The word Alchemy means, 'Out of Egypt' I.e. 'the knowledge of Egypt' (Alcohol being one example). During the decline of the last Empires of Egypt they attempted to pass on their knowledge to many of the surrounding cultures. The Rosetta stone itself is an example from the period when the translations took place. The work of both Plato and Pythagoras benefited from this education.Ptah is shown above wearing the strap-on beard like that of the living king. Note; His name as represented above, also contains the emblem the entwined snake of the apothecarian’s cup still used by pharmacists throughout the world.
The First Wise man was known in Egypt at the first dynasty by the name Ptah. Before we can fully appreciate the genius of this contribution to civilisation, it is important to clarify the misconceptions which have occurred through cultural differences.
The common misconception about Egypt says; 'Egyptians worshipped many Gods'. There is a tenancy when looking at history to begin with the assumption that old is inferior to new rather than just different. The philosophers of Egypt were far from primitive and the self they were analysing is the same today as it was then.
Egypt's empire spanned for three thousand years (3100 – 343 B.C.) from the creation of writing to the rise of the Roman Empire. Such an Empire could not have been unified on a foundation of divided theology, especially when we consider that their very concept of 'original sin' was division itself (as explained below). The generalisation comes from the mistranslation of the symbol for the word 'Netter'. The symbol 'netter' was for a long time read as 'God' but in fact means 'concept'. In the same way the modern word 'evolution' is not a type of God but a concept. God was known to the Egyptians as 'The one who's name is hidden'. God being the unknown was regarded as relative to what you were trying to understand, in effect God was the answer to the problem you were facing and so could be described in infinitely different ways depending on circumstance.
With around two hundred and forty generations of rulers, covering three thousand years, is it possible to see a common theme?
The first king of the first dynasty of Egypt (Menes) erected a monument to Ptah and the second to last King, was still being referred to on the Rosetta stone as “Ptolemy the ever-living, beloved by Ptah,” so its reasonable to consider Ptah's influence as being substantial to the Egyptian view of the world.
Ptah was referred to as ‘The heart and tongue of the netters’. To be both heart and tongue is not merely the interpreter of god but the divine mind itself engaged in the act of creation by giving concrete expression to its thoughts.
For the last two thousand years church congregations have listened, to the opening of the fourth Gospel – ‘In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.’ Written originally in Greek like the other gospels it was intended originally for Greek readers. 'In the beginning was the ‘logos’ and logos had been made flesh and was one with man. Hence the incarnate logos, Christ, was also Immanuel, ‘God with us’.
‘Logos’ in Greek philosophy means a creative principle, a fertilizing thought, and an agent of divine energy. The concept of logos also has its parallel in Hebrew thought, sometimes personified as ‘Divine Wisdom’.
Note: (This gospel is ascribed to St John but we do not know for certain who wrote it. On the basis of fragments of papyrus, it was known in Egypt early in the second century AD.)
What was Ptah's creative principle which began the unification of the world we live in today?
