Serpent in Sky by John Anthony West

Author:John Anthony West
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Body, Occultism, Ancient, Social Science, Occultism - Egypt, Egypt, Philosophy, General, Ancient Mysteries & Controversial Knowledge, Serpent In Sky, Mind & Spirit, Egypt - Civilization - to 332 B.C, Metaphysics, History
ISBN: 9780704502697
Publisher: Quest Books
Published: 1979-06-13T14:00:00+00:00

detail of a given situation.

The image is concrete (bird, snake, dog, etc.), and it represents a synthesis, a complex of qualities, functions and principles. Careful study of the symbols usually reveals the reason why the given symbol, and not some other, was chosen. So the bird represents the volatile, or 'spirit'. The stork, which returns to its own nest, hence a migratory bird par excellence, is the bird chosen for the 'soul'. The serpent symbolises duality and dualising power. The dog symbolises digestion, but given the dog's preference for carrion over fresh meat, the choice of this symbol emphasises that aspect of digestion which is the transformation of dead matter into living. So Anubis, opener of the way, presides over the deceased and takes part in the ritual of the weighing of the heart. For death is not an end, it is a transformation.

Anubis. At first thought to be a jackal,

now generally conceded to be a

domesticated dog. Egyptian art, though

'stylised', is always accurate. If the

intention had been to stylise the low,

skulking jackal, Egypt would not have

presented these tall, aristocratic

creatures, who nonetheless appear to be a

different breed from the ring-tailed

greyhounds of the hunting friezes. On

lbiza, where the breed remained nearly

pure, both ringtails and bushy, jackal-

Once the principle is grasped, it becomes impossible to see like tails are found — but more often a

long, smooth tail similar to a

in those curious animalheaded 'gods' a carryover from totem

greyhound's.

istic times.

Anubis is always connected to the rites

The intellect cannot fix precisely the extent to which func

of the dead. The dog prefers carrion to

fresh meat; it sublimates dead matter to

tional analogy is valid, but the symbolism of Egypt made these its own living purpose. Hence Anubis,

analogies and possibly, to those initiated into this symbolic the dog, presiding over the dead, and the

'opener of the way'.

language, the knowledge conveyed was as precise as anything we know today.

131

Peter Tompkins

As we have seen, the various organs of the body were con

Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids

Harper 8c Row, 1976, p. 165

nected by the Egyptians to the different planets, as were the Like Carlos Castaneda in our day, Le

Neters. Egypt itself (that is to say, civilisation) was regarded as Plongeon learned that the native Indians

a unity, greater than the individual man, but analogous; and in his day still practiced magic and

divination.... Beneath the prosaic life

therefore the nomes or states of Egypt played functional roles of the Indians . . . in Yucatan, Le

similar to the roles played by the organs of the body. Each of Plongeon concluded that there flowed 'a

these nomes was consecrated to one or the other of the Neters.

rich living current of occult wisdom and

practice, with its sources in an extremely

(Schwaller de Lubicz was planning a book examining what he ancient past, far beyond the purview of

calls 'the sacred geography' of Egypt, but he died before he ordinary historical research'.

could realise it.)

It was the symbolism of Egypt that provided the beautifully flexible medium for revealing, within a single consistent system, the wealth of connections and correlations up and down the hierarchies which pervade every sphere of physical, psychical and spiritual life.

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