The Journey in The Other World According To Ancient Egypt - I. .P. .H. . Guillermo Calvo Soriano, 33rd
The Journey in The Other World According To Ancient Egypt - I. .P. .H. . Guillermo Calvo Soriano, 33rd
Temples, tombs,
and texts confirm
that Egyptians are
the Most religious of Men.
The oldest Book in the World reveals the Life before Life and Death
In the conceptual and symbolic sphere,
Death in the Universe of the Ancient Egyptians
is not comparable with our current considerations ...
Far from hiding Death, they placed it in the center of their
metaphysical reflection, not as a sterilizing anguish,
but as a Focus of Metamorphosis where the Being can acquire
the Knowledge of its true Nature. This “Other Face of Life”
is as decisive as earthly existence; neither one nor the other
is negligible, the one is explained by the other and so on.
Physical Death is not
a termination,
but a point of Passage
to an Other Universe.
The oldest religious Texts,
namely the Pyramid Texts
and the Sarcophagus Texts,
are dedicated
to this “After Life”
with metaphysical
and magical ritual
structures whose richness
and intensity
have often confused
analysts
of Religion Egyptian.
This Geography of the Invisible
is made perceptible
by the symbolic texts
that do not derive from a Belief,
but from a Knowledge transmitted,
in particular,
by “the Great Seers” of Heliopolis,
who developed
the Formulas of the Resurrection.
Heliopolis Priest
The Mutations that the Risen One carries out are evoked
to achieve a perpetual journey in the Regions of the Beyond, of
the Passage of the World of Life relative to that of Life in Eternity, of
the Trials that correspond to him and the Mutations of the Being
that are they produce in the Time and Space of the Hereafter.
The Journey to escape Annihilation has, of course, many obstacles
on its way. It is during the Earthly Existence that he must prepare
to confront them. To overcome the dangers and difficulties,
the Otherworldly Traveler does not put his hope in any Belief
but studies Books and Formulas
that are transmitted to him because of his effectiveness.
The Egyptian religious approach is based on Knowledge.
Knowing, acquiring
a Science of Being,
possessing
the Effective Formulas
that will be the Sesame
in the Paths of the Hereafter,
are the indispensable steps
that every Living One
must undertake to prepare
for the Great Journey.
This Knowledge has been
carefully recorded
in the Religious Corpus.
These texts are
a Knowledge in Action,
forming a kind of Practical Manual
for the use of the Otherworldly
Traveler as a viaticum where
he finds an answer to all the events
in which he will be mixed.
The Pyramids
and the inscribed Sarcophagi
can be considered as Books,
inside of which is placed the Dead
whose Mummy becomes
a Support for the Resurrection ...
This Knowledge, even if it is indispensable, is not enough.
The Traveler must be able to achieve a Series of Mutations
and
Metamorphoses
that allow him
to move
in a thousand
and one ways
in the Hereafter.
Tutankhamun Sandals.
Cairo Museum.
At the center of the Boat of the Dead, an empty Throne, symbol
of Death, floats in the Otherworld, illuminated by the Rays
of the Sun that ensure the daily Resurrection. This Boat - Lotus
(because of the shape of its bow and its stern) is directed towards
two Swallows, Symbols of the Soul that flies to the ends of Heaven,
perched on Mounds, manifested Forms of the Primordial Creation.
Panebenkemetnakht Papyrus, Cairo.
The Risen Future should not be
condemned to Immobility,
hence the importance of Formulas
to “Get Up to Date
in the Underworld”.
He must not be held prisoner
of the Sublimation Capacity (Ha)
so that he can Exit and Enter
at Will in the Underworld.
The Magical Knowledge,
in any case, seeks the possibility of
Exiting the Lower World at Will.
All precautions must be taken to ensure that the Passage through
the Underground Kingdom will not be fatal to the Traveler; formally
assure that he will not perish there, that he will cross
the Net, that he will pass beyond the trap that separates the Space of
the Living from that of the Dead, that he will not march there
with his head lowered. His Heart will not tire, he will not be stolen,
his Magical Power will not be taken from him, nor will he fear
dangerous creatures, such as Serpents.
In the Necropolis of Giza, an Osirian Villa to the East
of the Great Sphinx, perhaps at the location of the present town
of Nazlet el-Samman was Ro-Setau, an Entrance
to the Underground Kingdom of OSIRIS, located in the West.
Ro-Setau then designated the Necropolis in general. According
to “The Book of Two Roads”, these last Roads zigzagged
at the entrance of him before crossing the Region that he covers.
In the Pyramid Texts, Ro-Setau is mentioned only once; the King asks
the Boatman to bring him the Transshipment Boat and declares:
“I am Sokaris of Ro-Setau”.By identifying himself with the god,
the King manages to fully complete the Rite of Passage.
Ro-Setau “Place of Drag”
more precisely “Entrance
to the Path of Drag”
by allusion to the Path
that takes the Sleigh
of the Body of the King.
In the Royal Tombs
of the New Kingdom,
Ro-Setau designates
the inclined plane leading
to the Sarcophagus Room
in the Royal Tombs
of the New Kingdom.
In The Sarcophagus Texts: El Justo goes there, wanting to enter:
“This woman has opened the Ro-Setau” the place is presented
as a kind of “hangover”, having two jaws. It takes an act of will
to access this haunting World, by opening and shaping
the Name of Ro-Setau, for the Traveler falls there.
Once inside, he discovers a complex Landscape, which is traveled
by multiple paths. You need a precious “Ro-Setau Route Guide”
so that you can “open” these Itineraries and explore them without
getting lost: Follow the Ro-Setau Roads, the OSIRIS Routes
at the Limits of the Sky, Water Routes and dirt roads ;
These zigzagging paths form muddles and intersections where
it is essential to possess the Topographic Keys.
The “Mysterious Things” are Hidden in Ro-Setau. The Initiate has
access to them: “I am the one who sees what is Secret in Ro-Setau”.
He sees the Mystery of who is there, OSIRIS, and accesses
the “Sealed Thing, Khetemetf”. These Secrets are related
to the Osirian Mysteries and the Renaissance Process.
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