THE MYSTERY SCHOOLS OF EGYPT

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A series of videos is presented by Robert Lawler, John Anthony West and Laurence Gardner who are the current experts in this field of study.
I took notes as I watched these videos and the details are fascinating besides watched the scenes of photos taken in Egypt.
John Amthony West is the narrator, and he tells us that  only priests and pharaohs and certain elect others were accepted in the schools.  Pythagoras, and Plato both waited over 20 years preparing to be accepted into the mystery schools.  Among the other people who studied there were Aristotle, Copernicus, Kepler, Isaac Newton, Napoleon, Da Vinci, and it is thought that Jesus did as well because when he came back from Egypt he could perform miracles.
The one teaching school mentioned was Hermeticism, but West says that the Temple of Luxor itself is the school and teaching. The reason for that is that its construction is all about the hieroglyphs, and the Harmonic Proportions of the construction, which refers to "As above - so below".  The teachings are hidden in symbolism and allegory.  He implies that the Temple itself confers initiation of the teachings to the students.
Taught was alchemy, number symbolism, which we now call Gematria,  There are several forms of Gematria, including Hebrew and Greek, but the Gematria isn't just in words, its in the structures themselves, all over the world, even those cultures who most likely didn't know any Egyptians.  It's a divine sacred teaching that comes from the spirit world, and is part of our innate divine self.
Also taught was the Doctrine of the Transformation of the Soul. 
The teachings are Timeless which means they never get old or need changing or revising.  They are perfect from the beginning.
We are told that R. A. Schwaller de Lubitz who came along in 1937 went to Luxor and learned the secret teachings and brought them out into the modern world as the true teachings had deteriorated as they were brought into Europe over the centuries. He is considered a Latter Day Alchemist, and he taught physics, and philosophy as well as all the higher mathematics.
We are told that Plato's "Atlantis" was taught to him by his father Solon, who got the story from an Egyptian priest and the work is valued as truth, not just a fiction story or mythology.
John Anthony West states:
     There is no art that isn't religions
     There is no religion that isn't philosophical
     There is no philosophy that isn't scientific
     There is no science that isn't art
Symbolism is the first veil.  by understanding symbolism reveals the hidden wisdom.  Symbolism is the language of magic.
These are the secrets of the Invisible College.
We are taught that the brain is two-fold -  the Right Brain and the Left Brain
What each side of the brain handles, is conferred to the other side of the brain and they work together.
This is called,  The True Dweller in two worlds,  The Alchemical Arcanum of the Androgyne, and the Union of the Sun and Moon.

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses logic detail oriented facts rule words and language present and past math and science can comprehend knowing acknowledges order/pattern perception knows object name reality based forms strategies practical safe RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses feeling "big picture" oriented imagination rules symbols and images present and future philosophy & religion can "get it" (i.e. meaning) believes appreciates spatial perception knows object function fantasy based presents possibilities impetuous risk taking Right Brain Inventory Left Brain Inventory • Visual, focusing on images, patterns • Verbal, focusing on words, symbols, numbers • Intuitive, led by feelings • Analytical, led by logic • Process ideas simultaneously • Process ideas sequentially, step by step • 'Mind photos' used to remember things, writing things down or illustrating them helps you remember • Words used to remember things, remember names rather than faces • Make lateral connections from information • Make logical deductions from information • See the whole first, then the details • Work up to the whole step by step, focusing on details, information organized • Organization ends to be lacking • Highly organized • Free association • Like making lists and planning • Like to know why you're doing something or why rules exist (reasons) • Likely to follow rules without questioning them • No sense of time • Good at keeping track of time • May have trouble with spelling and finding words to express yourself • Spelling and mathematical formula easily memorized • Enjoy touching and feeling actual objects (sensory input) • Enjoy observing • Trouble prioritizing, so often late, impulsive • Plan ahead • Unlikely to read instruction manual before trying • Likely read an instruction manual before trying • Listen to how something is being said • Listen to what is being said • Talk with your hands • Rarely use gestures when talking • Likely to think you're naturally creative, but need to apply yourself to develop your potential • Likely to believe you're not creative, need to be willing to try and take risks to develop your potential

Every gesture, every costume   every headdress    every implement used in these reliefs  helps to communicate to the initiated beholder, transmits very complex meanings, universally.  But the understand of that meaning will depends upon on the level of the expertise or initiation of the beholder. Symbol allows the mind to intuitively see what is not directly visible in the material world around us.  The symbols contain not only a specific object or concept but a bundle of invisible qualities and tendencies that it embodies.  A bird:  A bird flies - which symbolizes a complex of meanings to the beholder - the abstract meaning it was meant to convey. When someone learns the art of looking past the visible symbol of the material world to the underlying rules and occult connections -  the archetypes - the forces of what it represents.  Because each symbol expresses an essential component of sacred science, profound esoteric wisdom can be encoded and read in the  symbolism held in hieroglyphs and reliefs as well as  in the geometry, volume and proportion and number symbolism incorporated into the temples.  This symbolism acts not only as a repository of meaning but was itself a component of magical technology. The symbol of the winged disc, held a place of honor  over every door in the ancient temples.  What did it mean?  The incarnating or excarnating spirit is symbolized as a winged sun, an ancient emblem for the indestructible human soul, both in birth and in death.  the symbol of the winged disc served as a constant reminder that just as the initiate entered a room to perform a task and leave again, that so was the spirit only temporarily housed in the flesh. The more constant attention to self-perfection, the greater the abilities in the next life and the next world. This was the great work, the art of constructing and constantly working to perfect the tower within. It continuously reminded one to work for the afterlife.
Videos  John Anthony West
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHbVW6Pc-LU
Part 2 :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WBNqanpK3Q&feature=related
Part 3:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPH2iHDitrE&feature=related
Part 4:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txcqu-FESdc&NR=1
Part 5  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-OnudKB42M&NR=1
Part 6 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-94IUMCiC6o

PART II - THE AFTERLIFE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQAnfdRZJQQ&feature=related
PART II1 - THE DOCTRINAL AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4pb5cLrLYc
PART IV - ORION AND THE PLEIADES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcTP7EKqKBE
PART V  ORION - THE CELESTIAL CLOCK -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_z8EeGjrJI&feature=related
PART VI - ORIGION OF MOSES INITATION - YHWH - AND KABBALAH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xZ8wnjTxXI
PART VII  - ALCHEMY, MAGIC, AND SOLOMON'S TEMPLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYKstdPjtXI
PART VIII  FIBONACI AND ASTROLOGY IN TORAH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnIonhA2tr0
PART IX  - THE AGE AND BEGINNING OF THE KHEMETIC SCHOOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7mEUQ38-4A
http://www.spiritweb.us/egypt/mystery_schools.htm