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ANCIENT EGYPT
ARCHITECTURAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
Author_R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
AXES
BAS-RELIEFS
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EGYPTOLOGY
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GREECE
HARDCOVER
HUMANITY
KNOWLEDGE
LUXOR
MATHEMATICAL
MEASURES
MEDICAL
MENTALITY
METAPHYSICAL
ORIENTATIONS
PAPYRI
PROPORTIONS
ROSETTA STONE
SACRED GEOMETRY
SPIRITUALLY
SYMBOLISM
TEMPLE OF AMUN-MUT-KHONSU
UNIVERSE
WESTERN SCIENCE
Product details
- ISBN 9780892815708
- Weight: 5049g
- Dimensions: 229 x 305mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 1998
- Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The monumental Temple of Manrepresents the most important breakthrough in our understanding of Ancient Egypt since the discovery of the Rosetta stone. This exhaustive and authoritative study reveals the depths of the mathematical, medical, and metaphysical sophistication of Ancient Egypt. Schwaller de Lubicz's stone-by-stone survey of the temple of Amun-Mut-Khonsu at Luxor allows us to step into the mentality of Ancient Egypt and experience the Egyptian way of thinking within the context of their own worldview. His study finds the temple to be an eloquent expression and summary--an architectural encyclopedia--of what the Egyptians knew of humanity and the universe. Through a reading of the temple's measures and proportions, its axes and orientations, and the symbolism and placement of its bas-reliefs, along with the accompanying studies of related medical and mathematical papyri, Schwaller de Lubicz demonstrates how advanced the civilization of Ancient Egypt was, a civilization that possessed exalted knowledge and achievements both materially and spiritually. In so doing, Schwaller de Lubicz effectively demonstrates that Ancient Egypt, not Greece, is at the base of Western science, civilization, and culture. To understand the temple of Luxor, twelve years of field work were undertaken with the utmost exactitude by Schwaller de Lubicz in collaboration with French archaeologist Clement Robichon and the respected Egyptologist Alexandre Varille. From this work were produced over 1000 pages of text and proofs of the sacred geometry of the temple and 400 illustrations and photographs that make up The Temple of Man. The Temple of Manis a monument to inspired insight, conscientious scholarship, and exacting archaeological groundwork that represents a major contribution to humanity's perennial search for self-knowledge and the prehistoric origins of its culture and science.
R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz (1887--1961) was one of the most important philosophers, mathematicians, and Egyptologists of this century. His elucidation of the temple at Luxor and his presentation of the Egyptian understanding of a special quality of innate consciousness form a bridge that links the sacred science of the Ancients to its rediscovery in our own time.
