality in Human Behaviour

KIRKUS REVIEW:

A collection of insights into the esoteric meanings of ancient Egyptian religious and spiritual practices.

This extraordinary book, the product of extensive research by author and Rosicrucian lecturer de Motte (The Grail Quest, 2003), is ideal for readers who want to go beyond ancient Egypt's pyramids, artifacts and mummies. Here, in highly readable form, the author presents the broad outlines of the ancient Egyptian spiritual belief system-from the founding cosmology of a watery, amorphous pre-creation mass to the rise of Ra, Osiris, Isis, Horus and Seth, and on to the highly developed use of symbols as keys to mystic truths, comprehended only by a chosen few. Why do ancient Egyptian renderings of human figures have bird heads? The book gives the answer: They depict, among other things, the soul in flight, freed from an earthly cage and able to access other realms of reality. The book also explains how the scarab, an insect that stores balls of dung to feed its offspring, is intimately linked to the mighty sun god Ra, who must successfully pass through the underworld each night. One of the book's main themes is the notion that, in every age, there's a body of secret knowledge alc