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EGYPTIAN TANTRIC YOGA
Author’s Foreword
Who Were the Ancient Egyptians and What is Yoga Philosophy?
The Ancient Egyptian religion (Shetaut Neter), language and symbols provide the first
"historical" record of Yoga Philosophy and Religious literature. Egyptian Yoga is what has been
commonly referred to by Egyptologists as Egyptian “Religion” or “Mythology”, but to think of it
as just another set of stories or allegories about a long lost civilization is to completely miss the
greatest secret of human existence. Yoga, in all of its forms and disciplines of spiritual
development, was practiced in Egypt earlier than anywhere else in history. This unique
perspective from the highest philosophical system which developed in Africa over seven
thousand years ago provides a new way to look at life, religion, the discipline of psychology and
the way to spiritual development leading to spiritual Enlightenment. Egyptian mythology, when
understood as a system of Yoga (union of the individual soul with the Universal Soul or Supreme
Consciousness), gives every individual insight into their own divine nature and also a deeper
insight into all religions and Yoga systems.
Diodorus Siculus (Greek Historian) writes in the time of Augustus (first century
B.C.):
"Now the Ethiopians, as historians relate, were the first of all men and the proofs of
this statement, they say, are manifest. For that they did not come into their land as
immigrants from abroad but were the natives of it and so justly bear the name of
autochthones (sprung from the soil itself), is, they maintain, conceded by practically all
men..."
"They also say that the Egyptians are colonists sent out by the Ethiopians, Osiris
having been the leader of the colony. For, speaking generally, what is now Egypt, they
maintain, was not land, but sea, when in the beginning the universe was being formed;
afterwards, however, as the Nile during the times of its inundation carried down the mud
from Ethiopia, land was gradually built up from the deposit...And the larger parts of the
customs of the Egyptians are, they hold, Ethiopian, the colonists still preserving their
ancient manners. For instance, the belief that their kings are Gods, the very special
attention which they pay to their burials, and many other matters of a similar nature, are
Ethiopian practices, while the shapes of their statues and the forms of their letters are
Ethiopian; for of the two kinds of writing which the Egyptians have, that which is
known as popular (demotic) is learned by everyone, while that which is called sacred
(hieratic), is understood only by the priests of the Egyptians, who learnt it from their
Fathers as one of the things which are not divulged, but among the Ethiopians, everyone
uses these forms of letters. Furthermore, the orders of the priests, they maintain, have
much the same position among both peoples; for all are clean who are engaged in the
service of the gods, keeping themselves shaven, like the Ethiopian priests, and having
the same dress and form of staff, which is shaped like a plough and is carried by their
kings who wear high felt hats which end in a knob in the top and are circled by the
serpents which they call asps; and this symbol appears to carry the thought that it will be
the lot who shall dare to attack the king to encounter death-carrying stings. Many other
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