by Patricia Awyan Lehman

 

The ancients of Khemit viewed conscious existence on Earth as eternal cycles of emergence and growth, retreat and rebirth similar to that of the Vedic Yuga Cycles.

Hindu tradition holds that there are four great ages, or Yugas, and within each there is a smaller cycle of cosmic creation and destruction. In this understanding we are currently in Kali Yuga, in which we are most separated from our cosmic truth.  Their Golden Age was called Satya Yuga, which referred to our highest stage of conscious perception. In Sanskrit Satya translates as truth. With each continuing age we devolve and move further from our center—our truth.  The next age is the Treta Yuga followed by Dwapar Yuga and then Kali. Once rock bottom is reached, we begin to involve again back to our center, our hearts,  to feel our connection again and discover the truth of who and how powerful we really are.

At the end of Kali Yuga, it is believed that Lord Shiva will dissolve the cosmos and the material realm will be transformed. Lord Brahma will then recreate the universe, and humankind will strive to become Beings of Truth again.

This understanding was mirrored in ancient Khemit wherein their conception of the sun’s daily journey through the sky applied to the eternal process of growth and decline, light and shadow, appearance and withdrawal that they saw occurring over many solar years in the life cycles of individuals, civilizations and with all that exists in the universe.

Knowledge holder, Abd’el Hakim Awyan taught that there was never a word for ‘death’ in ancient Khemit. According to him they called it ‘going to the west’ or ‘westing‘, likening the process to the eternal cycles of the sun which sets daily in the west, only to rise again each morning at dawn. The stages of the sun also reflect the stages and ages of conscious awareness which rise and fall as we migrate through the precession of the Equinoxes. They understood that we are ultimately immortal, and are in a constant state of change or transformation.

They were incredibly aware of the impact of universal flow on our life experience on earth and they were adept at charting the course of solar, lunar and stellar movements.  Our concept of the twenty-four-hour day comes from Khemit. Ra traveled half the time through the twelve realms of the underworld at night and half through the twelve realms of the day.  In fact, our word ‘hour’ stems from the name Horus.  When we want to see our personal astrology report, we are asking to see our Horus-scope (Horoscope).  When we wonder what time it is, we are asking: Where is Horus?

They used the hours of the night as a metaphor for our journey of rising awareness in the Amduat, a significant ancient funerary text. Literally meaning ‘That which is in the Afterworld’, or ‘Text of the Hidden Chamber which is in the Underworld’ it symbolically tells the story of the soul contained in form on its journey to become one with its source again before its potential rebirth as an immortal light being as the Akh.

The Egyptian five-pointed star represented the five elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether. It also represented the five stages of the sun during the day. The Netert, Nut was the sky, and above you can see her give birth to the sun within the container of her body, symbolized as the birth of the winged Kheper or scarab beetle.  The sun makes its nightly journey through her body until she gives birth to it again each dawn.

The five stages of the Sun’s journey were:

Kheper, as the Driller, symbolized by the winged scarab. It is the emergence of coming into being as the sun rises. It is reflected as the moment we move into the light of day again, which many call the New Dawn, after a prolonged and challenging age of duality and darkness.  Hakim held firm that we were precessing into this age now.  The Scarab beetle rises out of the darkness of a dung ball as a newly born sun that will begin its journey across the sky during a day cycle.  We will begin to feel empowered again as beings of light.

Our next stage is Ra, and is typified by a stubborn, impetuous child.  Ra represents an age of increased learning and development. We are stepping into our power and think we can take on the world.  The sun is moving higher on its path across our heavens as we move into higher levels of awareness. We gradually earn our wings and eventually fly towards the great central sun, where we will merge again with our source.

A moment of silence known as Oon (a derivative for our word noon), or when the sun becomes the wise one, describes the next age.  This is our moment of Gnosis or complete knowing.  The Sun is at the zenith or at its strongest and we enjoy shadowless consciousness. We perceive this moment of stillness each day at noon when the sun appears motionless for a brief moment. Oon is the heart within the Lion’s gate of Leo.  We are consciousness itself.  It is a moment of silence that can be related to what people have described in near death experiences when they feel that they are at one with the universe and perceive their connection to all that is.  Our two eyes combine to form one eye with which we experience complete unified consciousness.

And it is from here, that the creator Neter, Atum initiates a new cycle of the sun known as the Aten.  Aten is the Wiser, which is reflected as the Sun at its maturity, in mid to late afternoon. This first breath of renewed life is expressed in the Age of Cancer. We have two eyes, represented by the sun and the moon, also known as the eyes of Horus.    Creation is separation and this foundational sine wave vibration illustrates the dual Yin Yang spiraling motion of polarity. Cancer is ruled by the moon, which exhibits the reflected light of the sun.  As we begin our descent into the night cycle, we now perceive our reality as shadows cast on the walls of the Womb that holds us hostage in a physical perception of reality.

Atum is the consciousness of the primordial waters of Nun (none) and has the capacity to self-create and imagine the world into being as individuated aspects of himself. He does not do this alone.  It is with the aid of the hand of Hathor that he masturbates and brings forth the liquid light of creation.

Atum is the Primordial Atom.

We emerge from the void as the Neteru, the forces of nature that actively participate in an animated perception of reality.  We were ‘the Gods’ that walked the earth in this moment.  It is Zep Tepi (the first time) –as we leave the void of silence into a perception based on vibration.  We are alive again and we enjoy our highest state of being that can be achieved in a vibrational reality.

The Shemsu Hor, (or Seshu Hor as Hakim taught) known as the Followers of Horus, are the beings that descend from the Neteru as demi gods. These are the beings that can sense the currents of light that manifest as form, and are able to harness them to achieve what we would call magic or supernatural feats.  It is at this time that we are able to easily create megalithic structures, temples and statues that embody the principles of nature as living, breathing entities themselves. We are consciousness in its highest state of being in the physical realm.

But as the sun of this Great Year cycle starts it metaphoric decline on its path in the sky towards the west, we begin to lose these heightened senses and abilities and experience a marked decline in craftsmanship, knowledge and wisdom.  As we lose our connection to source and each other, we now need oral and written language with which to communicate. This occurs in the Age of Gemini, symbolized as the twins, expressed in Egypt as the Neteru, Shu and Tefnut.  Astrologically, Gemini is ruled by the planet, Mercury, which is associated with communication, and we create an oral and written language that is mercurial or changeable, unpredictable and unreliable.  Can we really trust words found on paper or spoken without discernment?  How many arguments begin with misunderstandings of a written or spoken word?

In the Age of Amen or Amun, the Sun becomes the Hidden One as it is swallowed by Nut and vanishes. This occurs as we move into the Age of Taurus, when we fall into form, or containment in a belief that we are our bodies.  The fall is typified by an almost complete loss of our feeling of connectedness. It is symbolically expressed as a descent into a night cycle when the sun is now hidden and our truths remain veiled from us as we precess through Aries and Pisces.

We devolve into a world of polarities, and succumb to hidden agendas put forward by whom Hakim labeled the Hanuti. At onset of civilization and systemization we become ‘plugged in’ to structures that hold us hostage within the boundaries of their laws.  When we say “Amen” we are either confirming our acceptance of the agendas to keep our truths hidden from us and/or we believe in the religious dogma that asks us to have faith that the sun will rise again.  The Hanuti rise into power during this time as the priests of Amun.  Today, the Hanuti can be found within the ranks of our religious, political and corporate arenas

We have fallen into a Dark Age and a denser 3D existence and duality called the Duat, or the Underworld.  The truths of our unlimited potentials have been hidden from us, as we navigate a densely physical world of dark and light energies and feelings of separation from a God or Source– and from each other.

However, we have basically hit our bottom and are due for a reversal of direction. Hakim was adamant that we are currently moving out of the Cycle of Amen—or Amenti and moving into the Age of Kheper again. The veil is being lifted, and the game of the polarities is coming to a close.  This is an exciting, albeit painful time to be alive. But, then don’t all the sages tell us that we must endure growing pains if we are to earn our wings and fly?  We may need to endure a cataclysmic transformation before we are reborn again.

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.” 

~ Richard Bach