SACRED WAY
Luxor Group
Schwaller de Lubicz Memorial ©
They are charlatans who claim to be able to reveal the esotericism of such teaching. They can try to explain the implication of such word or recipe, so a conventional secret, but in Sacred Science, they can only put one word in the place of another, and it will be, all at most, bad literature instead of a simple idea.
The true Initiate can guide a talented student to walk the path of Consciousness more quickly, and the student who has reached stages of Illumination with his own inner Light, will read directly the esotericism of such teaching.
Nobody can do it for him.
Esoterism is not a "special meaning hidden in a text", but an "état de confondement" between the vital state of the reader and the vital state of the author : this in the sense of the spiritual vision, spatial, synthetic, aspect which precisely ceases with the concretization of the thought.
The Esoteric Teaching is therefore only an "evocation" and can only be that. Initiation does not lie in the text, but in the culture of the "Intelligence of the Heart". Then nothing is more "Occult" or "Secret" because the intention of the "Enlightened", "Prophets" and "Envoys of Heaven" is never to hide, on the contrary.
To my friends of Luxor Group Christmas 1947
AOR in Hebrew : Light, Enlightenment, Path of Enlightenment.
To present you one of the "Three Lights of the Sacred Way" I need to do a synthesis of the immense work of AOR, but I think it is useful to look at the testimony of those who knew him, whose sources have been ignored by publishers. The mystical experience out of time with OUSIR awakened, as he will say, his true vocation. He understood naturally that this experience had a profound meaning and that it opened the way to a new consciousness.
From that moment, he viscerally knew what "the intelligence of the Heart" was. All his work was going to take a decisive turn during the twenty next years ! This one is beautifully told (in November 1972) by our great Archmaster Renée FOATELLI (from 1960 to 1979), who is known to us by his nomen mysticum "AMMA".
SCHWALLER DE LUBICZ, HIS THOUGHT
Aor laid the foundation for another science which is no longer based on experimentation but which is based on knowledge of the Principles or Neters. The Neters are the Egyptian "deities" that symbolize functions of the universe. These Principles form the Law of Genesis which is at the heart of all his work.
Law of Genesis
A questioning inhabited him all his life and it is twofold: Why the world and where does it come from? And on the other hand, he wonders about the development of life. He asks himself the same question as Heidegger: Why is there something rather than nothing? The answer to the first question is that everything comes from unity, principle of principles; the answer to the second question is given by the law of genesis which governs all manifestations of life.
By observing the cosmic phenomena, he discovered the Principle of Unity or Neter First, the one who fixed the proportions of the universe according to the Golden Number. He understood then that there is a primordial center, the "ONE". This vision of the world, which he considered as a Unique One, existing only through his Ensemble, leaded him to this reflection: Life is in constant creation and the cause of this phenomenon seems to lie in the split of unity. This creation in continuity has no duration, there is no beginning or end, because it is a beginning and an end at every moment.
Everything comes from a primordial consciousness that gives impetus to the laws that will establish the world. It governs all the knowledge and makes correspond fields as different as the medicine, the geography, the linguistics, the architecture, etc ... He confided to some people in Suhalia that he possessed this conscience and that it was born slowly in him. But this knowledge is not an expressible knowledge in words and theories. From the start, he knows from the inside. He has the worldview of causes and just applies that vision to different areas of knowledge. It is thanks to this "gift" that Aor will decipher the hermetic texts and the symbols of the ancient Egyptian civilization and that will deliver to him keys to the intelligence of the heart.
Heart Intelligence
The term Intelligence of the Heart is borrowed from the ancient Egyptians to designate this other aspect in the man who allows him to overcome his animal condition and find the path of enlightenment. But to join this path, we must use other tools than those of reason. You can not use a shovel to dig a hole in the sea; the tool must be of the nature of the thing one wants to work. We only find the Spirit with the Spirit. The Intelligence of the Heart is the tool of the awakening which allows to acquire another consciousness.
For Aor, true knowledge comes from that intelligence; he considers the mind and the reason as inferior, just as the moon is inferior to the sun, being only the reflection of its light. If the layman arranges speculations and theories, the Initiate turns to Nature. This one teaches everything. A sound evokes all its harmonics, an acorn of oak evokes the oak, etc ... Only the man possesses this gift which allows him to free himself from the animal which is in him (the Lion) to reach Love without cause, without purpose, without reward, so without disappointment.
René AOR SCHWALLER DE LUBICZ
Le Chemin des Philosophes " Mas de Cocagno " PLAN de GRASSE (Provence - France)
.. During the summer of 1960 between mid-July and early August, I spent my holidays at Mas de Cocagno the Schwallers Provencal house ... I trust my memory to gather the words and ideas that were exchanged during these hot days and our evenings under the starry sky, accompanied by the song of the cicadas. ISHA and Lucie frequently joined these discussions and added from time to time details that the Master himself had forgotten or rightly missed ... It should be noted that when asked a question, AOR never answered directly but he leaded the conversation to another pole of interest. That often proved more promising than the answer to the question.
It was his way of teaching without entering a doctrinal line; he was horrified by the word doctrine. But I was astonished in this summer, he was no longer using this misused way, peculiar to the old initiates : his language had become clear. I had the impression that a veil was torn apart, but I did not imagine that it was the veil of his human reality, that is to say that his mortal condition was ending. A force of intense love came forth from him, a sweetness and a prodigious depth, an energy before which nothing and no one could have resisted. I think this is the last image I will keep of AOR: he delivered to all his heart, his intelligence, his being ...
The Lion was part of his secret teaching and it is in the language of the birds that he evoked this figure that he appears to the principle of Seth, that is to say, a danger necessary for the future of man. Man progresses only in the face of danger ! In his secular and philosophical definitions, he called him "mental," but in initiation he called him "Leo" and he developed the idea that it was absolutely necessary to face the ultimate reality, a source of fear and anguish. ... The dreadful, fearful and roaring "Lion" was to be tamed by the pharaoh on Sed Day, symbolizing the victory of the "Heart" over the mind. One would have thought that the Master was anxious, it is in any case what seemed to show a certain behavior. It was not so. AOR was exercising whenever he could, facing this feline who alone was able to reveal his kheperou (futures). I can still hear his sentence : "Without the Lion, there would be no Scarab" ; in other words, without the power of the trials engendered by the mind, there would be no leverage for this world. The Scarab is the image of true strength. He learned that in Egypt. AOR used to say that Egyptian culture seemed to emerge from the desert ... Egyptian civilization is not the fruit of evolution, it's an heritage !
In 1952, upon his return to France, Aor set to work and began to write what would be his magistral work : "The Temple of Man". In a letter of January 9, 1953 to Renée Foatelli (AMMA), Lucie Lamy tells us of this happy moment when the work accumulated in Luxor gives birth to his precursory masterpiece of Symbolist Egyptology … "AOR is still working on the book you know and I spend a lot of time with him to optimize the boards he wants to insert. I bought a projector that allows me to enlarge the pictures and reproduce them with much more detail and finesse. I am very happy with the way this work is going, as it allows AOR to escape from the languor he became accustomed to these days. He maintains a fruitful correspondence with some he had lost sight of and revives the fire that was sleeping in him. It is true that he no longer perceived any interest in his ideas and that his thought was far behind the materialist conceptions of this century. He sometimes rebels by saying that he reveals a treasure of knowledge and nobody wants it. He knows too well what it means "no one is a prophet in his country", because it is now America that brings to him in recognition and praise "…
Renée Foatelli (AMMA) in her 1972 memoir wrote : "Her ideas developed elsewhere, in the fertile soil of the United States, where all his books were translated and conveyed in the circles of Freemasons and Rosicrucians. It is thanks to a long-time friend, Jeanne Guesdon and her international networks (she was Grand Master of AMORC in France), that the name of SCHWALLER of LUBICZ was known and recognized across the Atlantic and that "the symbolist Egyptology " won all its acclaim. The Master's work found a second wind and finally aroused legitimate admiration. "
In 1948, the research group on ancient thought that AOR had formed in Luxor, decided to manifest itself in France under the name TA-MERI (APPENDIX I). The Sufi poet Mounir HAFEZ (APPENDIX II) was instructed in 1954 to explain the directives. When the members of the Luxor Group returned to France in 1951, forced by the Egyptian revolution events, AOR took over the destiny of the Order, to which it gave the name of "Sacred Way". It was in fact the fulfillment of an old prediction by his friend and alchemist Fulcanelli who had formerly warned him of the path his initiatic group would take. This name "Sacred Way" refers to the double and triple meaning of the Egyptian word "TA MERI", dear to AOR. His project was to write a book to develop his latest ideas and affirm without fear all his convictions.
The spiritual testament
In 1960, AOR thinks to transmit the direction of the Initiatic Order of the Sacred Way. On December 27th he wrote a letter to Renée Foatelli : "My Dear Sister AMMA, I want to thank you for having ensured the conduct of our Order during all these years. You have always been present, in the glorious hours, as in those which were less so ... marked by the abandonment and the failure of some.
The Work has persisted until now, but like any building, it must know the law of the DJED. TA MERI will be destroyed. Ruin and desolation are necessary to allow resurrection. Such is the sacred bird that makes its nest in a generating fire and that is reborn wiser and more beautiful, so will open up our Way again on a resplendent horizon. OUSIR is watching
Yet the time that betrays and passes, often fills the heart with bitterness and regret. After so many years spent studying my dear country; after having taught the word I have heard, understood and transmitted, it is time for me to give you the torch so that our light may continue to shine in the darkness of this world. I know that my days are coming to end and, even if Jean (Physician Dr. Lamy) claims otherwise, my passing to the far horizon is close.
Amma, I want to bequeath to you the Chen which is for us the visible Sign of the immemorial Chain which links us to the Origin and the Principle. No one but you would be worthy of this mission, for you have the precious seal that connect the old souls of TA MERI. Keep it as the pledge of fidelity to the Sacred Way on which we journey with happiness. This has proven effective for millions of years.
My spiritual thoughts go out to the Chemsou.
(Signed) Aor Schwaller de Lubicz
PS : ISHA fully approuves my decision.
The Chen of the Sacred Way can be readed : "Chensou of Ta Meri" that means : Companions of the beloved country.
Amma took the torch to continue Aor's work until she died in 1979
Knight
Schwaller de Lubicz
His Tomb
In my view, The Temple of Man is the most important work of scholarship of this century. R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz finally proves the existence of the legendary Sacred Science of the Ancients and systematically demonstrates its modus operandi. It was this great science based upon an intimate and exact knowledge of cosmic principles-that fused art, religion, science, and philosophy into one coherent whole and sustained Ancient Egypt for three thousand years. J.A. West
