Sacred Science by R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz

After thirty years of studying the medieval legacy in religious, hermetic, and esoteric fields, R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz recognized in the monuments of Egypt a vital heritage that had remained veiled. As a result of this discovery, he spent fifteen years studying the Temple of Luxor. His work represents the first major breakthrough in our understanding of ancient Egypt since Champollion’s discovery of the Rosetta Stone, and he identifies Egypt, not Greece, as the cradle of Western thought, theology, and science.Central to the pharaonic mentality is the royal principle in humanity and nature. It is this principle that is capable of transforming all the “kingdoms”; thus mineral becomes gold and man becomes pharaoh, or King (the image of man’s cosmic accomplishment and the exaltation of the species). This science of transformation, held sacred by the sages of ancient Egypt, is the theme of the Egyptian texts cited in these pages.Among the topics explored by de Lubicz are Pythagorean thoug