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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ASTRAL HEAVENS

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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ASTRAL HEAVEN(S)

Ancient Egypt had more than one heaven, and most of their heavens were

subdivided into sections or parts akin to, and probably best equated with the

astral plane.

As the astral plane has many different levels, the lowest next to the earthly

plane, and highest sections up to and pass most of earth's religions concept

of heaven, the astral plane is like a onion with the material world in the

center, and the layers going outward (or inward, or higher, or whatever). As

most religions heavens are manifested in the astral plane, they are also

separate from each other.

This is also true in Egyptian heavens of the astral plane. The Book of the

Dead (a misnomer as the Egyptians never called it that), lists the sections

of the Heaven of Osiris. As you read the book, you also see that there is a

specific way to get to the heaven and through it.

There is an ancient Egyptian writing from a scribe that says, in effect: "If

you don't use the specific directions to get to a particular heaven, you

won't get there but to a false heaven."

As most of us are aware, the astral plane is composed and made up of the

thoughtforms of mankind and of the gods, hence, there is an Egyptian heaven

that was formed by the thousands of people who have conceptualized it since

the beginning of the 1800's, made stronger through the Rosecrucians and

Blavatsky's, and into the modern metaphysical movement. But it is NOT the

ancient Egyptian heaven. Hence, you can't simply just astrally project in

order to get to a real Egyptian heaven.

You have to follow the directions by the ancient Egyptians in order to make

it to one of their specific heavens.

You may even have to change your astral form to conform to a certain type in

order to enter. For example, one of the ways to get to the Horus heaven is to

have project to the Nile, and do certain things in order for a boat with a

hawk on it to come over to the bank and pick you up to take you to the Horus

Heaven.

One of the things you have to do, and not the only thing, in order to get

into the Heaven of Isis is to change your astral body into the shape of a

bird, a Swallow!

So if someone, no matter how much you respect them, tells you that they

dreamed or astrally projected to astral Egypt, they are wrong, unless they

know the specific ways to do it. The Egyptians then, have a sort of astral

lock on the proverbial doors to the entrance of their heavens, and you can't

just blindingly end up there without the right keys to get there. I can

probably safely say that no more than a couple of dozen people in the last

century have been able to enter these heavens, and no one who has written a

book about Egyptian metaphysics has (including Eliz. Hatch who wrote

Initiation; who knows nothing about Ptahhotep).

The teachers are still pretty much in the Egyptian heavens, waiting to

teach the student who is able to get there.

Although the ancient Egyptians had the wherewithal to go into drug induced

states (they had mandrake and poppies for medicine), I have yet to find one

example of them using them for magic or astral projection.

Astral sight was taught before astral projection, using techniques that we

still use today.

Several techniques that are used today in astral projection today were also

used in astral projection then, but usually, a priest led the student in the

first several experiences in order for the student to get used to the

experience and feelings associated with projection to a particular heaven.

Therefore the guided trips were first used. Usually the first trips were done

in the temples (easier to do with all of the power already resident in the

temples). Some, like the priests of Horus were also done by the Nile's edge,

the student going into a sleep, the priest astrally projecting and drawing

the students astral body and consciousness out doing what is necessary for

the Horus boat to arrive on the astral Nile, then going on the trip through

the Horus heaven.

Sometimes it was done out in the desert.

When a teacher died, such as Imhotep, he went to the appropriate heaven and

taught from there (according to the ancient Egyptians, who said that at that

point their teachers on earth would astrally project to the heaven to be

taught by him). At that point, all priest/esses called him Master, or another

appropriate remark. Since apparently there was much connections between the

two worlds, the priest/esses knew when Imhotep finally left the astral heaven

to ascend beyond and into the world of the god/desses. At that point Imhotep

on earth was called a God (this process is found in a papyrus fragment

translated courtesy of the French Institute of Archeology of Cairo).

Hence, if you know when Imhotep or some other lived, and know that after

death he was called a master, then the earliest time that he, or she, started

being called a God was the time he moved out of the astral plane.

Some other traditions use the symbology of ladders as an analogy of the

ascent to their astral plane. Each rung represents a god or goddess to

invoke, the ladder is always held by two gods, which symbolize the type of

path being used. In some other traditions, there was a way to ascend through

the astral plane and into the spiritual realm, reserved for the higher

priests who have passed the Guardian of the Threshold. These traditions can

be found when you go to Egypt for in some of the temples the staircase to the

roof will have a god/dess for each step, symbolizing those that you will need

to ascend to the spiritual plane.

Certain god/desses and spiritual beings can assist or deter you from your

astral trip.

THE HELPERS: Anubis is one of the best. Hathor is also great, for she

gives you magical power during your astral projection. The god Seb supplies

all a person needs to astrally travel in many places. The god Seb, Shu, the

goddesses Nut and Tefnut defend people during their journeys.

There was also the Souls of the West, Souls of the East; Lady of the Evening,

Calf of the Goddess (Morning Star), Souls of several different cities for

their special heavens; The Catcher of Gods, the Divine Being who Examines

Gods for Men, the God who Binds Gods.

THOSE THAT YOU WANT TO AVOID: The Unmentionable Terrible Serpent (with

Lovecraftian powers and would be great in his novels, like Chuthulu or Hastor

the Unspeakable, occasionally used in Black Magic, which apparently was very

uncommon in Egypt) I won't give you his name.

There is of course, Apep, Apophis, and a few specific to each of the

heavens, but are usually particular to the Osirian heaven (Reading the Book

of the Dead will give you a great idea about them).

A zoomorphic projection is when you astrally project then change your astral

body into a zoomorphic figure in order to get to specific Egyptian astral

heavens. An example is turning your astral body into a swallow to get to

Isis's heaven, or into a hawk to get to one of Horus's heavens.

Following the Eastern Tradition of the astral plane, the Egyptians have an

almost exact duplicate of the concept. Basically it says that there is a

plane of existence between the realm of the high gods and earth, called the

astral plane, which has layers like an onion.

The astral plane is made up of the mind stuff of heaven and earth dwellers

alike and is as real as both. To the Eastern people, all the heavens of all

the religions are there. To both Egyptian and Easterners, to get there you

astrally project or out of body experience.

Although the Egyptians had a more elaborate version.

The Egyptians, therefore, which had several religious traditions, of which

Isis plays in a couple) had several heavens. These were usually conceived of

in layers or parts, corresponding to the layers of the astral plane. In

Heliopolis there were 12 layers or planes to their heaven.

Each tradition had a different heaven and a different way of getting there.

The temples trained the people how to do it at home, at the temple, or

elsewhere.

Sometimes more than just the astral body took the trip, there was also a

spiritual body, the soul, the spirit and other forms.

According to ancient Egyptian practices, you can project your astral body,

soul, spirit, or spiritual body. However, there is no ritual to do all at

once, probably because it would kill the person.

Of course the sa is considered the spiritual power of a person and the

animating force of the body. As long as you have the sa and one of the three

(soul, spirit or spiritual body) you're body can still live during the

projections.

The Egyptians are the only ones that I am aware of (other than a very few

Native American tribes) that even project the spirit or the spiritual body or

the soul.

Altered state of consciousness was used in Egypt, usually by NOT using

drugs, although they did have mandrake, poppies and hemp (used in medicine as

an anaesthetic). What was taught differed by tradition, and what kind of

altered state differed also. For example: A scribe of Anubis: Does he want to

become a doctor/priest, a mummification priest, or a priest/guide to the

astral plane? If the latter, then he is taught the basics of the Egyptian

astral planes and how each one differs, and how each tradition of Egypt has a

different path to their own. He is taught how to astrally project, and then

his teacher will project and take him on a guided tour. Eventually he will

astrally project to the Anubis temple in the astral plane and receive higher

knowledge from their teachers. Eventually he will teach others to project,

and lead them on journeys. The form you take, the route you take, what you

see determines if you will get there, and if you don't know these things,

according to the Egyptians you will not reach the plane.

BLESSED BE.