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What is this we hear about
Ancient Egyptians being Great Magicians ?
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Were they?
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What was their magic?
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Did they possess
para-natural or “metaphysical” skills?
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Was it all about spells and
potions and magic words?
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Did they actually have the
secret of turning cheap metals into Gold?
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For over forty centuries in Egypt, Math, Engineering,
Astronomy, Chemistry, Physics, Medicine, Technology, Arts, Music &
Philosophy were developed inside Temples with a great deal of Mystery and
Secrecy.
Priests used their exclusive knowledge in performing what
would appear as miracles to those who knew nothing of the secrets of such scientific
and technological advances.
They also used such knowledge & Technology to make
exclusive products worth its weight in GOLD, turning cheap sands into
impressive glassware, cheap impure metal ore into weapons and tools of great
value.
Those admitted into the priesthood / academia had to prove
their worthiness and commitment and purity, and complex Rituals, special words,
scented fumes, even music and dances accompanying delivery of such miracles.
The rituals made those miracles seem connected to the religion and the
mysterious para-natural forces. Of course, they were just using physics and
chemistry and natural laws of the universe, only known to them at the time.
Thus they were known to turn dirt and cheap metals to GOLD.
Of course, there existed myths, and there flourished some magical arts amongst
the public which frauds and reject priests would perform imitated tricks to the
public utilizing illusion, psychological deception, etc.
Many of the Greek and Greco-Egyptian scientists managed to
get into scholar affiliations to the temples during the period 330 BC to Approx
400 AD and they documented a good deal of that knowledge and further developed cohesive
theoretical frameworks for some branches of those sciences. Much of the exclusive
knowledge, however, was never transferred to later generations. With the
banning of Egyptian Language and scripts by the decree of 391, Egyptian
Language was lost and soon forgotten.
Some scrolls containing remains of such knowledge were
passed down from Greeks and Romans to Europeans, and during the dark ages, this
idea of turning cheap metals into Gold became very popular amongst kings,
nobility, adventurers and frauds alike. Because the Egyptian Hieroglyphs meant
nothing to them, they would think that the symbols themselves had some magical
powers, while such scrolls may had contained a step-by-step procedure to
produce a certain chemical in the lab but because of such obscurity, it would
appear as some magical script Abracadabra sort of thing.
The manner in which religion, philosophy, science and
technology were intertwined in those procedures gave rise to such spiritual
link and enhanced the para-natural appearance of the memory of the Egyptian
Alchemy.
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In Summary
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How the Egyptian language
was lost for 15 centuries: The word "hieroglyph" comes from the Greek
hieros (sacred) & glyphos (words or signs)
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Ancient Egyptians called
the Hieroglyphs 'mdju netjer' = Divine Scripture or "words of the
gods"
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Egyptians believe in the
power of the words and the names ...
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Earliest Hieroglyphs were
discovered on bone, ivory, pottery & clay impressions discovered in a
pre-dynastic tomb in Abydos dated 3400 BC.
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391AD: Christian Byzantine
Emperor banned Egyptian religions, temples & Hieroglyphs & started to
persecute followers of Egyptian religions
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When Theodosius 1 closed
the temples - he terminated a 4000 year old tradition & the language &
knowledge of ancient Egypt was lost!
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Philosophy of Isis
continued until around the 6th century (in Philae - far to the south - away
from persecution)... & secretly thereafter
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Well into this day - around
the world - in different forms of the revived traditions
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But when the language was
the lost - the vast ancient knowledge became almost encrypted!
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Some knowledge was passed
on - through the Greeks and Arabs - but a lot was lost
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The rumor was that the
ancient scrolls contained the secret knowledge of turning dirt and cheap metal
into gold!
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The physical act of burning
thousands & thousands of scrolls in Alexandria Library + banning of the
language = sealed & encrypted the knowledge
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The library may have
suffered several fires or acts of destruction over many years. Possible
occasions for the partial or complete destruction of the Library of Alexandria
include a fire set by Julius Caesar in 48 BC, an attack by Aurelian in the AD
270s, and the decree of Coptic Pope Theophilus in AD 391.
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The turning of dirt into
gold was only metaphoric: Manufacturing products & medicines from basic
ingredients which were exchanged for gold
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Ancient Egypt is commonly
referred to as 'km.t' - hence the arts of Chemistry (& more mystical /
fraudulent Alchemy) ... acquired the name
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The whole fraudulent
tradition around Alchemy centered around this rumor which was only metaphoric:
Egyptian Monks could turn dirt into gold
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The technology was lost in
the temples - and only unintelligible scrolls could be found - because of the
lost language ...
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The scrolls did contain the
secrets of making products, ointments and medications - but no one could
decrypt the knowledge within
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k.mt itself means black
land or black soil ... possibly enforcing the link between Alchemy and the
rumor of turning dirt into gold
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To make things
worse-Egyptian monks mixed technology with spirituality - they would utter some
prayers as they made their "magical" products
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Ancient monks/technologists
would utter prayers as they made "magical" products -as to bless
their work - as most Egyptians do till this day
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The whole thing became
obscured with the loss of the language ... and hence Abracadabra bogus
traditions emerged
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I actually think that what
the Ancients used their exclusive knowledge of Chemistry, Physics, Technology,
Astronomy, etc., in making things which appeared “magical” to others … including
kings and nobility.
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It is said (Source is Socrates Scholasticus and others) that a Bishop
"Cyril" was behind the killing of Hypatia of Alexandria ... on the
hands of a Christian mob ...
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Death of Hypatia in 415 AD,
marked the end of an era of science, art, knowledge and enlightenment - and
entry into savagery and dark ages
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For 8 centuries ... and
beyond ... human civilization limbed - mostly backwardly ...
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To date humanity has yet to
heal from that set back
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The old traditions were not
as "Pagan" nor idiotic as they were made to sound ..
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If anything, they revered
the natural forces and the balance, equilibrium and harmony which must exist between man and nature - if
man was to survive - that is
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In essence - the ancient
traditions looked at physics and spirituality as if they were mere facets of the
same grand scheme of things.
According to Wikipedia, Egyptian magic, Heka activates (Ka) - the soul which embodied personality.
Heka (/ˈhɛkə/; Egyptian: Ḥkȝ; also spelt Hike) was the deification of magic in ancient Egypt, his name being the Egyptian word for "magic". According to Egyptian writing (Coffin text, spell 261), Heka existed "before duality had yet come into being." The term "Heka" was also used for the practice of magical ritual. The Coptic word "hik" is derived from the Ancient Egyptian.
Heka literally means activating the Ka, the aspect of the soul which embodied personality. Egyptians thought activating the power of the soul was how magic worked. "Heka" also implied great power and influence, particularly in the case of drawing upon the Ka of the gods. Heka acted together with Hu, the principle of divine utterance, and Sia, the concept of divine omniscience, to create the basis of creative power both in the mortal world and the world of the gods.
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