Metu Neter - Vols I - II - III : Chapter 1 - Preface and Introduction

Sami_RaMaati said:
Thank you for your intelligent & thoughtful questions. It's obvious that you have done your homework.

It's not that those civilizations fell despite the practice of those systems of spiritual cultivation, it's that those civilizations fell because of a failure to adhere to those spiritual practices which made them great in the first place.


Elder James' is on the money. Music Producer's explanation is just plain Ludacris. God does not reward or punish. Whatever consequences befall a people come as a direct result of whether or not they adhere to certain divine laws. Disobey those laws and cause an imbalance and Herukhuti, in the process of restoring things to they way they were meant to be, will kick your butt. It's nothing personal really; it's the law, and every person and civilization is subject to it, no matter how goody two shoes they are. This butt kicking is what has been misinterpreted by the sahu religions (Christianity, Islam, & Judaism) as punishment from God.

All civilizations are subject to the law of cycles which have 4 phases: birth, growth, decline, and death. No civilization has ever been exempt from this law, not Kemetic, not other Afrikan civilizations, nor American, which is currently in the stage of decline. The priests of Kemet knew in advance that their civilization was going to fall. They were able to foretell this decline and fall as evidenced by an excerpt from "Ancient Future" by Wayne Chandler which I'll post later on.

The rise or fall of civilizations does not occur irrespective of what people do, but occurs because of what people do--or fail to do. Kemetic civilization will not rise again if we all sit on the couch and do nothing but watch Jerry Springer reruns and booty shaking videos for the next thousand years. It will take study and practice of the ancestral ways in order to bring it back. That's related to another law: cause & effect.

The point is that the Law of Cycles is just as predictable and immutable as the law of gravity.



That has already been done. Now all we have to do is reacquaint ourselves with the knowledge and "just do it."

Hey sam,

If you were instructing a beginner as myself what would be first on the list to do?
Btw I've been working six days a week.
I'll try to visit AAS again soon!
 
Sami_RaMaati said:
The priests of Kemet knew in advance that their civilization was going to fall. They were able to foretell this decline and fall as evidenced by an excerpt from "Ancient Future" by Wayne Chandler which I'll post later on.

Here's the "prophecy" (for lack of a better word) about the fall of Kemet and the shape of things to come:

“It befits the wise to know all things in advance, of this you must not remain ignorant: a time will come when . . . divinity will return from earth to heaven. . .Oh Egypt, Egypt, of your reverent deeds only stories will survive, and they will be incredible to your children! Only words cut in stone will survive to tell your faithful works, and the Scythian or some such neighbor barbarian will dwell in Egypt. For divinity goes back to heaven, and all people will die, deserted, as Egypt will be widowed and deserted by god and human. . Whoever survives will he recognized as Egyptian only by his language; in his actions he will seem a foreigner.

“[Imhotep], why do you weep? Egypt herself will be persuaded to deeds much wickeder than these, and she will be steeped in evils far worse. A land once holy, most loving of divinity, by reason of her reverence the only land on earth where the gods settled, she who taught holiness and fidelity will be an example of utter unbelief.

"In their weariness the people of that time will find the world nothing to wonder at or to worship.... People will find it oppressive and scorn it. They will not cherish this entire world, a work of god beyond compare. . . They will prefer shadows to light, and they will find death more expedient than life. No one will look up to heaven. The reverent will be thought mad, the irreverent wise; the lunatic will be thought brave, and the scoundrel will he taken as a decent person. Soul and all teachings about soul (that soul began as immortal [and] expects to attain immortality), as I revealed them to you will he considered not simply laughable but even illusory... They will establish new laws, new justice. Nothing holy, nothing reverent nor worthy of heaven or heavenly beings will be heard of or believed in the mind.
[They will be driven] to every outrageous crime--war looting, trickery, and all that is contrary to the nature of souls…When all this comes to pass Asclepius [Imhotep], then the master and father; the god whose power is prima ut . . will take a stand against the vices and the perversion in everything, righting wrongs, washing away malice in a flood or consuming it in fire or ending it by spreading pestilential disease everywhere. Then he will restore the world to its beauty of old so that the world itself will again seem deserving of worship and wonder.”


[source: "Ancient Future" by Wayne B. Chandler]
 
cursed heart said:
Hey sam,

If you were instructing a beginner as myself what would be first on the list to do?
Btw I've been working six days a week.
I'll try to visit AAS again soon!

Learn to meditate.

The next round of meditation classes starts on election day (Nov 7, '06) from 7-8 pm. If you can't make it to class, start out by practicing proper breathing techniques for about 5 minutes a day (from the lower abdomen--inhale and push the abdomen out, exhale and pull it in. No more chest breathing). This will lay the foundation for later work. You can pick up a meditation CD from the store.

Work on your Geb (body, health) --improved diet and regular physical activity. Beginning level Qi Gong classes started today. We'll be there for the next 5 saturdays so stop by if and when you can (10:30 am to 12 noon). If you can't make the classes, we have an instructional Qi Gong DVD available for you to learn on your own as well as a book and a CD.
 
Sami_RaMaati said:
Learn to meditate.


Work on your Geb (body, health) --improved diet and regular physical activity. Beginning level Qi Gong classes started today. We'll be there for the next 5 saturdays so stop by if and when you can (10:30 am to 12 noon). If you can't make the classes, we have an instructional Qi Gong DVD available for you to learn on your own as well as a book and a CD.

This is the first bit of advice that I would give. People underestimate the profound effect that merely cultivating one's health can have on one's spiritual development.

Even the Bible speaks about not defiling one's Temple: The place where God dwells.

GEB is the last sphere, and ironically, people treat health as though it's the last thing they should focus on.

However learn the path to spiritual development is a pathological one, where in the initiate learns to start at one point, and move his way back to the point of true realization.

Thus, there is a reason why GEB is the last sphere, and AMEN is the first.

PEACE
 

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