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This book reveals the Ancient Egyptian knowledge of harmonic proportion, sacred geometry, and number mysticism, as manifested in their texts, temples, tombs, art, hieroglyphs, etc, throughout their known history. It shows how the Egyptians designed their buildings to generate cosmic energy, and the mystical application of numbers in Egyptian works. The book explains in detail the harmonic proportion of about 20 Ancient Egyptian buildings throughout its recorded history.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #509113 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-10
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

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This book reveals the Ancient Egyptian knowledge of harmonic proportion, sacred geometry, and number mysticism, as manifested in their texts, temples, tombs, art, hieroglyphs, etc, throughout their known history. It shows how the Egyptians designed their buildings to generate cosmic energy, and the mystical application of numbers in Egyptian works. The book explains in detail the harmonic proportion of about 20 Ancient Egyptian buildings throughout its recorded history.

About the Author
Moustafa Gadalla is an Egyptian-American independent Egyptologist, who was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1944. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Cairo University.

Gadalla is the author of eleven internationally acclaimed books about the various aspects of the Ancient Egyptian history and civilization and its influences worldwide. He is the chairman of the Tehuti Research Foundation—an international, U.S.-based, non-profit organization, dedicated to Ancient Egyptian studies.

From his early childhood, Gadalla pursued his Ancient Egyptian roots with passion, through continuous study and research. Since 1990, he has dedicated and concentrated all his time to researching and writing.

Excerpted from Egyptian Harmony: The Visual Music by Moustafa Gadalla. Copyright © 2000. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
Harmony Defined (pages 15, 16)

The origin of the English word harmony is the Greek word, harmos, which means to join. By harmony, we generally mean a fitting, orderly, and pleasant joining of diversities, which in themselves may harbor many contrasts.

In ancient Egypt, Ra is described in The Litany of Ra as "The One Joined [harmoniously] Together."

Harmony applies to both sound (music) and form (architecture). The use of musically derived harmonies in architecture was held to be expressive of the Divine Harmony engendered at the act of creation by the Word (sound) - in modern terms, the Big Bang that began the Universe.

The design of ancient Egyptian architecture was based on proportion. Musical harmonies are likewise based on proportion. It has been said that music is in reality geometry translated into sound, for in music the same harmonies can be heard, which underlie architectural proportion.

The Masons claim that their rites, knowledge and traditions are rooted in Egypt, and there are many indications to support that. The famed Mozart was a Mason, just like his father and many notable people in his era. His music was the spirit of the past of the ancient Egyptian traditions. His crowning achievement was the Masonic Opera, where the power of masonry becomes the power of music by using Masonic symbols.

Let Energy Flow (pages 131-132)

In order to maintain the unity of the temple, its components must be connected so that the cosmic energy can flow through unimpeded.

The unity of the components of the temple must be like the components of the human body. The walls of a temple consist of blocks and corners, and such components (blocks) must be connected together in a way that allows the flow of divine energy, just like the parts of the human being. It is incorrect to merely think that a connection between two components/parts is only to ensure the structural stability of the part(s) and the whole building.

We can take clues from the human body (the house of the soul) when reviewing the Egyptian temple (the house of cosmic soul/energy/neter). The human body is connected with muscles, ...etc., but veins and nerves are not interrupted at the bone joints of the skeleton. The living ancient Egyptian temple was designed likewise. Bas-reliefs of all sizes, as well as the hieroglyphic symbols, span two adjoining blocks with total perfection. The intent is very clear - to bridge over the joint between adjacent blocks (next to each other, or on top of each other).

The blocks themselves were joined together in some type of nerve/energy system. A continuation of energy flow required special interlocking patterns. The practice of joining blocks together prevailed in every Egyptian temple throughout the known history of ancient Egypt. Here are a few examples of joining applications:…

Customer Reviews

Interesting reading, but not life-changing
I purchased a number of books by Moustafa Gadalla including this one. While I enjoyed reading them, I don't think that the assertions he makes qualify as proof. Yes, it is interesting that pyramids have a proportion equal to pi, but that could be simply because the architects used a circular cubit to roll out the dimensions; it does not mean that the egyptians knew the precise numerical value. Similarly the fact that the Greeks and the Egyptians both used the "Golden Ratio" does not mean that the Greeks stole the concept from the Egyptians as Mr. Gadalla asserts.
As a scientist, Mr. Gadalla should know that the only absolute in science is data you can measure and results you can verify. Everything else is just theory that fits the data. But just because a theory fits the data does not mean that the theory is truth; it just means we have yet to find any conflicting data.
To me, this book contains some intriguiing theories that appear to fit the historical data, but I would not presume to take this book as truth.

An absolute guide to practical and cosmic harmony
Egyptian Harmony is penultimate guide to harmony and universal geometry of nature and life, Moustafa's seventh book is a challenge to the reader requiring closer consideration than some of his earlier books. However, `The Visual Music' is by no means beyond the realm of the novice and only the domain of the academic, rather Moustafa has thoroughly explored, researched, measured and compared a science that is universal and presented it for the aficionado of Egyptian knowledge that directly applies to every culture, being and facet of life. Harmony is presented throughout the book with reference to geometry and mathematics fundamental to our building blocks of life and of place and shown with reference through the eyes of the Ancient Egyptians who were the first culture to employ and recognize the subtle geometry of the universe. Divided into thirteen knots, taken from the Egyptian cord that presents twelve equal divisions (just as it is with stringed instruments) the book itself is organized in harmony relating to harmony. Moustafa takes off where Johannes Kepler could only boast and does so without academic or personal gain using reference and intrinsic sense of the individual to offer a book of learning. Number has meaning, and beyond the occult trappings of so-called Pythagorean number mysticism Moustafa elucidates an understanding and breadth of related meaning behind number including its allegorical representations within Egyptian art and architecture. This book is a must for any who are frustrated by the sacred sciences of harmony distilled and diluted from the original source - the Ancient Egyptians.

Highly recommended reading for students of Egyptology
Egyptian Harmony: The Visual Music presents the sacred geometry of ancient Egypt and its extensive applications in various aspects of that age old culture. Author and independent Egyptologist Moustafa Gadalla reveals that the ancient Egyptians had an incredible and comprehensive knowledge of harmonic proportion, sacred geometry, music, and number mysticism. This is manifested in the ancient texts, temples, tombs, and artwork. Readers will discover how in Egyptian philosophy and religion the Word (sound) that created the World (forms) was likewise transformed to visual music by the Egyptians into hieroglyphs, art, and architecture. Egyptian Harmony is the result of painstaking, original, iconoclastic, thought-provoking research and highly recommended reading for students of Egyptology, antiquarian metaphysics, and the non-specialist general reader with an interest in Egyptian culture, artifacts and archaeology.