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Journey into the Light: The Three Principles of Man's Awakening
Isha Schwaller de Lubicz (1960) translated by Susan D. Resnick (1984) 328pages US$ C$

Journey into Light, in the form of a novel, portrays the transformative encounter of the modern, scientific and rational mentality with the suprarational, spiritual intelligence that guides us on the Path of the Mysteries. Through dramatic dialogue and interplay between master and student, we are initiated into the realm of the spirit. The author imparts precise teachings on the nature of the spiritual worlds, the experience of death, and the make-up of the individual evolving consciousness. The conditions for intuitive perception, immortality and the cycles of consciousness are outlined. Sexuality and the spiritual problems of the couple are explored. Unique insights in cosmic femininity and the wisdom inherent in the Christian Virgin are described. "Beings of States" of the invisible world: Elementals, Angels, and the Satanic Fire are described. The author then shows us how to gain Natural Simplicity, a stepping stone in the quest for knowledge. With consummate scholarship and deep insight the author reveals the high metaphysical wisdom that is the foundation of medieval alchemy and the force that built the Gothic cathedrals. She takes us into the secret schools of the Compagons, tracing the root of knowledge through Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity all the way back to the sacred science of ancient Egypt. In so doing, she enables us to discover the symbolism and the rites that are the bridge to the spiritual life. The 20th century setting of the text offers us practical advice on incorporating the ancient wisdom into contemporary life and challenges us to realize, in the midst of this conditioned and confused world, our "conscious presence" so that we may free ourselves and transform the world around us. Journey into the Light is meant as an independent companion volume to the author's Opening of the Way. (Inner Traditions)



Hathor Rising: The Power of the Goddess in Ancient Egypt
Alison Roberts (1995/1997) 186pages

Drawing from temple art, myths, rituals, and poetry, Hathor Rising examines the feminine aspect of the ancient Egyptian pantheon and sheds new light on the pivotal place held there by the fiery serpent-eyed goddess, Hathor-Sekhmet. It also takes a close look at the reign of the innovative female Pharoah Hatshepsut, who laid the foundations for the ecstatic, heart-centered splendor of New Kingdom Egypt. As Alison Roberts noted in her Foreword: The central theme of the present book is Hathor and the Egyptian 'art of living'. Its sequel, now nearing completion, focuses on Hathor in Osirian religion - on the Egyptian 'art of dying'. (Inner Tradtitions)



Nature Word
R.S. Schwaller de Lubicz (1952) Translated by Deborah Lawlor (1982) 154pages

In this remarkable book, composed immediately upon his return from Egypt in 1952, the noted French esotericist and Hermetic philosopher R.A.Schwaller de Lubicz conveys to modern consciousness insights derived from a lifetime of experience and study in the ancient and sacred traditions of humanity. His theme is the intelligence of the heart - our innate, functional consciousness, or way of thinking, which is in harmony with nature and able to understand life and living things. Many traditions have spoken of a "higher consciousness," but de Lubicz's attempts to formulate in modern terms an alchemical science of qualities, functions, analogies, and signatures is unique. (Inner Traditions, 1990)



Rebel in the Soul: An Ancient Egyptian Dialogue between a Man and His Destiny
Bika Reed (1978/1997) 141pages

The nameless, hieractic papyrus 3024, from the Berlin Museum, was translated for the first time in 1896 by the German scholar Adolph Erman, under the name A Man Tired of Life in Dispute with His Soul ...The evolution of consciousness, symbolized by the Barque of the Sun, moving through the Underworld (the unconscious), is the main theme of Ancient Egyptian sacred writings. Stages of this evolution were often treated individually on the walls of tombs and in papyri. In this voyage, at a certain 'hour' (stage), we meet the Rebel in the Soul. I have given this new title to the papyrus because it speaks of that hour of spiritual transformation. Rebel in the Soul is an initiatic text, dedicated to this critical stage: intellectual rebellion. It was meant for students of the Temple, whose highly developed intellect was approaching this crisis....Here the crucial role of intellect in spiritual survival is assessed in its most deeply paradoxical nature. Egypt often expresses man's inner conflict by the image of the field and the plougher. There is no instant liberation, no other solution to our problems, except cultivation, a balanced development of man's spiritual potential. At the peak of its evolution, like the mature fruit, intellect has to face its inevitable transformation, to be able to perpetuate its seed, life itself. - from the translator/author's Introduction (Inner Traditions)



Sacred Science: The King of Pharaonic Theocracy
R.S. Schwaller de Lubicz (1961) Translated by Andre & Goldian VandenBroeck (1982) 302pages US$18.95 C$ 29.95

Central to the pharaonic mentality is the royal principle in humanity and in nature. It is this principle that is capable of transforming all the "kingdoms"; thus mineral becomes gold and man becomes pharaoh, or King (the image of man's cosmic accomplishment and the exaltation of the species). This science of transformation, held sacred by the sages of ancient Egypt, is the theme of the Egyptian texts cited in these pages. Among the topics explored by de Lubicz are Pythagorean thought (also of Egyptian origin) and its influence on Copernicus and Kepler; Egyptian symbolism and myth and their echoes in modern folk and fairy tales; the redefinition of magic, science, medicine, and faith; and the Egyptian calendar and the zodiac of Denderh seen from an astronomical perspective, showing Egypt as the mirror of heaven. Egypt maintained itself at the highest level for thousand of years through a conviction that death is but a change within the continuity of life. The Sacred Science of which Schwaller de Lubicz writes is ever-present and needs no discoverers. Constantly changing, it needs no revision. The keeper of time and genesis, it is never dated. (Inner Traditions, 1988)


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