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The Temple in Man: Sacred Architecture and the Perfect Man
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Product Description
This book contains the first published results of Schwaller's 12 years of research at the temple of Luxor and its implications for interpreting the symbolic and mathematical processes of the Egyptians through their sacred architecture.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #220225 in Books
- Published on: 1981-11-01
- Released on: 1981-11-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 136 pages
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- ISBN13: 9780892810215
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Language Notes
Text: English, French (translation)
About the Author
R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz (1887--1961) was one of the most important philosophers, mathematicians, and Egyptologists of this century. His elucidation of the temple at Luxor and his presentation of the Egyptian understanding of a special quality of innate consciousness form a bridge that links the sacred science of the Ancients to its rediscovery in our own time.
Customer Reviews
Unheralded genius
Magnificent. This short book is work of genius. It is not surprising that academics ignored it when it was first published in 1949 - and continue to do so. Of course, most thinking people are dubious of Egyptologists - they still can't explain how the pyramids were built - but de Lubicz proves that a profound ideology underpinned Pharaoh's Egypt. Its focus was less on pagan deities and fanciful notions of the afterworld, and more on a comprehensive knowledge of the human being, physical and spiritual. This understanding was inherited by medieval hermeticists and alchemists. This is a positive and uplifting book, and though the language is somewhat dated, don't let that put you off.
what if he is right?
This book strikes me as the author's own philosophy projected onto ancient Egypt, which is mysterious enough to allow for any interpretation. But what if he is right? What if they really were the advanced scientists and mystics and founders of alchemy he believes? That would make this an important work indeed.
-Bible says, our body's a temple, perhaps not only for God,
This book delves deep and is philosophic in origins.
