Ancient Egypt

A classic study clearly establishing a fundamental difference of viewpoint between ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia through examining their forms of kingship. Beneath resemblances fostered by similar cultural growth and geographical location lay differences based partly upon the national conditions under which they developed.

Her-Bak, a young candidate for initiation into the sacred mysteries of ancient Egypt, describes his world.

For the first time in English translation, de Lubicz's masterwork shows the temple as a legominism of sacred science which fused into one coherent and artistic whole the art, religion, science and philosophy that was the esoteric basis of Ancient Egypt. Beautifully printed and bound on coated, long-lasting stock with over 400 photos and illustrations, it is the distillation of de Lubicz's hermetic insight.

De Lubicz (1897-1961) was one of the most important esoteric philosophers and Egyptologists of the century. Although Gurdjieff and he never met, a great many of his ideas and insights are in agreement with Gurdjieff's. Living for 15 years in Thebes (modern-day Luxor), where some 85% of the monuments of ancient Egypt are located, de Lubicz resolutely studied the temple complex at Karnak and this book is the result. Because of vandalism over the years, this volume is the only complete photographic record of the Karnak site.