Her-Bak Quotes

“A lion can be tempted by the glance of the human eye, a snake by music, a cat by comfort and play, a bird by gentleness, a noble dog by voice and praise, an ignoble dog by the whimp. Mankind contains within itself the whole animal kingdom: your heart partakes of the nature of the lion, your lungs of that of the bird; but every man has in his animal body some particular similarity and affinity; and if you know this you can tame men. But to be able to do this even the smallest works foreman would have to become one of those 'who know'. And there is no nation that have enough Sages to go round. The selection may be made, but the choice comes from above, and for this choice to become possible something other than the animal must awake in man: and this other something is always strangled by the animal.”
― Isha Schwaller de Lubicz, Her-Bak: The Living Face of Ancient Egypt