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"Along with the Sumerians, the Egyptians deliver our earliest -though by no means primitive- evidence of human thought. It is thus appropriate to characterize Egyptian thought as the beginning of philosophy. As far back as the third millennium B.C., the Egyptians were concerned with questions that return in later European philosophy and that remain unanswered even today - questions about being and nonbeing, about the meaning of death, about the nature of the cosmos and man, about the essence of time, about the basis of human society and the legitimation of power."
 Hornung, 1992, p.13, my italics.

 Preface

added in 2004 :

° The Instruction of Khety to Merikare
 ° Amduat : the Book of the Hidden Chamber

added in 2005 :

° Liber Nun : Precreation as Abyss & Pleroma
 ° The Ten Keys : Ancient Egyptian roots of the Principia Hermetica
 ° Amduat : Egyptian Pataphysics of Creation
 ° Escaping Osiris : O Osiris the king, who goes forth by night !

added in 2006 :

 ° The Book of the Heavenly Cow
 ° The Pyramid Texts of Unas

added in 2007 :

 ° Commentary on the Pyramid Texts of Unas

 added in 2008 :

  ° Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Readings
  ° Amduat : Summary of the Amduat
added in 2009 :

  ° The Adoration of Re

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MAAT.sofiatopia.org aims to bring into balance a multi-dimensional study of the conceptual world, wisdom-culture and spirituality of Ancient Egypt. It distances itself explicity from the "Kemetic revivals" of the Ancient Egyptian religion developing in Europe and the United States from the 1970s. These approaches often involve a preselected, piecemeal historical "reconstruction" of Ancient Egypt, filling in the obvious "gaps" with material post-dating the tradition, like Hermetism, Hermeticism, or worse, Abrahamisms like Qabalah, Christianity or Sufism. Neither are the present studies intended to "feed" new "faith traditions" based on the so-called "direct experience" of the Ancient Egyptian divinities. Do these Egyptomanic inventions, despite their would-be "Egyptian" trappings, represent more than the hotch-potch of contemporary delusions and obscurations, so typical for the spiritual materialism of "New Age" spiritualists ?

 

initated : 06 VI 2003 - updated : 09 XII 2009

© Wim van den Dungen
Antwerp, 2003 - 2010.