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Fundamentals: What African Youth Should Know About the Most Advanced African Civilization 
All humans originated in central east Africa. They were initally all black skin populations. It is this humanity
that went out of Africa to populate the other continents of the world. And when it went out, it was differentiated---that
is to say it took on different aspects, a different appearance. Those human beings changed their appearance as they changed
continents. Race is simply a matter of climate. Not only was humanity born in
Africa, it was developed there on that continent to create the first of the world's civilizations along the Nile river,
which is the KMT civilization. It was obviously a civilization created by Africans. It was also this civilization that
created medicine, art, and science which was passed on to other populations who initially came from Europe, Eurasia, and Arabia
as parasites, predators, then out right invaders. Approximately, 150,000 years ago this later human ancestor, like you and me, existed in Africa.
It was only in Africa for a very long time, and not on any other continent. Homo Sapiens-Sapiens lived in Africa
at least until 100,000 years ago before it left Africa. During this time no other part of the world was populated by such
a modern being. And if this modern ancestor had stayed in Africa, and not gone to other continents, the rest of the world
would not have been peopled. Humankind would not be of many races; rather it would simply be Black and homogeneous-one color
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Origins of Civilization: The humanity that was born in Kenya went down to the Nile Valley to create there the first African civilization.
When you have a map of Africa you can see that humanity came to life, was born, at the source of the Nile Valley in the region
of the great lakes. If you follow the valley of that river this humanity went to the lower valley and created there the KMT
Civilization, an indigenous Black civilization created by the people who were there before other races were created. Before the very existence of other civilizations all the technological elements of the KMT
were already in place, and then perpetuated themselves until the later period. Indigenous African Kmtian civilization is over
13,000 years old. It lives within us today. The core of ancient Kmtian culture was a fundamental insight into
the laws of creation, development, decline, death and rebirth. For them, this Ka was a process that everything had to
go through. It is for this reason that, in all modern schools of oppression,
we are presented with an obvious paradox. We are taught that the ancient KMTians were a people capable of producing artistic
masterpieces, engineering science, and architectural structures unequalled in recorded history, yet that at the same time
they were priest-bound necrophilia, an intellectually infantile "mysteriously" black skinned but white race obsessed
with purely materialistic concerns for a mythical hereafter; a people slavishly worshipping a grotesque pantheon of animal-headed
ancestors; a people devoid of real mathematics, science, astronomy or medicine, and devoid of any desire to acquire such knowledge;
a people so conservative, so opposed to change, that their artistic, political, social and religious institutions remained
rigid for six millennia. Dumb driven cattle we were, and yet the people
who built nothing but copied everything Kmtic in their own language during their occupation of our nation are the best and
the brightest. We believe it. Otherwise, we would be learning everything about our classical heritage (Kmt), and
scientifically and spiritually rebuilding it today in Africa. Kmtian science,
medicine, mathematics and astronomy were all of an exponentially higher order of refinement and sophistication than will ever
be acknowledged by the invaders who utterly decimated and destroyed it. The whole of Kmtian civilization was based upon
a complete and precise understanding of universal laws. This profound understanding manifested itself in a consistent, coherent
and interrelated system that fused science, art and religion into a single organic Unity. In other words, it was exactly the
opposite of what we find in the world today. Moreover, every aspect of Kmtian
knowledge was directly tied to the study of nature and the struggle and unity of opposites from the very beginning. The sciences,
artistic and architectural techniques and the hieroglyphic system show virtually no comparison to the later civilization after
the interpenetration with invading predators from lower Kmt. It fell apart, unraveled, and imploded as it interpenetrated
with waves of predators. Indeed, many of the achievements of the earliest dynasties were never surpassed, or even equaled
later on. Everything about Kmtian civilization, from the construction of the
pyramids to the shape of an African queen's crown, was motivated by a central holistic vision about the nature of cosmic
harmony and an awareness of humanity's place in the evolution of consciousness. Complementarily and uncertainty a stretch
of our minds beyond the "either/or" of syllogistic logic, to an understanding of how reality works. Complementarily
and uncertainty ask us to hold mutually exclusive ideas together--the basic idea behind Ka. This "simultaneity of opposite
states" is a way of holding together the object of sense perception and the content of inner knowing, in a kind of creative
polarity. When the Kmtians saw the hieroglyph of a bird, they knew it was a sign
for the actual, individual creature, but they also knew it was a symbol of the "cosmic function" that the creature
exemplified--flight--as well as all the myriad characteristics associated with it. Hieroglyphics did not merely designate;
they evoked. The observation of simultaneity of mutually contradictory states demonstrates the existence of two forms of intelligence. From River to Nile River
Civilizations What type of society must evolve as a mirror reflection
of a river? What are its way of producing, distributing, exchanging, and consuming the necessities and luxuries of life?
How does it change progress? How does one get back what is lost in the present in order to make the future better?
Black Africans were the indigenous population along the Nile River for over 200,000
years because humanity as we know it today originated in Central East Africa and descended down that Nile River to later populate
the globe. Millions of Black people walked down the Nile river banks from the interior of the African continent to the delta,
settling, forming bands, clans, tribes, villages, hamlets, small towns, settlements, small cities, communities of towns cities,
small city-states, confederations of city-states, upper and lower Kmt, then one nation the United States of Kmt, with government,
military, philosophy, engineering, science, theology, culture, and moral system. This was a process of societal birth, growth
and development which ultimately flowered into Kmtic civilization which lasted for over 6000 years. KMT's nation
is the original form of state, class, societal organization. In fact,
society divided into classes has existed for no more than about 13,000 years-one hundredth of the time modern humankind has
been on this planet. For the other time there was no class society, that is, no enforced inequalities, no state, no prisons,
no family in the modern sense, and the sea and sand destroyers invading, occupying, decimating and destroying indigenous African
civilizations. This is because production relations produced a different sort
of society, and so a different 'human nature'. Being determines consciousness, and if people's social being changes--if
the society they live under changes--then their consciousness will also change. Initially humans hunted and gathered to survive.
The only division of labor was that between men and women for the entirely natural biological reason that women were burdened
much of the time with young children. They gathered vegetable foods while the men hunted. Each sex played an important part
in production but female contribution to the food supply was more important than the male's. All these tribal societies had features in common. Society developed because it had to. Beginning in tropical Africa,
as population grew to cover more inhospitable parts of the globe, people had to use their power of thought and labor to develop--or
die. From gathering fruit, nuts, etc., it was a step forward to cultivating the land--actually ensuring that vegetable food
was to hand. From hunting it was a step to husbandry, penning in the animals. Tribal society remained the norm. The first great revolution in mankind's history was the agricultural or Neolithic revolution.
Grains were selected and sown, and the ground ploughed up with draught animals. For the first time a substantial surplus over
and above the subsistence needs of the toilers came into existence. Under communalism there had been simply no basis for an
idle class. There was no point in enslaving someone else, since they could only provide for their own needs. Now the possibility
arose for idleness for some, but mankind could still not provide enough for everyone to lead such a life. On this basis, class
societies arose--societies divided between possessing and laboring classes. How the First Ancient Civilization Developed The main
issue in the class struggle down the ages has been the struggle over the surplus produced by the toilers. The way this surplus
was appropriated--grabbed--depended on the different mode of production inaugurated by agriculture. This change provided the
base for the complete transformation of social life. Tribal norms died hard. At first, land was redivided; some global
village communities in some areas carried on the traditions of communalism in a transmuted form by redivision of the original
peasant land. But agriculture, unlike hunting, could be more an individual activity. By working harder you could get
more and, when everyone lived on the margin of survival that was important. Moreover,
the agricultural revolution--involving the use of draught animals in ploughing, etc., mainly handled by men--relegated women
to the home, working up materials provided by the man. It was the lack of a direct role in production that led to the world--historic
defeat of the female sex. Men wanted to pass on their unequal property to a male heir. In communal Nile River society
descent had been traced through the female line (inheritance had been unimportant). With invasions of sea and sand destroyers,
now inheritance began to be traced through the male line. Transitional forms between
the different types of society were in existence for hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years before the new type definitively
replaced the old. Human progress did not proceed evenly but according to uneven development. It was the well-situated people
of equatorial Africa who were first forced to develop agriculture. The first agriculture was of course very rudimentary,
consisting of 'slash and burn' cultivation. This meant that the tribe kept on the move, for the cleared land offered
good crops for only a couple of years before yields dropped off. Thus tribal society remained in existence, but underwent
modifications. The tribes were now organized for warfare because
a surplus existed, there was something stored up that could be stolen unless defended. Humans have no history of being
inherently aggressive, so battles and wars over scarce hunting grounds, surpluses, territory, and resources to be a regular
feature of history only at the stage when there was something worth fighting for. Agriculture was the breakthrough to
a society where a surplus could be produced. In fact the raising of the productivity of labor made possible by agriculture
allowed a more extensive division of labor--people could turn their hands to producing other things. So the agricultural revolution brought in its train associated revolutions in technique (such as in pottery and metal-working)
and in the whole social structure. Inequalities developed between different tribal peoples as well as within the tribes. For geographical and other reasons some tribes began to concentrate on stock rearing, hunting,
fishing, etc. As agricultural peoples began to settle down around villages fortified to protect their surplus (or rather,
the surplus some of their number had acquired) these fishing and stock-rearing peoples took over the job of exchanging goods.
Before, exchange had been a casual act between tribes who met one another on their travels. Now it became a regular occasion.
Metal was of course one of the most important items of trade. The Kmt were the most famous stock-rearing, fishing, building,
hunting, and agricultural peoples. The African Mode of Production Civilization
developed differently in different places. So far as we know, it arose first in the Nile delta of Kmt. In Kmt the ruling class
sprung from the elevation of a stratum of priests, rather than chiefs, above the rest of society. This is because the priests
had the leisure to develop a calendar, allowing them to foretell the coming of the Nile floods, and arithmetic to develop
the centrally planned irrigation works which first produced a massive surplus. The interest of Kmtian priests in math and
astronomy was thus not accidental, but rooted in the requirements of production. Within
900 years of the establishment of a united kingship, a nation spanning 3300 miles, a national government, laws, an administration
of public works, sanitation, medicine, education, health care, transportation, housing, recreation, a civil calendar, a criminal
and moral justice system, an economic system, etc., already are a part of a highly efficient society which is flexing its
muscles in terms of its ability to build gigantic projects by the requisition of peasant labor on the very efficient basis
of picking out numbers from each village. Presumably such numbers were carefully
chosen so they would not interrupt the main job of farming and harvesting. It is extraordinary the ability of a state, already
in those times when most of the white and semitic world is uncivilized, 6600 years ago; the frightening ability of a state
once it is erected, to command and mobilize the massive potential created by the over 21,000,000 people in it. There was a KMTic ruling class, race and sex: black, djed, male. Class, along with the
state, has a history. When we analyze class, as we look at it from the point of view of where we are now, which is developed
capitalism, we see the classes confronting each other in almost chemical purity. Classes are defined by their relationship
to each other via the means of production. The condition of having pure classes could not have been the case early on. There
was a long experimental period, going on for thousands of years in the history of human institutions. What there was in KMTic society was a system in which the state bureaucracy, as a caste,
functioned as a ruling class, sanctioned by theological purpose, belief, and mission. Early on in ancient Kmt, there was a
mixture of civil and moral titles. There was a vizier, who was head of the state bureaucracy, governed the country and reported
daily to the leadership: i.e., he was the prime minister, other words. This person was also a priest at some temple in the
delta. He might also have had the title of greatest of seers at Waset, with other moral titles mixed in with it. If such a man were governing the country, he would not have time to dress up in priestly robes
and anoint an image in a damp temple at the far end of Kmt. So it is obvious that this was a sinecure, an essential mixture
of civil and moral offices---matter and spirit, temple and state. The role of morality in this relationship was to embrace
all aspects of the interaction between nature and society. So you have a complex of wholly moral concepts in a context of
land tenure that vests ownership of land in the leadership, because he represents the ancestors on earth. In this situation
all the tension is between the way societies is organized on earth and the products of the land that are supposed to be the
gift of the ancestors by their fruitfulness. Cosmology was the sophisticated expression
of the culture of this society, although in fact it did have other expressions of its culture which are actually more sophisticated,
but which were technological rather than abstractions. Clearly, morality was intended to sanctify and justify everything that
happens on earth. If anything goes wrong, such as the Nile not rising high enough, leading to famine, or over-flooding and
causing destruction, then presumably that is the leadership's fault because he has not adjusted the relationship between
the ancestors as he ought to have done, that being his main job. Hence you get kingship being questioned at certain times
of difficulty, and you even get rebellion and certainly destruction and looting, and sometimes the fracturing of the country
into different areas. The institutions were in the process of development. The
whole rhythm of this development took centuries. Because of the requirements of planned irrigation, the communal conditions
for real appropriation through labor, such as irrigation systems means of communication, etc., will then appear as the work
of the superior entity--the government which is poised above the small communities. The African state which was accountable
to the village communities, will feel entitled to appropriate the surplus as a tax. This tax is exacted through state ownership
of the land. The villages were largely self-sufficient, rendering tax in
order for the "general conditions of production '' (irrigation, etc.) to be maintained. Handicrafts and agriculture
were combined within each village. The dispersed villages were unable to organize effectively against their exploitation.
Kmt was invaded by one set of conquerors after another, but none of these political changes reached beneath the surface until
they completely wiped out this African civilization. It was only after thousands
of years, when white capitalism conquered Kmt and strove to introduce private property in land in order to destroy the unity
of native agriculture and handicrafts, and develop the preconditions for capitalism, that the Kmtic mode of production was
finally destroyed. The result was the decline of the irrigation systems and a series of horrible famines throughout.
The African mode of production saw the first development of class society, though
retaining communal features of communism, such as collective tilling of the soil. It raised production to a higher level than
it had ever been before, and then was invaded by wave after wave of whites and semites. Thus, in vast areas of the globe,
there arose a form of society completely different from anything seen in Western Europe. In contrast with western feudalism, the surplus was extracted by the central state rather than by landlords. Once civilization was established and maintained, it was bound to radiate its
effects all around it, whether through war or trade. When one analyses carefully the society of ancient Kmt - which is where
civilization and city-state culture first arose in a literary sense - though it was arising earlier in parts of Nubia, you
find that ancient Kmt was a series of confederations between states along the Nile until the National Union of upper and lower
Kmt formed the first nation federal government in world history. The United States of Kmt included 42 nomes or administrative
regions along the Nile. The sheer size of which means that we cannot imagine they were merely based upon a small
geographical hinterland; they were imperial, with warrior priests, and cosmology monarchs ruling from the beginning of this
nation until its end. Essentially Kmt never was organized around slave labor because
it never did lack manpower. Kmt was in the region of 21-33 million by its middle to high points over 4000 years ago. From
what we can gather from the earliest records that allow us to assess the tax rent yield from the peasantry, it was surprisingly
high - somewhere in the order of 33%. Right from the old kingdom, from 4236 BC one of the most common tomb scenes in the temples
of land being the gift of the ancestors; while not a full ancestor himself, the pharaoh partook of some kind of divinity and
hence was the link between the divine world and the world that everybody lived in. Therefore the ownership of land was the
right to use the products of the land, but without real ownership as such. This was modeled by modern day communists
who place land and private property in the hand of the state. Personal property was an individual's right. It is true that the pharaoh might grant land and estates to his soldiers, in order to ensure
that they were ready for war when he needed them. The same applied to public institutions. Those massive mortuary temples
on the west bank at Waset, on the same bank as the Nile Valley of the Kings but about a mile away, had incredible incomes
from lands all over Kmt devoted to them. There was fluidity, but stability, and honor. The leadership cared about its
people. You will have seen ushabti figures in glass cases in museums; small models of people, generally with the name of the
owner on, with a fisherman's fillet on their head, or a little basket on their backs, often a pot for water, and a pair
of hoes. While these began as single figures, by 2100 BC there would be 400 in a box. The KMTian week was ten days. The KMTian
month was 30 days. There was one for each day of the 12-month year, making 360. Obviously
there was a lot of labor involved in that, it was actually done by a series of alternating ramps. The inscriptions on the
different blocks are interesting. They show that different work-gangs were drawn from all parts of Kmt. In other words, apart
from the professional workforce, who lived in a village that is now being excavated on the modern Cairo/Arab side of the plateau,
the slog workforce was obviously requisitioned from all parts of Kmt. And the blocks they brought in were entirely kept to
them, and had inscriptions on the side.
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Planning/Building for the Ages When the pyramids were built, what they did was send out orders to the different officials,
that they needed so many from a particular village, and that was the way the labor was conscripted. Much of the hard work
of getting blocks across - most of the casing blocks come from the just the other side of the Nile - was done when the Nile
was in flood and the waters reached the edge of the Giza plateau, and they were brought by barge and dragged up onto the plateau.
In fact there are quarries around the pyramids, where most of the blocks came from. Caught
in the enemy's white supremacy/arab supremacy educational system, nothing but a prison cell of lies, myths, rote-learning
and brown-nosing---our mental disposition looks for a straightjacket, for the rigid, irrational scheme upon which, taken as
a firm foundation, we attempt the construction of our mental edifice. Maat thought refuses to build on such an invariable
base because life is moving and progressing. Destruction and death are likewise moments of life. There is a simultaneity of
time and appearance in the phenomenon; the phenomenon is a obvious yet hidden, and because one knows it, and never forgets
it, one can be practical and realistic without fear. Essentially, Kmt's
system of education was holistic. A child is first recognized to have latent capacities for training in the Sacred College
of Initiates, seeks education, is trained in a normal school experiences leading into the "lesser unknowns"; response
to intimations of a higher teaching bring her/him to the doors of the "greater unknowns," there the unfoldment of
knowledge about life, the universe and woman or woman or man's self results in wisdom and understanding occurs, she/he
is. is tested all along the line to ensure that she/he may be entrusted with knowledge about natural forces---that she/he
will not use the information gained for selfish purposes -- culminating in the recognition that: altruism is the mark of a
superior being. In the course of this, the child has learned that life is a manifestation
of the divine presence, obscured for woman or woman or man only by her/her/his own self-centered pursuits. As he gains in
knowledge, he is told that ambition does to intuition what a weevil does in a granary, and that the Kmtian sages have seen
the phenomenal world as stages of consciousness in a process of becoming. The child learns at last that the aim of her/her/his
training was self-knowledge. All is in yourself. Know your inmost self and look for what corresponds with it in nature."
Further, that the path of progress through temple-training revolves also around the meaning of 'temple,' which to
the ancient Kmtian embodied the whole of science, knowledge and wisdom. The living temple is woman or woman or man, himself
a replica of the macrocosmic principles and functions, the "Neters." All
real knowledge is a kind of remembering--a bringing back together what had been separated, a reparation of the primordial
scission. The Kmtians knew much else: the precession of the equinoxes, the circumference of the globe, and the secrets of
pi. Their forgotten mathematical wisdom showed that Kmtian civilization must be far older than we suspect--the clear
evidence of water erosion on the Sphinx also suggests that. Toward
New Beginnings Our crawling around with the predator's Christian,
Muslim and Jew religions are about fear and cowardice. The genuine form of intelligence, and spirituality whose most total
expression was located in the civilization of ancient Kmt, is of "the heart." a new kind of consciousness, a perfecting
of soul. The basic insight was to think simply, to abstract oneself from time and space, and to "consider only the aspect
common to every thing and every living impulse. Cultivate oneself to be simple and to see simply is the first task of anyone
wishing to approach the sacred symbolism of Ancient Kmt. This is necessary because the obvious blinds us, the obvious being
our perception of the world via cerebral consciousness alone, which divides, analyzes, and "granulates" experience--
the Kmtians associated this type of consciousness with the "evil" ancestor Set; its opposite, the "intelligence
of the heart," they associated with Heru. But more important than any of
those conclusions, is the fact that Kmtians had a radically different consciousness from ours. They viewed the world symbolically,
seeing in nature a "writing" conveying truths about the forces behind creation-"the Neters," as Kmtian
ancestors are called. At the center of this vision was Conscious Human being, the King. For the ancient Kmtians, Conscious
Human being was the crown and aim of the universe, perception nature-centered thinkers would dispute. But Conscious Human
being was not "human being as we know him." Fertilization, gestation,
birth, growth, maturity, senescence, death, rebirth, and resurrection are the principles of the organic world. Polarity, relationship,
substantiality, potentiality, time-and-space, and process are among the principles of the cosmological world. Each was
associated with its own number symbolism, which in turn commanded the geometry of the temples erected to commemorate that
ancestor and to evoke in the eye and heart and intellect of the beholder communion with that principle or set of principles. The geometry flows from the measurements, and the interpretation in all its manifold aspects
(mathematics, astronomy, astrology, symbolism, cosmology, mythology, art, architecture, and even medicine) flows from the
geometry. Each individual type in Nature is a stage in the cosmic embryology which
culminates in human being," Different species developed various "functions"-what the Kmtians called "Neters"
have their apotheosis and integration in Conscious Human being." Functional consciousness" is a way of knowing reality
from the inside. Ancient Kmt was based on this inner knowing, very unlike our own outer-oriented one. The ancient Kmtians
were aware of the limitations of purely cerebral consciousness, the Set mind that "granulates" experience into fragments
of time and space and is behind our increasing abuse of nature and of each other. Granulated experience produces our familiar
world of disconnected things, each a kind of "island reality." Kmtian
perception, time, space, direction all have religious connotations. Time is not simply a clicking of a digital clock, time
is measured by the flow of religious festivals, and time within the day is correlated to stories about the ancestors. Every
moment hence is sacred and full of spiritual intent. The Temple of Luxor was based on the human body and that its dimensions
reflected sacred proportions yet what does it mean? What does it matter that a temple is like a human body. As the temple rite begins "herbak" (the Kmtian on the street) does not feel that
it is only for the priest class or that they get more than he does. He knows that he is part of a great chain of being, an
organic state where he is linked to all others in the country from the lowest worker to the Great Leader himself. As the Great
Leader acts he influences the whole state, as he practices the ancient rites all are affected. There is no an artificial division
between religion, politics, the divine and the secular, the Kmtian experience is one harmonic, one unity which encompasses
all aspects. This unity was the foundation for the Kmtian Harmonic, it sustained Kmt for thousands of years, indeed, Kmtian
art did not change fundamentally for some 4236 years until the advent of Akhenaton and then returned to its "Old style"
until its fall. Kmt's initiation gave the initiates a degree of education
one would acquire after lifetimes of lessons. We view a mural or bas-relief of
a man leading cows with nets and birds as just possibly a legend of how Kmtian people might have farmed; but particular hieroglyphic
and "hieratic" writing is so much more than that. These are laws and lessons that reflect knowledge of spirit manifesting
into matter and the harmonic growth and relationship between the two. This lost wisdom, in a sense, is a form of physics.
In modern terms we would label such equivocal philosophy as quantum physics and even holographic physics. "Maat mentality
rejected metaphysical and positivist thought. The hieroglyphic form of writing makes the syllogistic system of such a rational
science impossible. Maat mathematics confirms this attitude."..."Duality within Unity, the incomprehensible truth
of the Trinity." Believing, learning and knowing are the three gates of entry into the Temple. Kmtians were aware of, and consciously used, advanced mathematical concepts normally attributed to others. One of
these was the Golden Section, a mathematical function which occurs throughout nature, for example in the ratios of a spiral
galaxy or the orbits of the planets. When used in architecture, it allows the building to become an embodiment of these same
universal principles, which were later used. All these elements work synergistically together to express the particular nature
of the Neter (ancestor, or more precisely, cosmic principle) which is incarnated in the temple. The universal laws expressed
in the structure and artwork of the temples will resonate within us on a level which cannot be analyzed rationally, but which
must be experienced with the whole of our being. Clearly, the magnificent,
enigmatic structures, the masterful sculptures, paintings, friezes, carvings, everything, could not have been accomplished
with such elegance, grace, delicacy, intelligence and attention to detail if the artisans and laborers had not known and deeply
felt that they themselves were individually benefited by their work in a way that exceeded mere care or satisfaction of the
body. Here we may observe a true civilization, a real culture with an actual
understanding in which wisdom established a constructive milieu for all citizens. Many may grimace at this, but, does anyone
seriously believe that societies such as those of today's western world could possibly last 7000 years on the good earth
we have poisoned? Every day we are challenged to learn something new that further
breaks the bonds of cerebral intelligence on our mental development and places us among those who truly can understand the
subtle interaction of the forces of creation, the hierarchical organization of everything existing, the structure of our psyche,
the complete nature of our psychology and the essence of the relationship between the natural realm and the organizing principles
according to which it continually comes into being. The architecture of certain
temples where initiations take place, with the 'blueprint' of cosmos and the nature of woman or woman or man are identical.
Initiation means a new 'beginning,' an inner change -- not a ceremony that by itself confers a change, for such would
be an empty ritual without the prior interior unfoldment of faculty and quality. Kmt
acquires a different face when considered against this background. It was called the Two Lands, not primarily to commemorate
a historic event when the warrior Menes unified the divided country, but rather to denote the duality of spirit and matter:
on earth, the subjective and objective spheres of activity; in woman or woman or man, her/her/his higher and lower selves,
the white and the black, the past ands the present, the advanced and the backwards, Heru and Seth. Memphite Theology, a cosmogony that could well be the prototype of the birth of a universe -- or that of a civilization
-- in the subjective realms of Being, materializing through different epochs as the evolving forces become denser, more involved
with matter. In this context, the Pharaoh/peraa (literally the 'Great House' or vessel of a particular quality prevalent
at the time) was a living symbol representing something that as a person he may or may not actually have embodied in himself.
Behind him stood the members of the Sacred College, supervising the 'buildings' sealed by the emblematic name they
chose for him when he became king. The psychology of the Two Lands symbol, or
the inner and outer selves of the cosmos and woman or woman or man, may seem a strange distillation from ancient Kmtian history
-- the use of an event in time to represent a timeless, profound concept about the essence of Being and its manifestations.
In this way temples of stone were seen as seats or dwelling places of cosmic principles, "a projection on Earth of some
aspect of the cosmic organism." Each hieroglyph was not only a letter in a word, but also an ideograph, containing
meanings for every facet of woman or woman or man's nature and activities. In this light, the "rhythm of Asr/Ast"
was the rhythm of becoming, in which it's opposite, that of dis-becoming or return is latent. The open-hearted see the principles by living the life that unfolds the qualities of the many selves in woman or
woman or man -- aspects of body, soul and spirit. These aspects of the best represented qualities in us all, processes we
may help forward by orienting to the spiritual and scientific center within the heart. Kheperu means more than transformation. It is our time, again. |
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