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A Tour of Atlantis
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What Happens in the Astral Realm

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A Translation of the Ancient Egyptian Text
Amy Dewat
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with detailed illustrations and commentary
by
Douglass A. White, Ph.D.
Hour Five

ePublished by
Delta Point Educational Technologies
2009

www.dpedtech.com
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Hour Five
The Secret Chakra Source that is Seker upon His Sands
Hour Goddess: “Guides in the Heart of Her Meditation Boat”
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Translation of Introduction to Hour Five

This powerful god is towed on the truthful pathways of the Astral Realm
On the upper part of the Secret Chakra Source that is Seker upon His Sands.
Eyes do not see these secret images
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Of the land that belongs to the limbs of this god.

Those who are in this god[‘s following] hear the voice of the Higher Self Sun
As he calls out toward this god.

The name of the portal of this domain is “Mound of the Gods”.

The name of the Chakra Source of this god is “The Invisible Realm”.
The name of this Hour Goddess of the Night that guides this powerful god
Is “Guide in the Heart of Her Meditation Boat”.

Here are the secret pathways that are the Invisible Realm
And Astral Portals for entering the Invisible [Realm],
The holy place of the Land of Seker,
Where the body of Fleshy takes on the initial state.

Know the beliefs that are in the Astral Realm

And their operations that are in this Hour by their secret names.
Unknown, unseen,
And unobserved are these images even by the [Will’s] Way himself.

In this manner the images are depicted

In the Invisible World that is the Astral Realm
In the southern side of the Hidden Chamber.

He whose mind knows this by experience,

He experiences as the experience of Seker.
The harpies will not carve up his body,
And those who are [alive] on earth will make offerings of food.

Notes on the Introduction to Hour Five

Hours Four, Five, and Six take us to the deepest level of the mind. Hour Five is the
core of the Realm of Seker. It is very complex and subtle, so we must pay close
attention to every detail. “Seker” is the Lord of Destruction and Dissolution. He is
“Upon His Sands” because the necropolis was usually out in the desert sands and
unattended tombs would tend to get covered by drifting sand. Seker is Osiris, and
particularly represents the part of him that could not be restored after his death and
dismemberment. That sacred limb was his phallus.
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Seker-Osiris is referred to in this introduction as “this god”, whereas Ra is “this

powerful god”. As Ra enters this Hour he calls out to Seker-Osiris. “Those who
are in this god” are the residents of this Hour who have identified with the state of
dissolution. Dissolution is not nothingness. It is the return of a creation to its prior
uncreated state that is part of an undefined wholeness that contains all possibilities in
potential form. It may be invisible to our eyes, but the gods all visit that state as a
phase of existence. This is also the “heart of the meditation”.

Hour Five corresponds to the Fifth Chakra. This is the energy of the throat.
Thinking is a subtle form of speech. During the meditation process the mind thinks
mantra meditation thoughts at a very quiet and subtle level. At some point the
mantra thought slips away. In that gap between the loss of the mantra and the arising
of the next thought lies the “heart of the meditation”. This is an undefined state of
awareness that simply exists but has no shape or form, and thus is truly “invisible”.
It is the black hole from which every creation emerges. In India they call it Krishna,
“The Black One”. It is like an open mouth with no sound coming out.

Here even the Higher Self tastes the blissful flavor of oblivion. Modern physics
considers the black hole to be a gravitational collapse of time, space, and matter.
Even light can not get out of the Black Hole Box, so the content is truly invisible.
However, physicist Stephen Hawking has discovered that there is still a quantum
mechanical way for creative energy to leak or sneak out of a black hole. How the
Egyptians knew all this and could draw it with explicit graphics and text seems
marvelous, but we should not overlook the possibility of obtaining any knowledge we
desire from the black hole heart of meditation along with a little careful observation of
nature.

The Hours of Seker (Five and Six) are the southernmost stage in the journey of the
sun. “South” here refers to the sun approaching the “deepest level”, the point on the
opposite side of the planet.

The final passage of the introduction reminds us of the importance of direct

experience. Like the Higher Self Sun, we too must directly experience the moment
of oblivion and the primordial structures that surround it in order to understand all of
creation. There are two very practical benefits from this. First, by having no fear
of dissolution and accepting it as a normal state, there is no way that harpies can tear
you apart as seemed to happen to Osiris. The harpies are the gravitational tidal
forces that rip you apart as you go into a dense black hole. You can not dismember
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an undefined awareness. Second, the expansion of awareness that results from this
experience ensures that you will always have “support of nature” in the world.
Wherever you are you have fullness of awareness with all possibilities offered to you.
You can not be any richer and more comfortable than that.

Overview of Hour Five

The Solar Boat Enters Hour Five

Many of the drawings for this Hour were taken from a version that put the images of
this Hour on a slant. I have tilted the drawings back to horizontal, but the text now
looks slanted. That is an artifact of the image processing. The layout of Hour Five
is quite different from Hour Four. The solar boat continues to be towed on sand,
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although KV 35 shows the boat being towed out from what looks like water. The
boat as usual is in the middle register emerging from the portal on the left side. It
looks the same as in Hour Four with the same crew and the fire-spitting snake heads
ornamenting the prow and stern. The top of the canopy over Ra’s head is missing in
B’s drawing, but present in other drawings. Ra holds before him an upright serpent
staff. The number of towing crew has increased, presumably because the path is
more challenging. There is a crew of seven identical towing men in front of the boat
on the left half of the scene. On the right half of the scene is a crew of seven
identical women towing with the same rope. In the middle is a large pyramid with
the “black hole” mound of Seker above it. Remarkably the towrope bends up around
the pyramid without touching it. The rope has tension and represents a geodesic in
space time for the path of the solar boat. The Sacred Scarab creative energy (the
gravitational attraction of love) emerges from the bottom of the black hole and pulls
the rope upward toward the hole so that it does not touch the massive pyramid that
protrudes upward in the middle of the scene. The head of Isis is on top of the
pyramid. This reminds us that the pyramid is a totem for her, and is a primordial
sign of the female. The Scarab’s action on the rope protects the head of Isis from
being hurt by the rope. It also demonstrates the creative power of the gravitational
pull of a black hole through the law of attraction. The black hole is motivated by
love and compassion. This hole whose contents are invisible distorts space and time
in order to carry out its mission and allow the Solar Meditation Boat to pass by safely.
We assume that the boat will follow the geodesic of the rope and also float up over the
pyramid as it passes by. This also recapitulates in miniature the apparent passage of
the sun each day over the Great Pyramid at Giza on its space time geodesic.

We examine first the Middle Register that traces the path of the Solar Meditation Boat
up to the pyramid, over the pyramid, and on down the corridor of the middle register
to the Tree of Life at its end and the portal to the next Hour. Then we will consider
the Upper and Lower registers.

Text on Hour Five, the Solar Boat and the Male Towing Crew
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Translation of Text on Hour Five, Solar Boat and Towing Crew

This powerful god navigates by means of towing over this Chakra Source
In his Meditation Boat that in the earth is [known as] “Thoughts of Life”.
The gods dwelling in the Astral Realm say to this powerful god:
“Be in peace, be in peace, Lord of Life!
Be in peace, Experiencer of the Invisible Realm!
Be in the peace that opens the Earth!
Be in the peace that is the Key to the Earth!
Be in the peace that Dwells in Heaven!
Be in the peace that is the Experience of this Lower Heaven!
Be in the peace that speaks the Truth, Lord of the Council of Nine!
Be in peace!
The earth opens its arms for you.
The Beautiful Land makes straight its Ways for you.”

As for the gods who dwell in the Astral Realm,

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This is their job: To tow this god over the Chakra Source of Dissolution.
“Your words, O Higher Self Sun, are for the Seat of Perception!
You call, O Higher Self Sun, to the Land of Dissolution.
And the Will upon his Sand lives.

Come to the Creator Scarab, O Higher Self Sun!

Come, O Higher Self Sun, to the Divine Creator Scarab!
This rope that you bring is the rope raised by the Divine Creator Scarab.
He gives a hand to the Higher Self Sun.
And he makes true the secret Ways
For the Higher Self Sun’s Will of the Two Samadhi Horizons.
Heaven is at peace, Heaven is at peace.
The Higher Self Sun belongs to the Beautiful Invisible World.

Notes on the Hour Five Text for the Solar Boat and Towing Crew
The boat represents a meditation process that tunes the mind to the Higher Self. The
boat has the glyph for Life 1 over the snake-head prow. The boat’s label “Thoughts
of Life” 1x means that each thought during the meditation promotes life and
evolution. The thoughts are sixth chakra phenomena. However they are
manipulated and uttered from the fifth chakra.

The people who tow the boat are local citizens of this Hour in the Astral Realm.
When the Meditation Boat arrives at Hour Five, they welcome Ra with a whole string
of praising epithets. The Nenet Heaven (Not so Heaven) is a euphemism for the
Lower Astral Realm. The Beautiful Land is a euphemism for the necropolis, but
here is equivalent to the Astral Realm. The apparently challenging job of the male
towing crew is to get the Meditation Boat up and over the pyramid in which Seker
God of Dissolution lives. This is a challenging task because it involves transcending
our basic instincts. To understand the drawing we must do something that has
remained a secret tradition in the study of Tarot for thousands of years. You turn the
card upside down and study it. We must turn the picture over to see how the energy
and the graphics work together. The upside-down position of Khepera is the clue
prompting us to do this. The pyramid is the cunt of Isis. The large dark doorway
over it is the vagina of Isis and the mouth of Nephthys, a great black (sometimes
red-colored) hole. The head of Isis is the clitoris (pituitary in the brain). Inside the
pyramid is a lozenge-shaped cave that is the womb (third ventricle of the brain). In
the womb is Seker (the destroyed part of Osiris) taking form as Horus, the heir of
Osiris. He stands on Neheb-Kau, who is now playing the role of the navel cord, but
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will become the Cosmic Chariot of Horus when he grows up. On either side of the
base of the pyramid we find a sphinx. The sphinxes are Shewe (on the right) and
Tefnut (on the left), the dawn and dusk, the morning and evening meditations that
support life. In some drawings both sphinxes have beards.
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The red black hole can also be a tongue. The hieroglyphs on the mound look like
pubic hairs, and the line of text in the center suggests the labial crease in the vulva.
On top of the red black hole is a tiny glyph of “night” $ the top part of which is
“heaven” 2. On each side of the hole a hawk perches. These two hawks are
transformations of Isis and Nephthys, the two lovers of Osiris. This Cosmic Portal is
their “bird nest”. For Isis it is the vagina below and pituitary bulb above, and for
Nephthys it is the G-spot below and the oral cavity (with the septum pellucida above
it). This scene combines the archetypes of the tomb and the womb to show the
process of death and rebirth together with the subtle path that the Higher Self Sun
must follow through this Hour.

Text of Hour Five, Khepera and the Cosmic Portal

Text by the Head of Isis

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Text Between the Scarab and the Head of Isis

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Text by the Head of Isis

The Flesh of Feeling upon the Sandy Mound of Divine Dissolution

Text Between the Scarab and Isis

This divine [Scarab] stands above that goddess.
He issues commands to the Land of Dissolution every day.
Indeed Khepera is in his chamber and makes straight the tow rope
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For towing over this Chakra Source

So He (the Higher Self Sun) experiences the paths of the Astral Realm.

Text by the Scarab: the Annunciation

This powerful god says over this Chakra Source:
“You fully satisfy this, your image of Dissolution, hidden and secret.
I tell you, you are luminous.
My words are for you, so be glad in them.
Seed Goddess is your image.
And the powerful god belongs to your body, and he takes care of it.”

Notes on the Text of Hour Five, Khepera and the Cosmic Portal
The head of Isis is on top of the pyramid mound as the text points out. Her head is
the clitoris. Above her head is the Cosmic Portal of the vagina. (Remember the
picture is inverted, so above means below anatomically.) This is the “Throat
Chakra” black (red) hole that leads into the Twat, and the perfect place for the
Annunciation. When the hole is done in red it looks like a tongue coming out of the
throat. This picture is full of sublime Egyptian high jinx. Here we finally arrive
at the essence of the word for the Astral Realm (1r Dewat = Twat). This is the
essential dream of every man – to get his Bug of Cosmic Creation into that secret and
hidden little doorway. When we invert the picture, the portal is below the head of
Isis, which is the anatomically correct location of the vagina with respect to the
clitoral bulb, and the mouth with respect to the pituitary bulb (Isis) and septum
pellucidum (Nephthys).

Khepera is New, the Cosmic Urge to create. His creative commands are the words
that come out of our mouths every day to express our desires and make them come
true. These thoughts that we express as decisions and then the words that come from
our mouths to share them or make them happen are our “babies” that shape the
evolution of our lives. Khepera, the funny little Angel of Ra, inserts the creative
seed of Ra into the womb of Isis to produce Horus. This tells us that baby Horus is
really the child of Ra, and is therefore a Son of the Sun, or Son of God as we would
say today.

Khepera is also doing another important job. He pulls the tow rope upward away
from the head of Isis so that the boat can pass through the gap between her head and
the Cosmic Portal. In the traditional spirit of the Avatars he gives a helping hand.
Ra passes by but does not get sucked into the black hole – or does he? It is
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ambiguous because we see Horus standing up and stretching inside the womb of Isis.
The text even mentions Horus by name, and we know that Horus is the namesake
avatar of Ra-Horus the Elder. So it seems that when Ra passes by this gap, some of
his essence is pushed by Khepera into the womb so that Isis may conceive Horus as
the heir to the throne of Osiris. Perhaps we can say that Khepera here plays the role
of the sperm.

The poet also speaks here obliquely of a yogic technique for activating the pituitary
bulb, which is just above the nasal passage in the back of the mouth. The name of
the solar boat for this Hour is “Thoughts of Life” (1x), which we can also translate
as “Breaths of Life”. That suggests that the flow of thoughts along the passageway
of the Middle Register of Hour Five is also the flow of breath along the nasal passage.
A well-known special form of breathing like this is called Ujjayi breath. There are
even more efficient versions. The pyramidal pile of sand may also be the raising of
the glottis to narrow the nasal passage and create friction in the airflow past the
pituitary. A related yogic posture is Kechari Mudra. Could “kechari” be a Sanskrit
version of an Egyptian technical term: GC@, “the Ka that is the Transit of Ra”?
The picture contains further hints at the secret method Baba (the Foolish “Master” of
the Tongue) teaches of how to practice his strange breathing exercises – something
that is never written down fully and explicitly in books – for it is one of the great
jokes of Thoth’s foolish baboon “disciple” scribe, the “first son” of Isis.

Presumably the invisible phallus of Osiris is in the Black Box above the pyramid.
The Black Hole reminds us of the Shiva Lingam. Shiva (Shewe) is a transformation
of Ra as the Lord of Pranayama, a discipline that involves manipulating the flow of
breath through the throat chakra in various ways. The Lingam in Egyptian has the
energy of the Ka, and the Prana in Egyptian has the energy of the Ba. Hour Five
involves integrating the Ka and the Ba via the throat behind the mouth and the throat
behind the genitals.

Earlier the poet urged the Higher Self Sun to approach the pyramid in his boat and
meet Khepera, who is poking his head out of the Black Box. The towing crew is
pulling the solar boat along through the passage that leads to the pyramid. The
female towing crew has already crossed to the other side of the pyramid, so the rope
has to pass over the pyramid. The Creator Scarab Khepera reaches out and pulls the
rope upward toward the Black Box. This distorts the path of the rope so that it does
not press on the top of the pyramid – which happens to be the head of Isis. In this
way he helps the Sun have a smooth path over the elevation of the pyramid on his
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journey from dusk to dawn – the two samadhis symbolized by the two sphinxes.
Thus the Higher Self Sun experiences no roughness as he passes this core area of the
Invisible Realm.

Ra knows that Seker-Osiris is in this mound, and calls out a greeting to him as he
passes. He also knows that Seker-Osiris is resurrecting as his own (Horus-Ra’s)
avatar growing inside the womb of Isis. Khepera’s appearance corresponds to the
Annunciation of the Christian tradition. We realize that Horus is the avatar of
Horus-Ra and not really the direct son of Osiris. See “Annunciation” at Wikipedia
for a wonderful gallery of Christian Annunciation art that has evolved over the
centuries.

Ra says, “I tell you, you are luminous. My words are for you, so be glad in them.
‘Seed Goddess’ is your image. And the powerful god belongs to your body, and
he takes care of it.” “You are luminous” means you are a Light Being. Ra means
that Isis is nurturing within her womb the avatar of Ra in its embodiment as Horus as
the leader of a new day, a new age. This is the Annunciation.

Text of Hour Five, Top of Lower Register, Isis

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This god is towed upon the secret pathway that is the House of Grace.
It exists between the Invisible Realm Sphinxes, the Watchers of the gestation.
The secret pathway that is the Land of Seker
The Seat of Feeling has entered on it
To be behind her brother.
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It is filled with tongues of flame

That are upon the mouth of the Seat of Seeds.
And the Gods, Light Bodies and Dead Ones may not pass by her.
This god is towed upon the secret pathway that is the Land of Dissolution,
And the Gods, Light Bodies and Dead Ones may not pass by her.
It is filled with tongues of flame
That are upon the mouth of the serpent “Meditates among Flames”.

Notes for Text of Hour Five, Top of Lower Register, Isis Annunciation
The towing crew pulls the Solar Meditation Boat along the path through Hour Five.
The boat must somehow pass up over the pyramid, but the head of Isis is right on the
top of the pyramid. Her body forms a pyramid with a broad substructure that forms
the Lower Register. This architectural rendition of Isis is the “House of Grace”.
The roof and walls of the broader substructure are like the arms of Isis embracing that
whole area that has a door on each side to be her two hands.

“House of Grace” may refer specifically to the beginning of the resurrection of Osiris
that takes place here in the womb of Isis deep within the pyramid. The word
“Grace” here is used like it is in the famous prayer of the Annunciation: “Hail Mary,
full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the
fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at
the hour of our death. Amen.” The same prayer in Latin reads: Áve María, grátia
pléna, Dóminus técum. Benedícta tu in muliéribus, et benedíctus frúctus véntris túi,
Iésus. Sáncta María, Máter Déi, óra pro nóbis peccatóribus, nunc et in hóra mórtis
nóstrae. Ámen. It is very likely that this prayer derives from this section of Hour
Five in the Tour of Atlantis (What Happens in the Astral Realm), for it is here that
Amen Ra impregnates Isis in a “virgin” insemination sequence because her husband
Osiris is dead and his phallus destroyed, but an heir is required. Ra thus takes over
the husband role in a magical fashion by simply passing through the gap between the
clitoris and the vagina. Khepera the Sacred Scarab (the ancient Egyptian
embodiment of what Christians call the Holy Ghost) takes over and completes the job.
Seker thus resurrects as Horus the Hawk Hero (Heru) who will rescue the world from
Illusion. Even today the Catholic prayer retains at its end the secret name of the
“artificial inseminator”— Amen. This is the secret name that Isis learned from Ra
when she mastered his greatest mystery, the ability to pass through the Invisible
Realm of Amen Tet without losing consciousness of her Mission. Thus she
conquers death with her power of resurrection and rebirth. Even the name “Mary” is
Egyptian and connects back to Amen Ra. The name means “beloved” or “desired”
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in Egyptian. The full name is “Mery-Amen” (Beloved of the Hidden One). The
proper form for the female version should be “Meryt-Amen”, but the name passed
into Hebrew from the masculine form and stayed that way even after it became
popular as a woman’s name: Maryam, Miriam, or Mary for short. In the story of Ra
and Isis Ra says “My father and my mother hid (amen) my name in my body (root
chakra) when I was born because they desired (mery) not to let anyone have the
power of enchantments over me.” (See Budge, Gods of the Egyptians, Vol. I, p. 378.)
The apparent superficial belief here is that if you know a person’s secret name, you
can have magical power over them. However, the proper understanding of this little
story is the key to all of Egyptian and human civilization – the practice of the Ocean
Awareness Meditation.

The Ruty are the two sphinxes that watch over the womb of Isis, guarding it with
attention on both sides. “Ruty” can mean portal, but here it means the sphinxes that
guard the portal that runs between them. A single giant sphinx still remains
watching over the Great Pyramid of Giza. Some believe there originally was a
second one that faced west. It was either destroyed or never existed. If it did exist,
it would be behind the pyramid of Khafre – if we look directly to the west – which
would make Khafre’s pyramid the true embodiment of Isis. If we look diagonally
across the peak of Khufu’s pyramid, which is the oldest in the Giza complex, we find
a parking lot. I think it would be on the other side of Khafre’s pyramid and has been
destroyed if it ever existed. An interesting clue is that Khafre apparently filled the
ancient Isis temple with statues of himself in the role of Horus being [re]born, one of
which still survives in the Cairo museum. The temple of Isis is built with huge
megalithic blocks like the Osirian temple at Abydos, and may be pre-dynastic.

Many mysteries remain regarding the history of these structures. What matters is the
mythological existence of a pair of sphinxes and what their significance might be.
They symbolize Shewe and Tefenut, two of the fundamental transformations of Ra.
They correspond to the Emperor Trump and the Strength Trump in the Tarot. They
also represent the sun at dawn and at dusk. In a broader sense they represent the
beginning and the ending of a thought, a day, a lifetime, a civilization, and so on.

The word “bewet” (but2 but28) is almost certainly a corrupted or shorthand

spelling of “besewet” (bsut§
bsut§), and means a swelling or growing. The root
“bes” was often used to refer to the swelling of the Nile as it entered flood season.
Here it refers to the swelling of the belly of Isis as her pregnancy progresses.
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The text also tells us how Isis got to be in the Astral World. The author here states
that Isis followed Osiris into the Astral World after he became the ruler of that realm.
(The Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice is a flipped around version of the same
myth.) Hour Five is a very deep mystery, because it is here that Ra and Seker-Osiris
interact and basically become united at the crossover between generations. The
reality is that Osiris and Isis are both avatars of Ra playing different roles in creation.
Osiris is the Seat of Perception ~ and Isis is the Seat itself (6) which is the ability to
feel. The essence of perception is the ability to feel. The essence of feeling is not
just to experience something, but to experience being something. That is your
essential identity – what it is that you believe you are. Thus, when we go to the
essential nature of Feeling, we find the Mission of any given identity. That is its
purpose for existence. That purpose is arbitrarily defined by whoever wants to
experience such an identity. Osiris manifests as the eye, and Isis manifests as the
female genital (clitoris and vagina), which is located in the seat. The male longs to
put the eye of his phallus in the genital opening of an attractive female’s seat. In the
illustration for this Hour the head of Isis becomes the clitoris, her body is the Mons
Veneris, and the Black Box is her vagina. Isis and Nephthys both bewail the loss of
a phallus to put in the Black Box. There is nothing but sand there, and that does not
feel good. Ra fixes this with his little Scarab friend who puts a little ball of bull shit
in the womb of Isis deep within the mound. From this arises a new generation, a
fresh young avatar of Ra-Horus.

The poet goes on to tell how the entourage of Ra passes through the Hour without
being subject to death or suffering. This is due to the practice of a meditation that is
innocent and honest. The hot cobra lady Wamemty (Meditation among Flames) is
probably Nephthys in her kundalini transformation as the hot snake in the Lower
Register within the embrace of Isis. She can not blame Ra for what happened to
Osiris. That is her joint responsibility with Osiris. People fear the power of
kundalini, but it is not only harmless, but extremely blissful when the body is purified
of dishonest thoughts and intentions. Nephthys in her cobra form can be seen draped
around the neck of Shiva in the traditional art of India. Shiva enjoys swallowing her
venom. The fire she spits is the blissful fire of motivation a person has when doing
the right thing. The right thing is what is appropriate for that person’s Mission in the
context of the moment. If you do something inappropriate, the blissful nectar turns
to burning poison that you can not bear, and thus are blocked from passing through.
This explains the close link between the two sisters, Isis and Nephthys. The flaming
serpent appears in Genesis as the angel with the flaming sword that blocks access to
the Tree of Life. And sure enough, in a moment we will encounter the Tree of Life
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in this scene.

Text of Hour Five, Female Towing Crew

R`t§£i§{^
R`t
m1rR3rn
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R`nOa¡
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sUuuiEmsamsaau\
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np`nR`n
`nR`nOa¡
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n,R°oo|oo|nR`n
nR`nOa¡
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The goddesses towing the Higher Self Sun

In the Astral Realm over this Chakra Source,
Their job is to tow this powerful god
Until he experiences his Meditation Boat
In the Cosmic Urge of New that is in the Astral Realm.

The navigation is by means of towing.

Indeed, the Majesty of this powerful god
Is received by these goddesses.
These goddesses say to this powerful god:
“Welcome in peace, O Higher Self Sun to the Astral Realm!
Made true is the Way of the Higher Self Sun in his Meditation Boat,
He who is in the earth in his body.
His enemies are annihilated for you who is in the Invisible Realm.
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Higher Self Sun, you experience in it.

You ascend to Heaven.
As a powerful mind and a mighty master of the Samadhi Horizon.
Your [order to commence] towing manifests into your towing.
You are truth speaking and your enemies are subdued.”

Notes on the Text of Hour Five, Female Towing Crew

It is important that a set of seven goddesses assist in the towing, because seven is the
number for the seven fleshly chakras. They are also so important that they speak at
some length to Ra. There is a male and a female tow person for each of them.
These crew members also give us the 14 Ka’s of Neheb-Kau, with Khepera above the
center and Neheb-Kau below the center. Thus we have a further development of the
tableaus of Neheb-Kau that we studied in Hour Four and the monthly cycle of a
woman.

Human life is based on the Cosmic Urge to create. New % is an alternate name for
Khepera, the Sacred Scarab, in his humanoid form. He is one of the primordial eight
that formed the universe under Baba-Thoth’s guidance. This powerful force of
creation pulls forms out of undefined awareness. In our lives the clearest sense of
that urge to create is the sex drive. It is not quite correct to translate the peak
moment when Ra crosses the Benben pyramidion that is the head of Isis as finding
“peace”, -- a common rendering of the glyph ;. (The standard phrase when
greeting is “Ay em hetep” 4olmp
olmp “Come in peace.” It means that you come
into a situation and fully experience it in the moment. The moment in this Hour is
one of bliss. Osiris belongs in the sarcophagus inside the pyramid of Giza, for that is
how he eternally makes love to Isis. The word “ma@” literally means straight, but
then takes on the connotations of just and true. It can be applied abstractly to
behavior or concretely to a road, a leg, or any other physical object. The point here
is that the truth of the Way is that it is straight even though it does not look straight in
the picture. The reason for this is that the rope follows a “geodesic straight” rather
than a strict Euclidean straight. It is strange that the Egyptians were aware of the
warping of space due to physical forces, and realized that the truly straight path is the
path of least effort rather than a rigid straight line. The play is not only on the
physical path, but also applies to the power of the Higher Self to make its intentions
happen as a reality. Thus when Ra intends for the towing crew to tow his boat, they
grab the rope and start to tow.

The female towing goddesses point out that the Higher Self will have a smooth
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journey through the Astral Realm because he is aligned with the evolutionary benefit
of all. The practice of the meditation (which is what the boat represents)
automatically dissolves conflicts and problems by expanding awareness beyond the
boundaries of individual viewpoints. The Higher Self Sun will experience the
“Invisible Realm” of night that brings him into contact with the creative Source
(Khepera) and then will rise again in the dawn of a new day with his mind refreshed
and dynamic. Samadhi awakens the power of the will to accomplish creative
projects. Khepera assists the towing crew by warping the tow rope up over the tip of
the pyramid. Ra is not sucked into the Black Box, but through the “Holy Spirit” of
Khepera he leaves a spark of his creativity to resurrect Seker as the young Horus.
With this truth of the invincibility of the will he will put down the enemies of Osiris
who wish to usurp the Seat of Perception with the illusions of Set.

Hour Five, Middle Register, Far Right Side

Now we come to the procession that leads in front of the solar boat. The long tow
rope with the crews pulling the boat takes up about three quarters of the Middle
Register. Thus there is only room for five people in the vanguard. We will take
them in order beginning at the far right with a form of Isis standing by the entrance to
Hour Six followed by four bearded male figures in walking pose behind her.

Text for Hour Five, Middle Register, Right Side

wnR`nR`nOa¡
P*nn§w`§n §w`§n§
Ua*\n§omq§n§
Ua*
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rhn*
rhn*\n§amsw§n
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9§po¦m2
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Words spoken by this powerful god:

“May you take up your shepherd staffs,
May you grasp your Jaam scepters,
May you lean on your flails,
May your minds stand still.
And may your experiences be sitting.
For these are generous offerings of good food.
Lords of Provisions in the Invisible Realm!
The Seat [of Feeling] grants to you the Invisible Realm for you to experience.
Your deaths will stop for you
Until I pass by you in experience.”
Those who are in this picture are the Council in Charge of Provisions
For the offerings in this Source Chakra.

Notes on Hour Five, Middle Register, Right Side

Ra exhorts the local Astral Beings who walk in front of the female towing crew to
take up three types of power staffs. Starting from the right after the standing figure
of Isis the first is the “Mẽdu Ra” (Mantra = Talking Stick of the Higher Self) or “Wej
Mẽdu” (Staff of Command). In a council meeting the person holding the talking
stick has the right to speak in order to express a viewpoint for the benefit of all. In
that moment he plays the role of the Higher Self. Here Ra refers to the inner speech
that takes place during meditation. The talking stick is the power to choose a mantra
and place mental attention on that mantra. Essentially it is the mantra word itself.
The meaning is not important. The attention is on a faint idea of the mental sound
vibration. During meditation this vibration becomes very subtle but the energy
becomes very powerful and trains the mind to efficient thinking. The second staff is
the “Ja@m”, sometimes also called the “Was” scepter. This staff indicates the ideal
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body posture during meditation and its effect on the breath. Such a staff is only held
by the gods, because ordinary people think such a posture is a crazy idea. They do
not understand the biological function of each aspect of the pose. The third staff is
called the “Ames” and represents a tantric technology. The name “ames” means to
give birth in a loving manner, but here the term is used in a figurative sense to
describe a technique of breathing that redirects sexual energy so as to bring about a
“rebirth” of spiritual awareness. Standing up and sitting down refer to the two basic
phases of the evolutionary process. During the creative phase you have creative
ideas and then get up and act on them. During the experience phase you relax and
experience the results of your creative activity. This can be done sitting down in a
passive mode. (Nowadays people mostly do this by watching TV and movies.) One
phase is active, and the other phase is passive. Each has its purpose in a holistic
evolutionary cycle. The sun goes through this cycle every day. During its “active”
phase it rises up high in the sky. During its “passive” phase it circulates around
beneath our side of the earth and travels through the Invisible Realm (the sun is
invisible to us at night) – which corresponds to our state of sleep. We know the sun
does not really sleep. It is merely on the other side of the planet. This is also true
of people. A person’s awareness does not ever really sleep. It merely passes to the
other side of wakefulness and we experience that as a passive state that we call sleep.
The Higher Self Sun remains awake but passively alert during the deep hours of the
night. When the text speaks of the sun traveling around the earth, there is a common
Egyptian pun in the text on the word for Earth and the word for bread. The
Egyptians used bread in various forms to symbolize experiences while living on Earth.
Thus, during the night the Higher Self becomes quiet and digests the experiences of
the day, integrating them into his holistic plan for life. The figure of Isis in this Hour
is very expanded and static, dominating the tableau. During this Hour all the local
figures appear to stand still as if frozen in the tableau. Thus even the butchers with
their knives stand still while the Higher Self Sun passes by. They even put their
knives down. The gestation that takes place inside the womb of Isis is quiet and
subtle. We can see this invisible transformation only by virtue of the Eye of Wisdom
bestowed on us by the author and his artist that gives us a kind of night vision and
x-ray vision to see into the pyramid.

Ra first lists the staves that the figures carry. The shepherd staff and flail deal with
management of the food-producing economy. They also represent the plants and
animals in our biosphere. The Jaam scepter and the plain staff represent the posture
of meditation and the simplest state of awareness that results from the meditation
practice. Reference to sitting tells us these are administrators and not field hands.
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Their expertise depends on the stillness of their minds so that they can think clearly
and make proper decisions.

The success of these practical affairs will be reflected in the abundant provisions and
the generous offerings at the shrines. Ra then points out that Isis as the Goddess of
Feeling is most important, because an administrator without feeling will not know
how to do his job properly to feed the people. Isis gives them space in the Astral
Realm to practice their skills so they can apply them in the physical world. Studies
show that when a person rehearses an activity mentally as well as performing
physically, the results are much greater. Doing the job in the Astral Realm first helps
smooth the path to success in the material world.

As a parting shot Ra reminds them that true immortality lies with joining him in the
Solar Meditation Boat to work in service for the Higher Self benefit of all living
beings. Only this truly removes death. Otherwise all endeavors will pass away.

The Names of the Administrators

ASET AMENET 6tp 6tp (Isis, the Seat of the Invisible Realm). “Amenet” also can
mean the Western Realm which is where the sun sets and night begins. This epithet
also suggests her identity with Hathor, who also takes this epithet “Invisible” because
she illuminates everything, but is herself invisible. “Aset” means “Seat”. Isis is the
Seat of Feeling. The deepest feelings are love and bliss, which form the essential
nature of Hathor. Feeling is the inward stroke on the way to Awareness, Love, Bliss,
and Pure Existence. Perception is the outward stroke of seeing, hearing, tasting, and
touching. Thus the Seat of Perception and the Seat of Feeling are natural mates.
When a person is truly in touch with his (or her) feelings, he becomes aware of his
Mission in Life. The major role played by Isis in Hour Five indicates how deep this
feeling is in consciousness. For most people it resides so far down in the
subconscious that they fall asleep before they reach that level and therefore never
have a clue about what they came to this planet for. They bobble around in a dream
world punctuated by periods of sleep. When the waking attention moves to the level
of the pyramid of Isis and speaks its truth, her womb activates and prepares to give
birth to the hero of tomorrow who will lead the people to awaken their Mission in Life.
In the drawing the head of Isis becomes the clitoral bulb. This is the most sensitive
spot in the human anatomy and is the bliss button in a woman’s body. Men may
enjoy living in their heads, but a woman feels the universe through her clitoris if she
is fully awakened. Unfortunately some cultures in the world practice surgical
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removal of the clitoris in young women in order to prevent them from experiencing
their full cosmic Feelings of pleasure and then perhaps no longer consenting to be
controlled by men. The full figure of Isis at the end of the Hour indicates her
importance, especially since she stands in front of the Tree of Life.

WEJU MEDU gw (Issuing Commands). This figure holds a tree or a giant ear of
wheat. Once a person has felt the essence of his Mission in Life, his True Purpose
for Living, he issues a command. This primary directive enlivens the entire nervous
system to grow in the fulfillment of that purpose. Growth manifests here
symbolically as the Tree of Life. This plant is the same Tree of Life that shows up
later in the Book of Genesis. We know from many Egyptian illustrations that this
Tree of Life is a transformation of Mut/Hathor. It is your own body awakening to
the love of life and its remarkable ability to grow and evolve. The male guardian of
the Tree must be a transformation of Min-Horus (Amen-Ra). Further evidence for
this will show up in the Lower Register in the role of Horus as he embodies the
Cosmic Will. He first will become an avatar as Horus the Ego Will and then he will
learn to carry out the Cosmic Will of the Higher Self. The “Tree” may also be read
as an ear of wheat. The suggestion behind it is the pharaoh’s flail, a characteristic
symbol of Min (Menu), the primordial god of generation who forms the blue-print for
Osiris as the god of agriculture. Issuing commands is the essence of the power
expressed through the throat chakra. Therefore these men are all high-level
administrators.

WAT HEQAWY B?? (The Way of the Double Governor). In some versions (such
as B’s drawing) the figure has the hawk’s head of Horus, suggesting that this is also
Horus, here preparing for his role as the heir of Osiris. In that symbolic role he
represents the pharaoh and becomes the administrative and spiritual guide of upper
and lower Egypt. He holds the “heq” shepherd’s staff. The Way is the Way of
Horus the Will. The guide grasps the shepherd’s crook with his hand. The entire
ensemble says: ?AB
?AB& “Heq @ Wat Heru” (“The Administrator is a Skilled
Hand at the Way of the Will”). We now have representatives for the flail and the crook
symbolic scepters that are traditionally held by pharaoh. This figure also reminds us
of the figure carrying two crooks in Hour One. Here he represents the executive task
of carrying out a command so that it becomes a reality.

AN HETEP 8; (Bringer of Experience). The next figure holds a Was power

scepter and represents the effective results of a decision that is carried out as a reality.
This brings on an experience. The experience verifies exactly what you have created
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with your command and how that fits in with the previous realities that you have
created. This gives you the results that you expect or at least provides accurate
feedback on how you are doing. This experience of reality brings peace of mind,
because you know exactly where you are. The Was is the third scepter that Osiris
traditionally holds. At this point you have either achieved your goal, have made
some progress but need to continue, or are doing it wrong and need to change your
method.

HERY KHEWET 2ku 2kuu¡ (Chief of the Talisman; Protection of Heaven). This
figure holds erect before him a long straight staff. The “khewet” is a talisman that is
to be used in meditation as a mantra or yantra. People later confused these objects
with magical amulets, as if just having one around would be sufficient to provide
protection. One must know how to use the amulet correctly in meditation in order
for it to be truly useful. Otherwise it is just a decorative piece of art or a word.

The meditation loops the sequence of guides back around to Isis of the Invisible
Realm, which is where the meditation takes you. The sequence then is to contact the
Invisible Realm on the level of intuitive feeling, become inspired with an idea that
you issue outward as a command. Then you manage it as an action on a larger
outward stroke. This brings an experience. Then you bring the practice back on an
inward stroke to the meditation, and return to Source Awareness and integrate it with
your Life Mission. This provides another intuitive insight that you can issue as a
command . . . and so on.

KV 34 has for the last member of this group HERY ARU or HERY SA R@ +©¢
(Above the Forms, or Above the Sons of the Sun). This suggests a transcendental
state that results from the inward stroke of the meditation.

Now we are ready to explore the Upper Register.

Hour Five, Upper Register, Maat and the Ennead

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We begin from the left side of the Upper Register. The first vignette shows what
looks like Maat with her feather of Truth and her arms raised to salute the Ennead
represented by a sequence of “Neter” R glyphs, just as they often appear in the
Pyramid Texts. The difference is that the first Neter glyph in the sequence wears
the White Crown of the South and the last one wears the Red Crown of the North. It
looks as if the “neters” here represent the whole land of Egypt. When we examine
the labels, we make an interesting discovery. Let’s examine the text and the identity
labels.

Text of Hour Five, Upper Register, the Ennead

Title of Vignette
¡n,R`^§m
Hn¡n, R`^§m1r
&¦§msr
¦§msr¡§n

Names of the Figures

U&fGu!`m6 ¡)T6
Above versions: ku¡)T6

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RootpRN9t:
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Rootp RootpRfhkf
RootpR<u^ Rootp
Rootp
RootpR)b Rootp
RootpRt
RootpR~ Rootp
Rootp RootpR6t Rootp
RootpRW
Rootp
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9t:&1Y\

Text above the Axes

wnR`nR`nOa¡
p GV
7Ln8=T
7Ln
Bos\ §R`§!
os\§p§R`§!
§§§TtR`§
9¡n§0§§§T
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eu§mo# `§!
u§mo#`§!
Mmenu¢n§
n¡n(L
(L¢n§
¡n(L¢
lK!n§lK¡r!
tn§gLln![¡¦§
RlK¡r!mTp
mTp

This is the sequence of gods in the [Astral] Twat, and this is how it goes:
Hathor, pregnant with a child;
The Divine Majesty of the Southern Land, Khepera;
The Divine Majesty of Shewe, and the Divine Majesty of Tefenut;
The Divine Majesty of Geb, and the Divine Majesty of Newet;
The Divine Majesty of Osiris, the Divine Majesty of Isis, and the Divine Majesty
of Nephthys;
The Divine Majesty of the Northern Land, Horus of the Twat.

Text above the Axes

Words spoken by this powerful god:
“Give your hand, Invisible One!
How beautiful is the Great Road in the earth!
The Way of Tombs is the experience of my gods.
You breathe the Ennead of the gods
Who manifested in my physical limbs
May your forms completely transform,
And may your phalluses be firm,
And I will care for you and you will care for me.
You are those commanded by me to be holy ones
Because you care for me in the Invisible Land.

Notes on Hour Five, Upper Register, the Ennead

The text begins right away with Ra-Horus invoking the code of the Avatar. “Give
your hand” is followed by mentioning the “Road in Earth, the Way of Tombs”.
“Give me your hand” is a standard Egyptian way of offering assistance. The gods
are always ready to lend a hand to assist a person’s growth and to welcome him into
their midst. A divine or immortal individual who deliberately lends a hand to others
is called an “avatar”. The word “hand” (@ = A) was shorthand for those skilled in
helping others evolve and in welcoming them to higher states of consciousness.
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The Path (Wat = B) is the second part of the avatar definition. The hand becomes
skilled in navigating the Path to enlightenment – first for himself, and then to
facilitate the travel of others along the Path.

The third part of the avatar definition is the identity of the speaker of this passage –
Ra (Horus the Elder). R`n
R`nOa¡ = @^ = &. Horus is the pilot of the Solar
Meditation Boat on the Path across the Great Waters with his hand on the steering
rudder. Thus the full technical term is “@ Wat R@” (A B & ) or “@ Wat Her”
(A B& ). The glyph for the Way B by itself was often used to mean Horus.
The “Eye of the Way” (written ^ or i) was another way of saying the Eye of
Horus or Eye of Wisdom. The passage ends coming back to this theme by saying
that beings are holy when they care for each other.

The Higher Self Sun travels the path to gain experience of the dark and secret side of
his existence. He creates his whole crew of avatars and they are part of him. When
a person is in a state of deep sleep or death, the phallus does not function. This is the
“loss of the phallus” that is called “Seker”. Although this happens, it is temporary
and by caring for each other we can all pass safely through this deep abyss.

The holiness comes from maintaining clear wakefulness in the Invisible Realm -- that
is, during deep sleep and death. As part of the process one immerses in the waters of
pure undefined awareness. If there is resistance, the waters feel like fire. These
waters purify the mind and burn away all beliefs in an identity. Only then can the
Creative Urge manifest from the flood waters of undefined awareness without
resistance or distortion. Passage through this Realm of Seker is paradoxical, because
you must be destroyed in order to make it through. Once you are OK with that
experience, there is no problem and you pass on in “peace”. “Hetep” here means
peace, because you accept the terms of experience that are required, and that means
you surrender all your self definitions. That surrender automatically brings peace.

The list of gods associated with the divine axes is very close to one of the standard
sequences of the major gods. It corresponds very closely to my reconstructed
version of the upper row of the Senet Oracle Board (not the Game Board) that we
discussed in Hour Four. The major surprise is that Hathor is listed as the first figure
according to R. The poet definitely calls her “Amenet” (the Invisible Goddess or
Goddess of the West), which is an epithet of Hathor. We expect Maat because of the
feather on her head. Also, the texts illustrated above appear to have the label
“Protects the Child of the Land”. In any case she holds out her hands touching the
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Neter with the White Crown, apparently to bless and protect it. This is reminiscent
of Net or Newet holding out her hands over the sacred land of Osiris at Abydos, an
image that appears on the traditional illustrated Senet Game Board at the third square
in from the upper left hand corner (circled in red below).

Abydos was where Osiris magically resurrected and made Isis pregnant with Horus
during the annual ritual to renew the land for crops and to celebrate the renewal of the
kingship. The White Crown represents the phallus of Osiris and the role of pharaoh.
It is an insignia of both Osiris and Tem. I suspect that this is indeed
Mut-Amenet-Hathor identifying with Isis from a cosmic level.

The Formal Judgment Scene, Papyrus of Ani follows the list of ax gods closely

Senet Oracle Board with Formal Images of the Ennead, Top Row right to left.
(Reconstruction by Douglass White. Art by Amy Hsiao.)
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KHEPERA * (Sacred Scarab of Creating and Becoming) is a transformation of New,

the Cosmic Creative Urge. When Khepera-New activates on a cosmic level, he
becomes Tem the Tower (second from right on top row of Oracle Board). The tall
White Crown is the Tower that extends upward beyond the crown chakra to the higher
spiritual chakras. Tem is the Tower Trump of Tarot and represents the Big Bang of
Creation and any ecstatic break through to a new creation or viewpoint. Khepera
and all the gods in the Ennead are transformations of Ra, the Higher Self Sun, the Sun
Trump of the Tarot, and the sun of our solar system. Khepera represents the essence
of semen. Tem also corresponds to Sagittarius.

SHEWE <u^ (Master of Breath and Atmosphere). Shewe (third from right) is the
Shiva of India. As an instinct he keeps you alive. On a much deeper level he
governs the vast science of the breath of life. He is the Emperor Trump of the Tarot.
Shewe is the respiratory system. He is the planet Jupiter, which the Egyptians saw
as a transformation of Ra-Horus, which indeed is what he is in his role as Shewe.

TEFENUT fhkf (Emanator). Tefenut (fourth from right) is the twin sister and
wife of Shewe. That means she is a transformation of Ra’s spouse, Hathor. She
also is known as Sekhemet or Sekhet. She takes the form of a fierce lioness or
woman with the head of a lioness. She is the Tarot Trump of Strength and represents
the discipline of Shewe. In India she is known as Shakti, the consort and enabling
power of Shiva. Tef[en] is to spit, to spring up into the air, to leap, skip, or hop.
The strength of Tefenut is in her hand (or paw). She is also the constellation Leo.

GEB )b (Matter, World). Geb (fifth from right) is the abundance of material
forms that makes up our physical world. He is the World Trump and our planet
Earth. His totem is a goose and he represents the organ of the skin. That is why
when you get a deep feeling for a real world situation it gives you goose bumps on
your skin. (Joke) You are connected to every physical phenomenon, whether you
know it or not.

NEWET t (Cosmic Space and Stars). Newet (sixth from right) is the vast
expansive cosmic space that we can see at night. Her body is made of the countless
stars in our galaxy. She nurtures the life on our planet and gives us a vision of
unimaginable future possibilities. She is the Star Tarot Trump. Newet represents
the glandular endocrine system. Her tiny inputs can have powerful influences on our
lives, just as the tiny stars in the sky. She also relates to the constellation Pisces.
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ASAR ~ (Osiris, the Seat of Perception). On an abstract level Osiris is the

Perceptive Faculty (middle row, second from right). On a practical level he is the
god of agriculture. This is an interesting combination. He is the Tarot Trump of
the Magician. He can turn sunlight into life and resurrects year after year. This is
high magic. He also represents the achievement of immortality through the process
of experiencing death. He is the silent uninvolved witness to everything that
happens, and this gives him magical mastery over all things. Osiris represents the
eye, especially the Eye of Wisdom. In the sky he is the planet Mercury and the
constellation Orion. The Egyptians seem to have associated Mercury with Sebek
and Set, the apparent enemies of Osiris. The connection of the magician with the
planet Mercury may have been through the Greeks, but Set and Sebek gave Osiris
access to real magic by killing him.

ASET 6t (Isis, Seat of Feeling). Isis (top row ninth from right) governs our ability
to feel. This is a critical faculty for being able to know what is right to do in any
given situation. People who lack feeling become very unclear about what they are
doing. You discover your Life Mission by learning to feel what is right for you to be
doing. For many people this is a great mystery. Once you find Isis, you are in the
right place. She is your constant, loyal companion. In the physical body she is the
vagina with its clitoris. This little button is always there ready to give you all the
bliss you can handle. Do you dare to really push the button? Her corresponding
organ in the brain is the pituitary bulb that governs your hormonal balance. In Tarot
she is the High Priestess Trump. In the sky she is Virgo because she reserves her
love only for Osiris. In ancient Egypt she was the fertile delta.

NEBET HET W (Lady of the Temple). This is Nephthys (top row far left), sister of
Isis, wife of Set, and lover of Osiris. She is a ravishingly beautiful woman and
represents our motivation to experience bliss wherever we can find it. She
personifies the life force of Ra as cobra energy in the body. Her seat is the G-spot
(female prostate). This spot corresponds in the upper body to the mouth and the
septum pellucidum pleasure center in the front of the third ventricle of the brain just
above the mouth and nasal passages. Nephthys is associated with Aquarius, the
bearer of fine beverages, and is highly skilled in the formulation and use of essential
oils and fragrances as well as fine food. In ancient Egypt she embodied the flood of
the Nile that brought happiness to Egypt. She is mistress of the Kundalini inner life
force fire, but generally holds it in abeyance, and thus is known as the Tarot Trump of
Temperance.
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HERU & (Horus). Horus (top row, seventh from right) is the son of Isis and heir of
Osiris. He is really an avatar of Ra-Horus the Elder as all these major gods are. He
is the will and the ego power, a role that gives him a special relationship with
Tefenut-Sekhemet. He becomes a great warrior fighting to regain temporal power
from his uncle Set, and finally matures into a great leader and works out a peaceful
arrangement with Set. He represents the breast, which seems odd because he wears
chest armor. This becomes clear when we see him drawn as a child and he is shown
suckling at his mother’s breast or sucking his own finger. Horus is associated with
the constellation Cancer because of his armor and weapons. His chariot often takes
the form of a boat. The ancient Egyptian star for Horus was probably Procyon, a
bright star next to Cancer his boat chariot. The Nile-oriented Egyptians usually
thought of his chariot as a ferry boat, and he was the ferry man. They also
associated Cancer with Khepera, the Sacred Scarab beetle. This bug became his
flying Aten chariot.

In some lists Osiris is given a special classification and Hathor joins the list, giving it
better balance between males and females (five of each if we count Ra). Thoth and
Maat are not usually in the list as they are primordials from before Ra. Isis is
already in the list, so assigning the lead figure to Hathor makes a certain sense,
although Hathor is never seen with a feather. That is always the sign for Maat.
This suggests that Maat is another transformation of Hathor-Isis.

Scholars generally believe that the Egyptians picked up the zodiac system from the
Babylonians and the Greeks. So the associations of the Ennead gods with
constellations may not be purely Egyptian and may not have been very developed at
the time the Tour of Atlantis was written. Thus that information about the gods that
I include here is secondary, but of interest regarding the later development of
astrology and the Tarot.

Hour Five, Upper Register, Five Rebirthers

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Next we turn to a sequence of five humanoid male figures that are empty handed and
in walking mode. We may call them “rebirthers”, since they seem to assist in the
process of the birth of Horus as the avatar rebirth of Ra.

Text of Hour Five, Upper Register, Five Wardens

&¦§mor9u^§t
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Y¦§7
¦§7tlD tlD

Translation of Hour Five, Upper Register, Five Wardens

They are the Keepers of the Stream of Drowning in the Astral Realm.
Their job is [to oversee] moving the Meditation Boat [through this area.]

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R`nOa¡
AKAnn
Ann§rLn§rLn§AaA§nn
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Y¦§pultG
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Words said by this powerful god:

“May you stand at your waters and watch over your shores.
May you give forth the flood upon those who drown in the Cosmic Urge of New,
And then moor them on the shores of the Cosmic Inundation.
The waters are yours, nor will they ever grow parched.
May your river banks be high and not shorn [of foliage].
And may your river arms bend for the Navigator
Until he passes by you in peace.”
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They pertain to those who drown in the Astral Realm.

Their job is to facilitate the coming of the Meditation Boat.

Notes on Hour Five, Upper Register, Five Wardens

The word “drowning” means that the attention has submerged so deeply into the
subconscious realm that it has become unconscious. This usually means deep sleep
for most people, and occasionally death. However, the meditation process allows the
attention to pass through this area of the mind without succumbing to deep sleep or
death. The four guardians here know that you will either wake up or be born again.
Whether or not you stay awake during the transition is up to you and your habits.
This tableau relates to a more detailed scene in Hour Ten and concerns the Apotheosis
by Drowning, an allusion to an aspect of the death of Osiris. The Meditation Boat
allows for passing beyond this condition, but in most cases these beings are too far
submerged in their drowning. Bending river arms refer to ease of navigation.

ARY MEW MEHEW or9V or9VL hHu¬ Hu¬§£ (Keeper of the Waters of Drowned
Ones). This is a male human figure that represents deep sleep and death. He is a
sort of lifeguard in reverse. He makes sure you have “drowned” before you are
retrieved from the waters.

SAW ADEBU Va*odb8 odb8§ (Guardian of the Shores). This is another male
human figure. This lifeguard watches the shores of the waterless courses of Hour
Five.

@NEKH AB 1$` (Heart of Life). This is hawk-headed Horus. The heart of Osiris
is his phallus. The phallus has been destroyed, eaten some say by a fish after it was
thrown into the Nile by Set. Ra apparently takes on the role of this dead limb of
Osiris during Hour Five and impregnates Isis. The clue is his appearance as the
Scarab Khepera that we find peeking out of the red black hole box at the center of the
Hour. Horus is thus the restoration to life of the phallus of Osiris.

SATH SHEM@TH )e4 )e4e (Warden of the South). This figure has a crocodile
head and looks like Sebek. Sebek has a major sacred site at Kom Ombos in the
South that governs the instincts triggered by fear. KV 34 has “Pawethy Neneth”
Pe+e@ (Primordial of the Lower Heaven).

ANEPU HENY opunoo (Loyal Swather). This is jackal-headed Anubis, Lord

of Death. He becomes the loyal follower of Osiris once the Wizard shows that he
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has mastered death. “Heny” is a pun. It can mean a pose expressing loyalty and
fealty *. It can also mean a box or a sarcophagus with a determinative variously
written as `,h, and so on. Before him is the “Black Box” in which Osiris lies.
Of course the black box that the phallus really likes to lie in is the vagina.

The Black Hole Box of Seker

Here we come to the Dark Portal, the Black Hole that is the entry and exit to and from
universes. On top it has a tiny glyph for Night ($), which means that it properly
always should be colored black. This is what in India they call Krishna (Black).
Krishna is the Lingam of Shiva. It is the “Lost” lingam of Osiris inside the yoni of
Isis. It is lost because it fell into the Dark Portal of the Vagina of Nephthys during
the flood of her monstrous orgasm and then never returned, like the man who never
returned from his labyrinthine inter-dimensional Moebius ride on the Boston MTA
subway system. Instead, Anubis appeared as the son born of that fatal union. We
see him standing as a loyal son behind the hawk form of Nephthys, his mother, who
clings to the “Black Box”. On the other side of the box is the hawk form of Isis.
Because the phallus was destroyed, and neither Baba (the son born of Isis by Osiris)
nor Anubis (the son born of Nephthys by Osiris) wanted to be the administrator of the
ordinary living people, Ra himself as Horus the Elder transformed into a little Scarab
beetle and created an avatar that descended into the womb of Isis to produce a son and
heir for Osiris who could stand up as administrator of the living. This became Horus
the Warrior King and “hero” avenger of his “father” Osiris. Fortunately all of these
characters in their various roles are really avatar transformations of Ra, and Ra is a
transformation of Thoth, the dignified ibis-headed High Priest of Knowledge.
However, the entire charade that seems to stem from Thoth turns out to be a magic
show all cooked up by the crazy cosmic Baboon Baba as a marvelous prank and an
exercise in his Zany Zen Yoga Game.

Text for Hour Five, Black Box

wnR`nR`nOa¡
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CtnP
tnPun§0n,§n§
%nn\¡AYu*n§
p§nd+
§nd+§n§i§ni£n
§i§ni£n§
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r9l!Rn§mp
§mp

Words spoken by this powerful god:

“May you protect your box,
And may your voice be high and may your throats be truthful.
May this image that you protect be hidden,
And may your wings be spread, and may you perform your duties
So that I may pass by you in peace.”

Notes on Hour Five, Upper Register, Black Box

This section of the poetic text begins with a description of the hawk transformations
of Isis and Nephthys. They hover on either side of the black box that contains the
annihilated form of the phallus of Osiris – a non-entity the Egyptians called Seker, the
Annihilated One. The phallus has now become a black hole from which no light can
escape. Thus the phallus has become invisible. Viewed from the outside anything
that falls into a black hole seems to fall onto the event horizon and remain stuck there
forever. Thus we have an eternal archetype of the black hole of total gravitational
collapse with the two grief-stricken lovers clinging onto this ultimate and apparently
irreversible loss. Paradoxically however, from their viewpoint they fall into the
black hole and join Osiris. The compression of the hole nevertheless allows for
quantum tunneling, so we see the Scarab leaking out of the black hole. This is the
creative energy of Ra that will magically restore the phallus of Osiris and the
happiness of the two love-birds.

Ra humors the two ladies by saying that by spreading their wings they will grant him
safe passage. The spreading of wings is a euphemism for the experience of an
ecstatic cosmic orgasm that Ra gives them as he passes “in peace”. Inside the womb
below we see the future Horus spreading the wings of a protective serpent.

From another viewpoint we realize that the Black Box is really the vagina of Isis.
Khepera has impregnated the womb of Isis, and she will bear an avatar of Ra as Horus
the Younger.

The black box is also clearly referred to as the voice box in the larynx and becomes
the focal point for the Throat Chakra theme of this Hour. Ra exhorts the throat
chakra to speak only the truth and notes that the voice box in the throat is like a
treasure chest filled with endless possibilities, but they are all hidden until spoken.
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Then he switches gears and the throat becomes the vagina again. Spreading the
wings means to open the labia. Performing duties means for the voice to speak from
the throat and for the phallus to deliver the sperm in the vagina or perhaps to speak
from the vagina and deliver sperm to the throat. The throat and vagina are unified
when one speaks from the womb area of the abdomen using yogic belly breathing.
Passing by in peace here indicates the peace after coitus, knowing that the seed is
sowed and the heir is in the womb. It also means that the ecstatic experience is
complete.

Ra seems to address his speech to Anubis, who stands in attendance watching over the
box. There is a fine irony here, because the birth of Anubis, Lord of Death, caused
the death of Osiris. Anubis is the son of Osiris sired in a secret liaison with
Nephthys. In that fateful conjunction Nephthys unleashed the full power of the
Kundalini life force that demanded Osiris must embrace death in order to fully
comprehend life. As a result each moment of coitus is a little moment of death, a
letting go of the small self to create a new self. Enlightenment is the same Kundalini
coitus that permanently lets go of the small self to be reborn in the Higher Self.

Hour Five, Upper Register, the Two-Headed Serpent

To the right of the Black Box is a snake with two heads. The snake lies flat along
the ground, but its two heads are raised and face the box.

Text for Hour Five, Upper Register, Two-headed Serpent

wnpnR`n R`nOa¡
o`[¡A[#!+`Q
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[#+Q={n ={nQ§Q
%%Qm¤
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rta§m`a§m`l!
r9l!RQmp Qmp
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1fmP
1fmP{^B
¤ulf
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)t1r
>rn|h*``

Translation of Text for Hour Five, Upper Register, Serpent

Words spoken by this powerful god:
“O Sacred Serpent, your arm is sacred for me.
Open for me your coils.
May your arm be sacred, and may your coils be open,
And your two heads in the earth.
May your arms not throw flame nor your arrows shoot me
Or go against those who are my followers
So that I may pass by you in peace.”
He lives by means of the words of the Higher Self Sun every day,
And he has never gone to any other place in the Astral Realm.
He remains at the Box of the Creator Scarab.

Notes on the Text for Hour Five, Upper Register, Serpent

This serpent is probably a form of Neheb-Kau, but lacks a name label. The serpent
knows the two sides of relativity – day and night, light and dark, life and death. He
therefore knows that Khepera the Creative Scarab of Ra, the Higher Self Sun, will
come out of the Black Hole. The Scarab digs a hole in the ground and puts in it a
ball of bull shit that contains its eggs. The eggs hatch and mature while eating the
nourishment in the bull shit. Then they crawl out of the hole and fly up into the
sky – symbolically returning to the Higher Self Sun, their Creative Source. Even if a
black hole swallows the entire universe, it will then explode back out into a new
universe. Thus the tight gravitational coils of the black hole will release and allow
the Higher Self Sun to pass in peace. And indeed the snake has straightened itself
out and offers no threat. Even the warping of space time by the black hole is
manipulated by Khepera so that the Solar Meditation Boat of Ra can pass by between
the black hole box and the pyramidion head of Isis.

The two heads on the snake represent the Portal aspect of the Box. It is an entry and
an exit. It is also a mouth and a vagina. There is complex word play here, because
the snake is right next to Isis, and her name also means “Seat” or “Place”, so he never
leaves her place. The word for “arm” (+ remen) comes up several times in the text
and plays on the determinative for “sacred” (/ deser or jeser) which consists of one
or two arms outstretched holding a special sacred staff. The word “jes-r” may be
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glossed as “what is beyond the self”. The word “Henu” (n|h) also continues the
play that we saw with the label for Anubis, because he especially likes to take the
“Henu” loyalty pose. After all, death is your most loyal follower. He always
shows up backstage to congratulate you after the play of your life is over and insists
on taking you out for some “after-the-show” relaxation. The word “henu” indicates
the Black Box, and also suggests the loyalty of the snake to the serpent-like
appendage of Osiris that the “box” contains – i.e. the phallus, which is called “henu”,
a close phonetic match. In India Shiva usually has one or more cobras draped about
him as he sits by his lingam stone. This hints at the tantric teachings that underlie
the tableau.

Shiva sitting before his upright lingam with several cobras entwined about his body.

“Er henu” is also an expression that means “to stick close to”. This suggests that he
is a close associate or “sidekick” of the Scarab, an idea that makes sense if this
serpent is really a totem of the bifurcated spinal cord.

Hour Five, Upper Register, Wardens

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Text on Hour Five, Upper Register, Wardens

¦§MlR5t>62§m1
t¦§M §m1r
¦§pusamt&9tV§62§
Y¦§pusamt&
mhh& §ne¦§m{t
mhh&§ne ¦§m{t¢{

They are ones who stand over the dead in the Astral Realm and beat them.
Their job is [also] to cremate the bodies of the dead
With the flames from their mouths that belong to the Higher Self Sun.

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nR`nOa¡
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r9l!Rn§mp §mp

Words spoken by the Majesty of this powerful god:

“Ah, knife wielding watchers of the butchery,
Who stand over the beaten dead ones,
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Your words create and your mantras shine.

Your minds are alert, and your will powers do the Ocean Awareness Meditation.
Defend against enemies and annihilate the dead.
You slice up the shadows, the annihilated,
The damned for destruction, and all your dead ones.
You who protect Osiris, the Seat of Perception,
Hear the decrees by the Beautiful Existence.
Sharpen your knives,
And make strong your butcher blocks.
Tighten your nooses.
May your two hands be upon the images that are yours [to dispose of]
Until I pass by you in peace.”

Notes on Hour Five Upper Register, Wardens

The remaining right half of the Upper Register is made up of a group of eight male
Wardens who walk toward a woman with her hands extended touching the head of a
ninth figure who kneels in the self-destruction (enemy) pose and strikes his forehead
with an axe 3. The wardens in the upper register between the Two-Headed Snake
and the end of Hour Five purify the mind from all problems, contradictions, and
self-destructive tendencies. The key to this passage is to understand that they
maintain a sharp and alert intellect during the process. They use a mantra (Heka
HGa#) and practice the ecstatic Ocean Awareness Meditation (Wa Sha
HGa#
UazC). This allows the mind to settle down to a very deep level without
UazC
losing consciousness. The human glyph with outstretched hands in the Ka gesture
indicates the bliss that comes with the practice and links back to the “heka” that links
you to the “ka” energy. This simple and safe procedure automatically deletes useless
dead wood (dead ones), resolves contradictions (foes), and eliminates problems
(enemies). The mind expands to the vastness of an unbounded ocean and becomes
increasingly subtle at the same time, allowing a person to see the big picture and find
alternate routes to a desired destination without getting stuck in difficulties. The
sharpness of the knife is a metaphor for highly refined thinking and perception that
discriminates extremely fine distinctions with clarity.

The kneeling figure striking himself with the axe represents the dead who punish
themselves for their wrong doings. This tableau of nine figures plus a woman who
stands facing backwards (to the left) with outstretched hands forms a symmetrical
balance to the nine “neter” axe glyphs and the woman with outstretched hands that we
found on the left side. Using an axe to strike one’s self means that the gods are part
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of you and you can use them for good or to destroy yourself. These wardens follow
your orders and the orders of the Higher Self to place limiting definitions on
awareness so as to create experiences. These experiences bind and limit us, but
allow also us to evolve through experiences. When we are done with any
experiences, the lady at the end cuts away their definitions and the beliefs dissolve
back into pure undefined awareness.

Osiris has a number of epithets. His name (Asar) means “Seat of Perception”. By
a pun it also carries the idea of the “seat” or source of action. “Beautiful Existence”
is another of his common epithets. Some believe there is a connection between the
ancient use of the rabbit glyph for Osiris and the Easter Bunny because the Easter
holiday celebrates the resurrection of life after its apparent death in the winter (or the
drought in the case of Egypt), although the Egyptian drought season was during
summer and the inundation came in the mid-to-late summer.

The wardens chop up and dispose of any creations that are found not to be true.
Since the Higher Self Sun is aligned with truth, he will pass by with only a peaceful
experience. Suffering is reserved only for those who experience the self-destructive
turmoil of dishonest or contradictory thoughts.

The local gods respond to the request by the Higher Self Sun that he may pass in
peace. They assure him that he has no problem because he is aligned with truth and
he works for the benefit of all three major realms, Heaven, Earth, and the Astral
Realm (the Lower Heaven), bringing peace to all.

DA HETEP NETERU D;R`§ (Gives the Experience of the Gods). This is a human
figure. His epithet tells us that what happens here is also the experience of the gods, even
including Ra. Also, once blockages are cleared the experience of the gods becomes
accessible.

SENEJ NEF AMENETYU bfpY§ (The Invisible Ones Fear Him). This figure
is humanoid with a cat or lion’s head, although B’s drawing shows him as fully human.
The “Invisible Ones” or “Westerners” are the invisible dwellers in Atlantis. The
figure may be a leopard-headed transformation of Baba (Bes), the intimate other of
Bastet-Sekhemet. This figure tells us that there is no escape from the experiences
you define for yourself. This should not be a cause for fear, but nevertheless
becomes so when a person creates something that seems kind of fun from a broad
perspective but then narrows down his viewpoint to someone that believes he is
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incapable of handling that particular “fun” creation that is now no longer so much fun,
but may be downright awful. This is how we generate scary possibilities.

MESET [m]tq (Staff of Osiris). We encountered this staff before, in Hour One
on the far right side of the Lower Middle Register, and right behind Thoth in the
Middle Register of Hour Four. The word puns on “mesut” which is food provisions,
especially for the evening meal. As grain god, Osiris is responsible for providing
food for the people. Food is a metaphor for a life experience. The figure in the KV
35 drawing has a feline head similar to that of the previous figure, but does not carry a
real staff, so we know that the expression is meant to be figurative, such as when we
say that bread is the staff of life. The staff refers to the staves of grain that provide
the flour for making bread.

@M Am,Am,# (Swallower). Eating is a metaphor for fully assimilating an

experience. This figure is humanoid but has a bull’s head with large horns. Cattle
and other livestock are often fed grain to supplement their foraging diet so that they
grow more quickly.

@BEWY 33oo 33oo (Contradiction). This figure is fully human and walks forward,
but at the same time turns his head back toward the bull-headed figure. Around his
head is what looks like an aura or a fan shape. His epithet contains two horn glyphs,
so we could call him “Horny”. But to say that he is “horned”, when the bull-headed
figure behind him has very large real horns is strange. Perhaps this is to suggest the
idea of contradiction. The horns of a dilemma are only imaginary, whereas the bull’s
horns are real.

AN MA@T 8<t (Bringer of Truth). This figure is human and wears an ostrich
plume on his head. He looks like Shewe, but the feather is almost certainly the
feather of Maat. What is the Truth? Whatever you experience (;) is a reflection
of your beliefs – how you manage your mind (Ba 0), the figure after the next figure
in the sequence.

;0%`spHt
%`spHtv (The Chief of Fetters Returns). This is a fully
@NEN HERY SEPEHET ;0%`spH
human figure. Like “Contradiction” he turns his head back to get a report from the Bringer
of Truth and holds an unfurling coil of rope in each hand with which to lasso and bind a
person with the definitions of the beliefs he creates. Each person defines his own beliefs and
thus defines the reality he must live in and experience. By repeatedly defining a belief, we
can strengthen its binding power so that it appears to have a solid and continuous reality.
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or9V62§ (This Belief is the Warden of the Dead).

BA PEF ARY ME[R]TYU 0`for9V
This figure has a ram’s head on a human body. The glyph for ram is pronounced “Ba” and
thus puns on the word for belief, which is also “ba”, but usually is written with a bird glyph
0. Here the incense glyph is added as well for a redundant pronunciation. It is possible
that Egyptians read this redundant glyph as code for the name of Baba, especially since Baba
(along with his feline consort Bastet) was an expert in the science of the breath and aroma
therapy (management of subtle thoughts). B has the epithet recorded as BA-F ER
KHEFETYU (His Belief Reaches to or beyond His Enemies). This epithet even more
clearly shows the solution to fear and problems that a person might face. The key is the
certainty of belief that you can overcome any problem.

KHEMYT HERYT DENET ME[R]TYU kmts kmts*,_dtE62§ (The

Overthrowing Chieftainess Who Cuts up the Dead Ones).

Text for Hour Five, Upper Register, Goddess at Far Right Side

1sm¦fuL62§
1sm¦fuL6
¡nP,R`§
M%dB¡nP,P,R`§
oux¡smsUaB
oux¡smsUaBl%`smp
l%`smp

She lives on the blood of the dead ones

That is prepared for her by these gods.
He who knows her passes by her in peace
(i.e. with a clean mind having fully experienced his experiences).

Notes for Hour Five, Upper Register, Goddess at Far Right Side
This goddess is the final figure in the sequence on the right side of the Upper Register.
The name “Khemyt” (Goddess of Overthrowing) can also mean that she is the
Goddess of Fools, because Khem is the Fool. So she can be a transformation of
Baba the Fool. The dead are beliefs and experiences that have been experienced
fully and no longer are desired. The lady severs the bonds that define them, and they
recycle back into undefined awareness as if undergoing automatic self-destruction.
The glyph for “enemy” is a drawing of a person cleaving his own forehead with an
axe. The point is that beliefs automatically self-destruct if the attention does not fix
on them. Beliefs that are in conflict with each other mutually self-destruct by their
very contradictory nature. In either case beliefs always self-destruct because they
are arbitrarily imposed definitions on reality, and reality is a state of undefined
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existence, so we must keep creating them over and over if we want to have them
around. We also have to resist them to make them seem solid.

Hour Five, Lower Register, Entrance Portal

In the drawing provided by B the portal to Hour Five seems to involve a stairway.
This ribbing also shows up on the portals in several editions of Hour Four. The
lower register suggests the interior of the base of the pyramid that dominates the
central area of the Hour. The portal has the following label: “Its knife seizes those
who enter.” Q>lunE
lunEf

Hour Five, Lower Register, Flaming Heads

As we enter the corridor in the base of the pyramid, we meet a series of four torches
that have the shape of human heads (y§4
y§4a&§). A flame spouts from the crown
chakra of each head.

Text for Hour Five, Lower Register, Flaming Heads

&¦§m`
¦§m`R`n R`n
T¦§pusamt&
¦§pusamt&lt§f lt§f2§f

They are followers of this god,

And their job is to incinerate approaching enemies.

Notes on the Text for Hour Five, Lower Register, Flaming Heads
The human head torches are local followers of Osiris. Properly speaking these
torches are below the pathway followed by the Solar Meditation Boat. They are like
the burners underneath an oven. They speed up the disintegration of any problems
the Higher Self Sun may face as he transits this Hour. The design of these torches
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suggests that by putting attention on what is important (the head glyph y means
important) and by directing progress from the fully integrated crown chakra upward in
the direction of the Higher Self Sun one may quickly remove obstacles on the path.

Hour Five, Lower Register, Serpent with Baboon Head Hat

Proceeding further along the basement passage of the pyramid we encounter a long
serpent that moves slowly forward. From its mouth hangs an ankh symbol,
suggesting that it is a version of Neheb-Kau. Above the snake’s head is a baboon
head (missing in B’s drawing, so I added one), hinting that Neheb-Kau is a
transformation of Baba the Baboon. The serpent is called DEP AN pnA
(Baboon Head). The epithet is probably a deliberate corruption of TEP A@N yon
yon.
The idea here is to make fun again of the baboon scribe’s poor spelling.

Detail from KV 35 shows baboon head on top of snake’s head.

Text for Hour Five, Lower Register, Serpent with Baboon Head Hat
10fmP
fmPuR`§1
uR`§1u§z
u§z
oufQ
oufQlfr lfrlf
YBF#¢1u§
nR`n
nR`nOa¡B a¡B
¡mYi

Translation for Text of Hour Five, Lower Register, Baboon Head Hat
He lives by the words of the gods who are on earth.
He comes in and he goes out.
And he brings affairs of the living
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To this powerful god every day,

Unseen.

Notes on the Text of Hour Five, Lower Register, Baboon Head Hat
This serpent is a secret messenger angel that keeps the Higher Self Sun informed of
what is happening on the earth among the living. He represents an automatic
feedback mechanism of quantum correlation that is built into any system so that
energy and/or information exchanges equally in both directions. The sun provides
energy to living beings, and living beings decide what to do with it. If you look at an
object, you project a beam of attention to that object. The beam is colored with the
bias of your viewpoint that includes all your preconceived beliefs about that object.
The object then dutifully seems to reflect back to you a corresponding beam of light
that exactly matches your beliefs about the object. The serpent with a “Baboon
Head” hat is thus a spontaneous reflection that occurs mostly without anyone noticing
it. People tend to imagine that they are individuals and the world is something
separate that they interact with, but that behaves in unpredictable ways. Once you
get a handle on your Baboon Head Hat, you realize that this is not an accurate
understanding of things. You only see what you project, but mostly you are unaware
of the projection process that sends information from you as a living being to the
Higher Self. Without projecting the beam of attention that reports to the Higher Self
what you truly believe at the moment, the Higher Self would not know what to
display to you as your reality. You can easily test this by ceasing to project any
attention onto a particular creation. The Higher Self will no longer present that
creation for your experience. If you do this thoroughly, you will even forget that it
exists. If perchance you still experience it, then that means you have not yet burnt
off or dissolved or let go of all the beliefs you have about that particular creation.

The baboon-hat serpent is a transformation of Baba, the first son of Isis. He is in the
embrace of Isis. On the other side of the womb is a hot snake that represents
Nephthys in serpent form as the Kundalini goddess. She is also in the embrace of
Isis.

Hour Five, Lower Register, The Womb of Isis

Next we arrive at the centerpiece of the Hour as it extends into the base of the
pyramid. Here we find an elongated lozenge-shaped space that represents the womb
of Isis.
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On either side of the lozenge, like bookends, we find sphinxes. In some cases the
sphinx on the left is female and the sphinx on the right is male with a beard. In other
cases both are male with beards. The double sphinx ensemble is called AKER
a{^ (Sphinx with a Head at Each End) and represents the span of a day or the
span of a lifetime. The two sphinx heads set the limits to a span of time. In the
middle of the lozenge the Horus who will live this lifespan stands on a winged serpent
and holds the wings spread apart. This pose foreshadows the scene in Hour Eleven
when the Avatar of Ra is shown preparing to take off on his cosmic journey. The
serpent has a bearded male head at the rear and two or three serpent heads at the front.
An ankh symbol dangles from the lowest of the serpent heads. This suggests that the
serpent is Neheb-Kau and represents the life energy that will support the avatar of
Ra-Horus during his life span. The whole structure of Aker is labeled on both sides
AWEF ouff
ouff (Fleshy), and this hints that we have here between these boundary
markers the offspring of the Flesh of the Higher Self. The name “Aker” may derive
from a kind of stone boundary marker.

Text for Hour Five, Lower Register, Aker

^sYV* ouff
a{^sY ouffa¡zS9^
Aker is the guardian of the secret Fleshy Awef of the Land of Seker.
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q¡fmPu#R`O
Rq¡fmP R`O¡
fpu)atV*/m¢f
Tfpu)atV
(The two lines above are written twice, once over each of the Aker sphinxes.)

He breathes by the words of the powerful god.

This is his job: to keep watch over his image.

Notes on Text for Hour Five, Lower Register, Aker

The “powerful god” is Ra. This means that Aker is yet another transformation of Ra.
The “image” he watches over is the avatar fetus during the delicate gestation period
when the fetus is very small and totally dependent upon the nourishment it receives
from the navel cord. The fetus begins as a seed “attractor” that draws to it the
various elements necessary to create a new physical body from the condition of
apparent complete dissolution. Osiris resurrects in the form of his son, Horus. The
serpent Neheb-Kau plays the role of an external navel cord digestive tract during
gestation of the fetus. After birth the individual must learn the discipline of
independent survival and growth. Neheb-Kau then shifts to an internal digestive
tract. These two forms of Neheb-Kau are sometimes represented respectively by
Apep and Set. They seem to be enemies of the Higher Self Sun, but are really the
lessons a person must learn to survive and grow in his universe. After birth the Aker
becomes the dawn and dusk points in time that define a day. We find Set at these
points also. Set can also be the stone that marks the boundary. These boundary
points in the daily cycle are the best moments for entering samadhi. In the
illustration they represent these ideal meditation times in a symbolic graphic form.
The Aker guides remind us of the importance of self-cultivation. The Great Sphinx
at Giza is a great example of this reminder.

Hour Five, Lower Register, Seker-Osiris and Horus

ouff
ouff&RoDDDf
DDDf
Fleshy Awef is Horus Upon His Sand
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Here at the center of the womb we find Horus, the avatar of Ra, the son of Osiris, the
New Hope of the World rising up on his mound of sand, which is the dead phallus of
Osiris.

4
The above glyph is the Henu boat of Seker. The boat is mounted on a sledge that
represents Tem, the Tower. Tem is the phallus of Ra from which the physical
creation emerges. The boat itself has a crescent shape like the moon, but gives forth
rays of light like the sun. The crescent moon is the yogic symbol for the second
chakra and represents the pubic bone. Turn the glyph over ans you will see
schematically the pubic bone with the phallus protruding. The rays can be pubic hair.
On the prow is an antelope head, signifying the speed of transition, something men
are familiar with when they go into orgasm. The mound of sand in the middle of the
boat represents Seker, the dead phallus of Osiris that is now no different from sand.
This mound corresponds to the Shiva Lingam of India that is made of stone. Sand
and stone are the modes of Set. On top of the lingam is a hawk. This is the soul of
Horus, the avatar of Ra come to replace Osiris among the living. The mummified
Osiris thus becomes the passive witness to life, whereas Horus becomes the active
willpower to live dynamically in the world. The irony is that the phallic instinct
drove Osiris to cuckold Set, the lord of the desert sand, in a secret tryst with the
gorgeous Nephthys. As a result, the phallus of divine Osiris ends up turned into a
mound of desert sand. Isis and Nephthys grieve over the box of sand, but life goes
on and the womb continues to receive new life. The rest of the body of Osiris
transforms from sand grains into the grain that grows in the fertile fields of the delta
of Isis. The Nile flood of Nephthys continues to arrive, and Isis continues to give
birth in her delta. Osiris continues to grow in her delta, and Set protects the whole
system with his vast deserts. Horus as a sharp-eyed hawk flies high over the whole
scene providing light and leadership for growth.

Every year the ancient Egyptians held a ceremony in which they carried the boat of
Seker around the necropolis of Memphis to celebrate the resurrection of the
Seker-Osiris destroyed lingam in the form of Horus. The growth of Egypt’s
population has led to the damming of the Nile so that it no longer floods large areas,
but is released in controlled amounts. Whether this will be a viable system for
sustaining Egypt over time will be discovered over the next century or so. I have my
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doubts. In any case, if the new system does not work well over time, the Egyptians
can always release the river from the dam and allow it to flow in its natural rhythm
again. The tradeoff will be the necessity of resettling many people.

Text for Hour Five, Winged Neheb-Kau in the Central Tableau

10fmI
fmI`19efB
fpu)t*V/)
Yfpu)t*
R`O¡pnHu98
R`O Hu98><

He lives by the breath that is upon his mouth every day.

His job is this: to be guardian of his form,
The powerful god who spreads two wings of varicolored feathers.

Notes on Text for Hour Five, Neheb-Kau in the Central Tableau

We presume that the serpent is Neheb-Kau, since that is who it resembles. This
serpent supplies nourishment to the fetal Horus and protects him. The wings presage
the ability of Horus to fly after he grows to adulthood.

Text for Hour Five, Lower Register, the Womb

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$@O=5otR`n R`n
myT§R!
§R!
Jaoo@77
77mqabQ
mqabQR!
Jaoo@77mqab
Aa>f\m£f
ou8mTPu£t
ou8 ¡mO=5n
u£t¡mO
m`plR`n
lR`nOa¡ra¡r¦§
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}oPu¡hmhm|
u¡hmhm|\t!2mL 2mL9Ss

These images in this picture are in total darkness.

But the oval [womb] that belongs to this god is illuminated.
By the two eyes upon the powerful god.
The two feet shine in the coils of the powerful god,
And he guards his images.
A voice is heard from within this oval
When this powerful god has passed over them.
Like the rumbling sound when the sky is stormy.
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Notes on Hour Five, Lower Register, Womb

This powerful god refers to Ra. The illumination seems to come from the serpent’s
eyes, and serpents throughout the text often serve as lanterns to illuminate the
darkness. The serpent guards the fetus who stands in the coils and holds the wings
of the serpent. The rumbling sound may simply be the belly growling that a fetus
listens to for nine months until it is born. The oval shape of the womb suggests the
cartouche glyph C in which Egyptians inscribed royal names.

Hour Five, Lower Register, a Hot Serpent

Text of Hour Five, Lower Register, a Hot Serpent

Uamm
UammY&A
10fmhh&
fmhh&1ef
fpu)Vt*=5
Yfpu)V
¤lfr6t\ r6t\)t1 )t1r

Meditates Amid Fire Serpent:

He lives by means of the fire that is upon his mouth.
His job is to protect the womb.
He does not go any place else in the Astral Realm.

Notes on Text of Hour Five, Lower Register, the Hot Snake

This snake is another fire breather. She faces forward to the right and helps the
sphinxes and other snakes protect the fetus. The snake is hot because she glides over
a lake of fire that begins about at the middle of the Hour and extends to the portal that
exits to Hour Six. Her name is “Wamemty” (Meditates among Flames), which
means she can meditate on a bed of flames. “Amem” is also a type of boat, so the
name continues the play between boats and meditation. The serpent floats on the
flames like a boat on water.

Hour Five, Lower Register, The Four Amens

The next four figures in the far right of the Lower Register balance the four flaming
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head torches on the far left. These figures are forms of Amen. Each is a young
beardless man with shoulder-length hair who squats on the lake of fire with his head
turned to the rear and his knees facing forward. Each holds a crown on his knees
that tells us which aspect of Amen he is. From left to right we find the White Crown
of the South, the Red Crown of the North, the Ram’s head and horns of the Middle
Region (Khenemu), and the tall pair of ostrich plumes that signify Menu of the
Transcendental Realm (Min). The KV 35 photo detail on the right is a more accurate
rendition than B’s drawing, because all crouchers should be looking back toward the
womb, whereas B only has the two in the rear with heads turned.

Text of Hour Five, Lower Register, the Four Amens

R`§{| mu^a¡P{^+9oDDDf
R`§{|sEmu^a DDDf
sEmu^¦§m\
mu^¦§m\tlo m¦§m!¦§2
tlom¦§m!¦§2¦§
>¦§m`
¦§m`lR`n
lR`nO¡
mait§
-mait

These are the gods that belong to the secret form of Seker Upon His Sands.
Their forms are as they emerge where they are, in their own bodies.
They are in the following of this powerful god,
But eyes do not see [them].

Notes on the Text for Hour Five, Lower Register, the Four Amens
The first sentence tells us that these are transformations of Seker. The White Crown
signifies the male generative organ, the lower chakras, and the southern half of Egypt.
The Red Crown signifies the female generative organ, the upper chakras, and the
northern half of Egypt. The ram’s head signifies the breath that flows in and out of
the chest around the heart chakra. The tall plumes signify carrying the breath to the
higher chakras and riding it beyond the physical universe. Min is often shown in an
ithyphallic form. This identifies him with Seker, the destroyed phallus of Osiris that
always exists on a transcendental level. Min has a rod that runs from the truth glyph
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that he stands on up to the back of his Wisdom Eye chakra. His plumes then extend
upward into the spiritual chakras and beyond. The sacred site of Min was at
Panopolis (Khem, Khenet Min, or Khenet Menu), at the boundary of the sex and belly
chakras on the map of ancient Egypt where there is a secret chakra.

m
The Khenemu crown belongs to Hery Shef.

Hery Shef

His sacred site is Suten Henen (Henen-Nesut), the place of the Child King
(Herakleopolis Magna). From Wen, the 15th nome of Upper Egypt, Nome of the
Child, capital Wenew u up to Herakleopolis was the heart chakra of ancient Egypt,
and the location of the inner child.
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8th chakra: Aura

7th chakra:Crown

6th chakra: Brow

5th chakra:Throat

4th chakra: Heart

3rd chakra: Gut

2nd chakra: Sex

1st chakra: Root

The chakras were linked to the sacred sites and cities of ancient Egypt in a highly
systematic manner. From the first cataract to Herakonpolis was the first (root)
chakra. From Herakonpolis through Thebes, Denderah, and Abydos to Panopolis
was the second (sex) chakra. From Panopolis up to Hermopolis was the third (belly)
chakra. From Hermopolis to Herakleopolis was the fourth (heart) chakra. From
Herakleopolis to Memphis was the fifth (throat) chakra). From Memphis to Busiris
was the sixth (brow) chakra. From Busiris through Buto (Per Wajet) to the
Mediterranean was the seventh (crown) chakra. The Mediterranean was the eighth
(Light Body) chakra and linked Egypt to the greater world. The upper and lower
chakras mutually reflected and balanced between the brain and the organs.

The four figures of Amen represent a powerful yogic discipline. They also unify Ra
and Osiris at the deepest level, preparing us to enter Hour Six. The four Amens are
invisible because “amen” means hidden. “Amen” is the mantra of transcending and
disappearing. The name “Wa-amem-ty” may be a play on One Who Practices Amen
meditation, and then the four squatting “amens” would represent repetition of the
mantra. “Amen” becomes “amem” if you say it with your mouth closed.
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Text for Hour Five, Lower Register, the Lake of Fire

§R`§olu§oamHr
tLoaQbooux§R`§o
LoaQboou §R`§olu§oamHr
-PnD`R¦§
3m#1-\§mL§¦§
-3m#
>mi<n
>L§¦§r
L§¦§rt-olsmsY
smsYt&

The River of Mourners: The gods who are in the House of Grace
Do not move a boat over it.
No ego-power of the Astral Realm is in these waters.
For those who live in this underworld
Their waters are to anyone from there as if fire.

Notes on the Text for Hour Five, Lower Register, the Lake of Fire
The “aakebyu” are mourners, people who are sad about their state of affairs. Even
the gods who live in this region do not go down to this lower chamber of Hour Five,
because, if they do, the waters feel like fire. This means that the fire is not real fire
but a subjective feeling of fire. If they could shift perspective, the waters would
seem like water or even perhaps air or solid ground. People who are unhappy are
resisting certain aspects of life. Resistance generates heat, and that can begin to feel
like fire when the resistance is sufficient. The clue to how we can pass this area
safely is the reference to the “sekhem” ego power. If a person is able to let go of the
ego, he or she can become free to redefine who they are and adapt to the
circumstances. Then they can pass through this area easily. The appearance of four
Amen figures here is significant. There is subtle reference to kundalini yoga and the
creation of a transcendental identity that goes beyond the four elements. Such
transformations facilitate passage through this stage of the journey.

We now reach the end of the Lower Register of Hour Five. The pyramid base tapers
back down with another portal and staircase. There is an upright serpent guarding
the Portal in the Lower Register.

Hour Five, Lower Register, the Exit Portal to Hour Six

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Text for Hour Five, Lower Register, the Exit Portal

R`1f
oufL
oufLf4fqblfd blfdbBa¡fZ
bBa¡fZEJ

The god who lives.

He travels, he goes, he passes on, and he opens the Portal of the Knife.

Notes on Text for Hour Five, Lower Register, Exit Portal

The Higher Self Sun survives the journey through Hour Five and reaches the Exit
Portal that is called “Knife”. The large star glyph means a star gate portal. It also
means you are to be tested on whether you have learned the lessons of the Hour
before moving on. From here Ra passes on into Hour Six. In Hour Five he has
seen the whole range of creation from the seed to its expansion, and then to its
annihilation. He has finally met the hidden (Amen) aspect of the self that goes
beyond the Ego Identity. The Ego Identity is most fully expressed through the
Throat Chakra, but is completely burned away by these deep fires, preparing for the
Eye of Wisdom to open in the Sixth Chakra.