Our Name Will Live On

Be a landmark of sacred time, through a work that transcends the immediate and opens consciousness to eternity.

"I am in the mortuary chamber of the Pharaoh. Many skeletons. The gramophone does not help me. The work is hard. It makes you think of immortality. To the common man, I imagine, the Egyptian notion of immortality is the most absurd superstition. But that is only for that our idea of eternal life has changed, whether we are Christians or not. Although we agree with our Nile ancestors that immortality is the most important human achievement (more important than love or a vague reputation for virtue, far more pressing than friendship), we are not so crazy as to imagine that our bodies will be transported to the afterlife.

We use a different vocabulary, salvation of the soul, eternal glory. Call it what you will, but to carry on your name after the names of your inferiors and tormentors have long died out, is one thing we all hope for. And, the most delicious thing of all, to make it happen before their physical lives are over, so that they feel the last threads of their names shatter while they still breathe and realize that when their rotting skeleton will be discovered and thrown into the ground, they will already be an anonymous pile of hair and skin, merrily on their way to becoming anonymous carbon dust, while the rest of us will become suns and stars.

Does the reputation you build give you the awareness of power to keep your name in the world's memory as an expression of your values ​​and actions?

I don't know anyone who doesn't aspire to this permanence, even if they say they don't. The world is full of triumphal arches and juniors who don't know how, artists who chatter away stressed that their work will last, poets who kill themselves to secure their fame, words spoken with the tongue of death and wills that try to -controls the heirs, names read annually in churches and synagogues, gravestones covered and declarations of love on the deathbed, wills and nominated donations, money left to political parties and charities. We are all still very Egyptian, no doubt.

I'm not an idiot. When the time comes, I know I'll be dead. I shall not run my fingers over the strings of a winged harp, nor even (as I had planned as a boy) savor the hot, carnal delights of a palm-fringed afterworld, guarded by Anubis and assisted by Isis. I'm talking about something easier, smoother, more unassailable and inexhaustible from an intellectual and spiritual point of view. Immortality for us, even if it is incorporeal, is not without consciousness: the consciousness, at the very moment of the expiration of our bodies, that our name will live on."

Does fulfilling a noble goal allow you to contribute to the immortalization of your name and the lasting legacy of your impact?

With care and virtue, with a wisdom beyond youth, you will be able to build a lasting reputation, ensuring that your positive imprint will continue to reverberate gloriously in the world around you, even when your earthly body dies.. Especially by aspiring to virtue and living in accordance with spiritual values (knowledge, enlightenment, freedom, harmony), you will be able to create a deep connection with the world, thus ensuring that the meaning of your name will persist in the collective consciousness, even after what you pass beyond the boundaries of physical life.

Do not forget that the foreground in which you detail your image, in a setting of advanced wisdom, will allow you to precisely highlight the essential features of your character and highlight the aspects that will captivate the viewers of your image. This requires a symmetrical and harmonious overall vision. Basically, you have to imprint the image of yourself in the line of the visual horizon of others through symbolism, marking a visual landmark, a place of collective memory, emitting at the same time a feeling of unity with the gods, with nature, with the stars or with the ancestors.

Your image itself must explore a possible history, a poetics of the renewed reception and exhibition spaces of art, adding visual compositions as indispensable accessories of art. Be the model of attention and visual perception, creating works that transcend the immediate and establish a relationship between symmetry and awareness. It gives the spirit of observation, visual memory and openness to superior images with a great color range and stunning contrast.

Can you render in a timeless form your existence in the world, letting through the distance or proximity to an image that bears the imprint of immortality?

History tells us that many leaders liked to explore a quick exposure of their existence in the world, trying to emit the feeling of distance or proximity to the image of a supreme god, through tones and reflection effects in the constructed image. For example, observing the painting made by Jacques-Louis David, the famous museum piece "Bonaparte crossing the Grand Saint Bernard", we immediately realize how precisely the general was outlined according to clear instructions (worthy of a wise ruler).

It is said that David wanted to paint him as a sword-wielding hero on the battlefield. But Bonaparte uttered the memorable words: "No! Battles are not won with the sword, I want to be painted calmly - on a wild horse."

Dedicate your life to the sublime, so that your leadership may come to life and endure over time, exploring the visibility beyond the present, by creating a glorious image that bears the seal of your divine origin. Basically, your image marks the horizon line and separates reality from interpretation by achieving and capitalizing on your results obtained in a certain field, or through a leading position. Be careful how you outline your image, so that it is more than glorious, it is memorable and inspiring for those around you.

Through leadership, the quest for salvation and eternal glory turns into the responsibility to leave a positive legacy in human history.

Our Name Will Live On if our character and attitude will be well impregnated in an image that reflects metaphysical dimensions with a special spiritual charge, as it becomes, first of all, a window to the depths of our inner being.

* Note: Arthur Phillips - Egiptologul, Editura Polirom, 2006