02:49 - 01.09.06
En light zen
I mentioned yesterday that another synchronicity occurred when we were on the tour of the Egyptian artefacts at the museum. Our docent was explaining the reasons behind the elaborate tombs and the materials placed there for the support of the deceased's journey. She mentioned that the Egyptians believed that there were seven parts - the body, the shadow, the name, the ka, the ba, the akh and the sahu - that needed to be united after death so that the deceased could enter our equivalent of heaven. The ancient rituals and myths are somewhat fragmented and there are variations on some details but the core Osiris and Isis (Adam and Eve) story remains consistent.
One of the pieces of information that I found interesting mentioned that one had to know the person's real name in order to allow that being a chance at immortality. The name was always kept secret during a person's lifetime because magic could be used to destroy the person through that aspect of their existence. Lord Voldemort/Tom Riddle. Harry and his team have to deal with Tom Riddle. I think it is in the Goblet of Fire that Harry firsts sees the pensieve and talks with Dumbledore about calling things and people by their true name so that they cannot claim a power or inheritance that doesn't rightfully belong to them. It is also in this book that Voldemort receives a new physical form so that he has a body in which to hold the ba and create/reanimate the shadow - a key in Jungian archetypal therapy. Perhaps the snake Nagini, as his familiar, was the holder of the shadow of Tom Riddle. That may be why Dumbledore suggests that Nagini is a horcrux, if the seven parts of the Egyptian soul are the equivalents of the seven horcruxes created by Voldemort. An examination of The Egyptian Book of the Dead or the Book of Thoth might be helpful although the second book is not one to be read by children or people who are unstable/suggestible. A better choice might be to read Pauline Gedge's fictional series about Egypt starting with Child of the Morning - about the only female pharoah to rule Egypt. Her research before writing is phenomenal and the stories she weave include a great deal of information about how the Egyptians and their priests perceived the afterlife and immortality. Much of the alchemist's studies in the Middle Ages in Europe came from or were a continuation of these sources. And now we return to the search for the Philosopher's Stone. Although I can't quite explain why I think there will be an eighth horcrux. The heart and that door in the Department of mysteries that was sealed both have to do with love don't you know.
I think I'm beginning to babble more than a little and the concepts that are floating through my head right now are more of the dreamtime than consensual time. That makes it very difficult to express those ideas in any coherent way. The Tibetan Book of the Dead explains it well and there are strong links between all three topics tonight. Time for me to go to bed though I think. Good night dear diary.
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