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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
i and seals to the Christian
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olution o f the Earth
s w ith ours.
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-
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(there m ay be a reason why)
I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile
crescent and built
the sphinx
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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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