Post by Tamrin on Sept 14, 2008 10:36:12 GMT 10
Bika Reed wrote in Rebel in the Soul: a sacred text of ancient Egypt,
"It is strange that so simple and evocative a language as Ancient Egyptian should be obscured by the very instrument of its rediscovery, the Egyptologist. No matter how academically erudite and analytically brilliant, can somebody who believes that Ancient Egypt was a primitive society, incapable of abstract thought, transmit to the modern reader its wisdom? Like a surgeon, who, searching for the soul of his patient with the help of a scalpel, declares there is no soul in man, the analytical mind, bent over a papyrus, with the scalpel of grammar, cries out, 'there is no philosophy in Egypt!' To such a mentality, the voyage of the Barque of the Sun is merely a pagan dream. Yet there objective reality would be a dream to the wise men of Egypt. It is as if a sleepwalker were placed as judge over the awake."
"It is strange that so simple and evocative a language as Ancient Egyptian should be obscured by the very instrument of its rediscovery, the Egyptologist. No matter how academically erudite and analytically brilliant, can somebody who believes that Ancient Egypt was a primitive society, incapable of abstract thought, transmit to the modern reader its wisdom? Like a surgeon, who, searching for the soul of his patient with the help of a scalpel, declares there is no soul in man, the analytical mind, bent over a papyrus, with the scalpel of grammar, cries out, 'there is no philosophy in Egypt!' To such a mentality, the voyage of the Barque of the Sun is merely a pagan dream. Yet there objective reality would be a dream to the wise men of Egypt. It is as if a sleepwalker were placed as judge over the awake."
