Ancient Egyptian Secrets to a Just and Harmonious Life

Some believe that discussing Ancient Egypt has no relevance to the modern world and is a waste of time, given the many problems people face even in modern Egypt. However, simply applying some of the principles underlying the proposals detailed here could bring about positive change in modern society, and Egyptian society in particular.

Introduction: The Lost Definition of "Mystery"

In our contemporary landscape, we navigate reality through a strictly utilitarian lens. We are guided by the cold precision of GPS coordinates, our days are sliced into billable minutes by digital clocks, and satellite maps have stripped the world of its shadows, leaving no stone unturned. Yet, despite this total transparency of data, a profound sense of modern anxiety persists. We have mastered "progress," but we have lost our orientation. To the inhabitant of the Nile Valley, the world was not a collection of data points, but a Sacred Geography.

To understand this, we must recognize that there are "two Egypts." There is the Egypt of the encyclopedias—an archaeological tally of dynasties, pottery shards, and limestone. Then there is "Sacred Egypt," a capsule in time that remains ontologically connected to the All). While we exhaust ourselves chasing a linear future, the Egyptians sought to anchor themselves in Maat—an archetypal Order that mirrored the cosmos. They understood that a life disconnected from the sacred is not progress, but a form of internal exile.

The Nile is in the Sky: Geography as a Mirror of the Soul

For the ancient Egyptian, the terrestrial landscape was never a "vulgar street"; it was a mirror of a macrocosmic reality. They did not merely live along a river; they inhabited a reflection of the "Celestial Nile," the Milky Way. This connection transformed their environment into a living map of the soul’s journey.

This orientation relied upon a "seventh direction." While we acknowledge the six directions of three-dimensional space, the goddess Seshat—the deity of mathematics and harmony—presided over the seventh: the internal path toward the sacred. Above her head, the jeroglyph uat pet ("the opening of the sky") signaled that her geometry was not merely for land survey, but for spiritual alignment. When a temple was established, the king performed the "Extension of the Cord" ceremony, ensuring the structure breathed in unison with the stars.

“I hold the stake and the handle of the scepter and the measuring cord with Seshat, I turn my eyes toward the movement of the stars, I direct my gaze to the Thigh of the Bull (the Big Dipper), I measure time, and I establish the 4 corners of the temple.”

This ceremony ensured that human life remained a microcosm of the divine, where the rhythmic flooding of the Nile was seen as the revitalizing power of Osiris, reminding every citizen that to walk upon the earth was to participate in an eternal cycle of rebirth.

Justice is a Biological Necessity (The "Homeostasis" of the Soul)

We often view justice as a dry legal artifice or a social contract imposed by the state. The Egyptians, however, viewed Maat as a state of Universal Harmony akin to a biological necessity.

They understood this through a principle we might today call homeostasis. For a biological organism to survive, its internal parameters—pH, temperature, blood pressure—must remain within precise margins of equilibrium. If an organ, such as the liver or heart, decides to act "selfishly," pursuing its own growth without consideration for the whole, the body falls into a state of disease.

In the Egyptian worldview, "illness" or Isfet (Chaos) occurs when any component of the system—whether an individual in society or an emotion within the mind—traspasses its limits. Justice is not a punishment handed down by a judge; it is the internal equilibrium that allows the system to flourish. Injustice is quite literally a metabolic failure of the soul.

The "True" vs. "False" Pyramid: A Lesson in Leadership

The architectural evolution of the pyramid offers a devastating critique of our modern "digital modernism." Archaeologists observe two distinct construction philosophies that mirror social health:

• The True Pyramid: These structures are built with internal pillars slightly inclined toward the center. This ingenious design ensures that the highest and greatest elements support the most weight. It is a model of responsibility, where those with the most power provide the foundation for the whole.
• The False Pyramid: These are mere rows of stone stacked vertically. Here, the top inevitably crushes the bottom. Without internal alignment, these structures were destined to collapse into rubble.

Our current era of technological giants often resembles the False Pyramid—a crushing hierarchy where magistrates and billionaires remain distant from the cries of the people.

To build a True Social Pyramid, we must adopt three characteristics:

• Collaborative Effort: Internal pillars inclined toward a shared center.
• Responsibility: The most capable bearing the greatest burden of service.
• Support-based: Each element sustaining its own space while contributing to the stability of the whole, rather than exploiting those beneath.

As the ancient nobleman Ipuwer lamented during a time of social collapse:

"The workers are sad, and the magistrates do not fraternize with the people when they cry out.."

The Judgment of Integrity: Becoming "Maat-Kheru"

The famous "Weighing of the Heart" was not a test of religious piety, but of integrity. The goal of an Egyptian life was to become Maat-Kheru—the "justified" or "man of right words."

A Maat-Kheru is a person of "one piece." This requires the alignment of the four human components: the mental, the emotional, the vital-energetic, and the physical. When these are perfectly stacked, they form the Djed Pillar, the symbol of stability. Most modern individuals are "disintegrated"—we think one thing, feel another, and act on a third. We are fragmented beings.

In the "Hall of the Double Maat," the "Terrestrial Heart" (the conscience formed by daily experience) is weighed against the feather of Maat. The objective is to transform this heavy, terrestrial heart into a "Celestial Heart"—a process symbolized by the scarab, Khepri, which represents the evolution of the heavy and earth-bound into the soaring and spiritual. This transformation requires the wisdom of silence and listening, as suggested in the Maxims of Ptahhotep:

"Humility leads to wisdom and respect... Listen with attention, for speaking with sense is more powerful than speaking too much. Meditated words have more weight."

The candidate’s prayer reveals this longing for total integration:

“My heart, my mother... my terrestrial heart of my multiple transformations, do not oppose me in the Judgment, let the divine judges not reject me... Do not pronounce lies about me before the god, but let the ears of the gods rejoice and their hearts be satisfied when my words are weighed in the Balance of Judgment.”

The "Snake" of Attention: Wisdom vs. Chaos

The Egyptians utilized ophidian symbolism to describe the battle for human consciousness. They recognized that the mind is a terrain contested by two distinct forces:

• Apep (Isfet): The crawling serpent of chaos and disorder. It represents the darkness that arises when personal justice is absent. Isfet is not an external devil, but the confusion and damage caused by a lack of clarity.
• The Uraeus: The erect cobra of vigilant attention seen on the pharaoh’s brow. This represents the "watchful eye" of wisdom and spiritual awakening.

When attention fails, the "desert tribes" of our lower impulses infiltrate the city of the mind. Personal justice is maintained only through the vigilant Uraeus. Without it, we succumb to the social and personal rot described in the Admonitions:

"A man sees his son as an enemy. Confusion is everywhere... The desert tribes have become Egyptians everywhere... what the ancestors predicted has come true: the country is full of conspirators."

Conclusion: The Philosophical Revolution

The "Egyptian Miracle" was never a technological one. Their greatest invention was not a method for moving stones, but a social and philosophical framework that allowed a civilization to endure for three millennia. We must realize that technology can put a rocket on the Moon, yet it cannot organize a just society.

In an age of technological giants, we possess the scientific precision to land a rocket on a comet, yet we remain unable to organize our own streets with equity. We must ask ourselves: are we building a True Pyramid, or a False Pyramid?

Ancient wisdom is clear: genuine change does not arise from the accumulation of data, but from the cultivation of wisdom. External revolutions have shed enough blood. It is time to recognize that the real revolution must occur within every human being—a philosophical revolution that begins inside the individual and then radiates outward to transform the world.

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This Article as PDF

The Architecture of Maat (Presentation)

The Egyptian Path to Justice (infographic)

The Eternal Harmony (very illustrative short video)

Ancient Egyptian Secrets to a Just and Harmonious Life (podcast)

The Stellar Code of Egypt

 

The Stellar Code of Egypt: 5 Revelations That Will Change the Way You See the Pyramids

When we think of Ancient Egypt, our minds are filled with images of golden pharaohs, dazzling treasures, and mysteries hidden in sealed tombs. But this vision, though fascinating, barely scratches the surface of an infinitely deeper civilization. The Egyptians did not merely observe the stars; they lived within a stellar map on a terrestrial scale. Their architecture, sacred geography, and mythology were nothing more than a direct reflection of the cosmos—a symphony where heaven and earth danced in perfect harmony. Prepare to discover a stellar code that, once deciphered, will forever transform your perception of the pyramids and their builders.

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Revelation 1: Ra and Osiris are Not Enemies, but the Two Sides of the Soul

For a long time, Egyptologists such as Samuel A.B. Mercer postulated the existence of two opposing theological systems: that of Ra, the solar god, and that of Osiris, the lord of the underworld. However, this dualistic view ignores the profound symbolic unity that connected them. For the Egyptians, the Sun (Ra) was the divine spiritual essence present in the heart of every human being. The sun's nightly journey through the Duat—that dark "underworld"—was a metaphor for the soul's journey through the trials of life.

[On the left of the image: Ra is being extracted from the Djed pillar. Center: Djed pillar, symbol of Osiris. On the right: Osiris]

The goal of the initiated disciple was to "become an Osiris," a process of "osirification" that consisted of extracting that inner solar essence to escape ignorance, just as the sun escapes the night. They were two phases of the same process, like the twins of Greek mythology, Castor and Pollux: one mortal and the other immortal. As the sacred texts state: Osiris and Ra are "the twin souls that dwell within the two fledglings."

[On the left of the image: Ra. On the right: Osiris. Both depicted as fledglings]

But here lies an even deeper key: becoming an Osiris, a solar god, was not the final objective. This represented a cyclic immortality, conditioned by day and night. The true goal was to ascend via the "Path of the Stars" and transform into an "imperishable star"—one of the circumpolar stars that never set below the horizon. That was the definitive immortality.

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Revelation 2: Seth is Not a Villain, but the Guardian of Mysteries (and a Stellar Map)

The figure of Seth has been demonized as the simple murderer of his brother Osiris. However, in the original theology, Seth was the "necessary counterpoint," the personification of the initiatory obstacles that forge the aspirant. His role was so fundamental that in the Book of the Dead, he is equated with the "backbone of Osiris," symbolizing that he is the axis of the trials leading to wisdom. This demonization of a guardian of mysteries is not an isolated phenomenon in the history of religions. We see it in the so-called Asuras of India—pure beings who over time were turned into demons—or even in the figure of Lucifer, "the light-bringer," who transitioned from a symbol of enlightenment to the embodiment of evil at the hands of theologians forging a new religion.

The greatest secret of Seth is hidden in plain sight: in his strange animal form. He is not a terrestrial creature. His profile is a stylization of the Constellation of the Dragon (Draco), and his characteristic "square ears" are the constellations of Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. This stellar map is repeated in the meteoric iron adze, the netdjerit, used in the "Opening of the Mouth" ceremony. The connection is undeniable, as another name for this tool was meshtjw, the same name given to the constellation of Ursa Major, "The Thigh." The funerary rite was, in reality, an act of symbolic stellar navigation to orient the soul toward its immortal destination, akin to the stars of the celestial north pole—the Imperishable Stars.

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Revelation 3: The Geography of Egypt is a Mirror of the Heavens

The Egyptians practiced a "Sacred Geography" where the landscape was a living reflection of the celestial order. The Nile River was the earthly manifestation of the great "Celestial Nile": the Milky Way. This correspondence was astonishingly precise. Egyptologist Georges Daressy mapped the connection between the nomes (provinces) and the constellations. For example, the nome of Tentyris (Denderah) corresponded to Taurus and was under the influence of Venus.

The mythical origin of the river anchors this idea in the land. It was believed that the Nile was born in a cave on the island of Bigeh, a place so sacred it was called "Abaton" ("the inaccessible") and contained 365 altars, one for each day of the year. This geographic point was considered the earthly image of the constellation of Ursa Major, known as "The Thigh." This reveals a brilliant synthesis: Osiris is known as the "monopod god" or the one-legged god precisely because his mummified body is a reflection of this constellation, The Thigh. The god, the river, and the land of Egypt "are one," unified in a great cosmic map.

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Revelation 4: The Great Pyramid is a Stellar Ascension Machine

Whether a tomb or an initiatory temple, the purpose of the Great Pyramid is to be a place of ceremonial PASSAGE AND TRANSFORMATION. Its best-kept secret resides in its "shafts," which were not for ventilation, but were cosmic pointers.

• The Southern Shafts pointed toward Orion (Osiris) and Sirius (Isis), the divine origin of the soul.

• The Northern Shafts pointed toward Thuban (Alpha-Draconis) and Ursa Minor, the final destination: the "imperishable stars."

To understand this celestial map, one must look at the "Wanderer" who appears in the Zodiac of Denderah; he begins as Osiris (Orion) and ends at the conclusion of a spiral circuit at the North Pole, where Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, and Thuban are located. But the architecture itself 

encloses an even more astounding revelation. The two southern shafts form a triangle with the base at the top. The two northern shafts also form a triangle with the base at the top. Together, these two triangles create a six-pointed star, a universal symbol of the union of heaven and earth. The pyramid is, geometrically, a cosmic matrix within which the new birth of the initiate is gestated.

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Revelation 5: Our Sun Might Have a Dancing Partner: The Mystery of Sirius

Modern science explains the precession of the equinoxes as a "wobble" of the Earth's axis. However, the "binary theory" proposes something much more amazing. Imagine we are in an office and we see the buildings across the street moving. The classic theory would say we are tilting in our chairs. The binary theory proposes that it is not us, but the entire building—the whole office—that is moving.

Applied to the cosmos, this suggests that it is not the Earth wobbling alone, but our entire Solar System moving in a vast orbit, centered around a very important star in Egyptian mythology: Sirius. Why? Not only does it have a total mass at least three times that of our Sun, but, unlike other nearby systems, it is located "upstream" in the same spiral arm of the galaxy, allowing it to exert a direct influence on us. This avant-garde hypothesis would provide a physical basis for the immense importance the Egyptians gave to Sirius, whom they considered a sort of "Central Sun."

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The Universe in a Grain of Sand

For the ancient Egyptians, there was no barrier between heaven and earth, between myth and geography, or between the soul and the stars. Everything was part of an integrated system of correspondences—a cosmic code engraved in stone, earth, and spirit. Each temple was an observatory, each ritual an act of stellar navigation, and each human being a miniature universe with the potential to shine like an immortal star. If the Egyptians codified such profound knowledge in their monuments and landscape, what other secrets about the cosmos and our own soul await rediscovery beneath the sands of time?

If you want to delve deeper into this topic, here are some links:

This article, as PDF

Ancient Egypt Cosmic Immortality (A PDF Presentation, useful for classes)

Egypt's Celestial Path to Immortality (infographic)

Egypt's Cosmic Blueprint (short video-presentation)

Pyramids doors to Stellar Immortality (podcast)

We Are All Cleopatra!

Uncomfortable Truths About Reincarnation 

that Challenge the Ego

The mere mention of reincarnation usually awakens a mixture of fascination and fantasy. Almost everyone who explores their past lives seems to have been great kings, Egyptian priestesses, or legendary warriors. However, an inevitable statistical question arises: where are the millions of peasants, swineherds, and serfs who made up the bulk of history? The idea of reincarnation, often manipulated by personal vanity, has become a "narcosis"—as Hermann Hesse would say—a sedative to evade the mediocrity of the present instead of being a path of profound understanding. For the seeker of the Philosophia Perennis, reincarnation is not a consolation for the ego, but a metaphysical enigma that demands we question who we truly are. What we call "I" is, frequently, a projected shadow, a ray of sunlight reflected in a mirror that we mistake for the source of light.

The Trap of Vanity: The Spiritual "Like"

The concept of reincarnation is used today to feed the ego and justify the dissatisfactions of the present. We search the past for an importance that we feel we lack today, projecting ourselves as resplendent figures to compensate for our current smallness. This "infinite vanity" clashes with historical reality: there simply were not enough Cleopatras or Napoleons to satisfy the demand of the millions of people who today claim their thrones. Even the question "do you believe in reincarnation?" has become a marker of social identity, a simple "like" or "dislike" to classify ourselves into acceptable groups. But the truth is harsher: identifying with illustrious characters is a distraction from genuine spiritual work. As critical reflection rightly points out: "No one remembers being the incarnation of a poor beggar; almost everyone remembers having been great kings, princesses, or wise priests, which is usually rather a sign of infinite vanity."

The "I" is a Square Without a Real Center (The Illusion of the Quaternary)

For the Immemorial Wisdom, the human personality is not a fixed entity, but a "quaternary" composed of four interdependent and transitory elements:

• The Physical: The dense body and its organs.

• The Energetic: The subtle systems that distribute vitality (Prana).

• The Emotional: The movements of attraction and repulsion (Kama).

• The Mental: The framework of ideas and thoughts. This "I" is dependent: if you suffer an accident or an illness, your center of gravity shifts, your emotions change, and your mind adapts. You are "another person." This personality is a puppet theater full of opinions. However, this square only acquires stability if it becomes the base of a pyramid anchored to something superior: the Spirit. Without that anchorage to what belongs to a higher plane, the personal "I" is merely a shadow that dissolves upon the death of the body. Projecting this conditioned "I" into the future is a falsehood, for the being we will be shall be configured by forces that today we do not even suspect.

The Six Realms: Reincarnation as a Psychological State

We often imagine the Buddhist "realms of rebirth" as physical places, but their esoteric interpretation is much more unsettling: they are also the psychological states in which we reincarnate according to our acts. Thus, we can be born in the realm of:

• The Animal World: When we live guided exclusively by instinct and the search for sensual pleasure.

• The World of Hellish Beings: When we are trapped in the suffering of fixed ideas and memories that torture us.

• The World of Hungry Ghosts: The state of insatiable desire, lack, and perpetual frustration.

• The World of Demigods: The powerful slaves of their own ambition and ego.

• The World of Gods: Those who live in the "narcosis" of rest and glory, forgetting the urgency of liberation.

• The Human World: The only state of equilibrium between tears and laughter where it is possible to achieve true freedom.

  And also, similarly, we are reborn every day in each of these worlds when we allow an emotion or a desire to dominate us, or on the contrary, we come more close to the liberation when we become aware of our human reality and decide to change for the better.

Technical Distinction: Incarnation, Reincarnation, and Rebirth

To avoid credulity, we must be precise with terms. Not everything that returns is the same:

• Incarnation: The manifestation of "something" (conscious or not) in a human body.

• Reincarnation: When that "something" that enters proceeds specifically from a previous life.

• Rebirth: The mutation of a being into something different, but maintaining a continuity of consciousness, though not necessarily with the same structure of identity. For Buddhism (the formal religion), these reincarnations correspond to what is called Samsara or the "perpetual wandering," a cycle of old age and death that must be extinguished. But for Budhism (with a single 'd', the Immemorial Doctrine of Wisdom or Bodhi), this pilgrimage is the method by which the One Life distills experience through its infinite manifestations.

The Secret of Tibet: Rangtong versus Shentong

There exists a philosophical conflict that was silenced for centuries for political reasons. The predominant Buddhism today (Gelugpa school) teaches Rangtong, that is, the “Emptiness of Self”. This doctrine affirms that behind phenomena there is nothing; it is, in essence, a scientific materialism in monk’s robes, viewing Nirvana as total annihilation. Most people ignore this.

Opposed to this arised the Shentong (Other-Emptiness) view, preserved by the Jonang school, which almost disappeared. This vision maintains that, while the world of appearances is empty, there nonetheless exists an Absolute Reality and immutable: the so called Buddha-Nature. This essence is present in all human beings; it is a seed of the Buddha, in other words: our eternal nature. And this is the "escape" from the world of the created. As the ancient sutra say:

"There is an Unborn, Unoriginated, Uncreated, and Unformed. If there were not this Unborn... escape from the world of the born, the originated, the created, the formed, would have been impossible."

This is the "Jewel in the Lotus" (Om Mani Padme Hum): the seed of immortality that survives the shipwreck of the personality.

The Internal Engine: About Masters and Mirages

One of the great traps is blind submission to "gurus" who promise Nirvana in quick courses, like someone selling a book on "Chinese language in seven days". This subservience halts evolution. The human beings must find their own Internal Engine, the capacity to rise after every fall through their own effort. True progress is not achieved by "looking upward" to gain merit before an “illuminated” hierarchy, but by looking "downward and to the sides," serving the most disadvantaged brothers. That which is above opens only when we take care of that which is below. What survives is not the name nor the diplomas, but the pure distilled experience, an indefinable aroma that remains when the material dissolution takes everything else away.

Conclusion: From "I" to "We"

Our current personality is simply a role in the theater of life destined to perish. I, who have a name and titles, will cease to exist. But the mystery that drives me, that which lifts me after every failure and leads me to serve others, is eternal. At the end of the act, the question is not whether you were Cleopatra, but whether you have managed to awaken to what Hermann Hesse called "the great secret." Liberation is not a conquest for the "I" or the personal ego (which is illusory), but the recognition of a superior reality. At the summit of the spiritual mountain, we discover the final truth that dissolves all vanity: There is no "I"... there is "We." Only what you build today to enlighten another human being will be truly worth giving back in the next act of life.

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Infographic 

The Vanity of Past Lives (Presentation)

We are all Cleopatra! (short video very instructive)

Reincarnation: The Death of the Personality

 

The Path to a Million Successes

One of the most renowned Buddhist Sutras throughout the Orient, particularly in China and Japan, is the so-called Lotus Sutra.

In a subtle manner, it introduces fundamental elements of the Mahayana Buddhist School, or the Great Vehicle. This denomination is frequently utilized as a pejorative contrast toward the older Buddhist schools, the Hinayana, that is, the school of the Lesser Vehicle.

But how could anyone have pursued a superior degree if they had not been previously taught many basic and necessary things? This is often forgotten, and precisely this Lotus Sutra undertakes a twofold task.

On one hand, through an exalted, repetitive, and multicolored imagery, it speaks to us of the innumerable qualities of the Buddhas, and of the Bodhisattvas, who dispense their teachings—according to this Sutra—through millions and even billions of years, across infinite distances, in the four directions of space; teachings which are also attended by countless beings from the entire Universe.

And yet, through those verses, at times repetitive, of fabulous descriptions, in almost no part of this lengthy Sutra is what it teaches clearly specified. This Sutra does not possess a list of creeds, practices, or beliefs ordered to be memorized; rather, like a golden thread, it poetically allows the imagination to soar until it situates itself in worlds that have nothing to do with this overwhelming world of our problems.

And that is precisely the First Teaching.

What do the Big Bang, the Vedic Hymn of Creation, and Blavatsky’s Cosmogenesis have in common?

 

What do the Big Bang, the Vedic Hymn of Creation, and Blavatsky’s Cosmogenesis have in common?

Before Plunging into the Unfathomable Abyss of the Waters…

From my point of view, the teaching of The Secret Doctrine requires, above all, tranquility and composure: reading small, significant fragments, commenting on them, expressing one's own doubts, and intuitively finding the answers or solutions to the enigmas it proposes.

For we must not forget that it is not the text itself that is difficult; rather, it is that our mind is limited and needs to exercise, grow, and expand. It is not about accumulating data, but about expanding its capacity to "see." As the ancients used to say, the human being is born with certain limitations: physical, sensory, mental, and intuitive. We need time, but not in the habitual sense of "assimilating"—that is, of digesting more knowledge or more data—but because, through this exercise, what matters is to set in motion aspects of our mind and our intuition that remain dormant.

We likely know someone around us who, despite possessing several university degrees, is absolutely blind to the reality of life. Conversely, we sometimes find people who, lacking any advanced studies, nevertheless possess a certain wisdom and penetration. This is what the ancient Hindus called Vidya, which is the correct understanding of knowledge. Its opposite was Avidya, which is often translated as ignorance—the ignorance of one who, even with knowledge within reach of the mind, cannot see it, cannot integrate it. To undertake this study is to practice Vidya; it is to open the Inner Eye to other perceptions.

Consider just one thing: the day death reaches us, when we return to the cycle of terrestrial life, we will have forgotten everything: the data, the language we used, our titles, etc. We will have also forgotten the sacred books, the great philosophies, and even religions. Then, what remains of all our efforts and learning? What stays beyond death? Our Essence, our capacities—if we have developed them—our mental ability and, above all, our Intuition, which will serve us to open doors that are beyond this world. And this is what is truly important: not the accumulation of data. Because this accumulation, these reasonings, and this mental and intuitive effort, when we study the concepts proposed by The Secret Doctrine, do not aim to increase our "storage" capacity, nor to adopt a belief, but to transmute our mind and give birth to our transcendental intuition.

So, gymnast of the spirit, try to dedicate some time to the health of your mind and your intuition, feeding them with elevated and healthy content that, little by little, results in the awakening of our true Spirit, which, after all, is what this is all about.

And now, without further ado, let us begin with a very ancient text, perhaps the oldest in any Indo-European language, which is preserved practically unaltered—an authentic living monument. It speaks to us of a moment before creation, before the Big Bang, before the existence of the world:

Hymn of Creation (Nasadiya Sukta)

Nor Aught nor Naught existed; The shining sky did not exist; Nor the immense over-arching vault spread out above. What covered all? What sheltered? What concealed? Was it the unfathomable abyss of the waters?

Death was not; but there was nothing immortal. There were no limits between day and night. Only the One breathed breathless by Itself, For any other than It there has never been.

Darkness reigned, and the whole beginning was veiled In deep obscurity; an ocean without light; The germ until then hidden in the enclosure Causes a nature to burst forth from the fervid heat. — Who knows the secret? Who has revealed it? Whence, whence has surged this multiform creation? The Gods themselves came later into existence. Who knows whence this great creation came?

That from which all this immense creation has proceeded, whether its will created, or whether it was mute, The Highest Seer, in the highest heavens, Knows it, or perhaps not even He knows.

Gazing upon eternity … (Rig Veda Book 10, Hymn 129)

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Fundamental Ideas of the Rig Veda Hymn

There are a series of fundamental ideas that are worth unfolding:

The Absence of Being Nothing existed; nothing "was." Attributes did not exist, for they would be forms of Being (high, wide, cold, red, green, etc.). Despite this, the text speaks of an Abyss unfathomable to our consciousness, an unfathomable Abyss of Water. Why? Because Water is situated at the origin of all things. Here, "Water" possesses a poetic sense: it is inert life, as unmanifested possibility, but called to give origin to everything.

The "One" A unique and undefined entity, breathing by itself; in other words, breathing without depending on anything, because everything was contained within itself. We can imagine it as the state of dreamless sleep that we sometimes experience: a state without relation to the external world that leaves no memory behind.

Darkness and Water The beginning was veiled by a profound darkness, for the light we know is, in reality, an infinitesimal part, almost an illusion. However, here we are dealing with Primordial Darkness only from the human point of view, conditioned by our limitations and ignorance. In essence, it is an ocean of potentiality (Bythos).

Emergence of Creation A "germ" or "seed" sprouts thanks to the "fervent heat" or "power of heat": the first vital manifestation, which gives rise to the first movements of existence and the emergence of desire.

The Mystery The hymn concludes by asking who truly knows the secret of creation. It suggests that even the gods arose later and that the ultimate source remains unknown, perhaps only known by the Supreme Being, or perhaps not even by Him.

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Stanza I of The Secret Doctrine

The First Stanza of The Secret Doctrine begins by developing ideas analogous to the previous text. It is a meditation on the ineffable and the unmanifested, which prepares the stage for the following stanzas, where the process of differentiation and manifestation of the cosmos is described.

Stanza I describes a state prior to all manifestation, just like the Hymn of Creation from the Rig Veda:

• Time does not exist.

• There is no perceived space.

• There is no differentiation.

It concerns the Absolute, in which everything exists solely as potentiality. However, the beginning of Creation implies the start of differentiation, of the time and space in which it unfolds.

We can imagine a circle without a defined circumference: the idea of the circle without any manifestation. Like every ideal circle, it also possesses an "ideal" central point, unmanifested. This state can be represented as a primary Darkness, unreachable for our human understanding.

This Absolute Darkness is beyond the dual concept of light and darkness. It is a darkness without forms or attributes, yet the origin of everything that exists. There are, therefore, no dualities; no phenomena, neither day nor night, nor life nor death, nor form, nor polarities. This state of non-manifestation is the "Cosmic Night," the Pralaya: the Absolute Repose, the Cosmic Silence prior to the appearance of Sound, of the creative Word.

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Comparison between the Big Bang of Modern Physics and the Cosmogony of The Secret Doctrine and the Rig Veda

A comparison can be established, but with very important nuances. The comparison is symbolic and analogical; it is not literal or scientific in a strict sense. Both descriptions speak of the origin of the cosmos, but they operate on different planes of knowledge. But let us see:

Big Bang (Scientific Cosmology):

• Describes an initial state of extreme density and temperature.

• Time and space begin with the Big Bang; there is no physical "before" in the classical sense.

• Science knows nothing about the origin of the Big Bang; it only describes its evolution from the moment time begins to run and space is manifested.

Cosmogonic Text (Rig Veda / The Secret Doctrine):

• Starts from an unmanifested state, prior to time and space.

• There is no differentiation, nor phenomena, nor dualities.

• The "before" is not merely temporal, but ontological: it is a state of absolute Being.

How are they alike? Both agree that time and space did not exist as we know them before the origin of the cosmos.

THE "INITIAL NOTHINGNESS"

• Big Bang: It is not an "absolute nothingness," but a limiting state where physical laws are not applicable.

• Cosmogonic Texts: "Nothingness" is an unmanifested fullness that contains everything in potential. Darkness and Water symbolize that pure potentiality, not non-existence.

• How are they alike?: In both cases, "nothingness" is not absence, but latent potentiality.

THE GENERATING PRINCIPLE

• Big Bang: It involves an initial, extremely rapid expansion of the universe (inflation). Energy is progressively transformed into particles, forces, and structures.

• Cosmogonic Texts: The "fervent heat" or "power of heat" acts, as the Rig Veda describes; it is the activating principle—in other words, accelerated movement and energy. The "germ" emerges, the first manifestation of life and movement. The first expansive nucleus.

• How are they alike?: Symbolic "heat" can be compared to the primordial energy that drives the expansion and differentiation of the universe.

DIFFERENTIATION AND PROGRESSIVE ORDER

• Big Bang: After the expansion, particles, atoms, stars, and galaxies appear progressively. The universe passes from the homogeneous to the structured.

• Cosmogonic Texts: Creation is a process of progressive differentiation from the One toward the manifold. Polarities, forms, and cycles appear.

• How are they alike?: Creation is not instantaneous, but a gradual process of manifestation.

The Ultimate Mystery

• Science: It cannot answer what originated the Big Bang or why physical laws exist. It recognizes a limit to knowledge.

• Cosmogonic Texts: It concludes by stating that perhaps no one knows the origin, not even the gods. The mystery is an essential part of reality; it does not stand apart but coexists with it.

• Profound Convergence: Both accept that the ultimate origin of the cosmos remains unknown.

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CONCLUSION:

The comparison is valid as a profound analogy, not as a literal equivalence. Both visions coincide surprisingly on essential points:

1. A non-ordinary origin beyond human perception.

2. The initial non-existence of time and space.

3. The emergence from an undifferentiated potentiality.

4. The recognition of an irreducible mystery.

It could be said that the Big Bang is the modern scientific translation of a very ancient metaphysical intuition, expressed in symbols because the mathematical language to describe it did not yet exist.

Of course, we do not claim they are the same, but that there are parallels between the physical and metaphysical levels, which in some way correspond to similar patterns across different levels.

As a final note, it is interesting to highlight that, contrary to what some think, in the analysis of H. P. Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine, we find elements that respond to ancestral ideas, such as those of the Vedas, as well as very interesting parallels with modern Science.