In this diagram 'Enead' is illustrated in comparison to the 'Bagua' of China. Both represent the same concept in the processes of creation.
The Traditional date of Chinas first Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty is 1766 .B.C. However there are references to a legendary Xia Dynasty in 2205 .B.C. (During Old Kingdom period of Egypt). There are over two hundred Pyramids in China, but unfortunately not open to examination by foreign nationals.
Can it be mere coincidence that at the centre of this creation was Atum who rose as the ben-ben and (400 B.C) in Greece when Democritus produced his theory; that all things were constructed from tiny elements he chose to name them 'Atoms'? And that the Bibles story of creation chose the name 'Adam' as the first human?
Seth causes the crack in our view of reality by seperating our understanding of the 'duality' between the conscious and the physical world. In Egypt it was written that Seth plucked out the Eye of Horus and cut it into pieces to prevent him from becoming king.
The third key point of chi kung is, the understanding and application of 'duality' the twin perspective of holism which reunifies Seth, i.e. Nephthys (containment). Duality is a word commonly used, but the full dimensions of this understanding can escape even the sharpest of minds. This is because it is the mind itself which can create the obstruction.
There is only one truth and the closer people come to it the more they start to sound the same. The different styles of Yoga and Chi arts are in fact not separate. What appears to separate them is only, language, personalities, and the understanding of different teachers.
There is only one you, and you only have one spine, one heart and one brain, while you practice any of these arts they must become part of you, or else they will just be an empty performance. There are however many different types of you; there is; cautious you, angry you, happy you and so on. In the same way that actors can play different characters in many stories, we can create infinite divisions within ourselves. Our true self is that part of us known as the Heart.
Quoting from translations by J.H Breasted an archaeologist who devoted his life to excavation in the Middle East, particularly Egypt; Ptah ‘pronounced the names of all things, created the sight of the eyes, the hearing of the ears, the breathing of the nose, that they may transmit to the heart. It is he (the heart) that causes that every conclusion should come forth, it is the tongue which announces the thought of the heart…Ptah is proclaimed the Creator and mover of all things.
The world was not created by magic; nor was it created merely according to an intelligent plan; it came into being and is continually sustained by the active operation of intelligence (although I believe a more modern translation would be consciousness), which is the breath of God….. Ptah, surveying his handiwork, was ‘satisfied’, i.e. like the God of Genesis, ‘he saw that it was good.’
Monday, 16 February 2009
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