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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

The Anubis Sphinx

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception




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THE ANUBIS SPHINX
In "The Sphinx Mystery: The Forgotten Origins of the Sanctuary of Anubis," author Robert Temple reveals a radical theory regarding the Sphinx - that it had been originally a statue of Anubis, the neter that takes the form of a coyote or dog. I had already arrived at this conclusion myself when I read Temple's thesis, so thankfully I did not have to do all the meticulous research involved before this notion could be credibly presented to the world.
When you meditate on the shape of Sphinx one of the first things you will notice is that the head is disproportionate to the rest of the body, so it must have originally been bigger and possibly with completely different features. Most visionaries and maverick Egyptologists will tell you this is true, and that it must have been a lion's head since the rest of the body is obviously a lion. But they don't or can't explain why the thin, long legs of the Sphinx have the appearance of dogs legs, and why the long, smooth back of the Sphinx also fits that of a dog. So, to prove his point, Temple inserted the current Sphinx inside the image of Anubis and it fit perfectly, thus revealing that the Sphinx could indeed have originally been a gigantic statue of Anubis. And if that is not enough evidence, Temple has hundreds of written pages of history and mythology to prove his thesis.
Temple points to the fact that in Egypt it was not a lion that guarded the necropolises - the places of the dead - but Anubis. And even though no mummies were ever found in the Giza pyramids, the ancient Egyptian texts refer to Giza as the "Tomb of Osiris."
For those who maintain that Giza was not a tomb but a place of alchemy and initiation, Temple would answer that Anubis was a neter of alchemy. Like a wild coyote that feeds off carion, rotting meat, and thereby transforms it, it is the power of Anubis that alchemically purifies and raises the vibration of the flesh of a human initiate to a frequency approaching that of pure energy.
Anubis's association with alchemy is also revealed through his celestial manifestation in the heavens as Sirius, the dog star. There have been many esotericists, including Aleister Crowley, who have maintained that much of Egyptian Alchemy came directly from missionaries from Sirius - the star that the famous Theosophist Alice Bailey referred to as "The Great White Lodge of the Galaxy." According to Bailey, all the alchemical secrets of Freemasonry and other initiatic orders originally came from Sirius.
Finally, if Giza is both the "tomb" and "home" of Osiris, it makes sense that Anubis would be guarding it. In the heavens Osiris manifests as the "Hunter,"Orion, whose trusted dog, Canis Major, always accompanies him across the night sky. Anubis is associated with both Canis Major and its most powerful luminary, Sirius, the Dog Star.
We'll see the Sphinx and discuss Temple's theory during our Spiritual Journey into the Ancient Mysteries: Initiation into the Mysteries of Isis & Osiris, November 2 - 16, 2015.
Join Andrea Mikana-Pinkham, Director of Sacred Sites Journeys and Mark Amaru Pinkham, author of The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom - teachers of the ancient Egyptian Mysteries, with over 25 spiritual pilgrimage tours of Egypt between them - for an extraordinary sacred journey that only the most advanced initiates of ancient times were privileged to experience.

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