COSMOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CUSH-KEMET
"Every civilization has looked far into its mythical past and provided itself with divine pedigree . For the Greeks it was the Olympian epoch , when gods fraternized with mortals as Homer described in the 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey '. For the Hebrews it was the time of Genesis and the Patriarchs, expounded in the Old Testament . For the Egyptians , whose civilization preceded the Greeks and the Hebrews , the first golden age , when gods fraternized with humans , was called 'Tep Zepi', which translates loosely as the 'First Time.'
"They believed that the system of the cosmic order and its transference to the land of Egypt had been established a long time before by the gods. Egypt had been ruled by a race of gods for millennia before it was entrusted to the mortal yet divine line of pharaohs. The pharaonic were the sacerdotal connection with the gods and, by extension, represented the link with the First Time; they were the custodians of its established laws and wisdom. Everything they did , every action, every move , every decree had to be justified in terms of the First Time, which served as a sort of covenant of kingship, to abide by and to explain their actions and deeds. This was true not only for the king and his court but applied to all natural events: the movement of celestial bodies, the unexplained phenomena of nature and the ebbing and rising of the Nile. It would not be an exaggeration to say that everything a pharaoh did was connected with the First Time; hence, the careful reenactment of mythical events which could be either cosmic or secular or both combined in a duality by the power of symbols and rituals . It is not surprising that this blissful First Time was invariably referred to as the Time of Osiris.
The rule of Osiris on earth was seen as Egypt 's happiest and most noble epoch and was believed to have been in the distant abyss of time , long before that which Egyptologists are willing to accept as realistic. When Egyptians built the pyramids, they were thinking of an important event that related to the First Time; whenever that might have been, we now know it had something to do with stars and, more particularly, the stars of Orion and the star Sirius --the cosmic lands of the souls.
"What makes the First Time so interesting is not just that the Egyptians were adamant about its real existence but would pride themselves on being able to compute its epoch , and indeed any epoch in their past. To do that they would need to be aware of precession ....
(P. 180-181, THE ORION MYSTERY by Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert (1994)
"It has been common sport to pit the Ancient Egyptians against the philosophical 'genius' of the Greeks. Egyptian sages are said to have been poor relatives to Solon , Pythagoras , Socrates, Plato and Aristotle . As far as the sciences of mathematics and astronomy, experts such as Parker and Neugenbauer felt that the mathematics was rudimentary calculations children of ten could tackle, and the astronomy simply quaint observations of the stars to interpret superstitious beliefs and the doings of the gods. Whatever skills the Egyptians might have possessed, say these experts, their astronomy was less developed than that of Babylonians and the Greeks. Yet such views are at odds with what Ancient Greeks said of the Egyptian sages they made contact with in the early part of the first millennium BC.
"Most Ancient Greek and Roman authors believed emphatically that Pythagoras, Plato, even Homer received their philosophy from the Ancient Egyptians. Diodorus (first century BC) tells us: 'The most educated Greeks have an ambition to visit Egypt to study the laws and principles of a most remarkable nature . Although this country was closed to strangers, those among the ancients known to have visited Egypt: Orpheus, Homer, Pythagoras and Solon...'
"The great Strabo (64 BC-AD 25) had this to say:
"'The Egyptian priests are supreme in the science of the sky. Mysterious and reluctant to communicate they eventually let themselves be persuaded , after much soliciting, to impart some of their precepts; although they conceal the greater part. They revealed to the Greeks the secrets of the full year, whom the latter ignored as with many other things...'
"In his famous 'Histories', Herodotus (c. 485-425 BC), tells us:
"'It is at Heliopolis that the most learned of the Egyptians are to be found...all agree in saying that the Egyptians by their study of astronomy discovered the solar year and were the first to divide it into twelve parts , and in my opinion their method of calculation is better than the Greeks...The name of nearly all the gods came to Greece from Egypt...'
"Dion Chrystomenos (AD 30) also pointed out : 'The Egyptian priests mocked the Greeks because, on many things, they have never known the truth...'
"What seems to be clear is that the Egyptian priests were regarded by the Greeks as the keepers of great astronomical wisdom which it was not easy to persuade them to divulge to strangers, whom they regarded as unworthy of their high levels of culture. Indeed, strangers entered Egypt only with great difficulty in ancient times--and presumably even greater in the Pyramid Age. In the days of the Fourth Dynasty the primitive Greeks would have appeared as barbarians and other Europeans no more than cave men to the sophisticated and technologically advanced Egyptians who built the great pyramids . It was not until the Saite Period (c.663 BC) that foreigners were allowed to enter Egypt freely, and learn its mysteries.
"Schwaller de Lubicz, the modern philosopher, spent most of his life showing that Ancient Egypt was the true repository of philosophy and astronomy (which he termed 'sacred science '). He was convinced that modern scholars are simply not reading the ancients right and that 'there are many revisions to be brought to our judgements of ancient peoples of whom only traces remain."
(P. 182-183, "The Great Star-Clock of the Epochs," THE ORION MYSTERY by Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert (1994)
COSMOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CUSH-KEMET
"Every civilization has looked far into its mythical past and provided itself with divine pedigree . For the Greeks it was the Olympian epoch , when gods fraternized with mortals as Homer described in the 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey '. For the Hebrews it was the time of Genesis and the Patriarchs, expounded in the Old Testament . For the Egyptians , whose civilization preceded the Greeks and the Hebrews , the first golden age , when gods fraternized with humans , was called 'Tep Zepi', which translates loosely as the 'First Time.'
"They believed that the system of the cosmic order and its transference to the land of Egypt had been established a long time before by the gods. Egypt had been ruled by a race of gods for millennia before it was entrusted to the mortal yet divine line of pharaohs. The pharaonic were the sacerdotal connection with the gods and, by extension, represented the link with the First Time; they were the custodians of its established laws and wisdom. Everything they did , every action, every move , every decree had to be justified in terms of the First Time, which served as a sort of covenant of kingship, to abide by and to explain their actions and deeds. This was true not only for the king and his court but applied to all natural events: the movement of celestial bodies, the unexplained phenomena of nature and the ebbing and rising of the Nile. It would not be an exaggeration to say that everything a pharaoh did was connected with the First Time; hence, the careful reenactment of mythical events which could be either cosmic or secular or both combined in a duality by the power of symbols and rituals . It is not surprising that this blissful First Time was invariably referred to as the Time of Osiris.
The rule of Osiris on earth was seen as Egypt 's happiest and most noble epoch and was believed to have been in the distant abyss of time , long before that which Egyptologists are willing to accept as realistic. When Egyptians built the pyramids, they were thinking of an important event that related to the First Time; whenever that might have been, we now know it had something to do with stars and, more particularly, the stars of Orion and the star Sirius --the cosmic lands of the souls.
"What makes the First Time so interesting is not just that the Egyptians were adamant about its real existence but would pride themselves on being able to compute its epoch , and indeed any epoch in their past. To do that they would need to be aware of precession ....
(P. 180-181, THE ORION MYSTERY by Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert (1994)
"It has been common sport to pit the Ancient Egyptians against the philosophical 'genius' of the Greeks. Egyptian sages are said to have been poor relatives to Solon , Pythagoras , Socrates, Plato and Aristotle . As far as the sciences of mathematics and astronomy, experts such as Parker and Neugenbauer felt that the mathematics was rudimentary calculations children of ten could tackle, and the astronomy simply quaint observations of the stars to interpret superstitious beliefs and the doings of the gods. Whatever skills the Egyptians might have possessed, say these experts, their astronomy was less developed than that of Babylonians and the Greeks. Yet such views are at odds with what Ancient Greeks said of the Egyptian sages they made contact with in the early part of the first millennium BC.
"Most Ancient Greek and Roman authors believed emphatically that Pythagoras, Plato, even Homer received their philosophy from the Ancient Egyptians. Diodorus (first century BC) tells us: 'The most educated Greeks have an ambition to visit Egypt to study the laws and principles of a most remarkable nature . Although this country was closed to strangers, those among the ancients known to have visited Egypt: Orpheus, Homer, Pythagoras and Solon...'
"The great Strabo (64 BC-AD 25) had this to say:
"'The Egyptian priests are supreme in the science of the sky. Mysterious and reluctant to communicate they eventually let themselves be persuaded , after much soliciting, to impart some of their precepts; although they conceal the greater part. They revealed to the Greeks the secrets of the full year, whom the latter ignored as with many other things...'
"In his famous 'Histories', Herodotus (c. 485-425 BC), tells us:
"'It is at Heliopolis that the most learned of the Egyptians are to be found...all agree in saying that the Egyptians by their study of astronomy discovered the solar year and were the first to divide it into twelve parts , and in my opinion their method of calculation is better than the Greeks...The name of nearly all the gods came to Greece from Egypt...'
"Dion Chrystomenos (AD 30) also pointed out : 'The Egyptian priests mocked the Greeks because, on many things, they have never known the truth...'
"What seems to be clear is that the Egyptian priests were regarded by the Greeks as the keepers of great astronomical wisdom which it was not easy to persuade them to divulge to strangers, whom they regarded as unworthy of their high levels of culture. Indeed, strangers entered Egypt only with great difficulty in ancient times--and presumably even greater in the Pyramid Age. In the days of the Fourth Dynasty the primitive Greeks would have appeared as barbarians and other Europeans no more than cave men to the sophisticated and technologically advanced Egyptians who built the great pyramids . It was not until the Saite Period (c.663 BC) that foreigners were allowed to enter Egypt freely, and learn its mysteries.
"Schwaller de Lubicz, the modern philosopher, spent most of his life showing that Ancient Egypt was the true repository of philosophy and astronomy (which he termed 'sacred science '). He was convinced that modern scholars are simply not reading the ancients right and that 'there are many revisions to be brought to our judgements of ancient peoples of whom only traces remain."
(P. 182-183, "The Great Star-Clock of the Epochs," THE ORION MYSTERY by Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert (1994)