High Holy Happy Khepera Ascension

Behold the Khepera Ascending From Out Of Its Material Cycles Onto The Wings Of Divine Energy Seeking To Fly Up Into The Formless Transcendental Phoenix Soul (in the Sun).

The image on this card depicts Khepera (a Scarab Dung Beetle) as heshe is rising up on the way to becoming the Benu (Phoenix Soul Of Transformation) which the Egyptians depicted as a Great Blue Heron.  When the transformation is complete, the Khepera Scarab will no longer die (each year) but instead will have the ability to migrate with the seasons like the Great Blue Heron and thus transcend the annual cycle of life and death.

This story of the Khepera Ascension into the Phoenix is...

well...the oldest story in the world. It is one of the foundation stories of the vastly ancient Egypt.  With this story, the early spiritual wise men along the Nile taught the Egyptians that they could become, like the Khepera, AS the Benu and thus transcend the cycles of material karma and constant rebirth upon the Earth and dwell forever in the Heavens with God.

A more modern depiction of this story (and much easier to grasp by Westerners) can be seen in this 20^th or 21^st century painting by an anonymous artist which was sent to me recently by Kimber. It depicts a soul rising on its (newly found) spiritual wings.

In this immensely important parchment painting, a copy of which I bought on the streets of Cairo, we can easily see that once upon a very long time ago, in the beginning of the most ancient days of this Fourth Age of the World, the ancestors to the Egyptians began the celebration of the core relationships which have been passed down to form the highest mystic rites of Christianity and the metaphysical principles of Hinduism, Buddhism, and the broad stream of New Age thought and practice.

The Egyptians told a lot of stories about the world and its history and these have been widely told through many diverse traditions and cultures, but ALMOST NOBODY MAKES PROPER ATTRIBUTION TO THE EGYPTIAN MATERNITY. For the ancient traders, all roads led ultimately to Rome. For ALL on the spiritual quest, all roads lead ultimately back to the future to the Temple of the Sun and the Perch of the Great Phoenix (The Three Pyres of Orient Are) on what is now called the Giza Plateau.

The most important information the Egyptians relayed to their children was that the world was composed of ever-repeating cycles with two fundamental qualities.

One quality was material, which they symbolized as the Khepera - a Scarab Dung Beetle which rolls its egg up in a ball composed of mud and dung.  All mortal life was AS Khepera, merely a fleeting existence trapped within a short span of years.  Most of that life had no real significance, only the transitory joys of day by day ego gratification.

But the ancient Egyptians also taught that there was a second quality to the Universe.  Residing in each and every life and object in the universe was the pure creative essence of God, all powerful, totally unconditioned, that part of God which creates God, thus, there was in each person a transcendental formlessness through which God possessed the power to create and transform all form, even including God’s own nature of manifestation in the Universe.  Each person had that as an aspect of hisher "soul" and the Egyptians named this aspect of the God Soul, this “form” of all forms, as the Benu, which the Hellenes translated into the Euro tongues as the "Phoenix".

Under the right circumstances, an individual soul bound in Khepera could become AS "The Benu" and escape forever the Khepera life cycles.  If not, the Khepera Soul was bound to repeat another life in materiality rolling hisher dung ball.  The Hindus, as you may recognize by now, remembered this lesson from their Egyptian teachers under the Sanskrit term "Karma" and taught this to the Buddhists who in turn taught it to Y’shua and thence through many Gnostic movements and many long centuries the story line was brought into the current world. 

And so the story goes...and all those seeking God continue seeking personal transformation with a real basis in a state of meaning which is greater than, much greater than the slings and arrows and occasional victories of materialistic struggles upon the Earth.

Hence the Phoenix Quest...IT IS, the oldest quest upon the Earth.

This December 21 Solstice (shortest day of the Year, when the Earth is closest to the Sun, has long been celebrated as the beginning of the year and as such it symbolizes more universally the beginning of the ascent of the Khepera reaching for a new cycle of rebirth which would lead to liberation from materiality by becoming AS the Phoenix.

Among the Hindu’s, this transcendental rebirth is ultimately AS Krishna.  Among the Christian, this transcendental rebirth is ultimately AS Christ. From this we can see the connection between the Christian practices in the West to the most ancient practices. 

May The Khepera Birthing Krishna Christ In Your Soul Be A Wondrous Movement This Year.

NOTES ON THE SYMBOLISM IN THIS DEPICTION:

Notice the use of the color black to depict the cosmic space background.

Notice the stripes in the wings – they are sun rays.

Notice at the tip of the wings - the rays are hitting the waters of fluid motion and generating the waves of the cycles of time...

Notice the red cup out of which the Khepera is ascending.  That is the Buddha Begging Bowl,  or as otherwise stated (as the scribes of Egypt often said), the Crown of Nepthys who was the sister of Isis always shown in the "past tense" of time and in the " Atlantean Age" side of the time story panels of the pictographic hieroglyphs.

Notice the flow of the cosmic forces pouring out over into the present from the past bringing the rising motion of the Khepera who "catches" the wings of liberation which are literally wrought from the "yods" (rods) which emanate from the Sun.

Notice the squarish points... made so, I suspect, to denote human style constructions made from the light....I will bet all comers at any odds that these are the positive elements of Good Deed Karma in the life of the Khepera which provides the "connectivity" in the "muscle" of the wings...

Those Nile symbolists were truly amazing. The “Egyptian Metaphysique” (pun intended) has never been equaled. The Shaman and early priests had amazing sensitivity to all aspects of human psychology....they used the Scarab Dung Beetle to symbolize the material life of a human soul...quite obviously to convey humility and to make the point that all life had a purpose, place, and connection to the divine.

8.     Oh yes! Notice finally that the Sun is the Rising Khepera's "Dung Ball"!!!  This is more of less the lightworker's logo, if ever there was. LOL...

Yours In Love, Michael Wells Mandeville

HERE ARE SOME THOUGHTS IN AN EMAIL EXCHANGE WHICH PROMPTED THIS CARD

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Deb sent comments to which MWM responds, hopefully in at tune with

At 06:18 AM 12/16/2004, you wrote:

DEB: i was having flashes in my dreams..symbols showing..at approx. 12:53 there 

was a golden circle/ring and it showed

MWM:  Earth Medicine Wheel - it is time to connect with and stand in the Earth Medicine Wheel as a focal point of unity and personal/earth healing.  Kimber and I do this every day (almost everyday - join us if you will). This among other things will help Earth Sensitives ground and cope with scalar "allergies" ( hyper sensitivity to etheric/scalar energy disturbances)

DEB:  the circle first but then it showed it 

was on a leather strand like for a necklace.

MWM:  Your guides are telling you this is NOT AN ABSTRACT CONCEPT, BUT SOMETHING FOR PERSONAL USE AND "WEARING"

DEB: Then i woke looking at the time

MWM:  Bring the concept into manifestation.

DEB: and  then i got up and then laid back down,

 and flashes again came through..a

line of  symbols and there was the phoenix symbol.

peace

deb

MWM:  Search for additional information  - Khepera (Annual Material Cycles) Rising Into Phoenix Soul Of Transcendental Transformation...the oldest story in the world, the foundation story of Egypt.  Time to work with the Earth Medicine Wheel this year to integrate transformations at all levels.  Let this then be A GREAT PROJECT of our Phoenix Quest.