This book takes a close look at what lies behind the many Egyptian figures and gods with their fantastic crowns or strange animal-heads. The author sees them as archetypes, as expressive symbols for psychological principles, archetypes, functions and structures of man’s own complex being.
Medhananda: “Let us not take them [the Egyptian images] for what they appear to be. What seem to be objects, animals, gods, or kings, are all symbols for those yet unknown parts of ourselves we must meet and become acquainted with on the way to total self-awareness … … all these symbols and images are always ourselves or parts of ourselves.”
“….We try to let them [the Egyptian images, the symbols] express themselves in their own symbolic way, as psychological ‘koans’, as messengers of an ancient gnosis, which seem to address themselves more directly to our depth and height and breadth and wholeness (where resides their healing power) than to our intellectual intelligence. Therefore, our interpretation had to be based directly on the symbols and the movements of self-awareness they represent, and not exclusively on Greco-Egyptian dictionaries which have too often replaced the contents of the Egyptian image by notions of Greek philosophy and mythology. We are plunged into a virgin paleography, and are thrilled by our discoveries…”
ISBN: 978-81-86413-38-8, soft cover, 243 pages with many illustrations
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