The Primordial Egg And The Power Of The Entire Universe

The search for understanding "origins" reveals the complexity and relativity of our perceptions of time and space, urging us to accept the limitations of human perspective in the face of the vastness of infinity.

- Cheops, said Ibebi, after each sat down on his mat, you will soon reach the end of the part of the road that was given to you to cross accompanied by me in the temple of Thoth. We will return to some remaining points, these days, in suspension, to deepen and clarify them. So, we will talk again about the divine Ogdoada, which you learned is the substance of Thoth, the multiple manifestations of his being. Learn therefore that originally, as said, it was Ta-tenen. It was a formless chaos, yet within it was the power of the entire universe. And suddenly it exploded, from it came the primordial egg, and from this egg sprang Ra, from a lotus flower.

The size of this egg cannot be described: it was huge and yet small, for when there is no point of comparison, what can be the measure of things? And all this happened in the mist of time. But how was this time expressed in floods, because the Nile did not yet exist, nor the floods? Nor the years, because the Earth did not exist, because the sun did not rise in the morning in the east to set in the west in the evening, because it did not exist either! Now, isn't the measure of time given by the movements of the sun and the moving stars? So there is no time, no space, because space only exists according to the bodies that occupy it.

Is your mind capable of understanding the connection to divinity, realizing that you are only a finite being, part of a whole that transcends the complexity of the whole?

- In this case, why did Ta-tenen suddenly explode, why did light suddenly emerge from the primordial egg? Why did this happen at some point millions and millions of years ago, according to our way of measuring time, and why not before or after the time when things happened? And whence comes the formless matter of which Ta-tenen was constituted?

- There are many mysteries in the universe, many things that our mind is not able to understand in relation to the divinity, because we are only finite beings, parts of a whole. However, the finite cannot encompass the infinite, just as the parts of an ensemble cannot perceive the entire complexity of this ensemble. The other day I told you that the idea of creation through the word, starting from nothing, is absurd, unless we admit that the god created, starting from his own substance, the visible and the invisible world, the spirits we call "ahu " and the matter that takes in our eyes the forms that have become familiar to us.

Can you accept that true understanding of the universe requires sustained effort of thought, knowing that there are limits to the revelations you can receive?

Now you will be able to understand its meaning, but do not think that, by what I say, I will drive away all the shadows that darken your mind: you will only be able to grasp the meaning after long efforts of thought, and not in its whole totality, for there are mysteries which we are not permitted to discern. The primordial egg is a tiny yet immense point that potentially contains the entire universe.

As there is neither time nor space, for these concepts have acquired substance in our minds only through the observation of nature from childhood, there is neither before nor after, neither here nor there, but only Ta-tenen, an unlocated point. Therefore, the question you ask me, that of knowing whether the egg came out of Ta-tenen at one moment or another, does not make sense, because what we call a moment, a particle of time, did not come to life, had no existence, because there was no movement.

Could your perception of reality be influenced by the understanding that everything is a manifestation of a higher entity whose universe echoes in every aspect of your existence?

So who are Huh and Hauhet? It is organized matter, matter after the explosion of the primordial egg, water in its potentiality, the primordial elements that, combining, will create matter and, in particular, water on Earth after its creation. The egg helps us to get an idea of the real shape of the universe, it symbolizes the harmonious organization of the universe in front of the dense but formless, indescribable matter of Ta-tenen before its expansion.

But Ta-tenen, from which the god came, is, in reality, divine matter, is the god himself, so that the world is never but a manifestation of the god, everything that exists being a particle of the absolute Being we call Divinity, which encloses in it all the emanations to which I have given special names, which are those of the various divinities to whom I have consecrated a cult, i.e. Ra, Ptah or Thot, Hathor, Sekhmet or Neith.

Before opening yourself to the great knowledge, you must be able to grasp the infinite essence of the universe, attributing to yourself the greatness of a universal Self.

The primordial egg and the power of the entire universe are the two key concepts to which any human who aspires to attain a higher level of knowledge must relate. Through your perception of reality, aren't you answering the call to decipher and represent the mystery and complexity of the universe? For this reason, I believe that the first step towards reaching a high level of knowledge is to reflect on the following aspect: "Don't you yourself reflect the dynamics and perpetual transformations of the universe?"

* Note: Guy Rachet - Cheops and the Ibis conjuration, Lucman Publishing House, 2003