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BLACK HKTORY MONTH 1999
FEBRUARY 3, 1999 • H it Çorllaiti ® l.»rutr
The Mystical Temples Along The Nile: Part One
B y M arilyn H ull
Vast and unyielding, nothing but
sand and dunes as far as sight ex
tends. This is the Sahara. So m uch the
archetype o f desert that the nam e
itself means desert. Intim idating and
m erciless. H aunting and harsh.
Through the center o f this hard
taskm aster runs the Nile. Is it so cu
rious then that the w aters o f this river
w ere considered so sacred, so life
giving in this country that receives
only three inches o f rain per year?
The N ile is one o f the few rivers in the
w orld that flows north. This direc
tional flow is one reason the N ile is
considered by m ystics to be the spi
nal column o f the Earth itself. Through
(R sp in a ish o rd o f the hum an flows
the K undalini (from the H indu tradi-
th eK i(ffo m the A sian), the life
o f the w orld. T hrough the spi
t’d o f th ^ E arth , the N ile flows
une K im dalini force for all o f
I
i vital energy serves as trans
for spiritual energy according
litions. It rises physi-
pinal colum n inexact
praising o f our own
gness. A s it does,
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hakras to the Hirqjes, sentas to the
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Island
: on E lephantine is-
; ruin W here once
alls stood up to 40 feet
ble strew n about in
(th a n your w aist. And,
E lephantine was
the god K hnum , the
fe physical body. This was
o f the first chakra, the
urowaj. These ruins de-
BcWnlthttjail ing o f the
y. N o other o f these
sacred sites exhibit this advanced
state o f disrepair. Yet, the essence o f
the tem ple rem ains perfectly in tact;
ju st as our souls rem ain after our
physical bodies crumble.
Extending your left hand gently
back at the w rist, palm open to the
ground am plifies the feel o f the en
ergy that still rem ains in the vicinity.
T he essence o f this area feels dis
tinct, like the edge o f the knife, spe
cific, black and white. There is no
softness here, ju st as physical life
has no softness. Physical life exists
or it does not. Elephantine once ex
isted, but now does not.
Esoteric teachings tell us that first
chakra initiations were performed here
at Elephantine. These initiations were
o f the m ost basic challenge: Do you
truly understand that your life be
longs to God? W ill you trust G od with
your life? Do you trust the C reator o f
Life to be the Preserver o f Life? It is
said that the initiate w ould be re
quired to transverse a tunnel com
pletely filled w ith water. The water
line rose so high that there was no
place w here a second breath could be
taken. The initiate would have to trans
verse the entire length w ith one
breath. Crocodiles infested this tun
nel. The tunnel was sw allow ed up in
darkness.
D eath during this test was a very
real possibility. M any indeed died.
The initiate w ho survived this test
did so by turning over all control to
his intuition, his ability to psychi
cally “hear" the instructions given to
him by his spirit guides. And, he had
to execute these instructions without
question even when, especially when,
such instructions w ent against com
m on sense. In this way, the initiate
dem onstrated the understanding that
logic exists only in the physical world.
And, that there is intelligent life that
exists beyond the physical w orld that
is real and capable o f seeing more
than we can. In essence, God.
U pon successful com pletion o f
such initiation rituals, the candidate
for the priesthood, m ale or female,
w ould then be transferred. M oving
ju st slightly north along the N ile to
Kom Ombo, the candidate would
begin their training in preparation for
the initiation o f the second c h a k ra ,
the c h a k ra o f sex an d rep ro d u ctio n .
Kom Ombo
The ancient city o f K om O m bo
rests along the banks o f the N ile
betw een Edfu and Aswan. N ear this
city stands the only tem ple in Egypt
that is built in tandem: two altars, two
holy o f holies, two hypostyle halls.
This is the only temple that is dedi
cated to two gods: to Horus the fal
con-headed good and Sobek, the
crocodile headed god. This is the
tem ple that is dedicated to the con
cept o f duality: light and dark, male
and female, above and below. O ppo
sites exist only in the physical world,
and indeed, are the essence o f the
physical world. In this temple, the
initiate learned that good and evil,
represented respectively by H orus
and Sobek, must both exist in balance
for the physical world to exist.
Approaching the tw o altars, and
again extending the left hand, it is
p o ssib le to feel th ese o p p o sin g
forces. The frequencies em itted from
these adjoining altars allow the indi
vidual to align and activate the en
ergy center o f the second chakra,
also know n as the sacral or sexual
chakra. This chakra, w hen activated,
allows the Kundalini o f the individual
to be accessed, stim ulating creativity
and sexual health and balance. TO
The Nile is one of
the few rivers in the world that
flows north. The fertility o f the
Nile Valley is no longer due to
annual floods, but contemporary
irrigation.
(Left) The temple o f Korn Ombo,
home o f the Crocodile God. This
is where initiation rituals were
held for those entering
priesthood to learn about the
earth s duality - good and evil
for balance.
(Above right) Horus, the Falcon
God.
BE. CONTINUED-
Ego Trippin
(there m ay be a reason why)
I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile
crescent and built
the sphinx
I designed a py
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that only gl<
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driaktoiiB.
My bowels deliver
uranium the filings from
my fingernails are
semi-precious jewels
On a trip north
I caught a cold and blew
my nose giving oil to the
arab world
I am so hip even my
errors are correct
I sailed west to reach
east and had to round off
the earth as I went
the hair from my head
thinned and gold was laid
across three continents
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