The Adventures of Schwaller de Lubicz We have been following the early career of Rene Schwaller de Lubicz from its beginnings in Europe to a sudden revelation that convinced him to move to Egypt and spend the next fifteen years living in cramped quarters in a dingy hotel. What was he doing in these fifteen […]
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The Real Esoteric Investigator So far we have seen two quite distinct views emerge on ancient Egypt. On the one hand, modern scholars tend to disregard the achievements of this civilisation as the work of primitive minds who didn’t know more than basic mathematics, and held to a very superstitious religion where they were at
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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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So far we have presented the orthodox version of Egyptian history and archaeology. The great pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx were constructed about 2500 BCE. The pyramids were constructed as tombs for the pharaohs. There is no mystery. Unfortunately for these theories, there is very little evidence for them! For a start, not
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The Battle Begins: Orthodoxy vs Alternatives The Riddles of the Sphinx Bonaparte Before the Sphinx by Jean-Léon Gérôme 1886 This painting by the French artist Jean-Leon Jerome is called, Napoleon Before the Sphinx. It symbolises the confrontation between the power and the intellect of the West, symbolised by Napoleon, and the endurance and the questions
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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
