Ancient Egypt: The Why vs. the When or the How
Why "the why" is so much more important to me : )
To catch you up:
In the first article,
I asked: Do we really need an “ancestor race” to explain Ancient Egypt?
Is that narrative—a race of advanced beings from somewhere else—just another psy-op? Another distraction cloaked as revelation?
By that, I meant: Is it truly the best story we can tell ourselves? Or is there a better one—one that credits human consciousness with far more depth and dimensionality than our current paradigm allows?
In the second article,
I turned to the scale of time itself—the almost incomprehensible vastness we’re dealing with when we speak of Ancient Egypt.
And because of that, grasping Egypt—truly grasping it—requires more than archaeology or carbon dating.
It requires what Schwaller de Lubicz called a Pharaonic Mindset
And so today we look at the WHY of it vs The WHEN, or the HOW of it…
“Things just keep getting older,” they say.
Yes. That’s true. So do I—ha! With my 60th birthday approaching, I’ve begun to feel a certain kinship with weathered stone. But what matters to me isn’t how old something is. It’s why it existed in the first place.
The when of ancient Egypt is vast—so vast, as I showed last post that it defies our cognitive habits. Time stretches out like the Nile, winding through thousands of years of temple stones, regnal lists, and solar returns. It becomes absurd to try and locate a “beginning” in such a scope.
So I don’t try.
What excites me isn’t the carbon date. It’s the consciousness that left these monuments behind. Because why they built what they built—how they thought, saw, and organized their world—is infinitely more meaningful than when, or even how they did it.
I have included a clip from The INSIGHTFUL Robert Bauval from Season 2 of Magical Egypt who makes the point beautifully. It is at the bottom : )
So here’s my truth…
Ancient Egypt wasn’t “ancient” in the way we mean it.
It wasn’t primitive. It wasn’t early. It wasn’t becoming something.
It was something. A living demonstration of a complete metaphysical system, still unbroken by the schisms that came later.
It was the world before the fall.
The civilization before the split.
And we don’t need an “ancestor race” to make it more than it was.
Its brilliance doesn’t require extraterrestrials, Atlanteans, or lost super-civilizations.
If it was human, then that is precisely what makes it astonishing.
Us astonishing.
Because it shows us what humanity is capable of—when consciousness, cosmos, and craft are unified.
Also, we might have been smarter than we are today…see
Heka: The First Téchne
Long before the Greeks gave us the word téchne, the Egyptians gave us Heka—not just a god, but a principle.
Heka was the force by which the gods created the world.
To use Heka was to shape reality in alignment with divine pattern.
It was technology, not in the mechanical sense—but in the older, truer sense:
A system for altering the structure of experience by intentional, lawful means.
In that light, Heka is the first téchne.
A reminder that the foundations of civilization weren’t material—they were ontological.
Egypt as Téchne Before the Fall
Egyptian civilization embodied a world where art, ritual, architecture, healing, and cosmology were not separate disciplines. They were aspects of a single, coherent field.
And that field was alive.
To carve a glyph wasn’t to decorate—it was to intervene.
To build a temple wasn’t to commemorate—it was to instantiate a metaphysical truth.
Every act of creation aligned with Ma’at—the cosmic order that sustained both the universe and the soul.
The Priest as Practitioner of the Real
The Egyptian ḥekau—the high priests, the “magicians”—were not intermediaries to a divine bureaucracy.
They were operators of subtle forces.
Technicians of consciousness.
They understood the human being not as a sinner to be saved, but as an instrument to be tuned.
Through sacred language, proportion, sound, rhythm, scent, movement, and offering.
Temples as Architectures of Transformation
Egyptian temples were not simply places of worship.
They were machines of initiation—architectural theorems in stone.
Their geometry, light dynamics, and symbolic layout were structured to guide the initiate through successive states of being.
From the open courtyards of instinct, through the hypostyle halls of identity and memory, and into the sanctum of the ineffable—the temple enacted a map of ascent.
You didn’t visit a temple.
You underwent it.
Language as a Technology of Causality
Hieroglyphs were not written about the world.
They were part of the world.
Each glyph was a multi-dimensional unit of meaning—at once visual, phonetic, semantic, and magical.
To name something was to stabilize its presence.
To erase a name was to obliterate its soul.
Egyptian writing was not representational. It was performative. It caused things to happen. It was ritual encoded in form.
Why This Matters Now
What Egypt reveals—beneath the dust and tourism and textbook narratives—is a memory of how the sacred once functioned.
A memory of a time when civilization didn’t just build—it oriented. It attuned. It participated.
As Egypt flowed westward through Greece, Rome, and into the rationalist structures of modernity, its integrated knowledge base was broken apart:
Geometry became measurement
Language became symbolic, not vibrational
Ritual became ceremony
Consciousness became a byproduct
And magic—real magic—was relegated to fantasy or heresy
What we inherited was the husk.
What was lost was the interface.
But Egypt is still whispering—through glyphs, proportions, sacred names, and the aching stillness of its monuments.
To me, this is the why.
Not to “reconstruct” what Egypt was in a chronological sense, but to restore what it meant as a functioning system of alignment between human and cosmos.
Not to dig up the past,
but to remember that it never stopped speaking.
As Thoth said best…when speaking of “Egypt” as a sacred idea—a metaphysical civilization, not just a temporal one.
”O Egypt, Egypt, of thy religion nothing, will remain but an empty tale, which our own children in time to come will not believe; nothing will be left but graven words and only the stones will tell of thy piety. And in that day men will be weary of life, and they will cease to think the universe worthy of reverent wonder and of worship. And so religion, the greatest of all blessings, for there is nothing, nor has been, nor ever shall be, that can be deemed a greater boon, will be threatened with destruction; men will think it a burden, and will come to scorn it. They will no longer love this world around us, this incomparable work of God, this glorious structure which he has built, this sum of well made up of things of many diverse forms, this instrument whereby the will of God operates in that which he has made, ungrudgingly favoring man's welfare, this combination, and accumulation of all the manifold things that can call forth the veneration, praise, and love of the beholder.”
p.s. I am building the foundation, and then we will get to the evidence, and more importantly how that can be interpreted…ie the STORY it constructs, and which story we think serves us better…..: )
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The trick is making individual decisions; while everything seems to be packaged.
All that door and steps of process stuff clued us into that.
Of course, just showing up or witnessing can be enough, but to expect continuance, the spiritual needs to be more than something to do or an obligation.
oh this is all such fascinating stuff - great series you have going here - love it