Serpent in the Sky Quotes

“We're obliged to acknowledge the limits of reason; and to acknowledge the necessary reality of the realms to which reason has no access.”
― John Anthony West, Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt

“Like all other initiatic teaching, Egypt held that man's purpose on earth was the return to the source. There were recognised in Egypt two roads to this same goal. The one was the way of Osiris, who represented the cyclic nature of universal process; this was the way of successive reincarnations. The second road was the way of Horus, the direct path to resurrection that the individual might achieve within a single lifetime. It is the Horian way that is the basis of the Christian revelation and, according to Schwaller de Lubicz, the aim of Christianity was to make this direct path available to all who chose to embark upon it, rather than to a small group of select initiates who, in Egypt, comprised ‘The Temple’. In this sense, and in this sense only, has there been ‘evolution’ in human affairs.”
― John Anthony West, Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt

“Central to all these interlinked themes was that curious irrational, phi, the Golden Section. Schwaller de Lubicz believed that if ancient Egypt possessed knowledge of ultimate causes, that knowledge would be written into their temples not in explicit texts but in harmony, proportion, myth and symbol.”
― John Anthony West, Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt

“The material universe is an interpenetrating hierarchy of energies at different levels or orders of density, to which our senses have but limited access.”
― John Anthony West, Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt

“Potentiality exists outside time.”
― John Anthony West, Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt

“According to Martinex the Maya came to the mathematical certainty of the existence of a cosmic consciousness which they named ‘Hunab Ku’, sole dispenser of measurement and movement, to whom they attributed the mathematical structuring of the universe. This divinity they represented by a circle in which was inscribed a square, just as did Pythagoras. The”
― John Anthony West, Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt

“Rig Veda In the beginning there was the fathomless ocean from which the One created himself by the immensity of his energy.”
― John Anthony West, Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt

“Widely disseminated disinformation is as good as information until discredited.”
― John Anthony West, Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt

“the daily life of city dwellers today is technically a form of mild but persistent torture, in which victims and victimisers are equally affected. And all call it ‘progress’.”
― John Anthony West, Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt