The Inner Guide to Egypt by Alan Richardson

Author:Alan Richardson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: egypt, egyptian, pathworking, gods, magick, ritual, spirituality, culture, paganism, mythology, earth-based spirituality, self-initiation, egyptian mysteries, meditation, shamanism, heieroglyphics, ka
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2010-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

Broken statue of

Kha’m-uast from Memphis.

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The thymus gland is found in all vertebrate (with a backbone) animals. In humans it consists of two lobes in the upper chest (behind the breastbone), which resonate to the two aspects of Sokar and Ptah. Its role has to do with the body’s immunity, stimulating the development of the thymus cells both within itself and within lymphoid tissue elsewhere in the body. Thymus cells attack foreign substances invading the body. They also control the production of disease-fighting antibodies by other cells of the immune system.

Not surprisingly it was at Memphis that the pharaoh kept his standing army in a large garrison just outside the city. Not surprisingly, the tomb and temple decorations were so concerned with using their outer courts and walls to commemorate military victories—particularly Rameses II’s triumph at the Battle of Kadesh, which is often detailed ad nauseum throughout his monuments.

Just as the thymus gland is responsible for the rejection of transplanted tissues and organs, so was Rameses II famed for driving the foreign invaders off Egyptian soil.

Without the regulating and defensive powers of the thymus (all of which found echoes in the civil, religious, and military structures of Memphis), the growth processes of the thyroid would be negated by disease. Without the pharaoh on his throne, at this juncture of the Upper and Lower Kingdoms, then Maat, the balance of nature and the nation, could never hold sway upon the land.

The thymus is actually formed within the human fetus in the first few weeks, developing from two separate segments that join together to create a single organ, as the north and south kingdoms were joined, and pharaohs were always crowned at Memphis. So in a magical sense, if there was illness or despair in Egypt, it was because the pharaoh was not fulfilling his true role.

Like Memphis, the thymus is very large in relation to bodily weight in the early years of life, but it begins to decline—literally to shrink—from puberty onward. Both lobes of the thymus are held together by connective tissue. They are also covered by a dense connective tissue, the branches of which extend into and separate the lobes into smaller sections known as lobules. Like Egyptian temples and pyramid complexes, each lobule consists of an outer zone (cortex) that is divided into an outer cortex and a deep cortex, plus a central inner zone known as the medulla. Inside the medulla are whorls of flattened cells known as Hassall’s corpuscles. And it is here within this biological sanctum that some cells are destroyed while others are released into the lymph systems to circulate in the body, much as the divine essence of the mummified circulate through the Duat and thus the consciousness of all Egypt.

The sort of bull visions that the traveler might get within the Serapeum are always intensely personal affairs, relating as they do to the individual’s sense of power or sexuality, or both. Quite often, though, visions relating to national or even international concerns may come through, but it is never wise to put too much weight on these.

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