By R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, Martin Stone
ISBN-10: 089281022X
ISBN-13: 9780892810222
Symbolism is the intuitive technique of overcoming the constraints of reason. the following Schwaller explains how real development in human suggestion should be made provided that we name upon the ''symbolizing'' college of intelligence, constructed and subtle within the temple tradition of historical Egypt and mirrored in its hieroglyphs.
Read Online or Download Symbol and the Symbolic: Ancient Egypt, Science, and the Evolution of Consciousness PDF
Similar kindle ebooks books
Global Tyranny...Step by Step: The United Nations and the Emerging New World Order
This e-book is the main all-encompassing research to be had in regards to the United international locations and its final target: overall global govt. William F. Jasper files the organization's calculated encroachment into almost each point of our lives, together with the economic system, politics, the army, the surroundings, the kinfolk, or even faith.
The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats: A Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness
The Bohemian Grove and different retreats: A examine in ruling-class cohesiveness through G. William Domhoff.
Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 10: The Ancient State
One very important key to knowing glossy civilization is a familiarity with its old heritage. Many sleek ideas and practices — social, political, or even fiscal — have cleared parallels and antiquity. A cautious examine of those forerunners of our traditions, particularity as they contributed to the downfall of previous civilizations, can help us stay away from a number of the blunders of our predecessors.
Additional info for Symbol and the Symbolic: Ancient Egypt, Science, and the Evolution of Consciousness
Example text
4. Nut, the Sky, swallows the sun each evening and brings it forth into the world again at dawn. The pattern on her dress evokes celestial waves, and particles of solar radiation innundate the face of Hathor, with the cow's ears, that rises at the horizon. 48 Symbol—Synthesis THE WORD symbol, derived and distorted from its usual Greek meaning, signifying a sign of recognition or password, has become synonymous with the representation of a concept by a conventional sign. The assemblage of the parts of a broken potsherd, which could also be represented by a torn note or visiting card, meant—probably in a popular sense— the symbol or (hieroglyphic) sign of recognition.
Collectivism, in the statistical sense, can no more solve social problems than it can scientific problems. The future demands an individualism within the collective, which seems absurd to the intelligence of the past. As for the expression, encyclopedic notes and museums of corpses are no longer satisfactory; what is needed is the Symbolic, which alone can effect a liaison between complements in the vital phenomenon. And it is rational science, which today has reached what is already being called the surrational, that will open the way toward esotericism of a suprarational nature.
These stages, or "mentalities," change with the evolution of the intelligence. Thus, we carry in us a set of "mentalities" which guide us in our intellectual efforts. By noting the percentage of these influences, one could thus render an "epistemological profile or portrait" of each person. " In this way one can know how this man will tackle the study of a problem. : Here the word mystical means the tendency to attribute to "divine," occult powers—hence to the arbitrariness of these forces—all the phenomena of nature.