商品簡介
The book is a gateway into the symbolic world of the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the readers will be able to enter into a personal, symbiotic relationship with the Egyptian Gods so as to retrace the magical steps of the Phoenix-Osiris in'Coming forth by day' and hence, like Osiris, change their own destiny. The author introduces, for the first time ever, a method to gain access to the spells of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, in order to obtain divinatory predictions by means of the numerical code which is present in the hexagrams of the I Ching, the Chinese Book of Changes, that determine the original mandala published here. The hexagrams of the I Ching, which derive from esoteric Chinese traditions, have been converted by way of a synoptic key into computer-elaborated numerological matrixes, where each hexagram and each one of itschanges correspond to a particular spell in the Egyptian Book of the Dead, whose divinatory significance is presented in a list of spells organized in a numerical index that can be consulted in this book. This method is possible since the 'lines' in the I Ching hexagrams are numerical symbols coded in trigrams; these can be transferred into the numerological matrixes of the magic squares - correlated both with the astrological order passed down in the I Ching and with the Sefer Yetzirah's holy circuit of Hebrew letters where the forces of what is to become are counterbalanced with each other in the process of change and transformation. These similar structural relationships hark back to the symbolic cosmology found in the ancient holy texts. Both Chinese and Egyptian traditions theorize 'a core circuit' in which the renewal of the astrological cycles of the heavens merge with the destiny of the initiate who knows how to decipher their pulsations in terms of numbers and whose powers are preserved in the secrets of the various Eastern traditions which are examined in this text. Furthermore, the Egyptian solar mythologem is compared to the Tibetan tantric tradition, the Basilides Gnostic symbols, Plutarch reflections contained in his Isis and Osiris, the mystery cults described by Apuleius and extended to the Greek Dionysian world and lastly to the revelation contained in the Apocalypse of St. John in the Bible. "With the sequence of formulas in the Book of the Dead it is clear that you have given a great deal of thought to the matter". ZAHI HAWAS With 100 illustrations
