Egypt: The First European Esoteric Understandings The Egyptian civilisation was rediscovered by the West when Napoleon and his troops invaded Egypt at the end of the 18th century. This land of extraordinary monuments and mysterious writing captivated the attention of Europe. When accurate measurements of the Great Pyramid were made, scholars were shocked to discover […]
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More about pyramids… Last week’s blog …from the WEST introduced the amazing Egyptian civilisation. Of all the seven ancient “Wonders of the World”, the only one remaining is the Great Pyramid of Khufu. If you read the scholarly publications, then it appears that the representatives of the Academic tradition have the Egyptian civilisation well in
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Egypt: Pyramids, Pharoahs, Priests and Papyri 1 From the Outside There is no doubt that the scholars have done a great job on the civilisation of ancient Egypt. According to the generally accepted wisdom, Egypt originated about 3000 BCE. This time is labelled the First Dynastic Period. The first pyramid, the Step Pyramid of Saqqara
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…from the WEST Originally this was intended to be a very short book named, “A Very Brief History of the Western Esoteric Spiritual Tradition”. As time has gone on, it seemed more appropriate to make it instead a series of articles and comments on elements of what scholars and academics have come to call the
