"Few are they who have been able to penetrate this secret of the beginning."
R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz -Sacred Science
Perhaps Moses would agree with Schwaller. Honestly, who could disagree with that statement? Schwaller was, just as Moses was, deeply learned in Egyptian Phaoronic Theocracy. Both have monumental books left as a legacy perhaps not to themselves as much as to the wisdom of the Ancients.
In the beginning of the Old Testament we have the five books of Moses, these are named Pentateuch. The first of these books is Genesis, which endeavors to tell the untellable.
There was a time when the stories of the Old Testament were known to the masses from oral traditions, stories, and sacred writings. It is possible that in our time we are more familiar with Mickey and Minnie Mouse than Adam and Eve. But it is still useful to keep alive ancient stories. Whether we believe the characters of the Old Testament, or Disney, to be real, we have been shaped and shifted by the stories. If we know the stories we can then move on to learn why they were told.
In the beginning and by the end, what has happened? Generations have happened.
Genesis tells the story of creation,...
In the beginning God created the heaven ad the earth. An the earth was without form and void; and the darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, 'Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day,, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: an it was so. - From a 1775 English Authorised Bible
The book of Genesis, as one of the books of the Old Testatement, is a foundation of Western Civilzations as the religions of these peoples. Today it may be the physicists of CERN writing a story of creation, and to the people of the land it may be as incomprehensible to us as the Book of Genesis .
Moses' book was born of a priestly tribe or society in order to spread the word of God and religious beliefs. Physicists and chemists are of the academic branches of science and work to educate on the physical world of matter.
Maybe the word transmutation does not occur in Genesis, but the word is living there none the less. Transmutation is simply; the action of changing, or the state of being changed into another form. In physics it refers to the changing of one element into another.
And God said 'Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and is was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas; and god saw that it was good. And God said let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding feed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose feed is in itself upon the earth: and it was so.
In the book of Genesis and most of the Old Testament transmution also occurs by way of translation. What the books become is a translation of a translation of a translation. Translation not just of the original Hebrew writing, but also the inevitable change of the state of mind of a translator from one generation to the next.
Schwaller, in one of his own books, Sacred Science is discussing a similar effect in a different work of ancient wisdom, the Pharaonic theocracy. This is not works of written tablets, or an institution, or government imposed by a religious organization.
" It is difficult for our mentality to understand how and why royal power and religious guidance can be unified." "Pharaonic theocracy is exceptional, a governmental and social order unique in all of Western history. Did a similar order exist during the great Celtic epoch of the Druids? The lack of documents does not permit us to so affirm. Assyria and Babylonia, on the other hand, never knew true theocracy, which is the domination of the entire life of a peopleby spiritual truths. We translate theological directive by the word "religion", but the meaning attached to this term nowadays is incompatible with the mentality of Pahraonic times. According to the evidenceinscribed during a period of over four thousand years, ancient Egypt did not have "religion" as such; it was religion in its entirety, in the broadest and purest acceptation of the term." pages 5, 6 Sacred Science
As he says, it is hard to comprehend this in modern time. He was writing in the 1950's, just after the second world war. It is through engaging in Schwaller's extensive work that this ancient past is able to permeate one's individual present, and help us see, see what has been lost... in translation.
I cannot begin to penetrate the intelligence of a reader with the essence of Schwaller as he passes on the wisdom of Ancient Egypt. But I can share a few more insights. He addresses all the attempts of others who fail to clarity how the way of the Heliopolis endured for forty centuries, 4000 years.
"One element is missiong from all the speculations attempting to clarify this enigma: the bond, the binder that joins cause to effect," ... . "But the effect , true theocracy, exists; hence the cause, the theology of the temple, necessarily commands a mean term as demanded by the law of causality. As we shall see, this mean term indeed constitutes the entire thesis. It comprehends cause and effect as a single entity; sacred science, the preeminently sacerdotal science, which since the beginnings of the empire was the "science of Thoth", Master of divine words and sacred writings. This science, written on papyrus scrolls included the myth as well as the religious rituals, medicine, geometry, astronomy, and the laws of everyday life and justice."
But then, what happens? The failure to comprehend the magic is the failure to work it. The Greeks, as the civilization that came in contact with a declining Egypt translated that science in general was that which should be attributed to Thoth, or Hermes. NO. Schwaller understood the very essence of Thoth which is why he wrote his book Sacred Science. He says to us "The meaning of sacred science was thus vulgarized under the term Hermetism".
I will not risk translating what Schwaller meant, but what I feel deeply from the intensitiy of his words is this. The temples, such as Luxor, which were an integral center of art, science, medicine, knowledge, spirituality, Cosmic connection, maintained the breath of the civilization by not polluting the air.
I am not educated in the the Great Schism of 1054, the split of Eastern Orthodox Christianity from the Roman Catholic Church in the West, but I get the sense that some of the order were finding it hard to breathe.
I don't know, but in my mind transmutation is the work to purify a substance into a higher form, while translation lends potential to pollution substances of a high form to a lower.
We have passed through an era of Hollywood translations of great works and are potentially falling into not even a human as translator.
In the beginning... of this article I said, -If we know the stories we can then move on to learn why they were told. Well, there is a Cosmic Breath that can not be polluted even if the stories become so. The Ancients breathed life into myths, and canons, and stories to maintain our connection to the source of all breath.
ANCIENT WISDOM ANTIQITIES SCHWALLER de LUBICZ SPIRITUALITY
