Its remarkable to remember that in days gone by the ability to read was not a common skill among the masses, it was only the privilaged who were able to do so.
Reading this particular book opens your personal memory bank and deposits the gold of a literary and literal alchemist who lived in, learned in and told a story of Egypt.
The details of an ancient culture were revived in the experiences and memory of a living human and passed on to the next wisdom keepers through him. These active principles of consciousness transcend time and place to live on, and pass on, the mystery and mastery of human experience. This is what R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz was able to do with assistance of his close family and the few others who endeavored support his work.
Paracelsus passed on the message ...
the quintessence is contained in each of the four elements, and is the fifth element. An ethereal substance, a vital force, the active principle of being.
This is a common key.
Humans share experience generation to generation. Experiential Intelligence is human, and is uniquely passed human to human. According to Rudolf Steiner there was a period when humanity passed the experiental memory through the blood. Today we can still see this as instincts in animals. And though this is mostly lost to humans now we label this idea as heredity characteristics.
This quintessence lives through the word, the story, the written wisdom contained in books, or carved in stone, and is the ethereal memory bank of generations.
This bank of true wealth can never be overdrawn. But in some generations it may be under drawn and a weath of wisdom decreases.
Many users online are completely unaware that much of what is passed on in the forms of articles, images, stories, likes and comments, is in fact - or fiction- produced by non human substance. No memory, no imagination, no spark of experience, no quintessence. Naturally, this generation of synthetic substance is to be discerned by authentic human research.
Rudolf Steiner, who travelled and lectured in Europe said in 1923,
If you have ever asked for honey in hotels when travelling, it was certainly not honey that you were given there, it was sugar- honey, artificially produced. -from a 1923 lecture on bees, in Dornach Switzerland, by Rudolf Steiner.
And so it is that authentic honey is a natural preservative, used in ancient days in the ancient ways of preservation. If you don't remember, You can read about it from authentic sources.
R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz spent over 15 years living in Egypt and breathing the temple of Luxor. Following this 15 years of study he spent nearly another decade creating
"one of the most theoretically conclusive and thoroughly researched documents in the annals of European esoteric philosophy, The Temple of Man, which was published in France in 1957 in a three volume format."
Schwaller died in 1961.
It took many years for his work to move past the labeling as heretical fringe, controversial, radical.
The "initial crack in the academic stone wall" was in the early 1960's. An American Egyptologist published an inflential thesis inspired by Schwaller and utilizing parts of Schwaller's work. By 1972 Schwaller's work had been conclusively verified by a renowned scientist.
But it was In 1979 that John Anthony West published his first work on Egypt after his own decade of research following up directly on Schwaller's observations on the Sphinx, and eventually proving Schwaller's statements to be tru. The re-establishing the dating of the Sphinx was a tribute to R A Schwaller, by J A West.
In the early 1990's Robert Bauvall and Graham Hancock both in their own widely recognized works verified more of Schwaller's findings from fifty years prior.
Today R.A.Schwaller is fully recognized for the importance of his works. "The Temple of Man is a book or volumetric encyclopia that one has to learn how to read." - Robert and Deborah Lawlor, translators of this work into english.
And this is the precise point.
If we simply ask and are simply told, we fail to gain the natural human experience of learning. We fail to form our own authentic memory, and risk relying on answers which appeared with no self work. A slippery slope down the mountain...
Sadly we witness this on a regular basis now as people everywhere refer to movies as a contextual reference for a truth. Hollywood became the sort of bible of reference for stories and reality that was told not actually authentically Known.
Modern cultures minimize ancient mythologies only to revere and repeat the scripture from the bible of hollywood.
How then does intelligent consciousness move to explore and expand on the works of our predessors.
We cannot just ask a book, hey book, tell me about the temple of Luxor. No. A reader is consuming the fruits of labor by the writer, and is tasting the work at some level, savoring it in the case of Schwaller. It becomes a moveable feast...
An appetite is developed between reader and writer to continue the story, to take the work further and evolve the seed into a tree of knowledge. And other works by other writers become the branches bearing new fruit. There is an ancestory of consciousness woven into the substance of a human writer. Readers, are mind readers. We are reading the minds of writers. We are living in seen and unseen worlds.
We observe and absorb the world that has been formed by those before us, and work to evolve a new world formed by us for our future generations.
Remember the bees and authentic honey.
We need the bees, we need the flowers, we need the honey to nourish and sustain and preserve authentic life.
The bee flies from flower to flower and carries what it needs into the hive. But honey is what gives the beehive its meaning. Man is also a bee that moves down from the spiritual world - the beehive - to the various other worlds and brings the honey from them, in order to then bring it back to the realm of the spirit, which is the home of the soul. Without what the soul has collected outside, the result of the collecting would never be in the realm of the spirit. So man is also obliged to bring the honey he has collected. If he does not gain experience, he would be like a bee that only sits on the flowers without sucking their honey. -from a 1903 lecture by Rudolf Steiner
