Egyptian Cosmology the Animated Universe, 3rd Edition

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Egyptian Cosmology

The Animated Universe

Expanded Third Edition

by Moustafa Gadalla

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CONTENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PREFACE [2ND EDITION]

PREFACE [3RD EDITION]

STANDARDS AND TERMINOLOGY

MAP OF ANCIENT EGYPT

PART I: THE EGYPTIAN

MYSTICAL MONOTHEISM

CHAPTER 1: THE MOST RELIGIOUS

1.1 THE EGYPTIANS’ COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS

1.2 THE UNITY OF MULTIPLICITY OF THE

UNIVERSE

1.3 AMEN-RENEF: THE UNDEFINED

PART II: THE PRINCIPLES

AND PRINCIPALS OF

CREATION

CHAPTER 2: THE ANIMATING

ENERGIES OF THE UNIVERSE

2.1 IN THE PRE-CREATION BEGINNING—NUN—NOTHINGNESS

2.2 LET CREATION BEGIN

2.3 SOUND AND FORM

2.4 ATAM—THE MANIFESTED COSMIC ENERGY

2.5 EXISTENCE OF THE ALL—THE BECOMING

ONE

2.6 NETERU—THE DIVINE ENERGIES

2.7 MAAT: THE DIVINE ORDER

2.8 THE UNIVERSAL ENERGY MATRIX AND EINSTEIN

2.9 NETERU AND ANGELS

2.10 NAME CALLING

2.11 THE CREATION CYCLE

2.12 SIRIUS AND COMPANION: CENTER OF CREATION

CHAPTER 3: THE PICTORIAL

METAPHYSICAL IMAGES

3.1 PICTORIAL SYMBOLISM OF THE NETERU

3.2 HOW DO EGYPTIAN DEPICTIONS REFLECT

METAPHYSICAL CONCEPTS?

CHAPTER 4: EGYPTIAN CREATION

PROCESS ACCOUNTS

4.1 VARIOUS ASPECTS/FORMS OF

MANIFESTATION

4.2 EGYPTIAN COSMOLOGY AND ALLEGORIES

4.3 THE THREE PRIMARY PHASES OF THE

CREATION CYCLE

PART III: THE

CREATION NUMERICAL

CODES

CHAPTER 5: NUMEROLOGY OF THE

CREATION PROCESS

5.1 ALL IS NUMBER—NUMBER MYSTICISM

5.2 NATURAL PROGRESSION—THE ORDERLY

SEQUENCE OF THE CREATION CYCLE

5.3 THE UNIVERSAL NUMBER TWO—ISIS, THE

FEMALE PRINCIPLE

5.4 THE UNIVERSAL NUMBER THREE—OSIRIS,

THE MALE PRINCIPLE

5.5 THE UNIVERSAL TRINITY & DUALITY

5.6 THE UNIVERSAL NUMBER FIVE—HORUS,

THE PHENOMENON

5.7 THE NUMERICAL SEQUENCE OF CREATION

2,3,5 … THE SUMMATION SERIES

CHAPTER 6: THE DUALISTIC NATURE

6.1 THE DUALISTIC NATURE OF

CREATION—THE TWO OF THE ONE

6.2 ARCHETYPAL ANIMAL—TWO-HEADED

SERPENT NEHEB KAU

6.3 MAIN APPLICATIONS OF THE DUALITY

PRINCIPLE

6.3.A DUALITIES WITH CREATION /FORMATIVE

ASPECTS

6.3.B UNIFICATION ASPECTS

6.3.C CYCLICAL ASPECTS

CHAPTER 7: THREE—THE UNITED

TRINITY

7.1 THE FIRST ODD NUMBER

7.2 THE THREE-IN-ONE

7.3 OTHER TRINITY APPLICATIONS IN EGYPT

CHAPTER 8: THE STABILITY OF FOUR

CHAPTER 9: THE FIFTH STAR

9.1 THE UNIVERSAL NUMERICAL PHENOMENON

9.2 THE FIVE PHASES OF HORUS

9.3 THE DESTINY—FIVE POINTED STAR

CHAPTER 10: THE CUBICAL SIXTH

CHAPTER 11: THE CYCLICAL SEVEN

CHAPTER 12: EIGHT, THE OCTAVE

CHAPTER 13: THE NINE LIVES

13.1 THE UNIVERSAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE

NUMBER NINE

13.2 THE NINE TIERS OF THE UNIVERSAL

MATRIX

13.3 THE NINE TIERS OF MAN

CHAPTER 14: TEN, A NEW ONE

PART IV: AS ABOVE

SO BELOW

CHAPTER 15: THE HUMAN BEING—THE

UNIVERSAL REPLICA

15.1 THE ONE JOINED TOGETHER

15.2 METAPHYSICAL/PHYSICAL FUNCTIONS OF

THE BODY PARTS

15.3 THE NINE COMPONENTS OF MAN

CHAPTER 16: SOCIAL & POLITICAL

SYSTEM

16.1 HARMONIC MATRILINEAL/MATRIARCHAL SOCIETY

16.2 THE DUAL OVERSEEING/ADMINISTRATION

SYSTEM

16.3 THE TENANTS’ RIGHTS & OBLIGATIONS

CHAPTER 17: THE COSMIC LINK

17.1 THE ETERNAL POWER

17.2 THE MASTER SERVANT

17.3 KEEPING THE FLAME ALIVE [THE HEB-SED

FESTIVAL]

17.4 THE PEOPLE RULE

17.5 THE VICTORIOUS KING

CHAPTER 18: THE PHYSICAL/

METAPHYSICAL SOCIETY

18.1 SEEKING HEAVENLY HIGHER-UPS

18.2 THE HEAVENLY HELPERS

i – Family and close relatives

ii – Community Patrons—[Ancestral local/regional patrons]

iii– Folk Saints

18.3 ORDERLY RELEASE OF METAPHYSICAL BODIES [FUNERARY RITES]

18.4 THE MEDIATING TREES—SACRED GROVE

18.5 THE WESTERN WALL THRESHOLD

18.6 THE COSMIC SHRINES (TEMPLES)

18.7 THE CYCLICAL RENEWAL FESTIVALS

18.8 THE PHYSICAL/METAPHYSICAL OFFERINGS

CHAPTER 19: ASTRONOMICAL CONSCIOUSNESS

19.1 COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS AND ASTRONOMY

19.2 KEPLER AND EGYPTIAN ASTRONOMY

19.3 ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS AND RECORDINGS

19.4 EGYPTIAN REAL TIMEKEEPING

19.5 THE ZODIAC CYCLE

19.6 IN RHYTHM WITH THE ZODIAC AGES

19.7 THE SOTHIC CYCLE—THE LEADING STAR

PART V: FROM

MORTALS TO

IMMORTALS

CHAPTER 20: OUR EARTHLY VOYAGE

20.1 OUR PURPOSE ON EARTH

20.2 FROM MORTAL TO IMMORTAL

20.3 GO YOUR OWN WAY (MA-AT)

20.4 PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

20.5 THE ADVANCED ALCHEMICHAL

ADVANTAGE—GOLDEN GOAL—SUFISM

20.6 THE GOLDEN GOAL—ALCHEMY

CHAPTER 21: CLIMBING THE

HEAVENLY LADDER—LIFE AFTER

EARTH

21.1 THE SOUL TRANSMIGRATION

21.2 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

21.3 TRANSFORMATIONAL TEXTS

21.4 ADMISSION TO THE NEW REALM

21.5 THE GLORY

APPENDIX 1—ISIS AND OSIRIS

ALLEGORY

GLOSSARY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

SOURCES AND NOTES

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Moustafa Gadalla is an Egyptian-American independent Egyptologist who was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1944. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Cairo University.

From his early childhood, Gadalla pursued his Ancient Egyptian roots with passion, through continuous study and research. Since 1990, he has dedicated and concentrated all his time to researching and writing.

Gadalla is the author of twenty-two published internationally acclaimed books about the various aspects of the Ancient Egyptian history and civilization and its influences worldwide. In addition he operates a multimedia resource center for accurate, educative studies of Ancient Egypt, presented in an engaging, practical, and interesting manner that appeals to the general public.

He was the Founder of Tehuti Research Foundation which was later incorporated into the multi-lingual Egyptian Wisdom Center (https://www.egyptianwisdomcenter.org) in more than ten languages. Another ongoing activity has been his creation and production of performing arts projects such as the Isis Rises Operetta; to be followed soon by Horus The Initiate Operetta; as well other productions.

PREFACE [2ND EDITION]

Almost all Egyptologists interpreted, and continue to interpret, the Ancient Egyptian writings and other modes of expression (art, architecture, etc.) without trying to understand the thoughts and beliefs expressed in them. Their explanations continue to be shallow, which reflects their pre-conceived notions of the Ancient Egyptians as being primitive and inferior to the modern Western world.

About a half-century ago, Alexandre Piankoff summed up the deteriorated status of Egyptology in the following statements from his book, The Tomb of Ramses VI, 1954:

For the early Egyptologists this religion was highly mysterious and mystical. They saw it with eyes of a Father Kircher. Then came a sudden reaction: scholars lost all interest in the religion as such and viewed the religious texts merely as source material for their philological-historical research.

Under the sway of Higher Criticism, the texts were decomposed and their genesis eagerly studied…The intrinsic value of religious composition and thought was systematically ignored and consequently temporarily lost. Egyptian scholars since Champollion saw in the oldest religious lore of humanity mainly a collection of distorted historical data out of which he endeavored all his life to reconstruct the history of ancient Egypt.

It is time to undo the distortion.

Moustafa Gadalla

2001

PREFACE [3RD EDITION]

This book being the Third Edition is a revised and expanded edition of the Second Edition of Egyptian Cosmology: The Animated Universe, published in 2001.

The First Edition [1997] was originally published as Egyptian Cosmology: The Absolute Harmony, and was changed to better reflect the expanded content of the book.

This book surveys the applicability of Egyptian cosmological concepts to our modern understanding of the nature of the universe, creation, science, and philosophy. Egyptian cosmology is humanistic, coherent, comprehensive, consistent, logical, analytical, and rational. The reader will discover the Egyptian concept of the universal energy matrix, how the social and political structures were a reflection of the universe, the interactions between the nine universal realms, etc.

It is the aim of this book to provide such an exposition; one which, while based on sound scholarship, will present the issues in language comprehensible to non-specialist readers. Technical terms have been kept to a minimum. These are explained, as non-technically as possible, in the glossary. This Expanded Version of the book is divided into five parts containing a total of 21 chapters.

Part I: The Egyptian Mystical Monotheism consists of one chapter:

Chapter 1: The Most Religious will cover the deep mystical meaning of monotheism for the deeply religious Egyptians as well as providing an overview of their cosmic consciousness.

Part II: The Principles and Principals of Creation consists of three chapters—2 through 4:

Chapter 2: The Animating Energies of The Universe will cover the scientific understanding by the Egyptians of the state of the world prior to creation and the animating divine energies of the creation cycle.

Chapter 3: The Pictorial Metaphysical Images will cover the scientific basis for the Egyptians’ pictorial symbolism of metaphysical concepts and the process by which the Egyptian ideographs were manifested in such figurations.

Chapter 4: The Egyptian Creation Process Accounts will cover an overview of the three primary phases of the Creation Cycle.

Part III: The Creation Numerical Codes has ten chapters—chapters 5 through 14:

Chapter 5: Numerology of the Creation Process will cover number mysticism in Ancient Egypt, and pro- vides analysis of the numbers two, three and five

Chapter 6: The Dualistic Nature will cover the dualistic nature of creation and analysis of 14 various applications in the Ancient Egyptian system.

Chapter 7: Three—Trinities will cover this first odd number [one is not a number], the significance of the triple powers of a trinity in the universe and a few applications of such principle in the Ancient Egyptian system.

Chapters 8 throughout 14 will cover the mystical aspects of numbers four through ten.

Part IV: As Above So Below has five chapters—15 through 19:

Chapter 15: The Human Being—The Universal Replica will cover how the physical and metaphysical components of man are an image of the whole creation.

Chapter 16: Social & Political System will show how the social/political structure in Ancient Egypt is a reflection of cosmic principles

Chapter 17: The Cosmic Link will cover the role of the pharaoh as the cosmic link for the Ancient Egyptians and his demise if he does not serve his functions.

Chapter 18: The Physical/Metaphysical Society will cover the various modes of maintain communications between earthly living beings and other realms of the universe.

Chapter 19: Astronomical Consciousness will cover the advanced knowledge of astronomy and time keeping in Ancient Egypt and the zodiac and Sothic cycles; as well as the nature of the harmony of the (seven) spheres and the populace’s participation in their maintenance.

Part V: From Mortals To Immortals has two chapters—20 and 21:

Chapter 20: Our Earthly Voyage will cover the avail- able ways an individual can achieve reunion with the Divine Source, including Sufism, Alchemy, etc.

Chapter 21: Climbing The Heavenly Ladder will cover life after earth, soul transmigration, progression along the various realms towards reunification and deitification.

Appendix 1: covers the basic outlines of the Isis and Osiris allegory and analysis of its mystical meanings.

Moustafa Gadalla

STANDARDS AND TERMINOLOGY

1–The Ancient Egyptian word, neter, and its feminine form netert, have been wrongly, and possibly intention- ally, translated to ‘god’ and ‘goddess’ by almost all academicians. Neteru (plural of neter/netert) are the divine principles and functions of the One Supreme God.

2–You may find variations in writing the same Ancient Egyptian term, such as Amen/Amon/Amun or Pir/Per. This is because the vowels you see in translated Egyptian texts are only approximations of sounds which are used by Western Egyptologists to help them pronounce the Ancient Egyptian terms/words.

3–We will be using the most commonly recognized words for the English-speaking people that identify a neter/netert [god, goddess] or a pharaoh or a city; followed by other ‘variations’ of such a word/term.

It should be noted that the real names of the deities (gods, goddesses) were kept secret so as to guard the cosmic power of the deity. The Neteru were referred to by epithets that describe particular qualities, attributes and/or aspect(s) of their roles. Such applies to all common terms such as Isis, Osiris, Amun, Re, Horus, etc.

4–When using the Latin calendar, we will use the following terms:

BCE–Before Common Era. Also noted in other references as BC.

CE–Common Era. Also noted in other references as AD.

5–The term Baladi will be used throughout this book to denote the present silent majority of Egyptians that adhere to the Ancient Egyptian traditions, with a thin exterior layer of Islam. [See Ancient Egyptian Culture Revealed, by Moustafa Gadalla,