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Why in large, vast numbers of people are now recognizing that our contemporary science,

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however brilliant, is heartless and leads to nothing that's actually satisfying to the human

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soul.

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And it is Egypt, along with the other civilizations as well, the other ancient civilizations,

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but it is Egypt that we have access to.

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It's Egypt that in going through their temples and tombs and studying their pyramids,

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we get a living sense of how human beings civilized human beings once behaved.

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The science of perfecting of consciousness.

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The secret creation of the permanent and highly valuable philosophy stone.

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This magical and arcane knowledge seems to perpetually fade from view only to burst into

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incarnation again.

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This is one aspect of the powerful symbol of the Phoenix, continually rising from its own

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nations.

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At the Temple of Kahnak, the organic cycle of life is representatives through the symbolism

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of the seed which produces the tree that bears fruit, continue the seed for the next cycle.

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This relief may show the teachings and revelations of the past to be in their own way bound

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to the Asyrian cycle of death and rebirth.

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The presence of the great teacher thought, the god of numbers and language, of thinking

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itself, links these teachings to a cycle seen in organic learning.

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Thoughts deep wisdom found bloom in the Pharaoh, who is then able to write his golden name

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in history.

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One act is itself a beautiful symbol for this cycle of rebirth, is perpetual unfolding

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of the sacred traditions and the secrets of magic.

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As the torch was passed to each new generation, the Temple grew and evolved along with

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In this generation, the teaching would again flourish.

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The knowledge itself seems alive and subject to seasons of fertility as well as long

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the appearance of the population.

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Throughout history, we see it's psyched through reemergence and its evolutionary influence

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of the world.

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The ancient secrets of personal becoming the mastery of circumstance, of the creation of

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a perfect vessel for immortal consciousness.

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The ancient secrets are often said to be lost through the stream.

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But if one knows what will look, the ancient secret still burn brightly.

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The secret and ancient technology known throughout history and magic seems to direct us

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to the transformation of lower or base materials into higher.

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Charco means we're done, led into gold.

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But since the beginnings of transmissions of these secrets, their most precious application

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was the material preem of consciousness itself, our attention, our awareness, our intellect,

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our inspiration, our intuition, our individuality.

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It is the material preem that most take from granted.

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It is widely wasted, largely overlooked, and partly regarded.

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The same laws that govern the perfection of the material world, applied to the world of

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intellectual consciousness.

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We can create a diamond out of ourselves by following the same rules that apply to the perfection

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of any external material.

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This is one aspect of the deep secret of the philosophy of the stone, the transmutation

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of our consciousness into an object of a perfect compact structure, high-bany, virtual

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impenetrability and lustrous powers.

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The body is the temple in which the work takes place and what does the work, what has to do

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the work is the con, in other words, that's our personalities.

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We have to decide as our decision to make, whether or not we want to just

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move our way through life, doing whatever it is that we do, or involve ourselves in this

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transformational process that has a quite distinct goal in mind.

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The goal, of course, is a very lofty one, but each of the steps is, each of the steps has to

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be, each step has to be accomplished before the next step takes place and for those who are engaged

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upon this path that becomes the all-absorbing focus of a lifetime lived and it really depends.

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That's our decision to move on to why it's through this.

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The sense we are, we've got the Egyptians knew what they were talking about and the

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the calm that the sea is judged on the judgment of all of those iris that we don't do it,

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we suffer the consequences and if we do do it we reap the reward,

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a mantra of our work and where we go. This is, again, this is formal and

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Christianity as well, practically everything in doctrinal Christianity can be related to

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Egypt and when Christ gives the parable of the solar and to the matter of the solar, the parable

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of the talents, he's talking about talents there being a weight of silver, not the talent

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of musical baseball, that sort of thing, but they're related in a way and that if you're given

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ten talents, if you're born with your business, you have five talents bestowed upon you,

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you're expected to make ten of it, you have two expected to make four of it and you have one

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years of the make two of it that is not necessarily mathematically correct with the parable,

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gives the idea and in the parable the Lord leaves, God leaves the Lord the land and the birds

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expressed the the rich land owner leaves having bestowed these talents upon his servants and he

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comes back sometime later and the one with five is made ten of the one with two is made four

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both the land owner, the compliments in the month they're working but the one who has just been

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given one said to you recognize is that the land owner is a, there's a, there's a, there's a cruel master

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and so he's buried his talent and done nothing with it and the land owner vanishes him to the,

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to the how to regions and say something like, oh that one profitable servant from those that have

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shall be given it, those that not will shall be taken away even that little witch they have,

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some words to that effect, so this is basically the Egyptian doctor, re-expressed in

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Christ's parables, so this is, that's the, those are the rules, you're given a certain,

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everybody has given something to work with, a P.O.C. who doesn't do to work,

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suffers those consequences, we're in the middle of it, we're in the middle of the society where

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not only are few people doing the work but the validity of the work itself is denied by

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precisely the people who actually run the system.

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What is intelligence?

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Thoth, who may be in every way the father of thought, is portrayed as a god or netter to demonstrate

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the bundle of functions and associations we commonly think of as intelligence or consciousness.

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Here's the pavilion of patterns, of organization, of hierarchies, he not only represents thought,

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but his teachings are the systems of optimizing thought. Here's the embodiment of all the aspirations

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of the mental faculties.

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The many nylon letters employed up and down the line showed a very developed science of measuring

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and predicting the rise and fall of fertility of the land.

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Each temple had an ilometer and when flood season it was connected with the nylon,

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I'm not sure exactly how but whatever the, whatever the flood level was, it would come into the

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nylon material and the stairs of carefully calibrated X-Num-Root digits and whatever level it came up to,

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allowed the priests to hold the priests exactly what the harvest was going to be,

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and who exactly what the flood was going to be and that determined the harvest is no rain

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to speak of or at all for years and years and years. So this tells them it's taxation and events

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because they can levy, they can levy the taxes according to what they know given,

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you know, unless there's a plague of locus to something that's or they know exactly what they're

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going to get from the level of the nylon and because the level of the nylon is different

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at various sites depending on the width of the floodplain and the number of other factors

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we need an nylon material at each precinct or each known to be able to tell them how much water

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for that particular area. So this is a pretty matter of fact looking when we get to come on both

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it's a very spectacular, beautiful round D.P. nylon atom.

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The Egyptians understood the laws of cyclical fertility so well that they could predict the

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crop rates by careful measure of the level of the nylon at key points in the end of the cycle.

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Is it possible that the Egyptians also observed the science of predicting the rise and fall

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of intelligence throughout the day? The longer cycle of the months and years and the

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ground celestial cycle of the universe? The main fact of the vector record for ever

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a minus that are intelligence and our consciousness rise and fall by the times like the eternal

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cycles of performance and sleep. Once we begin to look we become aware of our daily

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fluctuations of consciousness or awareness of low blood sugar streams with peak times

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are on times maximum creative yield. We begin to become aware of the high and low times of

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our capability, our strengths and weaknesses and flux throughout the day if we pass through the

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decades. Our thoughts, our minds, souls, our awareness, our personalities are different

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of different parts of the day. This can in part be related to the airborne flow of

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electrolytes and dolphins and adrenaline, serotonin and other neurotransmitters but what

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determines the cycle and causes their rise and fall? The ancients indicate that consciousness is

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influenced by external forces and in fact, they even originate outside of us. The ancient

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model holds at the consciousness we experience exhibits own resonance with certain astral

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bodies. Some texts go as far as to identify a specific star as the source or the well-spring

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of the universal consciousness we all participate in.

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It seems obvious that intelligence and mental focus are concentrating on consciousness

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was necessary for the carrying out of the magical world. As the land was made fertile or

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subject to famine according to the rising and falling delves of the low, perhaps the

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fanatical attention to the heavens was evidence of the cracking, mental, intellectual,

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intuitive, and magical content. Chartered and observed, rising of falling in strength,

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cycle corresponded to certain stones. Is this one of the secrets behind the precise

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astral moment of alignment seen in so many of the sacred signs?

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When we recognise the fluctuating nature of consciousness, it is then possible to undertake

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the study of how we can perfect it, optimize it, amplify it, maximize it, use it to construct the stone.

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The Arabian name for Egypt was Kemat, meaning the black land. Alchemist originally known

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as Alchemist, or from the black land. It was a magical practice that was so carefully guarded

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that it steps, shrouded in allegory and riddle. It was communicated through metaphors

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about transformation, and specifically transmutation. It described the alchemist quest to collect

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the material pre-mo and to subject it to a series of exacting purification processes.

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It performed correctly and was great intent in the part of the alchemist, material pre-mo,

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would become transmuted to a higher state. Yes, well the word, the word alchemy.

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derives. It's an Arabic word, but alchemy it. The Egyptians call their own country,

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Kemat, the black land, and so alchemy becomes the art of the or from of the black land.

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It is, I think, a director and indirect transmission of an Egyptian doctrine, the mystery

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schools that more or less died out. We could say, anyway, there certainly wasn't a whole society

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devoted to developing a cast of initiated priests, but alchemy was a way of doing it on your own,

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and it was even a frowned upon by the church, but the formal institutionalized church, it was

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permitted because they all thought they could go old out of it, but the goal, of course,

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but the alchemist produced, may or may not have been real gold, so to and I don't know that

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it is in fact possible to transmit elements from one to another. We do that with our atom bombs,

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but that's hardly gold. And so this practice was permitted by the church and Schuiler himself,

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of course, was an alchemist, and he talks about those who are simply interested in the physical

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process of hope to produce gold, and those who understand that the actual production of gold,

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if it is indeed possible, I think it is, actually. I think there are enough accounts of the

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alchemists that are not folder-old and that are eyewitnesses you might say, and yes, you can't

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test the witnesses anymore, but I think it's, I think it's in principle possible that they actually

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succeeded in what they were doing, but the production of the gold was like passing a test,

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I mean that told you that you'd acquired the philosopher Stalin and you had reached a certain level

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of internal development.

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The successful result of the alchemist's process was the creation of the philosopher's stone.

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Like a true symbol, the stamps can be applied to many things. It is the process, the machine,

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what you put into it, my fart, will undergo the archetypal steps if carefully attended by the

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alchemists, culminate in a higher state. The alchemist will go, charcoal, and the diamond.

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When we use charcoal as the focus of an alchemist's operation, we begin by recognizing

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that it's essential ingredient carbon is the material pre-mo, that will emerge perfected as the diamond.

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When the charcoal undergoes the cleansing fire and a stressive geologic portions,

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it is hardened into a perfect, impenetrable diamond. It becomes itself the geometric map,

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perfect universal order. The highest spiritual registers to the lowest physical realms,

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the universal order can be seen as the lattice which guides the growth of the vine,

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as an archetype that guides and supports life on the material play.

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While many agents can be introduced into this machine, and undergo the archetypal steps to its perfection,

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the one to which the most closely guarded alchemical allegory of occult laws dressed

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as consciousness itself. This is the essence of the great work, the application of the special key

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to this mysterious universal form in it. The key directs the alchemical process to the

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material pre-mo of our very consciousness, our awareness, ourselves, mental cells,

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and spiritual cells. Consciousness is the material pre-mo.

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While the value of creating alchemical glass or alchemical gold, we see more obvious, one might ask,

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what is the benefit of applying their chemical steps to consciousness?

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At the beginning of the show, we discussed great minds throughout time that were made great,

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who were able to write their names in human history as a result of discovering and internalizing

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these secrets for themselves.

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But beyond the myriad benefits that are higher consciousness and the great intelligence might

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have in the physical life, the pyramid texts offer a clue as to their greatest value.

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The alchemical steps have been a remarkable similarity to the stages of transformation

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depicted in the funerary texts of what is in the duet. It depicts the highest use of alchemical

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the creation of the perfect vessel that will carry one across the line through the hours of the

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duet across the great threshold of transformation to the after-life.

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Seeds of the book of the Amduat, the book of what is in the duet, the Netherworld, or the beyond,

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or the state of consciousness that succeeds, or that follows death,

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in the tombs of the early kings of the new kingdom, these are depicted in magical or unmagical

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paparaces and rather in cartoon form as the wilderness stick figures later in the new kingdom.

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The pharaohs decided for reasons of their own to turn these texts into

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a more artistic form and to carve them and release into the walls of the tombs.

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The tombs set it the first and now close to the public because of severe geological subsideants

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has been closed for some 17 years and probably will continue to be closed in the public.

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But this is perhaps the high point of Egyptian funerary art in the new kingdom.

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And here we see the same representations that we see in the tomb of took Moses the third,

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but realized in fabulously, artistically rendered three dimensions carved into the walls.

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But the end result is rather peculiar in that the initial effect when you walk into those early

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tombs is one of high magic in related tombs here. For example, the effect is more artistic

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in other words, wherein the company here of virtual or so artists and it's less obvious that

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their magicians, but they are exactly the same text and representations are the variants of the same

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teaching.

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effects itself takes itself through the archimical steps it becomes the stone.

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This is the vessel used by the deceased navigator in the do-round.

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This is the seed or the egg which hatches into a higher incarnation in order to act on its own

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behalf to gain mastery through the machine of the aftert.

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This is why the priests and initiates spent each day in constant service of constructing the perfect stone.

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The perfection and crystallization is a condensation of the will, the attention, consciousness.

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The finished presence created the philosophy of the stone,

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diamond art and charcoal, late to go. It was believed then as now,

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it worked on and life to perfect, to congeal, to make permanent, to consciousness,

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who prevented dissolution and evaporation and breakdown, consciousness and then aftert.

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charcoal state is easily broken down, dissolved by forces of separation that one passes through

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And as the years grew, rolled by and I had the opportunity to be an initiator and an officer

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in these initiation ceremonies, some of them overtly magical in nature.

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Things started to put themselves together about what the initiatory

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structure really was and then things sort of echoed back to me from the book of the dead.

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All these crazy little things that they did in the book of the dead, had the deceased do.

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All of a sudden I saw elements of that in all of the little

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initiatory steps. So, I took another look at the book of the dead and more or less figured,

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yes, this is the pattern for for initiation.

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is a kind of initiation. You study the course, you take a test, you pass the test,

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you get through the course. So initiation is exactly the same thing, but on an

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inner level rather than an outer level and in societies that were, that was structured and

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an initiatic, these tests were formal, it's such a thing and we got to a certain stage. Actually,

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we see that in the medieval system of apprentices, journeymen masters. The same sort of thing,

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we had to pass this particular test in order, you were in apprentice for X number of years,

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working for nothing and being taught. And then you have given a particular test to pass it,

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you were a journeymen, Mason or a journeymen, weaver or whatever it is, and then you get to a certain point,

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and then still another test and a few become masters. And that's like life, if you're playing the

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violin, it's one thing to play in the high school orchestra, another to play in the symphony orchestra,

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and then a few become soloists, same process, a few become baseball players in the major leagues.

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It's the same process, it's just inner work as opposed to outer work.

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The free-maced and celebrate the power of the creation of the tower in the physical world

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and its creation in the inner, mental, spiritual world. The metaphor of building and architecture,

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embodied in free-maced music shows the parallel path one takes to build both the tower outside of us

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and the tower within. This is one of many strong ties between the ancient Egyptians and

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modern Mason's, as well as a number of other contemporary esoteric and fraternities.

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the architecture, the decorations and such in the door decidedly Egyptian, to go to the house of the

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temple in Washington, D.C. There's two big finks is out front and winged solar discs

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and such all over. So from a superficial point of view, Mason's dig all things Egyptian. If you look

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at old Tressel boards, Masonic posters and such, you'll see pyramids and obelisk and finks and

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and such even though their myth is of King Solomon's temple and biblical things and that

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Phoemician style stuff. Nevertheless, it all translates Egyptian. The ceremony itself

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by its ceremonies of initiation, by its format follows the pattern of where you're stopped,

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you pass, you have to overcome the thing moving to the golden dawn. Now, it's a magical society

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that was proud to call itself a magical society, 1888 in London. It just flat out was in your face

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Egyptian, the officers wore nemesis and the lotus wands and such and there was Egyptian Godfarms

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that was part of the regular mystical practice recognizing the fact that how many thousands of

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years have these Godfarms been impressed upon the consciousness of humans.

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where literally in tomb, no Cyrus, you know, gets up and has a little talk with you which is

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quite impressive, I think. So it's had a lot of influence moving into to Alistair Crowley

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who was a member of the golden dawn long enough to cause so much trouble that the whole thing fell

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apart but his initiatory society actually there's a couple of them but the but his the Cor One

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which was an extension of the golden dawn schema and the golden dawn degrees were representative

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of higher forms of consciousness progressively higher forms of consciousness but they didn't actually

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require you to achieve those levels of consciousness to attain those degrees but this is the pattern

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of what you're going to what you're going to do someday you know but Crowley's thing was now

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you're not those degrees unless you're experiencing that level of consciousness and

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he just he just went hard core Egyptians some of his initiatory just even the names of the

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initiations for that organization which are self-enitiation ultimately because ultimately all

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initiations are self-enitiation but the Libre Pyramidos you know it's got another another ritual that

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literally puts you in a boat like like you know Osiris like the dead like the book of the

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dead and in order to do this ceremony properly you have to have a lake and pylons that and somebody

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rolling you to different things well it's pretty impressive so that's that's a fairly

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Egyptian too so I would say with if we just go back in the history and wipe Egypt out

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and pull a big plug on modern initiatory societies because there's not a heck of a lot of them

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out there dressing up like hit heights what is it about these ancient secret teachings that have

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made them so timeless and valuable so sought after so faithly preserved

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as the art of masonry and building provided a shelter the shifting conditions of the seasons

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these ancient lessons might be thought of as blueprint or templates that allow

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under rise above the shifting conditions of the world out somewhere to build a permanent

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residence for oneself in the realm of the netto lift the mine to the consciousness out of the

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ever shifting highs and lows of external circumstance and maintain a state of stability

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with the building and occupied the temple within

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these ancient teachings the blueprints for the creation of the inner town the

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external stones represented the internal material prima that has sculpted and formed

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into mental realm recreations of these principles these houses of the messes

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temple is a masterpiece of new monarch technology temple acted as a template

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is designed mimic the optimal 3D structure of the teachings in transmitting

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its symbolic and architectural components demonstrated the interconnectedness of its teachings

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and at the same time showed an ideal form for its internalization as a mental model of its

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revelations its form may have suggested the optimal structure of its recreation in the brain

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seen in this light the temples become an outward reflection and icon the symbol of the structure

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of an inner temple

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the ancient secrets are often said to be lost to history but if one knows what will look

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the ancient secrets still burn brightly preserved and protected in fraternal orders as

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a terric societies in the aseless wisdom teachings that are unleg as even the ancient

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cultures in modern magical circles global shamanic practices and encoded in many more

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unconventional and unexpected places they're all over the place

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maybe they've always been all over the place but they've been too scared to come out of the closet

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studied Western hermeticism considered themselves

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nominal this religion or nominal that religion but but behind it all they at heart were were

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magicians as far as pure numbers go and in modern history magic has never been more popular

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there's there's a thriving golden dawn all sorts of golden dawn different kinds of golden

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dawns if you're this religion or a golden dawn if you're that religion it's very popular there's

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more information on the bookshelves than there ever has been some of it's pretty good

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and the Crowley's organization which is probably the the most unlikely to be to become popular you

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would you would think because of Crowley's terrible reputation and the fact that it takes a great

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commitment and a little bit of courage to tackle Crowley's Crowley's work and get to a point where

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you understand that it's just as wholesome as anything else it's scary but it's wholesome you know

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the world is an outdoor organization the auto-templary and this has like 3,000 members

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throughout the world in over 20 countries and uh and it's not because I think that that the magic

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has changed or modernized itself or made itself more more understandable or accessible

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but because I truly think people have changed and sometimes I think humanity changes slowly

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over period of time sometimes it stays the same for a period of time but I truly think that

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there are periods where we undergo leaps

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and I think we've just experienced a leap I believe that one of those quantum leaps is just

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recently taking place and it all has to do with our consciousness of our place in the universe

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and it it wasn't too long ago that we thought that the sun went around the earth

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and that the earth was flat and all of that literally we thought the sun died

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for the we thought the sun actually died every night and even even if we gave it a thought

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you know it's well it's gonna come up tomorrow because it did yesterday you know

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dad said it always came up for you know so but there is always this this uneezingness about it

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and for many many years it was in the hands of a priestcraft of every culture

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that hey where the guys that make the sun come up you know so I know you're scared at night

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but if you you know follow our rules and pay our taxes and feed us you know that sun's coming up tomorrow

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and so it wasn't all that long ago and that dying sun thing that we all had in common with

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everyone else on the planet gave rise to the the the the the fundamental religious

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forms of expression and our whole idea of the afterlife okay the sun goes down at night

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it doesn't go down it dies okay and I started diet night because I fall asleep and so I'm sort

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of dead too not only that I dream and I there's light in my dreams where the heck does that light

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come from it must come from that dead sun okay and this must be that dead sun's world

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and there's strange things happen I even meet dead relatives there you know and so it's very easy

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to to think that the dead sun rules the night and the dead sun rules the the afterlife okay so

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it seems just one little step to to thinking that when I die I'm gonna be in charge or the guy in

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charge of me is gonna be the dead the dead sun and I'm gonna have to you know follow follow

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this thing that's Osiris in the underworld okay writing his boat okay and and that's the the

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whole Christian the Christian formula too okay Christ like the sun died and like the sun

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has to be eugabugadup in the morning there has to be intervention of some kind to get that

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yet he might been in the morning so that even though long after we learned that the earth goes around

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like this in the sun is from a relatively stationary and and such we we were still dominated by this

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concept in the back of our heads well the sun really dies and just like my religion tells me

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my savior really died and had to had to come up Osiris had to come up Jesus had to come up in about

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19 others you know in the scene that same period have to come up but we've gotten to a place

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and you may you know want to drag in the concept of eugas and other things but

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just generally speaking just to cut to the simplistic chase most of us on the planet are now very

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comfortable with the fact that the earth goes around and the sun is stationary the sun is staying

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on all the time we've seen pictures of the earth being round we've gone to the moon and seen pictures

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of the earth relative to this thing the mankind as a whole knows that the sun does not die

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the sun stays on all the time and they're I think just recently recently and within the last

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hundred years let's say recently something has clicked in all of us or something has clicked in

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enough of our collective consciousness that the sun never dies the sun stays on all the time

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and if it's nighttime the sun's just shining on the other side of the world we're just sitting in

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our own shadow the sun stays on all the time I stay on all the time the sun doesn't die I don't

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die if it looks like I'm dead I'm just standing in my own shadow and I think that has clicked

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just just recently and so magic all of a sudden has a new improved formula and the the magical

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societies of today are now thrilled at this new little piece of the equation that is now improved our

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understanding of reality we don't understand reality yet you know but it's a little bit better than it

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was before and all of a sudden that's exciting it's an exciting concept for religion and it's

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and it's an even more exciting concept for magic because magic is an actual actual use

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you get up off your chair and do something instead of thinking about something with this new improved formula

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that's I think the golden dawn was sort of a preview of that crolly was sort of a flat out

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and an ounce mud up it and the mason's bless their hearts from probably mid-eval times we're trying to

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say it's coming up you guys you know it's coming up you know there's something bigger than then

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you know this knocky down picky up knocky down picky up die come up light dark like dark it's just

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you stay on all the time it's a fundamental new realization of the continuity of existence

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and we understand ourselves to be in a theory of prima we begin to understand the necessity for

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purity and discipline we understand hardship and resistance as a necessary phase for our higher becoming

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most important we understand the constant potential required to nurture the fleeting new birth

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and to ultimately make it solidify into perfection into permanence

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principles upon which Egypt was based are in fact eternal and by people who are conscious of what they are

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doing it's not inconceivable that it can be reformulated in a manner that we can grasp but we can

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access and that we can manifest there are many genuine teachers flourishing today and along with

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along with the healthy sprinkling of charletines but the ancient knowledge is in the process

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of reconstruction of coagulate and it's not too much to hope for that in the not too distant future

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these the force that drove the hermedic societies or that drove them forward that kept in the

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live over 2,000 years of effective darkness will now see the light once again in a civilization

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wide renaissance and with a bit of luck the year 2050 we're very different from the year

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2000 in an entirely beneficial and constructive way

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you