Temple
_AM: And of all the houses and homes in the world, you live in the Home of the Creative Spirit.
_I: What is that home?
AM: Egypt. In the 8th century BC, the poet Homer, writer of the famous “Iliad” and “Odyssey”, described the lands of the Nile as “House or Home of the Creative Spirit”; whose name in the Egyptian language would be “Hat Ka Ptah”, unpronounceable for the Greeks, who transcribed it as “Ae-gi-ptós”, giving the current Egypt.
_I: Wow, I didn't know this… So the current name of the country derives from its creator god.
_AM: As we said, Ptah, the creator god, would accompany us this week in his essence. This is one of the Nun of Egyptian mythology, one of the first to be created, generated by the cosmos, and therefore, he is one of the generators of reality. His purpose is to build the worlds, the things that we see, that we touch, that we can perceive with each sense, and therefore, he was the patron of architects, bricklayers, craftsmen and builders in general. He is also known for being the god of Darkness, since in ancient times it was understood as the densification of light, the materialization of the mind. From this darkness, the first thing that Ptah originated was the very gods of the Egyptian pantheon, arising from his own manifest attributes. He separated the regions of the Nile and gave each of the gods a place, determining which of them they should direct, govern, and at which strategic points their temples should be erected.
_I: So he designed the initiatory path of the Nile.
_AM: At least, it is the divine concept that inspired the Atlantean architects to create it. Imagine this: if Ptah was the night that split into divine fragments, what does this sound like to you?
_I: To the stars…
AM: Good, and therefore, the Nile is the Milky Way. The star gods could descend to the ground only in sacred sites that were considered fragments of that sky on Earth.
_I: The temples! Each Nile temple is a fragment of heaven. “Ater Tumti”, as we called it, “Heaven on Earth”.
AM: Temples were considered houses of the gods. But remember, that each temple is the house of a god, and each god is a part of the creator, Ptah. Therefore, the entire territory is the body of the creator.
_I: So each temple is a chakra, an organ!
_AM: That's right. In this way, the sky that was captured on earth is understood as the body of the creator in its parts, which make up the most important temple of all. What is it…
_I: …the Physical Body.
_AM: Good. Therefore, this week, it will be important to know the physical temple and what it represents in us as conscious beings. How to make the body conscious, and how understanding it will help us capture that heaven, that divine spirit, in us.
_I: It sounds like an arduous path…
_AM: We will travel through our bodies, understanding what it represents. It is necessary to know its parts to understand the whole.
_I: Yes, I understand.
_AM: But first of all, we must understand something fundamental.
Me what?
_AM: The question you must ask yourself is why call the Body a Temple, that is, what is a Temple?
_I: It's true. We usually refer to the temple as the sacred space normally built by architects, where statues of gods or saints are placed, or also places of prayer and reflection, where the divine is honored, sacred constructions.
_AM: Although at the beginning of human times, they were not constructions, but spaces. Let's see then the history of the first temple.
_I: What was the first temple?
_AM: Heaven.
_I: Oh… I didn't expect that.
_AM: In ancient times, totemic and animistic cultures understood that the divine inhabited all things, and existed in all of nature. The unattainable and untouchable, invisible, was even more representative of the divine, because there was the inexplicable: Heaven. The stars, the Sun, the Moon, the shooting stars, were part of that magic. And the only ones capable of reaching it were the birds. Birds were the only ones who could communicate with the gods, get close enough to talk to them and bring messages to the world of the living.
_I: That is why so many cultures put the condor, eagle, falcon, vulture and many other high-flying birds in the place of messengers of God or the incarnated divine body itself.
_AM: And their flight encoded the messages, they created the language. Thus, shamans used bird feathers to obtain or demonstrate divine wisdom, and scribes captured sacred texts by dipping ink into bird feathers. The feathers had the information from the heavens.
_I: It makes sense to think about it that way… Of course.
_AM: Observing birds in the skies was a way of interpreting what the gods had in store for the world. The shamans, priests, used to sit for hours throwing questions to the Heavens, waiting for the birds to respond. In Latin, the Romans had an exact term for this action: “avis spicium” (bird watching), which became commonly called “auspicius.”
_I: Sponsorship… Today has two meanings…
_AM: But the same origin. Auspice comes from a sign or indication that is taken as an announcement or warning of a future event, since the people who had an undertaking (whether it was a construction, a battle, or the making of a decision), asked the question to the heavens, and the birds would mark the signs of whether it was a good day to do it or not. In our current times, we understand this word as someone who puts faith in a venture and supports it so that it succeeds, which gave us the idea of a sponsor, who trusts that it will turn out well.
_I: There are words that never cease to surprise me in the strangeness of their origin...
_AM: Helps us understand what we are based on. And speaking of fundamentals, these ancients had a revelation. The places where the birds gave signals normally seemed to be strategic places where the gods communicated with the world. Sites where birds repeatedly made spiral flights ascending or descending. This marked strategic places for observation. In this way, the priests ordered the space to be opened, fell trees if necessary, cut the mountain if necessary, in order to have a better point of view and observe the messages of these birds with greater quality. Thus, this cut or opening of space was considered a window from Heaven on Earth. In Indo-European languages, cutting or opening a space is said “tem”. With the addition of suffixes and prefixes, the concept “contemplate” emerged (cum+tem+lo= cutting a site together).
_I: So contemplating does not describe looking, but rather the space created to look... How strange.
_AM: Yes, it is a word that talks about “from where”, not “to where”. Over time, the priests decided to live in those cut spaces, where the gods would be honored and offerings would be made. In this way, the “tem-lo” became a “temple”, a place where the priests called “augurs” lived. Its name comes from “augere”, which means “to increase, expand”, and this gave rise to the name “augur”, as an omen, something that announces the future, because they were consulted by kings and emperors to tell them. give “good omens” for growth.
_I: A very different story than what I imagined about these words.
_AM: What did you expect?
_I: Something more magical, not so logical or concrete. But anyway, it puts my feet on the ground about what a Temple is.
_AM: Oh, of course yes, because the temples speak of the materialization of the divine, of placing the god's feet in the world. Ptah, creator of the gods, established the places and ways in which they would come down to Earth, in a certain way, the way in which his own body would be able to communicate in creation. The spirit, then, would communicate with matter through these sacred sites, these temples in matter. His body.
_I: What you are trying to say is that in the same way that tradition says that temples are the spaces in which the heavens descend their message, as a spirit speaks with the body, our consciousness would communicate with us through the organs …
_AM: And for this reason, you need to know the temples that make up your “Hat Ka Ptah”, the initiatory path of your life, the biological body that is the house of the creative spirit that lives in you.
_I: My body is the divine temple of my consciousness…
_AM: And for this reason, you must “sponsor” its messages, and you must “augurate” its development, understanding each part, each place, each fragment of that heaven in you, in each of your courts, of your “temples.”
_I: What are they?
_AM: Along the Nile, various temples connected this body in the Atlantean era, today, most non-existent after 12 thousand years of history. However, some of them remain reconstructed from Egyptian and Greco-Roman times. To understand the body of Ptah, we will visit the temples that still stand, such as Abu Simbel, Philae, Kom Ombo, Edfu, Luxor, Karnak, Dendera, Abydos, Tel El Amarna, Dahshur, Saqqara and Giza. These 12 territories will remind us of the essence of this path, traveling it from north to south, descending from Heaven to Earth.
_I: And in our temple, what are those 12 temples?
_AM: You call them “Biological Systems”. Going through the Nervous, Endocrine, Circulatory, Respiratory, Immune, Digestive, Excretory, Lymphatic, Reproductive, Bone, Muscular and Integumentary.
_I: Our biology…
_AM: And the meaning of it, because these temples that are our bodies, are the pillars between heaven and earth, bridges, portals and windows of communication between the divine and the mundane, manifestation of the soul, will of the spirit. Recognize yourself as the architect of your biology, and remember that you are an artist of creation. It is time to understand the temple you have created in order to communicate with the universe that you are.
_I: I am ready to understand the temple that I am.
_AM: Open the doors. “Gnothi Seauton.”
_I: “Know thyself”…
_AM: …And you will know the Universe.