Egyptian Harmony: The Visual MusicTehuti Research Foundation, 2000 - 191 síður Egypt's Masonic symphony in art and architecture. Read about: How the Egyptians designed their buildings to generate cosmic energy; Sacred geometry as applied in all aspects of ancient Egyptian works; The underlying metaphysical patterns of physical forms in nature, hieroglyphs etc; Kepler's revival of Egyptian knowledge, and his joy in discovering it; Geometrical and musical patterns, as reflected in ancient Egyptian building design; The enharmonic scale of ancient Egypt; Seshat, patron of enumeration and building. |
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2 Maat The Queen of Harmony | 24 |
3 Ra The One Joined Together | 37 |
4 Tehuti The Divine Deliverance | 45 |
5 Seshat The Enumerator | 51 |
10 Harmonic Proportion of Human Figuration | 100 |
11 Seshat The Builder | 108 |
12 Temple The Divine Energy Generator | 122 |
13 Harmonic Analysis of Ancient Egyptian Works | 135 |
Glossary General | 167 |
Glossary Musical | 170 |
Selected Bibliography | 172 |
Sources and Notes | 175 |
6 The Two Parts Setting the Tone | 66 |
7 The Generative Square Roots | 72 |
8 Triangles The Building Blocks | 85 |
9 The Hieroglyphic Mysticism | 92 |
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About TRF Books | 189 |
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Síða 19 - Now, eighteen months after the first light, three months after the true day, but a very few days after the pure Sun of that most wonderful study began to shine, nothing restrains me: it is my pleasure to yield to the inspired frenzy, it is my pleasure to taunt mortal men with the candid acknowledgment that I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far, far away from the boundaries of Egypt.
Síða 23 - But the wiser of the priests call not only the Nile Osiris and the sea Typhon, but they simply give the name of Osiris to the whole source and faculty creative of moisture,' believing this to be the cause of generation and the substance of life-producing seed ; and the name of Typhon they give to all that is dry, fiery, and arid/ in general, and antagonistic to moisture. Therefore, because they believe that he was personally of a reddish sallow colour," they are not eager to meet men of such complexion,...
Síða 12 - Do you not know, Asclepius, that Egypt is an image of heaven, or, to speak more exactly, in Egypt all the operations of the powers which rule and work in heaven have been transferred to earth below? Nay, it should rather be said that the whole Kosmos dwells in this our land as in its sanctuary.