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multi-layered messages to express information in a highly compact form. Then they
embedded the messages in popular games and customs so that the common people would
support the survival of the information even if they were not aware of its deeper
significance.
The Senet Oracle Game Board was just such an ingenious invention. The variety of
interesting ways of playing with a Senet Board ensured its widespread popularity. By
devising the board as a miniature pantheon it became a compact and portable spiritual
tool for Egyptians. The adaptation of the board as an oracle added yet another level of
interest. The Senet Board could be used to resolve practical problems in a person's life.
However, the Senet Board was also designed as a precise scientific tool and was
dedicated to the highest spiritual level of existence that Egyptians called "Amen", the
Invisible Foundation. To the Egyptians the highest form of God is invisible because His
Essence lies beyond the senses and at the same time embraces in His Essence all the
diversity of creation. Thus they called the game of life "Senet" because a player passes
through all forms of creation when engaging with it and transcends beyond them all as a
primary goal. The Oracle Game Board is a precise mathematical grid carved on the
foundation stone of Reality. The Egyptians used grids to scale their designs accurately
from the drawing board to finished artifacts of any size from miniature to gigantic. The
Egyptians used Cartesian grids as mathematical tools thousands of years before Descartes
was born.
Given the close connection of the Senet Board to the principle of AMEN, it would seem
to make sense that the Egyptians would find a way to encode the essential concept of the
Senet Board into the Great Temple of Amen in Karnak, one of the most important and
largest sacred sites ever constructed by mankind. The Temple of Amen erected on this
site at Karnak was the focus of major celebrations for centuries during the New Kingdom
and remains today as a truly awesome remnant of ancient Egyptian civilization.
The name "Senet" means to pass through or pass beyond. So the first place to look for
evidence of Senet would be the grand entryway to the temple. We begin our search with
a drawing made by Lucie Lamy of a portion of an illustration that is found on the wall of
the colonnade of Amen at Luxor illustrating a procession of priests bearing the Boat of
Amen as they depart from the gateway at the pylon entrance to the Temple of Amen in
Karnak on their way to the Temple of Amen in Luxor during the annual grand Opet
Festival. "Amen" stands for the invisible Higher Self. The boat (waa) symbolizes the
technique of meditation used by Egyptians for crossing the "river" or "ocean" of
awareness. For Egyptians the Nile River represented the dynamic and continuous flow
of attention that we call consciousness. The Mediterranean Sea represented a vast
existential domain of awareness that we can call psychic reality.
The word for portal in Egyptian is "seba". The word "seba" also means teaching and
star. The Egyptian five-pointed star symbolized the immortal light body of a person.
The Egyptians knew that everything is made of light, and that light changes shape, but
never dies. Thus their meditation practice was a tool to assist a person to shift awareness
away from identification with light forms as solid material bodies subject to destruction