I was encouraged to work with Akash this week, and I didn’t take the time, and only gave him a candle.
Today I felt a bit drained and took a nap to refresh in the afternoon. It seems that was him getting my attention and not letting me fade off, which I’m good at doing to be fair. That would normally annoy me because it’s a challenge to my control, but I made a promise and I appreciate him reaching out. It seems I have internally accepted a relationship here and he gets to behave in ways I would not allow an outsider to do.
We had an informal conversation about the fictional TV series Stargate SG1, I told him about the concepts of the Goa’uld and Jaffar, and received an unsurprised and calm “metaphor”, by which he was referring to the physical symbiotic mechanism in the story. I definitely want to come back to this later, if something represented by the Goa’uld actually exist or exited somehow and he knows about them. They do say, there’s nothing new under the sun.
So, we’re going to get some basics in, take a survey of the most popular surviving records. I will read these with him present to feedback and inform me in real time as I’m reading. He’s also interested in reading other books together for the information that is new to him, so that’s nice.
Copyright legal links:
https://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/index.htm
He’s dismissive of the religious parts, it’s specifically the magick we are researching. There’s an overlap though, so I’m curious where magick became religion, and what can be recovered from the religious fluff.
In reviewing my current library, I have these that I consider basics:
- The Egyptian Book of the Dead: the Book of Going Forth by Day aka Papyrus of Ani. I used to have a physical book but it was water damaged so mine is kindle right now.
- [The Pyramid Texts(The Pyramid Texts Index) Paraphrasing the preface: “Funary inscriptions from the pyramids at Sakkara, essentially the oldest sacred texts known”
- Egyptian Magic (E.A. Wallis Budge 1901)
And these look like I want to get my teeth into them:
- Techniques of Graeco Egyptian Magick (Stephen Skinner) (On hand)
- Another physical copy of the Egyptian book of the Dead only with pictures…
One Amazon reviewer said “use your heart and your imagination when you read this book. It will not make sense to you if you read it with your rational brain. Trust me I tried. When I approached with wonder, it rewired my brain. It’s all deeply symbolic and metaphorical, so you will start thinking in symbols and metaphors.” which sounds about right for what I’m doing here.
I’m very curious about energy working from the Egyptian magickal perspective. If I figure this out that alone will make me happy with this endeavor.
I want to know the relationship, if there is one, between mages of Khem or Xem (Egypt) and their use of snake symbolism, snakes as wands (obviously symbolic) and the snake as the Goddess of magick Heka (precursor to the Greek Hecate) an energy working, kundalini and those snakey hats we see on Sumerian and other Mesopotamian reliefs. Am I going to find that raising kundalini is the basic hallmark, the “whitebelt” level achievement of the Khem mage or something else?