Esoterism and MDW NTR Part 1, 2, & 3

[Oju]

Esoterism and MDW NTR


Part One

A re-interpretation of Chaps. 1 & 2 of Esoterism and Symbol by R. A. Schwaller deLubicz plus the
basic MDW NTR alphabet

Intro: R. A. Schwaller deLubicz wrote Esoterism and Symbol in 1947. This is a small book that explains new ways to look at information in order to understand Kemetic thought. Definitive answers to Kemetic symbols and concepts are not given. Think of it as a guide to help you find the answers rather than an encyclopedia that locks you into specific answers. We have interpreted or rephrased his writing to make it more understandable. We tried hard not to change or attempt to correct his ideas.

Note: when the letter [ch65533]t[ch65533] is underlined pronounce it like [ch65533]tch[ch65533] in chain. NTR is pronounced Netcher.

True knowledge can only be found at a level of heartfelt understanding that unites the will and the mind. When a person[ch65533]s will and mind become united they can play in the realms between yesterday, today, and tomorrow for there is no true separation. This is unity. In the culture of KMT the concept of unity is realized thru union with a NTR or some NTRW. The name, number, sound, and form of each NTR is an inseparable unity. To call on a NTR is to recall its name, number, sound, and form. Each NTR is the name of a specific principle or quality of energy that is manifested from the celestial to the terrestrial spheres. To quote R. A. Schwaller deLubicz: [ch65533]NTRW are the causal powers of everything that manifests itself in the Universe.[ch65533] In Kemetic wisdom the symbol of something expresses the uniqueness of that something which therefore makes it the same as the actual object because they have the same essence. They are all parts of the great Unity.

MDW NTR has puzzled and fascinated scholars, researchers, and even artists of the Western societies for centuries. The glyphs or symbols are images of objects, plants, animals, geometric forms, and people in different poses. They were written without punctuation or spaces between the words. As weird as MDW NTR looks to the us we must keep in mind it only seems weird and confusing because this society has taught us to read and write and (most especially) think in a european language. This has affected our cosmic sensibilities most of all. We don[ch65533]t have a Kemetic mental perspective! This is most evident when you consider that the exoteric meaning of most of the MDW NTR has been deciphered and the much deeper, more informative esoteric meaning is for the most part untouched.

Consider this: egyptologists, scholars, philologists, theologians, and all those people who express an interest in the secular history of KMT have not begun to understand the deep, eternal reality of the wisdom of KMT. How can they when the spiritual teachings of our modern religions are translations, transcriptions, versions, and commentaries of original works? The transcriptions and [ch65533]reports by the friends and helpers[ch65533] were written hundreds of years after the knowledge was revealed and in any case all of their original works have been lost. On the other hand, the spiritual texts of the Kemetic people have reached us in their original form, intact, across the millennia. They were carved in stone and painted on stone and papyri because of the sacred nature of MDW NTR. Since we have the original forms we can do with MDW NTR that which is impossible to be done with other ancient writings. We can discover the true original [ch65533]Kemetic[ch65533] meaning through a process of esoterism.

Esoterism has nothing to do with the deliberate concealment of the truth. MDW NTR is not a riddle or a play on words. Many egyptologists speak of the scribes of KMT as being in love with making puns. Nothing could be further from the truth. The scientific, rational, logical, western mentality is child-like when trying to apply a meaning to MDW NTR. Esoterism can neither be written nor spoken. It can never be betrayed. This is not a knowing but a total state of being that can only be acquired through the effort of each individual by her or himself. Esoterism is the spiritual aspect of life. It is inaccessible to cerebral intelligence for spirit can be found only with spirit. Those who claim to reveal the esoterism of Kemetic wisdom are charlatans. (That goes for us too! This is why we always tease people about [ch65533]not making preachers out of us[ch65533].) Those who claim to reveal the esoterism of Kemetic wisdom can only explain the implication of certain words or formulas. When it comes to the Sacred Science the most anyone can do is be a guide to help others travel the path to the Unity of cosmic consciousness more quickly. Those who reach the stages of true illumination in the oneness of cosmic consciousness will then realize the esoterism of the wisdom from within. No one can realize the unity for you.

There is in all of us a cerebral intelligence or [ch65533]intelligence from the brain[ch65533] and also an innate intelligence of the heart. Intelligence of the heart is accessed thru a fusion of the realization of the cosmic Cause (NTR) with that aspect of the Cause (NTR) that is present in all of us. Innate intelligence is used to access and embrace the full wisdom of the NTRW. In plain english you must become in touch with the godhood within you. Cerebral intelligence gives us [ch65533]plain english[ch65533] which is very limiting in its foundation since the NTRW are not God or gods. Cerebral intelligence leads us to embrace concepts that put us in duality with nature and leads us to judge nature objectively. It needs opposition in order to serve a function. On a simple level think about our perspective of night and day, man and woman, humans and objects.

Consider how our cerebral [ch65533]Western[ch65533] intellect interprets the images received on our eyes. In their complimentary aspect when the colors red and green are superimposed their unity makes them colorless. The red rods and cones in the retina intercept the color green, neutralizes this color, and creates a complementary reaction by which the green rods and cones of the retina are unchanged. This then causes our brain to interpret the color as green. Green is considered to be the opposite of red. So, the cerebral function is based on a principle of opposition. Let[ch65533]s see how this very rational way of understanding is applied to other concepts.

1. We know the left side of the brain generally controls the right side of the body.

2. When we see something in the physical world we know its really there by understanding a qualitative description of its qualifications. This is accomplished by comparing its abstract elements.

3. Original Sin is a concept that the mind has categorized as being in opposition when it is actually two complementary aspects that must be merged to attain Unity.

The opposite of #2 is very revealing: It is impossible for cerebral intelligence to conceive an abstraction without defining it by a concrete image. Our dependence on cerebral intelligence hinders our minds from understanding things that are part of nature we have not experienced thru the five senses.

The origin of the universe is one single and unique source. We have a common origin and therefore a communion can take place among all things in the world. A kinship exists between each of us and a certain mineral, plant, animal, and other people. There may be an infinite number of combinations but we all belong to certain large families and subgroups. Our state of consciousness distinguishes one from the other. The moment of communion between two or more beings is extremely variable and can be observed and analyzed in its effect only. This moment is therefore of an abstract order. The abstract cause within this physical scheme of organic constitution is beyond rational analysis. There is an innate intelligence which is precisely the characteristic nature of each entity. All people possess this innate nature in the mineral of our bones, the vegetal matter of the tissues of our organs, in the coordination of all our organs. When we call this process instinct we put limitations on the operations of the NTRW within. The intelligence of our brains, the cerebral intelligence:

1. Depends on our five senses

2. The recording of observed facts

3. The comparison of ideas

4. No element of cerebral intelligence is abstract

In Unity cerebral intelligence can no longer discern anything. It has no role to play. The full meaning; the esoteric understanding of the MDW NTR is hidden to those unable to embrace the abstractness of [ch65533]Tehuti[ch65533]s letters.[ch65533]

There are over 700 symbols in the full list of MDW NTR glyphs. Egyptologists call the following 24 symbols the alphabet. Why these 24? I don[ch65533]t know. (The program for the symbols is doing its own thing. I'll have them up later.)

Basic MDW NTR Alphabet

The Vulture: the first letter is [ch65533]a[ch65533] written similar to an italic 3 (pronounced like the [ch65533]a[ch65533] in pat) is the silent indrawn breath that signifies spirit.
The Reed Leaf: the second letter is [ch65533]i[ch65533] (pronounced like e in bed) is the out breath which brings form and movement to our bodies.
The Double Reed Leaves: The third letter is [ch65533]y[ch65533] (pronounced like ee) is symbolic of vital harmonic growth and the relationship of organic growth based on [ch65533]phi[ch65533] the golden ratio.
The Forearm (Arm and Hand): The fourth letter is [ch65533]a[ch65533] written like a single quotation mark (pronounced like a in day) is the symbol of the measure of a person or the individual ego. Kemetic wisdom taught that the human figure is a five-pointed star with the side points corresponding to the arms and legs. Five pointed stars on Temple walls, ceilings, and papyri are representative of the home of successfully departed souls.

The name MAAT contains both the vulture [ch65533]a[ch65533] and the forearm [ch65533]a[ch65533]. This shows that MAAT embodies the spiritual principle and its effect in the world!
The Quail Chick: The fifth letter is u or w (pronounced like oo in too or w in wet) is a symbol of becoming.
The Leg (Foot): The sixth letter is b (pronounced like b in boot) is the lower leg and represents [ch65533]to go ahead[ch65533] or [ch65533]to proceed[ch65533]
The Door (Mat): The seventh letter is p (pronounced like the p in pat) is esoterically symbolic of the doorway, as in per for house and in Anpu, known as the Opener of the Way.
The Horned Viper: The eighth letter is f (pronounced like f in foot) is symbolic of breath and the air that gives life.
The Owl: The ninth letter is m (pronounced like the m in moon) is symbolic of re-absorption. It is the re-absorption of our separate consciousness that allows the healing to begin the overcoming of individual limitation. Other cultures regard the owl as a spirit messenger. Native American tradition teaches that owls bring dreams. Dreams are the merging and transforming of different states of consciousness to create a new reality. In Polynesian tradition the owl assists in the re-absorption of the individual back into the realm of the spirit.
The Water: The tenth letter is n (pronounced like the n in noon) symbolizes energy. Original energy is like still water which, once it receives an impulse, manifests itself in waves that grow in size and strength to carry energy in all directions from the center to the circumference.
The Mouth: The eleventh letter is r (pronounced like r in right) is the symbol of the solar principle. It is a mouth in the shape of the vesica piscis. In Ra the cosmic Ausarian energy is received then transmitted throughout our solar system.
The Courtyard: The twelfth letter is h (pronounced like h in hat).

The Twisted Flax: The thirteenth letter is h with a dot under it (pronounced like h in ha or help) it symbolizes the sound of light and spirit.
The Placenta: The fourteenth letter is h with asmall "v" under it (pronounced like [ch65533]khe[ch65533] sound in kelp)

The Animal[ch65533]s Belly with Teats: The fifteenth letter is h underlined (pronounced like the [ch65533]kha[ch65533] sound in kart.
The Folded Cloth or Door Bolt: The sixteenth letter is s (pronounced like s in saw). The Folded Cloth symbolizes the activating vital fire of life, the kundalini fire snake that must be mastered once it is aroused and ascends thru our subtle body (meridians or chakra centers). The Door Bolt is associated with passivity and duality as such it symbolizes the power of binding together.
The Pool: The seventeenth letter is s with a small "v" over it (pronounced like sh in show).

The Triangle (Hill Slope): The eighteenth letter is k with a dot under it (pronounced like q in queen) is symbolic of the triangle within which all possibilities are contained as in the union of the trinity of Asr, Ast, and Heru.
The Cup (Basket with Handle): The nineteenth letter is k (pronounced like k in basket) symbolizes the principle and the container of triple darkness.

The Stand or Support: The twentieth letter is g pronounced like g in go) symbolizes the support for the darkness.

The Loaf: The twenty-first letter is t (pronounced like t in tap) and symbolizes the power of concretization and direction. It is linked with the earth and nature; it indicates the feminine principle.
The Tethering Rope: The twenty-second letter is t with a line under it (pronounced like tch in chain).
The Hand: The twenty-third letter is d (pronounced like d in day) and symbolizes the creative power the creative power and therefore action.

The Snake: The twenty-fourth letter is d with a line under it (pronounced like dj in adjust) it is symbolic of the delineation of space.

Kemetic wisdom held that vowels were the seeds of creative power and should never be written. The exact meaning and pronunciation of the vowels was a sacred connection taught only to initiates. For this reason those letters that look like english vowels are not vowels in any sense of the term. The consonants are the outer manifestation of meanings and the vowels are the inner essence of meanings. Creation is possible for those who know the sacred relationship.

[ch65533]2004 Temple of MAAT-TEHUTI

[Oju]

Esoterism and MDW NTR
Part 2

A re-interpretation of Chaps. 3 & 4 of Esoterism and Symbol by R. A. Schwaller deLubicz &
the Tepi-Aui-Un from the Book of Doors

The cerebral organ operates in stages. The first stage consists of your five senses. The senses acknowledge and record observations. The second stage consists of your memory. The memory compares the recorded ideas. The third stage is reason, which operates on a different level and will be dealt with later for the sake of clarity.

The senses are the organs we use to become aware of the principle elements. Touch belongs to the Earth element. Taste belongs to the water element. Smell belongs to the air element. Sight belongs to the fire element. Our senses are not aware of an activity until they can oppose it with resistance of a similar nature. Our ability to touch or physically feel things lets us become aware of everything that forms a material obstacle to the body. Touch is the Earth element. Our ability to taste is only possible when something is slightly dissolved. Taste is the Water element. Our ability to smell requires the object is either naturally volatile or made so by some other agency such as heat. Smell is the Air element. Our capacity for sight requires an invisible radiance in the subject. (Ordinary fire has heat that belongs to touch and not sight. As a baby our sight induced an attraction to fire until we touched and therefore experienced the heat of the flame.) Sight is the Fire element. The fifth sense, hearing, is physically tangible through sound. Our hearing is the door to the intelligence of the heart. Whereas the first four senses naturally pass directly through the brain and are therefore cerebral, hearing naturally passes through the heart without speaking to the brain.

The great minds of Western culture call this magic. Placing oblique or negative labels on all activity that can possibly put you on the path of true knowledge is a continuation of the negative governmental/religious/societal practices of the european Dark Ages. The Renaissance did not end that horrific period of torture and mind control. It was actually the signal moment that their cruelties were unleashed on the entire world. Make no mistake about it; western society is still in the Dark Ages. It is our duty, our sacred duty to our ancestors to raise ourselves out of the darkness to the best of our understanding and ability. The reason for the atrocities can be explained very simply. The powers that be used violence to establish a new connection. Hearing has been forced to pass through the brain. We[ch65533]re still in the Dark Ages. If the term [ch65533]The Matrix[ch65533] were used instead of the Dark Ages would it make more sense?

The seven principles of Tehuti teach us that everything has vibration. Everything has its own sound. The scientific viewpoint and all of its instrumentation transforms the principle elements (or the five senses) and reduces them to the spheres of our cerebral intelligence. We attempt to communicate with life through the five senses. There are aspects of Fire, Air, Earth, and Water that the five senses block. Considering that there are sound waves we cannot hear and light waves we cannot see. It should be reasonable to admit the possibility of a world interpenetrating all aspects of the things we can perceive. This world can also be composed of exactly the same principle elements operating on a vibration outside of our current ability to perceive. We only have to expand the sensitivity of our five senses to experience this world. The capability of the hearing faculty encourages us to believe in a larger more ideal state that corresponds to principle forms.

It is a fact that we all have within us the ability to conceive of abstractions that the cerebral intelligence cannot understand. This is a demonstration of the existence of worlds parallel to ours. Cerebral intelligence is limited by the strict boundaries accepted by the five senses. The intelligence of the heart is free of these boundaries and belongs to the larger complex of life. Fundamentally, cerebral intelligence is trapped in the concept of duality. We know quality only through the opposing actions of duality. Abstract ideas are discussed by limiting their qualities. We can be satisfied with words but when you try to break it down you begin to limit the abstraction. What is the meaning of horizon, love, skin or any other word? You know you [ch65533]know[ch65533] what it means. Our cerebral ability comes to a halt if we cannot make them objective. We will never understand it or be able to communicate its meaning until it is made concrete and then we[ch65533]ve established limitations. A good example is the word [ch65533]axis.[ch65533] Every rotating body revolves on its axis yet science teaches that the axis is imaginary. The axis exists! The axis is real! Science is cerebral and tries to ignore the axis because it can[ch65533]t make it objective. The best definition science can arrive at is to label axis imaginary because it[ch65533]s beyond the grasp of cerebral intelligence.

The innate intelligence of the heart is that aspect of all people that allows us to penetrate beyond the confines of the cerebral intelligence of the brain. The extent to which we can become one with NTR is a function of awakening the innate intelligence of the heart.

Every natural object in the universe is an example of divinity. Each animal type, species of plant, and each mineral group is a stage in the process of becoming aware of the Cosmic Cause. The Cosmic Cause is a language in itself. It is expressed in its living function, it is the basis of innate intelligence, it is related to all of nature and it knows nature in the deepest sense. This level of knowledge cannot be objectified and it is real. Experiencing this level of reality is a fusion of consciousness and object to create a separate identity. This fusion of living function is an experience innate to the intelligence of the heart. Our understanding of this process can be communicated to our cerebral intelligence by establishing a relationship between the life in us and observation of that life in Nature. The supreme wisdom of the people of KMT did this so well that we call it magic. They understood the relationships and knew how to manipulate the relationships between the consciousness of their surroundings and the consciousness of the heart.

The two types of intelligence have given us two aspects of consciousness. One is the result of comparisons and is cerebral. The other is a process of identification and is innate and vital.

[ch65533]2004 Temple of MAAT-TEHUTI

[Oju]

Esoterism and MDW NTR
Part 3

A re-interpretation of Chaps. 5 & 6 of Esoterism and Symbol by R. A. Schwaller deLubicz &
the Tepi-Aui-Un from the Book of Doors



It[ch65533]s totally ridiculous to think that cerebral consciousness and innate consciousness are identical in function. The languages of the Western world don[ch65533]t have a suitable vocabulary to outline and define the meaning of the term consciousness. To combine this term with cerebral and innate only compounds the dilemma. The sacred language of the Kemetic or Hindu masters has the proper vocabulary and we are in the process of learning it. So with this limitation noted let[ch65533]s begin with the understanding that cerebral consciousness is mechanical. It is a quantitative experience resulting from comparison. Our memory is nothing more than a single digital impression on a CD. Our memory is nothing more than one frame of film on a movie reel. The entire catalog of the brain[ch65533]s cerebral processing functions can be reproduced mechanically. The use of our memory is simply defining those impressions using the brain. Having said all that, the memory[ch65533]s mechanical operation is only possible with the use of [ch65533]magic[ch65533] on a limited scale. The recording of facts by the senses is the trigger for recollection. A fragrance often recalls an impression from the past and a word can cause us to remember a thought heard or words read a long time ago. This mechanical reproduction of impressions (that passes for academic know-how) is really good for showing even the most hard headed, obtuse minded person an error.

In order to go beyond the crippling of spirit that[ch65533]s a natural product of high achievement in academic ramblings to operate fertile thoughts we have to turn to the true magic of evocation. We have to appeal to the source of our sense of harmony, the innate consciousness. When we are effective we have tapped into the power of genius. This is the power of true creative thought that works ahead of the known.

This book was written in 1947. Schwaller deLubicz goes on to talk about how artists are destroying the idols of yesterday while trying to create irrational expressions. He calls this the consciousness of the new way using atmospheres, images, and forms to evoke an emotion and provoke a vital reaction. A general understanding of his use of the words [ch65533]evoke and evocation[ch65533] in relation to Kemetic wisdom and the MDW NTR are very important to realizing what the hell he[ch65533]s saying. Keep in mind that we are going to use the brain to define something not of the cerebral consciousness so it, by definition, will not be linear and probably not logically complete.

According to Webster[ch65533]s dictionary to evoke means to summon or call forth. According to Schwaller deLubicz in The Temple of Man on pg.11: All words, images, or gestures are symbols that substitute for something else. To explain a symbol based on what you see is to kill it. You are dissecting a living entity. To look at a thing as it is without dissecting it may allow the thing to evoke its own soul within you. We all have experienced love on a physical level. The tragedy of all physical love is that pure, sublime love is the impulse within us that becomes aware of the initial attraction and pure love is hidden from our physical nature. Pure love comes from the innate and physical love comes from the cerebral. The symbolic meaning of the attraction is lost once the brain starts comparing the aspects. Love evokes a state of being that dissection destroys.

Everything has life and everything is similar to itself. The tree is a good example of this concept. The branches of a tree develop in the image of its own roots. The roots evoke the branches just as the symbol evokes its own idea. In Symbol the soul evokes the animating principle, its own life. If we try to describe it fully, it will be fully destroyed. The Symbol is magical by its evocation of the animating principle/form bound in matter. To evoke is not simply to call forth or summon. To evoke is to feel and live the form.

Experience proves the truth, makes it certain, and drives the falsehoods away.

The relationship between innate consciousness and observation of fact is established by identification. Intelligence of the heart is identification. Identification means to live with and to live in the observed fact at every level of your being. It[ch65533]s a sympathetic consciousness that[ch65533]s inscribed in the nature of the organism. The inner drive of the organism[ch65533]s function is also the impulse of necessity. This creates a quality in the organism that[ch65533]s more capable of expressing emotions. The greater the sensitivity the better innate consciousness can be expressed. If an observed fact occurs while someone is in a meditative state the path to sympathetic consciousness is open. The mastery of thought, the cultivation of self, and the detachment from ego are different terms for directing the cerebral consciousness. Life and the function of life are the principle of living nature. This principle is a reality beyond physical matter. This principle assumes a physical body by means of the harmony of the elements of the body. The inscription of sympathetic consciousness is both vital and functional.

The relationship between elements brings a function into play. Function is a necessity of the Living Law whose orderly processes cause all the movements of Nature. Everything obeys the divine mandate. No intelligence can resist it and no power can slow it down. The Causal Cause working through the Cosmic Cause is True Order. The inborn knowledge of True Order is Sacred Science. All the necessities and functional orders of world harmony are incarnated in the Temple inside us all. This is where the original creative energy of the NTR connects the intelligence of the heart with the universe. An observation of fact that directs and never eliminates emotions is needed to arrive at a cosmic consciousness independent of mortal components. The science of this willful return to the source speaks to us in this life through all Life.

Schwaller deLubicz ends chapter five speaking of [ch65533]The christ arisen returns to the right of his father, not into his father.[ch65533] I assume that because Esoterism and Symbol was one of his first books he wrote this to appease potential critics from the church. This false misleading christian thought is a willful misdirection that could never exist in Kemetic wisdom. There was no christ in the history of KMT! The story of the christ is a bastardization of many spiritual stories from KMT. To insert a character called christ into an explanation of Kemetic wisdom is truly deceitful so watch out for the BS. The Kemetic truth is that we must return the NTR that lives within us all to full manifestation on all planes of existence.

Everything that lives moves. It can be quantitative in space/time or qualitative defining space/time. The Force that causes this movement is the Idea that pre-existed matter. It is the life that causes what is apparent. The perfect definition of life is the Divine Presence. If we try to define the Divine Presence we can only do the Presence and ourselves an injustice by limiting it. In order to understand life we first have to speak about death.

The term dead body is applied to a mineral, plant, and an animal that neither moves nor breathes. Something that cannot take in food, experience outer actions, or express feelings or thoughts. Anesthesia and catalepsy can both create the same situation in a living being. A body is not actually dead until it decomposes into its constituent elements. (This is one of the reasons the priests of KMT took so much time and care in preparing the body for the Eternal voyage through Duat. The process took 70 days in which prayers and rituals were performed over every body and spiritual part.) After cerebral consciousness has disappeared it is possible for the vital and innate life of matter to continue. Since there is life in every cell of every living thing there is a continuation of life during the body[ch65533]s decomposition. Life is inherent in everything. Definitive death does not exist; there are only changes in non-permanent states. What we call life and living are transitory phases of self-awareness. Permanence can only be found in NTR; the Original Cause. The impulse to reach NTR is the perpetual process of living.

If definitive death does not exist and everything is life then we have to consider that the Idea of the form can be incarnated. I[ch65533]m referring to the seed or the Idea that has a corporeal formation of energy elements within a nutritive medium. In plain english, consider the Idea to be the impulse that drives the egg and the sperm to seek each other, unite, and fertilize each other. This union changes into an ovum to grow into a fetus and so on and so on. The seed is the metaphysical Idea of the form it is going to generate. This is not convoluted and it isn[ch65533]t philosophical speculation devoid of value. The esoteric teachings of the sacred science made it possible to prove spirit is a fact.

We say god and don[ch65533]t know what it means. We say spirit and don[ch65533]t understand its abstractness. We say energy and don[ch65533]t know anything about its nature. Effects are given a cause that is sometimes god, other times spirit, still other times energy. All these words are used instead of admitting our ignorance. Speculation won[ch65533]t resolve these types of problems. Speculation can only collect concrete material elements perceived by the senses. Metaphysics makes no sense to the cerebral intelligence. What can we do? We have to find the solution using the means at our disposal. The study and teachings of Nature will enlighten us when we join Nature in a natural communion. When we express our knowledge through translation in our cerebral function the [ch65533]sympathetic[ch65533] innate experience will always be uncertain. Sacred Science proves that this is possible by demonstrating that the abstract being of spirit becomes concrete by a definite route. This route is Esoterism. It is [ch65533]hermetically[ch65533] sealed from the cerebral intelligence. Until we cultivate another aspect of intelligence it will remain sealed.

The sages of KMT left all speculation to idle minds. They contemplated Nature. Nature teaches everything. A sound evokes its entire series of harmonics and an acorn evokes the mighty oak. The nature of a seed has a specific nature. This specification is the genesis of every seed from mineral to plant to people. Consider it the spatial reduction of substance without form. The egg precedes life and the substance of this egg has always existed as substance without form, the Cosmic Virgin. In the physical realm there is no [ch65533]first seed or sperm[ch65533] because the egg precedes life. In the Creation story of Atum it is stated that he became his own becoming in his hand. The egg of substance without form was waiting prior to the becoming.