- Those of us who are concerned about dealing with the mental problems, which are massive among the ex-slaves here in North America and the ex-colonized people of the continent itself... And they are just as sick as we are.

They were slaves.

They will colonize.

But it's the same mental problem.

A mental problem which makes us unaware of the nature of ourselves.

And since we are unaware, therefore we are crazy.

And I don't mean just crazy in the Western sense.

I mean crazy in the universal sense.

- Good evening and welcome to the second installment of The Nile Valley Conference.

In this segment, we continue with Dr. Na'im Akbar, a clinical psychologist from Florida State University.

Dr. Akbar's subject is the science of the mind in Egyptian history.

In part one, Dr. Akbar presented a comparative analysis of the ancient Egyptian science of the mind and so-called modern psychology.

Now we continue with Dr. Na'im Akbar.

- Now, the fundamental principle where we learn to approach this issue of psychology in ancient Kemet is in terms of the whole concept of consciousness, awareness, what the ancients referred to as knowledge of self.

The concept of man know thy self is the fundamental principle of the psychology of Kemet.

Dr. George G. M. James observed that the doctrine of self-knowledge for centuries attributed to Socrates is now definitely known to have originated from Egyptian temples, on the outside of which the words man know thyself were written.

You cannot enter into the process, not the doors, not the portals, not the physical structure.

You cannot enter into the process of the temples until you understood that the fundamental principle of development was man know thyself.

The foundation of consciousness, the foundation of growth, the foundation of psychological development was rooted in that principle.

Dr. James goes on to say that self-knowledge then is the basis of all true knowledge.

The mysteries required as a first step, the mastery of the passions, taming of the wild inner beast, putting the inner beasts under the control of the higher being.

We'll talk about that more later.

But that was step one, to know the animals, the wild stigs, to know of the wild beast that live within first.

And by knowing them, one brought them under control.

By understanding them, one reduced them to servitude to the higher processes in the human being.

After the first step, it said, "This made room for the occupation of unlimited powers."

Isn't that something?

That somehow the passions run wild in the psyche, in the consciousness, if they are not tamed.

And by passions running wild, it leaves no room for the higher powers to enter.

But when they're quieted, subdued and submitted, then the room is quiet for the higher powers to come in.

And then the second step, the neophyte was required to search within himself for the new powers which had taken possession of him.

Man know thyself.

Essentially, we find in this doctrine of self knowledge a simplified description of the initial psychology of consciousness.

Man's capacity to know himself was established as a fundamental human characteristic.

And in pursuit of that knowledge of oneself, one was in pursuit of knowledge of all things.

The question of consciousness is fundamental for understanding the ancient Egyptian conception of human psychology.

Initiation into the mysteries was not only a system of education, but a metaphor for the total development of the human soul through life and death.

I'm sure that Dr. Huey will talk about this later on today, but the whole word of education, edusure, which means to eduse or to pull out, was based upon the idea that all that the man needed to know was already inside anyway.

And education simply provided an environment to educe the higher potential that was already built in.

So you don't put nothing on nobody unless you train them.

But if you educate them, you simply take out what's already there.

"What was to be known in this pursuit of consciousness?

The initiative was instructed that he must know self.

And self in the conception of the ancients, as well as modern Africans, meant soul.

The kind of consciousness which had to be developed was therefore of much greater depth than the brain consciousness that we focus on today."

"Such consciousness," according to Schwaller de Lubicz, "is described as no more than a mental projection of what a man believes himself to want and do.

The soul in its various dimensions is conceived by the ancients as the most explicit description of the Egyptian conceptualization of human psychology."

You know, there's reason to believe that the level of understanding of consciousness was so vast that many of the images of the topographical, as well as the political structure of Egypt, reflected a concept of consciousness.

For an example...

Unfortunately, Richard King is not going to be here, but he was going to talk about the symbolism of the crown.

The crown of upper and lower Egypt in many ways reflects a motif of duality coming together.

The whole idea of the unification of Egypt as symbolized by the wearing of the double crown probably foreshadows by several thousands of years the recently discovered reality of the duality of the hemispheres of the brain, which deal with different levels of consciousness in the physical parallel.

That somehow the idea that there's a left brain and a right brain which operate in complimentary means of consciousness was probably very clearly reflected in the idea that upper and lower Egypt consistently reflected variations in the kinds of emphasis of the consciousness of the people.

Upper Egypt dealing very deeply into the spiritual realms, not to exclude the material, but the spiritual was clearly the vestiges, the rudiments of what was there.

We find that the major remains of the major buildings, the pyramids and so forth, are in Lower Egypt, I'm sorry, other way around.

No, that's right.

Upper and Lower Egypt.

That somehow we have there the whole concept that there is where the more rational, analytical kinds of processes were taking place.

So we have the spiritual and the material, but not working at odds, but in concepts of unification.

And it was when Egypt was unified, that Egypt was able to advance the farthest because they brought together the dualities of consciousness and made them one.

The presence of the Uraeus or the serpent on the double crown of the pharaoh, symbolizing, of course, the protrusion and the extension and the projection of the pineal, which is the house of the soul, which means that the dual consciousness is guided by the light which comes through the eye of the Uraeus, which stands as the light to the soul.

So this idea which runs through all vestiges, the papyri versus the lotus.

The lotus being the flower of upper Egypt, and the papyri being the flower of Lower Egypt, that somehow, again, reflects the differences in terms of what causes the papyri to grow and what causes the lotus to grow.

Again, the reflection of the kind of differences and the duality of consciousness which existed there.

The idea is, is that most of this stuff they think they are discovering simply represents their desperate attempts to try to regain what they lost when they went astray.

The soul is the fundamental subject of study for these wise men of ancient Kemet.

They knew that if you understood soul, the behavior would follow.

They understood that if you could understand the true nature of man, then it would simply be a matter of time before the behavior came in line.

Those of us who are concerned about dealing with the mental problems, which are massive among the ex-slaves here in North America and the ex-colonized people of the continent itself... And they are just as sick as we are.

They were slaves.

They will colonize.

But it's the same mental problem.

A mental problem which makes us unaware of the nature of ourselves.

And since we are unaware, therefore we are crazy.

And I don't mean just crazy in the Western sense.

I mean crazy in the universal sense.

And the resolution to that is to begin to reemerge ourselves, immerse ourselves in the higher knowledge of ourselves.

Let's go on.

"The tombs of the leaders of the people of ancient Egypt are consecrated to their profession of faith in the survival of the soul."

And the inclusion of the soul in Western scholarship, the exclusion of the soul in Western scholarship accounts for its limitation in understanding the fullness of the human being.

There are...

I have a very, very few copies of a table there.

But what that does is that it just gives a kind of a table which talks about the various terms that were used to describe the so-called septenary of the dimensions of the soul.

And the dimensions of the soul is the way that we can begin to understand this whole idea of what really constitutes, what really constitutes the true makeup of the human being.

Let's sort of look at these.

The first dimension of soul was called the ka.

The ka.

In the preceding slide presentation, they were talking about that as the origin of certain West African totemic names.

But the whole idea of the ka is viewed as being the body, is usually identified rather with the body of the person.

And it's kind of the symbol of the ka, though the ka soul was certainly transcendent.

It's beyond body.

In other words, the ka is sort of like the stabilizing principle that holds and brings together the spiritual energy that we'll talk about later on.

So the anchoring substance, the anchoring substance in the psyche of the person was the ka.

And it says that the ka soul was certainly transcendent, though the ka served as the thread of connection between man's tangible and intangible being.

So in other words, the ka represented the transitional passage between the transcendent self and the earthly of the mundane self.

It represented the connectedness, the connectedness between the tangible and the intangible.

And therefore that was bound in what is known as the ka.

Now the ka is described in several terms.

There's a divine ka which is viewed as being sort of like the original ka of the creator, which is the source of man's collective body as a human being.

There's the intermediate ka which has to do with nature and minerals and vegetables and animal life and how they operate and the forms that they take as a manifestation of spiritual energy.

There is the inferior Ka which constitutes the individualized ka.

Those inherited characteristics which are unique from person to person.

The objective of the person or the goal of the person in his development is to be able to bring the inferior ka up to the divine ka.

And therefore the modification of the character represents an ongoing transformation from the inferior, individualized, separate, isolated physical self to a more transcendent self that we will see in other parts of the self.

The other aspect of the ka, and by the way, many of these things are symbolically represented in the book of Genesis when they talk about Adam being, having being made out of clay and the breath of life being breathed into Adam.

They're talking about the ka and the coming of the ba because the ba is the breath.

The breath of the soul that enters into and activates the being of the person.

So rather than talking about it symbolically as the breath of God breathing into Adam, they talked about the bird.

The bird with a man's head that came from the celestial and entered into the ka of the person, and together became a living being.

A living being who became a ka and a ba combined.

The soul of breath represented the transmission of the invisible energy source like electricity, which runs through all visible functions.

The ancients believed that there was only one power, which was symbolically represented as the breath.

And that this power of breath was transmitted from the ancestors to the descendants all the way back to the creator.

They believe that this power of energy has always existed and will always exist.

The ba was in effect the vital principle which represented the essence of all things.

Okay, the ba... Well, let's go on.

the ba and the ka, of course, operate as compliments of each other.

The whole activating life and the physical form of the ka came together to form a complimentary relationship that existed until death on this plane.

At which time, the ka remained and the ba took with it the divine part of the ka back to its originator.

But we'll get back to that in a few seconds.

The khaba...

The khaba...

I was gonna say no relationship to the Kaaba in Mecca, but I'm not sure about that.

I suspect that there may be some connection.

But the khaba, K-H-A-B-A, is the shade or covering soul corresponding to the popular notion of the ghosts.

It is the astral or etheric body.

It is related to the Akashic records which hold the records of all the pictures or imaginings in our universe.

It is the khaba which produces emotion and motion.

It was further thought that to be responsible for sustaining the sensory perceptions, the phenomena of color, harmony, a rhythm, if you will, and the circulation of blood.

So the drums and the rituals in many West African societies were done as means of stimulating the khaba.

Because in stimulating the khaba, one was reimmersed into the Akashic records.

So the Haitians, for an example, when they begin to have people to hook into spiritual recordings, they begin to play the rhythms which begin to give a harmonious experience, which then send them into so, quote-unquote, "a trance," which actually permits the khaba to express itself, and therefore the person is able to speak from the ancient records of the Akashic, which are a part of all of our beings.

What does that mean?

That means then that this whole thing of a discrepancy in intelligence does not exist.

We've all got it all if we knew how to get to it.

And this is the idea that is here.

So the khaba.

Okay, the aku.

"The aku is the fourth dimension of the psychic nature, and it is described as the seat of intelligence and mental perception."

"It was in the area of the Aku, the ancients believe, that the whole mystery of the human mind was to be comprehended.

The mind was in fact an entity in and of itself.

And only during physical life was the mind the instrument of the human spirit.

The concerns of the mind were primarily the survival of its own thinking processes, characterized by attributes like judgment, analysis, mental reflection, so forth and so on, all of which could be trained and disciplined so as to be dedicated to the service of the higher being."

So in other words, we are saying here that the aku was never intended to be rational in and of itself.

It was never intended to make judgments and analysis based upon its own perspective.

The intelligence is supposed to be a servant to the higher being.

The higher intelligence to be (indistinct) in just a second.

Therefore, the intelligence was considered to be located in the heart.

In the heart.

And it was considered to be not only rational, but also spiritual and ethical.

So let me now give you a description of an IQ test for the ancient Kemet.

"In ancient Egypt, the drama of intelligence testing unfolds at the coming of the deceased into the court of Osiris brought by Anubis, where his heart is put on the scale of justice and one's intelligence is measured by whether or not your heart has been so lightened that it will not tilt a feather."

That's the IQ test.

It means that you have used your intelligence to cultivate your humanity, your ethical being, your moral being, your commitment to service.

You've used your intelligence to transform a corrupt society and make it a meaningful society.

You've used your intelligence not to destroy the world, but to grow the world.

You've used your intelligence not to feed the passions, but to elevate and transcend the passions.

And therefore, it has been (indistinct).

It has been removed from its weightiness, it has been moved from its earthliness, it's been moved from all that gives weight to it and it has transcended.

And you can put it on the scale next to a feather and it won't tilt the scale.

What an IQ test that would be.

Can't you see Ronald Reagan taking an IQ test?

(crowd laughing) He would be a substandard, profoundly retarded idiot and all the rest of those who claim intelligence.

Look at Harvard, look at Yale, look at Princeton, look at Oxford.

All the scholars of this society would not even make it to the chamber of Osiris, much less their hearts to the scale.

And they have the nerve to think that we are the ones who are unintelligent.

But that's real intelligence.

We boast about rational growth.

Rational growth without moral growth is retardation.

(crowd applauding) And your people said it.

Let's go on.

The seb.

"The seb is the soul of pubescence because it doesn't manifest itself in humans until puberty or adolescence.

The evidence of the presence of the seb was the power of the human being to generate his own kind.

The seb is, in effect, the self creative power of being."

Now, this is the element that Freud took out and said, "This is all that we are."

Sex, changed one letter.

Took the B out and made it X, and made it sex rather than seb.

Seb has very little to do with genital reproduction, though that's the metaphor for the self recreative power.

The fact that the human being has been invested by the creator with the capability to recreate, as well as to self create.

So we are created, but we have the capability to create ourselves.

So therefore, these are all possibilities that exist in the human makeup.

But Freud with his Jewish mysticism and his like of understanding of the true knowledge that the Kabbalah had already stolen from the Egyptian mysteries... And you masons, you all ought to be shame of yourselves walking around with limited understanding of broader things.

Got the symbols, but don't know the basis of the symbols.

If you did, you would not be masons, you would be the owners.

And as long as you are not an owner, you would not come into the growth that's supposed to be a part of your system.

A system which gives you access to powers that not only you have, but we all have.

And if you've got what it takes, come on and teach us.

Not go off and science it up and mystify and give people passwords and symbols and backhand shakes and scratches and all this stuff.

Come on and teach the people.

(crowd applauding) Come teach the people.

Teach the people.

That's your responsibility.

Teach the people.

We don't want individual power, we want collective power.

We don't want Washington Monument, we wanna know what it means.

We don't want an obelisk standing up symbolically over our graves, we want the obelisk to protrude out of our temples into the top of our heads and stand as a protrusion of not the penis of Osiris, but the transformative image of the pyramid standing at the top of being.

But that's another story.

Let's go on.

The putah was the intellectual soul.

"The putah," P-U-T-A-H, "was the intellectual soul or the first intellectual father.

Unlike the aku, the putah was associated with the mental maturity of the individual and marked the union of the brain with the mind.

It was the putah which established the fact of the person.

And from the moment of its manifestation or attainment, it was believed that intellect that is will and intent alone govern conduct.

The maturity of the putah represents the person's ability to reproduce intellectually."

The teacher capability.

The putah meant that your intelligence had matured when you were able to do what I just got through saying.

And that is teach others.

That's why African people have revered, have revered the wisdom of the elders because the elders reflect the maturity of intelligence, the bringing together of not only the physical components of intelligence, but also the transcendent components.

The spiritual components, if you will.

So that's reflected in the putah.

Finally, the atmu.

"The atmu is the seventh," A-T-M-U, "is the seventh division of the psyche and was considered the divine or the eternal soul.

In some text, it is identified with the seventh creation, the God Atmu, who inspired the breath of life everlasting.

In ritual, this division of the soul is represented as parenthood, which symbolically stood for the presence of full creative powers and perpetual continuation."

Now, some writers talk about a synthesis or an integration of these seven into an eighth.

Others speak of the seventh as being the integration itself.

But those who talk about the eighth as being a concept, such as Massey, for an example, speaks of this higher synthesis as being the Horace or the Christ of the personality.

Not Christ as a man walking around in Jerusalem, but Christ consciousness is representing the crystallization of what is necessary for the continued integration of all components of the human being.

So the fully developed person is Christ.

Yeah, man, you.

Yeah, sister, you.

And one of the problems is that you don't understand.

You too can be Christ if you understand the integration of the sevenfold forms that have been given by the creator.

You told me my watch.

My watch is right.

I have 10:25.

I got five minutes, right?

Okay, good.

I'm working on that.

I'm gonna have it on a minute.

All right, so the integration then, the synthesis, the bringing together of all of the components of the personality represented the immersion of Horace or the Christ in the human makeup.

This component is described as enwrapping in serving as the essence of all divisions of the soul and was viewed as the ka of God.

Perhaps this very activity here today is in part dealing with the resurrection of the ka, resurrection of the divine ka, and the integration of the soul of our people.

Let's go on and finish this up.

And I'll read this, so I'll make sure I state my time.

"This discussion is focused on just one aspect of a multifaceted and complex system, which describes the human psyche according to ancient Kemetic tradition.

As we caution from the outset, the entirety of Kemetic cosmology is actually a comprehensive description of the psyche of man.

The amazingly complex theology of ancient Kemet represents a series of allegories which define the workings of nature, and most importantly, the genesis and implied potentialities of man.

These myths and symbols actually transcend the empirical conclusions of Western signs and describe man not only on the basis of what he does, but what he is.

We chose to look at the psychic dimensions as the ancients described it, because in that system, we find a summary of what the human being is.

By implication, we can more effectively describe the properly functioning human being and can actually see the distinctions from the African perspective.

Each of the components of the septenary, the sevenfold soul, which we have described, has implications for understanding the nature of the human being."

I just have to mention in passing of how the numerology thing fits in.

It's not accidental that there's sevenfold dimensions of the soul.

There are also sevenfold dimensions of the atmosphere.

There is also a principle of seven on which the pyramid is built.

A base of four transformed through three, which becomes one.

And the whole idea of 777 runs throughout.

And seven as a sacred number is very much tied with the fact that the completed being of a person is on seven.

Numerology, quantification paralleling the cosmological and spiritual.

"The fundamental conclusion about human nature as implied by the description of the ba and the atmu, as well as the divine ka, is that the human being is transpersonal and is essentially connected with the divine and with everything else in nature."

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