Tagged: Egyptologist

“Schwaller decided to stay there at least for the while to take careful measurements and to see if they could find harmony and proportion written into the plan of Luxor. He was lucky because at that time, there was a French archaeological commission that was busy measuring the temple down to the millimeter so he had absolutely accurate, unchallengeable data to work with…[W]hat they were looking for specifically I should say is the famous golden section which is expressed mathematically as one plus the square root of five [divided by] two and this is a proportion that was known to the Greeks, used in the Parthenon, used by the Latin architects, and subsequently by the artists and architects of the Renaissance, and of course, was also supposed to be a Greek invention. Schwaller reckoned that if he could find the golden section or ‘phi’ as its written written into the plan of Luxor, well the case would be proved as it were and everyone would have to change their minds or so he fondly believed. Changing the minds of Egyptologists or archaeologists is not so easy. Not only did he find the golden section, but he also found the musical scales written into the measures and proportions of Luxor and he found them deployed with a sophistication and a complexity that far exceeded anything the Greeks had subsequently done. Effectively, he found the key to Egyptian architecture but fired by this, the mathematics led him first to the geometry and then into the symbolism and the mythology and finally, into the astronomy, medicine and all the rest…”

Source: From John Anthony West’s lecture titled “Symbolist Egypt & Frequency.”

“And as Schwaller de Lubicz indicates, Egypt and other cultures grounded in the symbolic method, were indeed, through symbols, educating the neurological structure of the brain to maintain an active, conscious connection not only between the bilateral lobes of the cerebral cortex, but also with the impulses and subliminal information received from the ancient and deeper limbic and reptilian centers, so that these aspects of our nature could be integrated into the activity of our reasoning mind.”

Experimental evidence thus indicates that contained in our brain are functioning vestiges of our most distant corporeal minds. As Schwaller de Lubicz suggests, we should think of these vestiges not only as animal drives and gross, inconscient aspects of our consciousness, but also as a vast instinctual intelligence of the laws of nature, that our animal and reptilian experience has left in us. Instead of repressing and ignoring the wholeness of our evolution, should we not pursue ways to incorporate the vast symbolic content of these ancient brains into our present intelligence?

Thus the symbol is a material representation of immaterial qualities and functions. It is an objectification of things subjective in us and subliminal in nature, awakening us to a perception of the world which may make us aware of a knowledge contained in our soul.

Source: Robert Lawlor. Introduction to Schwaller de Lubicz’s Symbol and the Symbolic. 1951.