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eternity. God appeared to Unas and Unas is seated upon the
great throne at the side of the great God…. It is Unas who is at
the head of the Kas, who united hearts in the face of the supreme
Sage, bearer of the divine scroll the Knower of wisdom at the
right hand of Ra….
Although this ceremony dates from the first Egyptian dynasty, the
above description is from the Saqqara temple of Pharaoh Unas, the last
king of the fifth dynasty. The Egyptians may have lost the secret of the
green substance during the Hyksos invasion. 929
Pre-Islamic Persian Sufism provides a guide to the full
significance of green: 930
Ours is the method of alchemy. It involves extracting the subtle
organism of light from beneath the mountains under which it lies
imprisoned.
The Iranian Sufis drew not only on Islam, but also on the
Zoroastrian, Manichaean, Hermetic, Gnostic and Platonic traditions that
flourished in Persia. Sohrawardi the Martyr, who lived from 1153CE to
1191CE, was the chief Sufi Philosopher of the Orient. He carried out the
great project of reviving the wisdom of pre-Islamic Zoroastrian Iran in
Sufism.
This wisdom traced the Orient of pure light to the celestial pole,
the double constellation of the Bear and Pole Stars. In an important Sufi
vision, oil collected from the constellation of the Bear is a pure spiritual
substance given as initiation into the mystical rank of Ecclesia Spiritualis,
the seven masters of initiation and intercessors. 931
The Great Bear, otherwise known as the Great Chariot, Arktos,
the Big Dipper and Charlie’s Wain is the most prominent constellation in
the Northern Hemisphere.
The Little Bear or Little Chariot is the laborer’s Plough or
Phoenix, which is reborn from ashes.
Each night the Great Bear’s seven principal stars pivot around the
axis of the North Pole. This axis is now located near the star Polaris but
six thousand years ago the star Dracos was the axis. Dracos, the
Arthurian dragon, lies in between the two Bears so that the Bears
appeared to dance around the pole as the earth rotated.
Ruzbehan of Shiraz, on turning his attention to the Great Bear,
saw its seven stars as seven apertures through which God directly showed
himself. Similarly, in Taoist tradition, the Ecclesia Spiritualis are the
seven spiritual rulers in the constellation of the Bear and the Bear Star is
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