The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors

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The Isis Papers
intuitive means of overcoming the limitations of reason and achieving
a higher humanism.
Schwaller de Lubicz also indicates ...
Egypt and other cultures grounded in the symbolic method, were
indeed, through symbols, educating the neurological structures of the
brain to maintain an active, conscious connection not only between
the bilateral lobes of the cerebral cortex, but also with the impulses
and subliminal information received from the ancient and deeper
limbic and reptilian centers, so that these aspects of our nature could
be integrated into the activity of our reasoning mind.
Symbols and the decoding of symbols has yet to become a major area
of interest and study in Western civilization. This is regrettable at one
level, yet very understandable at a deeper level. Decoding the symbol is
an activity not unlike that of the physical scientist who places matter or
living substance under the lens of a light microscope or an electromicroscope
for the purpose of gaining deeper insight into and understanding of
the structure and function of that matter. In both instances (decoding the
symbol and examining matter under a microscope), the process of investigation
serves to refine our knowledge and influence our behavior in the
universe. Decoding the symbol also leads to a deeper understanding of
the self, and so frees the self. There are few who would argue that in-depth
knowledge is not superior to knowledge of the surface alone.
The process of decoding and visualizing the symbol does not require
the aid of a device beyond the human body, such as the microscope. Such
a process requires fast and foremost the activity of the right cerebral
hemisphere and those sensory, neuro-chemical channels that feed primarily
into this area of the human brain-computer. As a theoretical extension,
I am convinced that the neuropigment melanin plays a crucial role in this
right cerebral hemisphere sensory, neurochemical system.
Melanin acts as an energy-data absorbing biological pigment in the
nervous system leading specifically to the right cerebral hemisphere.
Melanin as a neuropigment has the capacity to absorb levels of energy
activity outside the spectrum of energy frequencies processed by the five
Paper Money and Gold
traditional senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell) recognized in
Western civilization, the civilization evolved by the white skinned collective
who lacks any substantial quality of melanin skin and nervous system
pigmentation and likewise, who has a lesser energy-data gathering
capacity.
Let us now examine some views on money.
For the Jove of money is the root of all evils; it is through this craving
that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced their hearts
with many fangs. (Holy Bible, Timothy 6: 11)
Ernest Becker in Escape From Evil states:
One of the fascinating chapters in history is the evolution of money -
all the more so since it has yet to be written.... One of the reasons it
isn't written is that the origin of money is shrouded in prehistory;
another is that its development must have varied, must not have
followed a single universal line. Still a third reason touches closer to
home: modern man seems to have trouble understanding money; it is
too close to him, too much a part of his life. As someone once
remarked, the last thing a flSh would discover is water, since it is so
unconsciously and naturally a part of its life. But beyond all of this,
[money] .... is still sacred, still a magical object on which we rely for
our entrance to immortality. Or, put another way, money is obscure
to analysis because it is still a living myth, a religion .... How else
explain that we do not yet have a single history of money, despite the
massive collection of anthropological and historical monographs, the
observations by Plato and Aristotle themselves, those by Augustine
on money fetishism ... the insights of Marx, and now, finally of modem
psychoanalysis?
... Death is overcome by accumulating time-defying monuments.
These accumulations of stone and gold make possible the discovery
of the immortal sourl...Death is overcome on condition that the real
actuality of life pass into these immortal and dead things; money is the
man; the inunortality of the estate or a corporation resides in the dead
things which alone endure. "5
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