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“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.”

“[I]n 1937, with his wife, [R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz] just happened to go on a trip to Egypt that was mainly for fun, it was a holiday, and in the Temple of Luxor…he had this moment of what poets call ‘inspiration’ and mystics call ‘revelation’ and scientists call ‘hypothesis formation’ because they want to make it sound as dull as possible. He had a hypothesis formation that this extraordinary temple was an exercise in harmony and proportion. Now, harmony and proportion, at that time and still in many textbooks will be given as gospel as it were, the inventor of harmony and proportion was the Greek — the legendary Pythagoras. It doesn’t matter that Pythagoras, according to his own biographers, supposedly spent 22 years studying under the [black] priests of Egypt, but the Greeks and Pythagoras in particular, supposedly [are] responsible for the invention of harmony and proportion. Schwaller had this notion, walking through this very ruinous temple, that it was in and of itself an exercise in harmony and proportion. Schwaller always believed or had kept an open mind to the notion of more ancient knowledge and lost civilizations and that sort of thing. If he could prove that, Schwaller would push the understanding of harmony and proportion back at least 1,000 years because the Temple of Luxor was built about 1,000 years before Pythagoras and by extension, it would push it much further back because the Egyptians of the New Kingdom around 1300 B.C. obviously didn’t invent this out of the blue. Virtually every building in Egypt, including pyramids of the Old Kingdom and the temple complexes of the Old Kingdom, are similar as it were — they have a similar feel about them that Luxor has. So a demonstration that harmony and proportion were known to the Egyptians would be a major scholastic revolution as it were.”

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

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“The time has come now for us to [be] unabashed in our relinquishment of European ideology and its accompanying symbolisms. Baba Akinkugbe Karade in his book “The Path to Priesthood: The Making of an African Priest in an American World” tells us that we are either a part of the culture or we are not. Either we are Africans or African-Americans. Either we are going to “let it go” or continue within the european traditions that have so retarded our growth. there is no blackenizing masonry or any other euro organization. WE HAVE OUR OWN TRADITIONS, RITES, CUSTOMS, AND BELIEFS that are just as sufficient for us today as they were thousands of years ago.” — Awotunde Ifaseeyin Karade

Source: Kanefer Heru. From Whence We Came. pg. 57. 2010.