The Phoenix and The Eye Of Horus: Access to the spells in the Egyptian Book of the Dead by means of the numerical code of the I Ching

The book is a gateway into the symbolic world of the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the readers will be able to enter into a personal, symbiotic relationship with the Egyptian Gods so as to retrace the magical steps of the Phoenix-Osiris in ‘Coming forth by day’ and hence, like Osiris, change their own destiny.The author introduces, for the first time ever, a method to gain access to the spells of Egyptian Book of the Dead, in order to obtain divinatory predictions by means of the numerical code which is present in the hexagrams of the I Ching, the Chinese Book of Changes, that determine the original mandala published here.The hexagrams of the I Ching, which derive from esoteric Chinese traditions, have been converted by way of a synoptic key into computer-elaborated numerological matrixes, where each hexagram and each one of its changes correspond to a particular spell in the Egyptian Book of the Dead, whose divinatory significance is presented in a list of spells organized in a numerical index that can be consulted in this book.This method is possible since the ‘lines’ in the I Ching hexagrams are numerical symbols coded in trigrams; these can be transferred into the numerological matrixes of the magic squares - correlated both with the astrological order passed down in the I Ching and with the Sefer Yetzirah’s holy circuit of Hebrew letters where the forces of what is to become are counterbalanced with each other in the process of change and transformation. These similar structural relationships hark back to the symbolic cosmology found in the ancient holy texts.In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Phoenix shines brightly above the polar axis, evoking the cycles of rebirth and the immortality of the spirit as it guides the sacred barques of Osiris and glitters in the light while it passes through the moving astrological heavens ruled by the goddesses Nekhbet and Wadjet who, according to the secret message of the Eye of Horus, confer the vision of future destiny.In the Chinese tradition the Phoenix named Fenghuang implies the union of the male bird, feng, with its female equivalent, huang, which shines above the ancient celestial pole or nestles in the Wutong tree, connected to the cycles of the seasons on Earth. This magical bird’s transformation is related to fire and also to the return of the solstices and equinoxes in the I Ching astrological patterns.Both Chinese and Egyptian traditions theorize ‘a core circuit’ in which the renewal of the astrological cycles of the heavens merge with the destiny of the initiate who knows how to decipher their pulsations in terms of numbers and whose powers are preserved in the secrets of the various Eastern traditions which are examined in this text.Furthermore, the Egyptian solar mythologem is compared to the Tibetan tantric tradition, the Basilides Gnostic symbols, Plutarch reflections contained in his Isis and Osiris, the mystery cults described by Apuleius and extended to the Greek Dionysian world and lastly to the revelation contained in the Apocalypse of St. John in the Bible.The author’s last interview with the Egyptologist Boris de Rachewiltz, where the latter expresses his authoritative appreciation for the rigour of the research and the innovative revision of the sacred texts, is also mentioned."With the sequence of formulas in the Book of the Deadit is clear that you have given a great deal of thought to the matter" ZAHI HAWASWith 100 illustrations Read more