This was suprisingly good about the physical process of making heiroglyphics, and of the overall magical purpose of the texts, as instruction manuals for the pharoahs on how to ascend towards the pole star and thus stay "above the horizon" forever.
Don't want to be too propositional here, but I'm not convinced that:
>But this is only a dilemma if you believe that we haven’t already been defeated. In truth, we are already dead. We are shades—spectres, wraiths. This world is the underworld.
Reading about Hermes Trismegestris rn, and one of the things I enjoy is that the prison aspect of the material world is not as emphasizes as other gnostic traditions
I hear ya - this is what I'm trying to get at later on with the "a prison is also a work of art, a game and a story". It's a necker cube, both sides are true and valid. I think in general we are too quick dismiss this pessimistic prison side of reality, perhaps because we are in a time where existence feels unusually un-incarceratory.
This was suprisingly good about the physical process of making heiroglyphics, and of the overall magical purpose of the texts, as instruction manuals for the pharoahs on how to ascend towards the pole star and thus stay "above the horizon" forever.
https://www.zed.fr/en/catalog/decoding-saqqara-the-secret-hieroglyphs-of-the-pyramid
If ‘You’ is not your body, you transcend over the maze and its control.
You then descend into your body, and use it, unattached and willing to sacrifice it to win.
You finish your play in the game when your embodiment perishes.
Then the ‘You’ is assessed for how it played.
Don't want to be too propositional here, but I'm not convinced that:
>But this is only a dilemma if you believe that we haven’t already been defeated. In truth, we are already dead. We are shades—spectres, wraiths. This world is the underworld.
Reading about Hermes Trismegestris rn, and one of the things I enjoy is that the prison aspect of the material world is not as emphasizes as other gnostic traditions
I hear ya - this is what I'm trying to get at later on with the "a prison is also a work of art, a game and a story". It's a necker cube, both sides are true and valid. I think in general we are too quick dismiss this pessimistic prison side of reality, perhaps because we are in a time where existence feels unusually un-incarceratory.