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The flower of life holds a secret symbol created by drawing 13 circles out of the Flower of Life.
By doing this, one can discover the most important and sacred pattern in the universe. This is the source of all that exists; it’s called the Fruit of Life. It contains 13 informational systems. Each one explains another aspect of reality. Thus these systems are able to give us access to everything ranging from the human body to the galaxies. In the first system, for example, it’s possible to create any molecular structure and any living cellular structure that exists in the universe. In short every living creature. The complete ancient flower of life is an inter-dimensional tool, a portal, a stargate, a window into what some call the inter space plains. The original flower of life (found on several pillars within “the Osireion” at abydos in Egypt) is incomplete, because it is only the first layer of three The complete flower has the other two layers added, making it three dimensional a tree of life, the fruit, the egg and the seed of life. I enjoy the 13th floor metaphor mystery just like the any group searching for truth might form that 13th tribe and be flowered in peacemaking that ancient void?Egyptians employed plenty of word play. This is seen most often in tomb reliefs in which the tomb owner is hunting or fishing or fowling, because it happens that a number of words used to describe such activities were nearly perfect homonyms for sexual acts (implying procreation and fertility). homonyms activities If hieroglyphs were loaded with deeply esoteric and lost meanings, hieroglyphic inscriptions would be likely to be nonsensical when translated. They are not nonsensical. The more specifically represented elemental properties,of metals are properties pertaining directly to creation, not alchemy. I mentioned above how in certain contexts double-meanings were employed, but in almost all extant cases the double-meanings are well understood. From whom would the literate class be protecting secrets, however? The people who could read this stuff represented a very small percentage of the population, so a literate person was among the elite. As long as a monument was publicly accessible it was most definitely meant to be read and understood in clear terms. Well thats also homonyms? Ptolemaic Period, when the Greeks were ruling Egypt. At this very late point in dynastic history, hieroglyphs were becoming more arcane and exclusive in some settings. The priests of this period developed a coded usage for hieroglyphs that took linguists a long time to crack.Some of the foundational precepts for alchemy probably do come from pharaonic Egypt. I'm not doubting that. What I'm trying to say anachronistic application of medieval and even New Age ideas of alchemy. If it cannot be observed in the extant evidence of pharaonic Egypt, it should not be speculated at all.I also agree that a great deal of writing from pharaonic Egypt has been lost; we certainly do not possess a complete record.I can't say that Gardner deliberately presented a dishonest argument.The same holds for Gardner. He may have been sincere and earnest when he wrote about mfkAt and the conical loaf, but in the end he was wrong.
I don't doubt that some precepts of alchemy originated in pharaonic Egypt. That's a given for the most part. But "alchemy" itself is a broad and wide-reaching term describing a great variety of ideas and practices that developed down through time.If one wishes to frame an argument about alchemy that centers on ancient Egypt, he would have to isolate and expound on those precepts that did indeed come from ancient Egypt--not from the early Islamic period, not from medieval Europe, not from New Age folks. That, I think, would be the real challenge. Everything has a context, and when one dissects ancient history, context has to be carefully observed every step of the way.The Ogdoad more specifically represented elemental properties, but properties pertaining directly to creation, not alchemy.The Ogdoad, also called the Hehu or Infinites, were the celestial rulers of a cosmic age. Considered to have come long before the Egyptian religious system currently recognized, the Ogdoad were concerned with the preservation and flourishing of the celestial world, and later—as well as indirectly—the formation of the human race. So Gardner isn't the case for a unified elite against everybody else. There are always power struggles and if you have a secret that is worth preserving then it's only value is in it being kept secret. Thus, having X amount of people who could read and write hieroglyphs would still keep the secrets safe as long as the meaning behind symbols was preserved for the initiated. We know this is roughly how Pythagoras ran his school so why not in the even more ancient world?Nothing new under the SUN Gods or Nothing Knew the secrets are still safe as long as the meaning behind symbols aren't new . The stories of Romulus and Remus, Osiris and Moses all share a common element. Why is it that the overarching theme surrounding ancient people and the start of their legacy is a male floating down the river to escape harm from another threatening male? Is it a coincidence that the leaders of these people were all sent down river to escape persecution; or are these stories all virtually the same? The founding of a ancient Rome, ancient Egypt and ancient Israel to see the similarities between all three stories. Not so ancient the 33 degrees or a secular river rafting Its no big secret who gets sold down the Potomac .