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human consciousness in general. 25
We know already that, according to the Tantras, the first
Chakra, Muladhara or the Root-support centre in which
Kundalini resides, is of earth. The second is of water, the
third of fire, the fourth of air, the fifth of ether and the
sixth of mind. This is also what the Egyptian symbology
clearly implies. The view expressed by Lawlor in the last
few lines is significant. This is also the Tantric conception
about the arousal of Kundalini. The intensification and
heightening of human consciousness causes biological and
even cellular changes in the physical body of the initiate.
It is for this reason that I repeatedly emphasize scientific
research on Kundalini as that would at once solve the
problems arising out of the occult doctrines of the past.
Towards the close of his book Schwaller de Lubicz
expresses the view that, People cling obstinately to the
classical prejudice and, in order to defend this thesis,
prefer to link the ancient Egyptians with the anthropoids.
They would even diminish the value that the Greeks had
in demonstrating the great knowledge of ancient
Egypt...Did not the ancient Greeks go to study in the
sanctuaries of Lower Egypt as close to the source as
possible? They had fewer prejudices than their modern
champions. When Grapow denies the Ancients a
knowledge of the nerves, of the circulation of the blood
etc., we can remind him that
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Hippocrates, as Iversen recently confirmed (Carlsberg
Papyrus No.8,1939), borrowed extensively from
Pharaonic documents and did so in B.C. 450. Now
Hippocrates spoke of nerves, of blood circulation and of
glands.
In conclusion to the foregoing, continues de Lubicz,
the Pharaonic teaching shows us Man composed of three
beings: the sexual being, the corporeal being and the
spiritual being. Each has its own body and organs. These
three beings are interdependent, in the flux of juices and
the nervous influx; the spinal marrow is the column of
fire that connects the whole. The being properly called
corporeal is the body the chest and abdomen where
the organs for the assimilation of solids, liquids and air are
located. The head is the container of the spiritual being,
where the blood built up in the body comes to be
spiritualized in order to nourish the nervous flux and
prepare the ferments of the blood and the seed ....This is
a greatly condensed aspect of Man in the image of the
universe. 25 This view of the human body, the brain and
the genital organs, with the interconnecting spinal
marrow the column of fire again refers to the same
metamorphosis brought about by the kindling of the fire
of Kundalini. Therefore, the universe is only
consciousness, says de Lubicz at another place, and
presents only an evolution of consciousness from
beginning to end, which is the return to its Cause. The aim
of every initiatory religion is to teach the way that leads
to this ultimate merging. This view which de Lubicz has
drawn from his scrupulous examination of the architecture
of the Temple of Luxor, completely tallies with the
concept of Shaiva philosophy based on the Tantras. It
projects human life as an ascending cycle from limited to
universal consciousness.
There are few indeed who maintain a judicious frame of
mind in their approach to the still hidden secrets of nature.
In no epoch in history could the intellectuals of the day
anticipate or measure the next leap that knowledge took to
bring a new picture of the cosmos before their eyes. The
same alas, is the position in our time. With all the wonder-
exciting achievements of science and all the
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elaborate devices to aid man s knowledge, humanity
might at this very moment be trembling on the edge of its
greatest discovery of the secrets of nature which may
completely recast the ideas and concepts about the
universe current at present. But where is the farsighted
intellect that can make a correct forecast of the great
event?
The intellectual confusion, existing at present, in the
solution of the problems presented by the pyramids is
mainly due to modern scholars resistance to the accep-
tance of the fact that the vanished cultures of the past had
achieved anything which is still in advance of the
knowledge gained during recent times. In part, this
vainglorious attitude rests on the triumphs of science. The
knowledge of some of the physical laws of nature, not
known to the ancients, the discovery of steam, electricity
and other forces has created a false impression that the
mechanical wonders of technology are a sure sign of our
intellectual superiority over the people of the past who had
no knowledge of them. This is exactly where the error
lies.
The knowledge and the skill needed to win
technological triumphs, if carried to excess, can be as
inimical to evolution as the time-consuming religious fads
of the past. A mind that has become a slave to the machine
can prove as great a stumbling block to evolution as a
mind enslaved by superstition. An intellect swollen by
pride, heedless of the lessons of the past, which believes it
has attained the acme of knowledge and there is nothing
beyond, is as steeped in ignorance as a primitive mind
which revels in its obduracy to stick to its opinions even
when wrong. For ages to come, revolutions in thought, as
great as those caused by Copernicus, Darwin or Einstein,
would continue to occur to correct the errors of our time
as our leading geniuses corrected the errors of the past.
But there are yet areas of research which, because of our
obduracy, we have left untouched, in which we have still
to turn to the sages and savants of olden days.
There is no doubt whatsoever that the ancients were far
in advance of the moderns in their knowledge of the
occult forces of nature and the potentiality for
transcendent experience present in human beings. Those
honest savants
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who devote themselves to the exploration of the
mysterious, wonder-exciting monuments or relics of the
vanished cultures are doing a great service in opening the
eyes of the self-applauding crowds who believe they have
nothing new to learn from the past. The greatest still
unexplored mystery hidden under the ashes of ancient
empires is the mystery of Kundalini. The world will
become far wiser and safer when the secret knowledge, at
the bottom of this mystery, is unfolded and acted upon by
modern science.
Most of the ancient philosophers and great religious
teachers, including Moses and St. Paul, acknowledge or
are acknowledged to have derived their wisdom from the
Egyptian initiates, says Tompkins. Individuals who
admitted or hinted they were initiates include Sophocles,
Solon, Plato, Cicero, Heraclitus, Pindar and Pythagoras...
Several authors, including W. Marshall Adams, believe
the pyramid represented in monumental form the doctrine
which The Book of the Dead sets forth in script
containing, in allegorical and symbolic manner, the secret
wisdom of the initiates or the laws which govern and
direct the universe, enabling the initiate to know How he
came into being in the beginning. 22 How many among
the modern thinkers would be prepared to declare the
same open-minded attitude towards the supra-rational and
the occult as did the great intellects among the Greeks?
9
THE WONDER-GRAMMAR OF
PANINI
Turning now to the early Indo-Aryans the contemporaries
of the Egyptians in the dynastic period whose saga is
recounted in the Vedas, we do not find any wonder-ex-
citing monuments wrought in brick or stone, standing to
this day as a mute witness to their architectural talent and
skill. But we find some other thing equally, if not more,
amazing that has persisted unaltered to this day and, in all
probability, will endure longer than even the time-defying
pyramids. I refer to the monumental edifice of thought,
embedded in the Upanishads, which is still far in advance
of any system of philosophy formulated in any other part
of the earth. The colossal proportions of the feat, as also of
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