The Atomic Sun

The concept of Horus is at times depicted as a falcon or as having a falcons head and his colour was of gold representing the Sun. This is because of the equal importance of both the internal and external influences on our perception.
It takes about 225 million years for the Earth to travel around the Milky Way, the centre of our galaxy. We travel around attached to our Sun. Without the energy from the sun the Earth would be a frozen dead planet. The Sun drives our climate and weather even though it is 96 million miles from us.
The harmonious distance that we stay from the sun is more than fortunate, because it's said that the temperature of the surface (photosphere) range from 5,500 °C to 6,000 °C and Inside can reach up to 6.5 million °C. To say the sun has a surface is misleading, because it suggests some kind of definite limitation or separation. We all know the actual influence of fire is very different from its visual surface. Its said the surface is 340 miles thick and it's density is one ten millionth the density of water, so banging into it would be the least of our problems. Inside it is even less dense at under 200 billion times the pressure of the earth's surface.

If you have ever been cold and stepped out of the shadows into the warmth of the sunlight you will appreciate why the Ancient Egyptians thought of the sun as the heart of mankind and the centre of life. In the same way that the animation of water can slow down and becomes ice, atoms slowdown and become more dense the colder they get, so without the heat source life is lost to solidity. It is this atomic movement and subsequent heat that makes life possible. As the pulse of the heart is the core of life within us, the heat from the sun which encapsulates the Earth makes life possible.
Regardless of the appearance, the Earth actually lives and orbits within the sun itself. Our Sun is part of the life which it makes possible. Its elements physically touch and merge with the building blocks that construct the Earth and its inhabitants. We are in effect part of the sun itself, but how much influence does it have on us and our health, season to season even day to day?
We know the tides of the sea rise and fall pulled by the gravity of the moon in orbit, but even though the moon is often present in the day, we are rarely aware of its presence. In the same way ever-present energies strongly influence our lives whether we are aware of them or not.

Horus - Self Esteem

Self Esteem should not be confused with confidence. It is the result of; knowing yourself, challenging yourself and being true to yourself. Self Esteem forms the background of our day to day feelings and makes a vital difference to our energy levels.
Nietzsche said; “One who despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.”

Egyptians had no concept of religion and indeed no such word exists in hieroglyphic language. The eminent philologist A.H. Gardiner wrote, ‘we may say that there is no such thing as “religion”; there was only Heka, the nearest English equivalent of which is “magical power”. The 'Magi's' (high priests) main concern, was 'the weighing of the heart'. In other words the effects of the actions of a person during their life on 'the record of their own heart'. A sample prayer from the Egyptian, 'Book of the Dead' reads-
“Heart of my mother, heart of my birth, heart of my life upon earth, rise not in witness against me; be not my adversary in the presence of the divine powers; weigh not against me.... Let it not be said, “Look at what he has done; of a truth he has done it”...”

The Influences of Energy

Creativity, emotion, environment, the condition of our body, and our needs and desires are all powerful influences on our ability to gain and lose energy, and so also our ability to survive and succeed within the forces of life.

To fully understand the effects of any one of these aspects in your practice they have to be considered in terms of their relationship to the other four aspects. They can each be either beneficial or detrimental to the overall resonance of your situation and your ability to gain and develop energy. If you consider the connecting lines of the above diagram as a type of blood flow and the aspects as organs, which either vitalise or draw on that blood, then you will find it easier to understand how to progress as both an individual and as part of the larger organism.

In Brief :-
Our Environment is the processes of Nature and the experiences of our life, Represented as the Uas staff its better known to us today as our knowledge of science or the Tao (Way of Nature).
Our Body includes our health and abilities (I.e. Nature/Nurture), the strengths and weaknesses we are born with, and those that we develop and strengthen. The physical body is known to us through the sensation of our five senses.
Our Needs are those things we cannot exist without (food, air etc), and Our Desires are those things we choose to spend our energy on.
Our Creativity is the 'quintessence' and the subject of Chi Kung and the Horian Way.
Our Emotion is the voice of our psyche, the record of our heart, and contains the driving force and personality of the individual.

Happiness :
Many of our decisions are made in the pursuit of happiness, and the sensations connected with happiness are extremely beneficial to our health. The volume or intensity of happiness can range from contentment to euphoria, and there are two basic types of happiness: - 'Temporary', the result of satisfying our basic needs or desires, and - 'Psyche happiness', the result of achieving our three higher needs: Self Esteem, Harmony and Freedom.

Harmony was known in Egypt as Ma'at, it is what Newton described as the 'perpetual miracle'. It includes such beneficial mysteries as gravity and the harmonious actions of the planets, generally it is those things which fill us with a joy and gratitude at the beauty of existence. Life however is not just a machine (as described in Determinism), but includes the possibilities and freedoms brought about by Seth and the chaos of energy storms, or as described in an Eastern saying; “Water that's too pure has no fish.”
Without the possibilities of chaos however there can be no creation or creativity. In any harmony there is a trace of chaos, but life can not exist in extreme chaos. The health of both our physical form and our psyche depends on the balance between the challenges of chaos and the rejuvenation of harmony.

Perception of Energies

In Egypt the symbol to the left represents achievement in the Horian Way (I.e. inner development).
Uas staff – (The dividing branch -and tree of knowledge)- understanding of the forces of creation within nature, it represents the freedom and power of possibility and the dangers of Seth (the Original Sin).
Djed – The 'body' or 'spine of Horus', represents our physical sensations, abilities and health.
Ankh – Known as 'the key of life', it is the symbol of, the duality of Ba and Ka, and represents the harmony and condition of our
Psyche. The word Psyche as used in 'Psychology', is derived from the Greek meaning, 'the soul personified'.

Thought and Feelings

The minds eye, described as the 'Eye of Horus' in Egypt was a familiar concept to their philosophers. This symbol represents the inner perception of consciousness and as such was linked to the heart of Horus (the king).
It's components consist not only of sight:
The eyebrow represents thoughts. The pupil implies sight, the line spiralling away from the eye shows sound to the ears, the vertical line next to it represents the nose, and the shape of the eye lids around the pupil indicates the mouth.

In Buddhism it is said, the cause of suffering derives from the three poisons that exist within humanity; Greed, Ignorance and Anger. The Tao Teh Ching - #67 says; “I have three treasures. Guard them and keep them safe!The first is love; the second is moderation; the third is humility.”
'Greed and moderation' relate to the understanding of our needs and desires. 'Anger and love' relate to the implications of our feelings, and 'Ignorance and humility' relate to our observation of the unknown, and its possibilities.

Ptahs Sacred Nine - The Enead of Creation

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.’

Knowledge is Power but Wisdom is Sanity

'The weighing of the heart'

There is a passage in Plato’s Phaedrus which illustrates the danger with communication. The story is that in Egypt there dwelt one of the old sacred gods of the country, the god to whom the bird Ibis is sacred, his name being Thoth it was he who invented writing. …. The piece goes on to say that, when Thoth revealed his arts to the king (Horus) he feared that if writing was revealed to Egyptians in general it would foster forgetfulness and sloth and would alienate them from the inner world that links them to God and to nature. “Men filled not with wisdom, but the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows…”

Thoth is actually not a person, a God or a strange bird headed alien, it is a representation of a characteristic which exists within all human beings. The story of Thoth revealing his art to the king is an example of an inner debate between two aspects of the same person. The king being the heart, the true self and the wisdom, and Thoth the analitical mind and the store of knowledge. It is an example of considering the consequences of our actions. In this case how the introduction of this (at the time) new method which would ultimately lead to a new type of education, and how it would influence the human consciousness.

Thoth (as shown above); Is associated with the tongue, the word thoth can not be said without pushing the tongue forward. Thoth is either represented as an Ibis bird because of its long tongue, or at other times as a Baboon because Thoth was also said to have been taught the language of no words from the human faced baboons.
The ancient Greeks later assimilated many of the stories of Thoth into their God of Wisdom Hermes, the repercussions of which were transferred into Europe during the Renaissance.

“Through clever and consistent application of propaganda,
people can be made to see paradise as hell,

and also the other way around,
to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.”
-Adolph Hitler

Original Crime or Original Sin?

Today the concept of Original Sin seems like an incomplete metaphor or poorly translated story. The idea that babies are somehow born into the world with guilt from their distant ancestors reflects an age with no concept of equal opportunity, and where people were born into a cast or working class. However looking back further than the Christian era to the Egyptian period the original sin is one aspect of a larger story concerned with the process and development of our freewill within the forces of nature.
In hieroglyphs the snake represents the connection of the spine to the brain, and it talks because of the duality of human consciousness, which is derived from our own ability to speak. This duality is one dangerous aspect of the Egyptian original sin I.e. the concept of 'separation', which was known to them as 'Seth'.

'Separation'

At least five thousand years ago Ptah's description of creation is considered to be the first, and that which gave rise to all the following netters of the empire. This creation concept became known as 'The Divine Enead' or 'The Sacred Nine', and later by some was regarded as a single divine entity.
Ptah's description of creation was that; 'Atum' appeared as a vibration or pulse. This pulse created the contrast between the extremes of on and off. The separation between extremes of new characteristics continued like the multiplication of bacteria on a Petri dish; 2 became 4, 4-8, 8-16 and so on forming evermore complex variations such as air and moisture until eventually forming the twin star Sirius (known as Osiris and Isis). This was followed by the formation of our sun the earth and eventually mankind.

OK I may have paraphrased but, the only record we have is written In hieroglyphs. The commonly accepted translation of the Enead is:
'In the beginning 'Atum' rose as a 'benben' stone. He then expelled Shu (air) and Tefnut (moisture), and they became the first earthly couple.'
Note: As Ptah is described as the heart and tongue of the God(s) it should be noted there is a rhythm with the repetition in the word 'ben-ben'; This may be intended to imply the heart beat or another primal vibration.

The Enead continues; '...To them Geb and Net were born, (Earth & Sky). They in turn begot two divine couples; Osiris & Isis and also Seth & Nephthys.'

Each of the couples are netters which represent polar opposites of each other: This is similar to a mathematical formula where the system is to enclose concepts within concepts, which if you were to look at with dimensions would look like a pyramid. The relevant criteria being fed in at the base and the holistic result appearing at the apex.

Seth, is the concept of separation (yin & Yang), the original sin which causes destruction and chaos (one example being racism) but is also the original force of Genesis and continues in the present through the power of nature. This is also represented in the 'uas' staff held by all the kings (also explained below).

Nephthys, is containment and the ability of mankind to harness the force of Seth. The skills required for this are the content of the records of Egypt – 'Alchemy'- the internal development of mankind. This ability begins with the 'eye of Horus' the heart of our true selves.

Osiris and Isis are themselves complex: they represent the male and female forces and together form the twin star Sirius, and are considered the parent of our sun. Our sun was first known to the Egyptians as Horus the heart of mankind.

Horus is another box of concepts and as the heart of mankind represents the understanding of our place within existence. The Horian Way is concerned with man's, Health, Psyche and Power.