Decoding the Ancient Meaning of the Sphinx and its Origin as Anubis

~ Copyright 2012 Belsebuub and Angela Pritchard

The meaning of the Great Sphinx and Pyramids at Giza, Egypt, has eluded the many attempts to understand it using science alone. The people’s who built the Giza site were obviously deeply interested in spirituality. The culture that followed in ancient Egypt, perhaps more than any other, used the intuitive language of symbolism to convey profound spiritual truths – those who had enough inner wisdom could speak this language, whilst those who did not, were rendered incapable of deciphering it. This is why the site at Giza has remained a mystery to most even though it is one of the most studied sites in the world.

To discover the meaning of the Giza site requires a knowledge of the meaning of the spiritual symbols used in its design. The spiritual knowledge which the builders of the Great Pyramids and Sphinx possessed is timeless, and thus it is possible to unlock this site’s meaning through the understanding of this same universal knowledge today, which has found its expression in different forms and cultures in ancient history.

The enigmatic and mysterious Sphinx, great centerpiece to this site’s design, holds much of the answer. This article will go back as far as possible into the origins of the Sphinx, to discover its meaning using the understanding of the sacred knowledge of the ancient builders.

CONTENTS
The Sphinx as Anubis
Resurrection
The God Anubis
Anubis and Inner Death
The Nine Layers of the Underworld
The Tomb
The Sacred Lake of Anpu (Anubis)
Purification of the Sexual Waters and the Four Bodies
Return to the Womb
Overcoming the Law
The Astronomical Alignments of the Sphinx
The Spring Equinox
The Constellation of Leo
Leo as a Dog, Not a Lion
Alignment with Leo During 10,500 BC
The Duat Mirrored by the Great Pyramids and Sphinx
The Use of Universal Principles in the Giza Design
Osiris Between the Paws of the Anubis Sphinx
How the Sphinx Was Lost
The Gradual Loss of the Esoteric Knowledge of Ancient Egypt
Spiritual Knowledge Turned into a Religion of the Afterlife
Conclusion

The Sphinx as Anubis

To understand the meaning of the Sphinx, we need to firstly uncover its original form, as the form it takes today is the result of multiple restorations dating from at least 1,400 BC.

Anyone who studies photos of the Sphinx can see that it is out of proportion. Its head is much too small for its body, and is far less weathered than the rest of the body and surrounding enclosure. Its head has obviously been re-carved, perhaps numerous times, and its body has been covered with restoration stones dating from thousands of years right up until today, giving the Sphinx its leonine shape whilst masking its original form. So to find the clues as to what it originally was, we have to look further than the Sphinx alone.

A study of the archeology, astronomy, and esoteric messages contained in the structures, objects, and art of the Giza Plateau and Sphinx, point to the Sphinx originally being sculpted as the ancient jackal/dog deity Anubis, facilitator of the process from death to resurrection, agent of cosmic law, and gatekeeper of the passage to immortality.

The Pyramids Texts, carved into the stone walls of the pyramids at Saqqara in Egypt, date from around 2,400 BC and are currently the oldest dated sacred texts in the world. They contain the earliest references to the Great Sphinx and Pyramids of Egypt, and indicate that the Great Sphinx once took the form of the Egyptian god Anubis.

In ancient times the site of the Great Pyramids, where the Sphinx lies, was called Ro-Setawe, the Sacred Land and the Necropolis, and the Pyramid Texts refer to Anubis as “Lord of Ro-Setawe”, “Anubis who presides over the Sacred Land” (and also Pure Land, and Secluded Land), and “he at the Head of the Necropolis” which are all ancient references to Anubis standing guard over the site of the Great Pyramids. This may not have been just a metaphysical reference, but a very physical one, as the Sphinx does indeed stand at the entrance to the site of the Great Pyramids.

In ancient times, the Giza site would have been entered by boat as the river Nile reached right up to the Sphinx. Boat quays were discovered protruding from the Valley Temple beside the Sphinx (which was built out of the stones excavated from around the Sphinx when it was first created). Anyone who entered the Giza site, had to pass by the Sphinx by arriving via boat and passing by the great statue along a grand causeway leading to the Pyramids.

Modern researcher Robert Temple has uncovered the archeological evidence for the Sphinx being Anubis in great detail, but not only does the archeological evidence point to Anubis being the original form of the Great Sphinx – it also ties in with the same kind of spiritual knowledge that is universally represented throughout cultures around the world and in the most ancient sacred texts of Egypt.

Although recognized by millions, the Sphinx has remained an enigma; but by knowing its original form and understanding the principles of esoteric knowledge, its symbolism may be understood and its message decoded. Aligned to precise cosmic events, lying atop of hidden chambers, surrounded by a sacred lake and part of an incredible master plan that incorporates the Great Pyramids using advanced geometry, the Sphinx is a monument of magnificent wisdom and scale that symbolizes the attainment of imperishability through resurrection.

The Great Sphinx aligns to the spring equinox, a time of spiritual resurrection as found in the design of many other ancient sites throughout the world also aligned to this solar event. One of the central spiritual teachings of Egypt is the life of Osiris, which reveals the process of attaining enlightenment—or imperishability as it is called in Egyptian texts. Like Jesus, Osiris is killed and is then resurrected. It is the god Anubis who resurrects Osiris, and who thus formed a central symbolic part of the design of the Giza Plateau and the statue dedicated to this momentous spiritual event.

Resurrection

In the sacred teachings of ancient Egypt, a person had to undergo a defined spiritual process to pass from mortality to immortality, which led from death to resurrection. Resurrection as a spiritual process can be found in ancient sacred teachings throughout the world and is associated with the time of the spring equinox—the most dominant solar alignment of the Giza Plateau, which the Sphinx gazes precisely toward.

Resurrection was central to the life of the Egyptian god Osiris, just as it was in the lives of Jesus, Tammuz, Dionysus, Attis, Mithras, the Maize God Hun Hunahpu of the Mayans, etc., who all resurrected at the time of the spring equinox. The lives of these deities, although appearing in different cultures and times, symbolized the same universal spiritual process also symbolized by the Great Sphinx of Egypt, one of the most ancient and mysterious sacred sites in the world. Each of these deities showed the events and processes involved in reaching enlightenment, which is why they contain so many similarities.

The God Anubis

Resurrection is always preceded by death—both Jesus and Osiris were betrayed and killed before they were brought back to life to live eternally. In Egypt, Anubis has a central role in death and resurrection. In the life of Osiris, Anubis resurrects Osiris after he is betrayed and killed by his evil brother Seth.

Anpu (Anubis in Greek) is one of the most ancient gods of Egypt—the record of his veneration pre-dates that even of Osiris. Anubis was depicted as a black recumbent jackal, or as a man with the head of a jackal, and presiding over the process of death. The jackal head is a sacred headdress Anubis wears in his role in the spiritual realms.

In Egypt Anubis most famously appears in the scene of the weighing of the heart, illustrating events after death. The heart of the deceased is weighed by Anubis on the scales of divine law (called Maat, which is cosmic order) against a feather to determine how they lived their life, and based on that, what would happen to them next. This is an illustration of Anubis in his role as the head judge of divine law and justice, which he administers along with the other 42 judges of the divine law, known in ancient Egyptian texts as “The Assessors of Maat” and the god Thoth, also depicted in this scene.

In Greece Anubis became the god Hermes, and even merged to form the god Hermanubis, whilst in Rome he became the god Mercury. Both Hermes and Mercury were considered guides of the dead, and were depicted with winged sandals. Mercury was depicted holding a caduceus, symbol of alchemy with two serpents entwined around a winged staff, and Hermes with a winged cap. These are the wings of the spirit, which one receives upon resurrection.

Anubis and Inner Death

Anubis not only has a role in receiving the dead and judging them, but also in the esoteric process of inner death. Resurrection is always preceded by death, but this death is not a physical one, it is an inner one which takes place as part of a spiritual work. It involves the death of all that is evil, inferior and dark within oneself, such as hatred, anger, jealousy, lust, etc., in a process of psychological and energetic purification.

In Egypt this turned into a religious belief (as it has happened in other religions) misinterpreted by later generations of people who had lost the ability to understand the esoteric meaning of Egypt’s sacred texts. Pharaoh’s believed instead that their physical death would lead to physical resurrection in the afterlife, surrounding themselves with jewels and spells that would apparently assure them safe passage in the journey to reach immortality. However, the esoteric death is inner and its resurrection is achieved in life through a spiritual and alchemical work, and the Great Sphinx and life of Osiris, along with the life of many other deities, symbolizes how it takes place.

Ro-Setawe and the Necropolis are ancient names for the site of the Great Pyramids and Sphinx, and Necropolis is a term which means graveyard. In ancient Egyptian texts Anubis was referred to as the Lord of Ro-Setawe, Anubis who presides over the Sacred Land, and Head of the Necropolis. These are all references to Anubis, the god of death, presiding over the Giza Plateau, which was known as the place of the dead.

The reference to the site of Giza being the place of the dead is not a reference to it being an actual graveyard (although the inhabitants of the site later interpreted it this way), but as a place of those who achieve an inner, psychological death. This finds its parallel in the Place of Skulls where Jesus was crucified, and the Avenue of the Dead at the Pyramids of Teotihuacán in Mexico where it is said “men become Gods”, which also share other similarities as described in The Spiritual Meaning of the Spring Equinox. Little wonder that Anubis, the god with a central role in death and resurrection, stood guard over the site of Giza, dedicated to the spiritual process of attaining imperishability, in which death and resurrection were essential.

Anubis was also known as the “Master of Secrets,” and was often depicted as a dog or jackal recumbent on a coffin, which was said to contain sacred secrets. Indeed, the Great Sphinx does stand guard over incredible secrets, as beneath it lies nine chambers, each containing an unknown metal object.

The Nine Layers of the Underworld

A team of researchers discovered that nine underground chambers lie beneath the Great Sphinx. These symbolize the nine layers of the underworld, which are also found symbolized in other ancient sites around the world, such as the nine terraces of the pyramid of Chichen Itza in Mexico and the nine chambers beneath Glastonbury Tor in England. The Mayans assigned 9 levels to hell, just as Dante did in his Divine Comedy.

These chambers beneath the Sphinx represent the layers of hell which the initiate enters at death preceding resurrection, which is why Osiris is cast into the underworld after being killed by Seth, and Jesus descends into hell after his crucifixion. This hell is one experienced internally, where the initiate suffers hellish psychological states, and must achieve the death of these states in order to surface back from out of the underworld and resurrect, which is why in the quote below Unas is said to be “weary of the Nine”, that he suffered, but now has “no more time there” unlike those who don’t achieve the death of their inner states, and who psychologically remain in these nine layers of the underworld. The sacred secrets Anubis guards is the esoteric knowledge that the initiate gains.

He comes indeed, this Unas, weary of the Nine, an Imperishable spirit, he that bore more than you, he that suffered more than you, he that is more weary than you, he that became greater than you, he who will be happier than you, he who roars louder than you. You have no more time there! Lo, this is what Seth and Thoth have done, your two brothers, who could not bewail you!
~ The Pyramid Texts, utterance 218

Descending into the nine layers also represents the work in what is called “the ninth sphere” which is to work in the practice of sexual alchemy to both destroy psychological states and to create immortal/imperishable spiritual parts within.

The Tomb

In the life of Jesus, Joseph of Arimathea wraps the body of the crucified Jesus in linen before he places it in a tomb, just as in the life of Osiris, Anubis conceals Osiris’ body in a tomb. The two Marys bring spices and perfumes to anoint the body of Jesus, just as Isis and Nephthys do to Osiris.

The secret ways of Ro-Setawe [the ancient site of Giza], The gate of the gods. Only one whose voice is heard May pass them . . . The secret way to which (only) Anubis has access In order to conceal the body of Osiris.
~ The Book of the One in the Netherworld

It is in the stone tomb (symbol of the womb of the mother goddess), which in Egypt was built into chambers of the pyramids, where the initiate, lying in the stone sarcophagus, is concealed and attended by Anubis and resurrected, to emerge from the tomb as an immortal spiritual being, just as Jesus did.

These tombs were never designed for actual deceased bodies, but were used for initiatory rites to symbolize the process of inner death. This is why the stone sarcouphagases in the chambers of the Great Pyramids were found empty, and a stone sarcouphagas surrounded by water has been discovered in underground tunnels beneath the Giza Plateau.

The Sacred Lake of Anpu (Anubis)

Through the research of Robert Temple, it has been revealed that the statue of Anubis as the Great Sphinx was once surrounded by a sacred lake—in ancient texts it was referred to as the Jackal Lake, Lake of Fire, Lake of Dawn, Canal of the God, Canal of Anubis, Winding Waterway, Lake of Cool Water, Lake of the Netherworld, and Lake of Life. The recumbent body of Anubis would have been submerged beneath water, which was done for a symbolic reason.

O King, your shape is hidden like that of Anubis on his belly; receive your jackal-face and raise yourself, stand up.
~ The Pyramid Texts, utterance 677

Looking at a topographical map of the Giza Plateau, the sphinx can be seen as set down in an area where the waters of the river Nile would have reached in ancient times during the annual inundation of the Nile to fill the sphinx enclosure. The vertical sings of weathering (caused by rainfall pouring down) on the sphinx and its surrounding enclosure, are accompanied by horizontal weathering (caused by water moving side to side). Strange markings around the sphinx enclosure may have been the location of sluice gates that retained water around the sphinx to hold the water of the lake.

A channel is also carved along the causeway that leads to the sphinx. It empties into the sphinx enclosure, and would have collected rain water runoff from the Giza Plateau to fill the lake. There are also quays protruding from the Valley Temple (which is located next to the sphinx), so that the sphinx and Giza area could have been approached by boat.

Purification of the Sexual Waters and the Four Bodies

The lake around the Great Sphinx was a symbol of the sexual waters/energies, which are purified alchemically in the spiritual work, and used to create the imperishable bodies of gold which are the immortal vehicles of the soul. This cleansing precedes resurrection, so that the bodies can be created from pure spiritual energies. It is carried out within the initiate by the divine mother goddess and eternal feminine principle, who is sometimes symbolized as Isis and also as a serpent (the kundalini).

O King, your sister the Celestial Serpent has cleansed you upon the causeway in the meadow, you having appeared to them as a jackal. . . . May you govern the spirits, may you control the Imperishable Stars.
~ The Pyramid Texts, utterance 690

The extract above refers to the alchemical cleansing of the initiate in the sacred lake of Anubis, which surrounded the Sphinx. The causeway referred to runs from the Sphinx to the second largest of the Great Pyramids, and is described as being in a meadow as in ancient times the Giza Plateau would have been a green and fertile place.

In the Pyramid Texts, the initiate is cleansed in the lake surrounding the Sphinx in which four gods and four jars are involved. This symbolizes the four bodies of the initiate that are cleansed and purified alchemically: they are the physical, vital, astral, and mental bodies. These bodies need cleansing because they are the bodies through which the egos (inferior psychological states) manifest, and the sexual energies permeate. In the process of cleansing the egos are destroyed and the sexual energies purified.

I travel the Winding Waterway . . . because I am pure, the son of a pure one, and I am purified with these four nemeset-jars of mine which are filled to the brim from the Canal of the God in Iseion [sanctuary of Isis], which possesses the breath of Isis the Great, and Isis the Great dries me as Horus. “Let him come, for he is pure”: so says the priest of Rē concerning me to the door-keeper of the firmament, and he announces me to those four gods who are upon the Canal of Kenzet [Land Beyond].
~ The Pyramid Texts, utterance 510

This lake in which the symbolic cleansing takes place is referred to as the Lake of the Netherworld because the lake, symbol of the sexual energies, reaches down through the nine layers of the underworld. Being cleansed in the Lake of the Netherworld (and also Jackal Lake), is to work in the ninth sphere, which is to purify the sexual energies/the waters, through sexual alchemy throughout the nine layers our psyche and energies which exist in the netherworld, region of the subconscious. Here the link between Anubis and the god Mercury whom he became associated with is made, since the region of the dead, the netherworld which both Anubis and Mercury guide the initiate through, is the place in which the process of alchemical purification needs to take place preceding resurrection, and the caduceus of Mercury is an alchemical symbol.

My father has remade his heart, the other having been removed for him because it objected to his ascending to the sky when he had waded in the waters of the Winding Waterway. Anubis comes and meets you! And Geb gives you his hand, O my father, (even) he who guards the earth and rules the spirits. I weep deeply, O my father. Oho! Raise yourself, my father, receive these your four pleasant nemeset jars; bathe in the Jackal Lake, be cleansed in the Lake of the Netherworld, be purified. . . . Run your course, row over your waterway like Rē [the sun god] on the banks of the sky. O my father, raise yourself, go in your spirit-state.
~ The Pyramid Texts, utterance 512

In Egypt, Horus was the Christ (the Son in the divine triad of Father, Mother, and Son), just as Jesus was in Christianity, Quetzalcoatl and Viracocha were in Mesoamerica, Mithras in Persia, etc. As well as Anubis, Horus was also said to resurrect Osiris, as it is the Christ/the Son within which resurrects in the initiate and purifies them. In the passage below the Christ purifies the internal bodies and energies of the initiate in the lake of Anubis.

Horus takes him to his side, he purifies this Unas [the initiate] in the Jackal-lake, he cleans the ka of this Unas in the Lake of Dawn, he rubs down the flesh of the Ka of this Unas as well as his own, with that which is at Re’s side in the Akhet-horizon, with what he (Re) receives when the Two Lands (Egypt) are lighted and he opens the face of the gods.
~ The Pyramid Texts, utterance 268

Return to the Womb

The sacred lake was also a symbol of the primordial waters, the womb of the eternal Mother, to which the Son (the initiate with the Christ within) must return in order to pass beyond death and rebirth. All that is born dies, and so to achieve immortality the Son must go back to the origin of life and merge with the Mother by returning to the womb of creation. From there the initiate returns to the point of conception to become one with the eternal Father, who is not born, and thus does not die. This is a going back to the first instance of creation and a return to wholeness in which the Father, Mother and Son become one; in Egypt, this complete state of being was symbolized by the god Atum.

The name Atum is very similar to the word “atom”, the basic unit of creation which contains protons, the positive force of creation (the Father); electrons, the negative force in creation (the Mother); and neutrons, the neutral force in creation (the Son). Ancient texts stated that Atum permeates all of creation. The parallels between the scientific and spiritual principles reveal the depth of understanding once possessed by people in ancient Egypt.

In Egypt, Atum was the name of the first god that came into existence. He was self-engendered, and from him all other gods came into being. His name is interpreted as meaning “complete one”, “lord of totality” and as “finisher of the world”. Atum symbolizes the Monad, the being that emerged from the source before it divides into different parts and goes into the different dimensions. The spiritual work is to merge the different parts of one’s being together as a complete whole again, which is a return to the state Atum symbolizes—a state of oneness and completion, but with full consciousness.

In Egypt, the process of creation is said to have begun when the god Atum emerged as a mound from out of the primordial waters. Similarly, creation emerges from the primordial waters in the ancient Vedas of the Hindus, in the story of Genesis in the Bible, and in Mesoamerican cultures (more on this in How Enlightenment is the Process of Creation in the Universe in Reverse). These primordial waters are those of the eternal feminine womb, which gives birth to all of creation. It is following this same process in reverse through which we return to the spirit who conceived us. At death, Osiris is said to return to the heart of Atum, and Atum is said to return all living beings and creation back into the primordial waters from which it came. In this nonexistence, it is said that Atum and Osiris will survive in the form of serpents; when all else passes, only those who resurrect and reach the state of imperishability as Atum, will remain. Those who don’t awaken are submerged back into the ocean of non-existence at the end of the great cycle of their lives.

Osiris: But how long shall I live?
Atum: You will live more than millions of years, an era of millions, but in the end I will destroy everything that I have created, the earth will become again part of the Primeval Ocean, like the Abyss of waters in their original state.  Then I will be what will remain, just I and Osiris, when I will have changed myself back into the Old Serpent who knew -no man and saw no god. How fair is that which I have done for Osiris, a fate different from that of all the other gods. I have given him the region of the dead while I have put his son Horus as heir upon his throne in the Isle of Fire, I have thus made his place for him in the Boat of Millions of Years, in that Horus remains on his throne to carry on his work.
~ The Book of the Dead, chapter 175 [Chapter Clxxv.]: (1) The Chapter Of Not Dying A Second Time

With its body set down in the lake, the Sphinx would have appeared as a mound, just like the one that emerged from the primordial waters at the beginning of creation, which is why its body is referred to as Atum in the Pyramid Texts.

Your arms are Atum, your shoulders are Atum, your belly is Atum, your back is Atum, your hinder-parts are Atum, your legs are Atum, your face is Anubis.
~ The Pyramid Texts, utterance 213

The Sphinx therefore symbolizes the return to a complete and imperishable state of being, in which the Son, Mother and Father unite to become Atum. Atum is said to be a god of post-existence and pre-existence, being that which is both before and after existence. Those who resurrect, conquer back their state of wholeness as Atum, being beyond birth and death, as one who is eternal.

You make yourself free of what should be washed away for Atum in [Heliopolis, and you go down] with him. You judge the wants in the Netherworld and stand (as king) over the places of the primeval ocean. You come into being with your father Atum, you are high with your father Atum, you rise with your father Atum. The wants (of the Netherworld) are severed from you, your head (is held) by the nurse of Heliopolis.

You have power over your body, there is no one to oppose you. You are born because of Horus (in you), you are conceived because of Seth (in you). You have purified yourself in the Hawk nome (Third Nome of Lower Egypt), you have received your purification in the Uninjured-Ruler nome (Thirteenth of Lower Egypt) before your father, before Atum.

You have come into being, you have become high, you have become a spirit! Cool it is for you in the embrace of your father, in the embrace of Atum.

Atum! Elevate to you this Unas [the initiate], enfold him in your embrace! This is your son of your body, eternally.
~ The Pyramid Texts, utterance 222

Overcoming the Law

As head of the divine law, Anubis stands as gatekeeper between the realm of earthly mortality, and spiritual imperishability, letting only those who meet the spiritual requirements pass. On the Giza Plateau as the original form of the Sphinx, Anubis stood at the mystical gateway between the earthly and eternal realm, found in the moment of transition between winter and spring on the dawning of the spring equinox.

The earth speaks: The doors of the earth-god are opened for you, the doors of Geb are thrown open for you, you come forth at the voice of Anubis, he makes a spirit of you.
~ The Pyramid Texts, utterance 437

Anubis, the counter of hearts, deducts Osiris N. from the gods who belong to the earth, (and assigns him) to the gods who are in heaven.
~ The Pyramid Texts, utterance 577

As someone progresses in the work to awakening, they fulfill and thus overcome the different cosmic laws that are upon them and the world, administered by Anubis. The whole of nature and creation is ordered and exists under laws, which govern the way things grow, move, etc., and are studied in physics, biology, genetics, geology and many other sciences. It is said that in the beginning, Atum first created “life” and “order” and that they were not separate; this order is the laws that are intrinsic to life. However, there are not just laws that govern the physical and natural world, but also those that govern the matters of other dimensions, which include energetic, psychological and spiritual principles. These laws include those that apply to human interaction, behavior and spiritual development.

At the stage just preceding resurrection, there are only three laws remaining, which correspond to the three universal principles of creation, which are Father, Mother, and Son. When someone resurrects, the Father, Mother and Son become one. This is a going back to the first instance of creation and the original unified being Atum, which exists under only one law and is therefore no longer under the rule of Anubis. In order to reach this, the initiate must pay all their karma and fulfill all divine laws to pass beyond the laws which Anubis administers.

In the Coffin Texts the initiate states “I have come . . . to enter the secret gateway By which Anubis is initiated. I have come to Ro-Setawe [name of the Giza Plateau in ancient Egypt] In order to know the Mysteries of the Netherworld Into which Anubis is initiated.” And also “I have come in order to enter the gateway that is protected by Anubis.”

Anubis, the head judge of divine law, is referred to in Gnosticism as Adamas, the tyrant of the law (he isn’t a tyrant, he only seems like one to the initiate who is going through this process). He is the one who must be satisfied that the initiate has fulfilled everything they need to in terms of the law, before releasing them to become as The Pyramid Texts state, one who is no longer judged, but who fulfills and judges the law themselves.

Atum, this your son is here, Osiris, whom you have preserved alive. He lives! He lives! This Unas lives! He is not dead, this Unas is not dead! He is not gone down, this Unas is not gone down! He has not been judged, this Unas has not been judged! He judges, this Unas judges!
~ The Pyramid Texts, utterance 219

Horus, hurry! Announce to the gods of the East and their spirits : He comes indeed, this Unas, an Imperishable Spirit! Whom he wills that he live, he lives. Whom he will that he die, he dies.
~ The Pyramid Texts, utterance 217

O Osiris, this Unas comes indeed, weary of the Nine, an Imperishable Spirit, to reckon hearts, to take kas, to grant kas. His every appointment obliges one (to do his duty), him who he has elevated, and him who applied to him.
~ The Pyramid Texts, utterance 218

After his resurrection, Osiris becomes the judge of the dead, just as Anubis had been. The unified and complete being receives their jackal face, which to achieve the state of existing under the one law of heaven.

O King, your shape is hidden like that of Anubis on his belly; receive your jackal-face and raise yourself, stand up.
~ The Pyramid Texts, utterance 677

The Astronomical Alignments of the Sphinx

The Spring Equinox

Today, the Sphinx still gazes due east, precisely aligned to the rising sun on the spring equinox—a time intimately connected to resurrection not only in Egypt, but in spiritual teachings throughout the world. Jesus, Tammuz, Dionysus, Attis, Mithras, and many others, were resurrected at this time of year. The spring equinox is when the days first begin to grow longer than the nights, and thus life emerges from the death of winter. In its deeper spiritual meaning, the sun, cosmic symbol of the Christ/the Son, rises to overpower darkness.

The Constellation of Leo

Between approximately 10,970 and 8,810 BC (although some have given dates thousands of years earlier) the Sphinx would have also gazed directly at the constellation of what we now call Leo, which rose just before dawn on the spring equinox due to the precession of the equinoxes. The constellation of Leo is depicted as a recumbent lion, which matches the form of the Sphinx.

Leo as a Dog, Not a Lion

The first record of the constellation of Leo appears in 1,530 BC in Babylonia and was later adopted in Egypt. However, the Sphinx pre-dates this time by many thousands of years—perhaps being built during 10,500 BC or even later. Therefore it is possible that the constellation of Leo was seen by the builders of the Sphinx not as a lion, but as the celestial representation of Anubis in his form as a recumbent dog. The long flat back, curved head and protruding snout, and paws out front, match the form of the Sphinx and the hieroglyphic representation of the recumbent Anubis in his jackal form in the most ancient known sacred texts in the world, The Pyramid Texts.

The ancient site of Abydos in Egypt further connects Anubis to the constellation of Leo. At this ancient site dated to between 6,000 to 3,100 BC (although possibly much older) lies the mysterious temple known as the Osireion where a deity with the head of a dog and that later became associated with Anubis was worshiped. The Osireion temple was unearthed during the construction of the temple of Seti I around 1,280 BC and again later along with the temple of Seti I in 1902 AD after both had become covered in sand together.

The Osireion temple closely resembles the unique architecture of the Valley Temple which is located next to the Sphinx – both are made out of huge unadorned granite blocks, which also look very similar to Stonehenge. Like the Sphinx and Valley Temple, the Osireion was covered in sand and forgotten thousands of years ago, periodically being rediscovered even by the Pharaohs of Egypt themselves who renovated them. Like the Sphinx and Great Pyramids, the Osirieon also encodes the numbers of the Great Year (precession of the equinoxes), the golden mean, and key solar alignments, and both sites were centered around the veneration of Anubis. This makes the link between these two sites very strong – it appears that at the very least, the ancient knowledge of the builders of the Great Pyramids and Sphinx was passed on to those who built the Osirieon.

On the summer solstice, the light of the setting sun shines through a nearby gap in the Libyan Hills, which intersects the Osirieon temple. Due to the precession of the equinoxes, or the progress of the Great Year, the summer solstice occurred in the constellation of Leo in the era of 4400 BC. During this time at Abydos a deity called Khent-Amenty (also Khentiamentiu or Khentyamentw) was worshipped as a central figure.

Khent-Amenty was depicted with the head of a dog, but was also a variant of a lion deity, and later became associated with Anubis. He was known as “the head of the west” which was a reference to him as the guardian of the underworld – the land of the dead. The underworld was believed to be accessed through the gap in the Libyan hills, which lay to the west of Abydos, and which the solstice sun shone through in alignment with the Osireion temple.

Equally curious is that Khent-Amenty, a dog-like deity shown recumbent on a black standard, may in fact reflect an earlier understanding of the zodiac. The guardian of the west suggests a match for that guardian of the east, the Sphinx, and both can be related to the same constellation, that of Leo. Primitive cultures have often seen Leo as a dog-like creature, and it has even been suggested that the Sphinx originally depicted a dog. At the time of the earliest pre-dynastic cultures at Abydos, the ancestors of the Thinites around the turn of the 5th millennium BCE, the summer solstice sun was in Leo. So, standing in the sacred grove on top of the Osireion mound, one would have seen the sun set, and there, sparkling in the night sky, would have been Khent-Amenty, the black dog of Leo, guarding the path of eternal life.
~ Vincent Bridges, Abydos, the Osireion and Egyptian Sacred Science

Alignment with Leo During 10,500 BC

The Sphinx is also mysteriously set low down in the Giza plateau, and beside a giant causeway running from the second largest of the Great Pyramids. The angle of the causeway is slightly offset due east by about 14 degrees. Egyptologists argue that this was because the Sphinx and causeway were incorporated later into the Giza design. Researchers Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval discovered however, that this offset and lowering of the Sphinx mirrored the movement of the constellation of Leo during the era around 10,500 BC at the spring equinox.

When one stands on the causeway, looking toward the Sphinx and the rising sun, one would have witnessed the constellation of what we now know as Leo rising in the sky before dawn so that it would appear head first, as if its body was submerged by the horizon, before fully appearing in its recumbent position. At this moment, one could look across to the sphinx and see only its head, as if it were submerged in the horizon just like the constellation, with both of them aligned to one another.

The rising of the constellation of Leo preceding the sun mirrors the role Anubis has in the resurrection of the initiate. Anubis, symbolized by the constellation of Leo, appears at the horizon where the sun will rise. The sun must pass through this constellation and the gaze of Anubis (as the sphinx), to leave the earth and ascend into the sky, the realm of imperishability. At dawn, the sun emerges from the horizon, symbolizing the emergence of the initiate with the Christ/Son within from out of the underworld (symbolized by the 9 chambers beneath the Sphinx that represent the 9 layers of hell/the underworld). As the sun rises, it passes through the gateway created by the gaze and constellation of Anubis, thus overcoming the divine laws which Anubis administers.

The rising of the constellation of Leo also symbolizes the primeval mound, rising from out of the horizon—the chaos and waters of creation, as Atum.

Additionally, at around 10,500 BC the Great Pyramids aligned with the three stars of Orion’s belt. This revealed that the monuments of the Giza plateau all had their most dominant alignments around this time, and that they were built together as part of a greater plan.

The Duat Mirrored by the Great Pyramids and Sphinx

In ancient Egypt, the realm of the Duat was the dwelling place of the gods, a place that lay beyond the physical world in the area of the constellation of Orion. In the ancient Egyptian text The Book of What is in the Duat it states, “whoever shall make the copy of the Duat, and shall know it upon the Earth, it shall act as a magical protector for him, both in Heaven and in Earth, unfailingly, regularly and eternally,” alluding to why the ancient builders of the Giza Plateau aligned their structures to this other-worldly realm of the sun and stars.

The Great Pyramids align to the three stars of Orion’s belt. To the ancient Egyptians, Orion was the constellation of Osiris, in whose life the process of attaining imperishability was symbolized. In the Pyramid Texts, Unas [the Pharaoh] journeys through the day and night sky to become the star Sabu, or Orion.

Behold, he has come as Orion, behold, Osiris has come as Orion …
~ The Pyramid Texts, utterance 819

Each year the sun makes a journey through the sky drifting between the constellation of Osiris, Leo (Anubis) and across the Milky Way, symbolically representing the events of the life of Osiris, which are then mirrored at the Giza plateau. Orion corresponds with the Great Pyramids; the Milky Way corresponds to the Nile and the eternal divine feminine known as the goddess Hathor; and Anubis who resurrects Osiris is symbolized by the sphinx, which may have been mirrored by what we now know as the constellation of Leo.

Hathor is perhaps the most prominent mother goddess of ancient Egypt, who was depicted as a cow, sometimes with a face shaped like a uterus to reflect her role of sacred birth. Both she and the goddess Nut were associated with the Milky Way, along with many other mother goddesses around the world. Nut is depicted as stretching across the sky with a body of stars, giving birth to and then swallowing the sun in an eternal cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.

To the esoteric Neolithic people’s of Ireland, who built sacred sites like Newgrange around 3,500 BC, the Milky Way was known as “Bealach (or bother) an Bó Finne”, which means the way or the road of the white cow. In both their culture and the ancient Egyptians (as well as in ancient Hindu culture) the cow was a sacred symbol of the Great Mother, the eternal feminine. They, like the Egyptians who built the Great Pyramids on the river Nile to symbolize the Milky Way, also built their sacred sites around a river which symbolized the Milky Way. In Neolithic Ireland, as in Egypt, they also aligned their temples to the spring equinox using symbols of resurrection, which you can read more about in Ancient Sacred Sites Aligned to the Spring Equinox.

In the story of Osiris, he is betrayed by Seth (just as Jesus was by Judas). Seth seals Osiris in a coffin and then throws the coffin into the Nile River, symbolic of the Milky Way, which flows out to the sea—this is the return of the initiate to the womb of the divine mother, the primordial waters of creation.

In Mesoamerican cultures this is symbolized as being swallowed by the serpent, and is found in the story of Jonah being swallowed by the whale as well as in many, many others. These symbols represent the initiate becoming one with the divine feminine principle. But a return to the womb is also a time of death, as it is a return to the place which precedes birth—and then to the imperishable source of all life.

Incredibly, the passion (betrayal, death, and resurrection) of Osiris is symbolized by the structures of the Giza Plateau which align to the celestial counterparts that enacted this same drama in the heavens every year.

The Use of Universal Principles in the Giza Design

There is an ancient maxim of wisdom that states “as above, so below.” The universal principles of life exist in everything—that is why the same mathematical “logarithmic spiral” is found in the shape of a shell, and the spiral of a galaxy. The same principles that govern the movement of the heavens, the formation and structure of life, and the cycles of growth and decay, etc., also govern the spiritual development of the human being. The whole of life is created for beings to awaken, and is intrinsically imbued with the wisdom of this process so that we can remember who we are and find our way back home. (More explained in How Enlightenment is the Process of Creation in the Universe in Reverse).

This is why the builders of the Great Pyramids and Sphinx aligned their sacred structures to the movements of the heavens, and used sacred geometry, with a precision that is unmatched even today. A study of 50 Egyptian temples revealed that the builders had used highly advanced sacred mathematics in the construction of every single one. A universal principle manifests in numbers, sound, color, natural cycles, the formation of life, astronomy, etc., which are studied in separate and distinct disciplines. However, these are all expressions of the same universal truths. By using the expression of particular principles, whether it be astronomical or mathematical, the builders of the Great Pyramids and Sphinx, were able to create places that harnessed these principles energetically and multi-dimensionally, and could be experienced and understood on many different levels beyond the mind.

Researcher Robert Temple discovered that throughout the Giza site, an angle of 26 degrees 33 minutes and 54 seconds had been used. This angle is the only angle that is produced in the only triangle constructed by means of the “golden ratio”, and has been used both in two and three dimensions, between all the pyramids, in the slope of the passages inside the pyramids and beside the Sphinx, in the design of the inner chambers, and between the Sphinx and the two largest pyramids. The incredible “invisible” three-dimensional layout of the Giza Plateau, with its stunning multiplicity of sacred geometry from every point and down to minute details with unmatched accuracy (so much that today researchers have barely scratched the surface), reveals that the sphinx and pyramids were built and laid out according to a unified master plan.

This same angle was also used throughout Egyptian artwork, often as the angle the initiate who was being resurrected was tilted on, revealing why the ancient builders wished to harness the energetic power found in this mathematical truth at the site of the Great Sphinx and Pyramids so dedicated to the process of resurrection. The sum of 2 and 6, gives 8. And 5 and 4 gives 9. 8, 33, and 9 are numbers extremely significant to the process of esoteric initiation.

Osiris Between the Paws of the Anubis Sphinx

Critics of the theory that the sphinx was originally carved as Anubis state that the head of the sphinx is made of a harder and heavier stone than the body, caused by the strata in the bedrock from which the sphinx was carved, and that because of this, the body would not have been able to support the weight of Anubis’ head without it falling off.

However, the ancient Egyptians were master builders. Their statues were built taking into account the fragility of protruding parts like hands, and heads, and they incorporated reinforcements into the design to ensure they would last.

Here is an image of an actual Egyptian Anubis sphinx with a pharaoh between its paws. It was built as part of the Ramesseum between 1279 to 1212 BC.

There is a large bulge on the chest of the sphinx. This bulge, now almost completely weathered away, could once have been the image of Osiris or equivalent deity, which would have supported the head of Anubis. Sphinx statues in Egypt often show the figure of a pharaoh between their paws, and this may have been a symbolic design which carried through thousands of years even though the original form of the Great Sphinx did not.

In the constellation of Leo, which the builders of the sphinx may have mirrored in their design, the brightest star of the constellation is found at the place of the heart. Uncannily, this star called Regulus, is also known as the King Star. This may also indicate why the pharaoh/king came to be situated standing at the heart of sphinxes and again alludes to the possibility that the bulge on the chest of the Great Sphinx could have been the “King” or initiate, represented by Osiris.

In the process of resurrection, Anubis and Osiris are intimately linked, as it is Anubis who facilitates the resurrection of Osiris, and it is on the spring equinox, which the sphinx gazes at, that the constellation of Anubis rises before the sun (symbol of the resurrected Osiris as his son Horus), thus bringing the sun to life. In The Book of the Caverns it refers to “those who are between his [Anubis’] arms,” which is an esoteric reference that may have been symbolized by the sphinx with Osiris between its “arms”. In the Book of the Dead, Anubis is depicted laying his hands upon Osiris, saying “I have come to protect Osiris.” Sphinxes later had statues of pharaohs between their paws as they were said to protect the pharaoh. This may show that although the knowledge of what the sphinx originally was, the idea of the pharaoh being protected between its paws continued.

As the spring equinox sun rose, signaling the resurrection of Osiris as his son Horus, the sun would have emerged from the watery horizon, and created a path of light across the river Nile that would have reached the sphinx and possibly a statue of Osiris between its paws. The statue of Osiris would have had its lower body beneath the water, as he was often depicted this way to show his symbolic resurrection—rising from out of the underworld and emerging from the primordial waters of the womb and creation to attain eternal life.

How the Sphinx Was Lost

The knowledge of the original form of the sphinx was lost thousands of years ago, as it was abandoned, vandalized, re-carved, and restored. Its origins are still unknown as there are no references to who built it, and there are many signs showing that it came from a time before recorded Egyptian history.

A number of researchers and archeologists argue that the sphinx and its surrounding enclosure show signs of heavy weathering from water. Deep rivets in the stone, which have almost eroded the original form of the sphinx away entirely, were created by a long period of heavy rainfall. Today, the Giza area is a desert—the the last time the Giza plateau had heavy rainfall was at a time called the Nabtian Fluvial that lasted from 10,000 to 3,000 BC. This means that the sphinx would have had to have existed during this time, but could have been built earlier—possibly being of pre-ice age and pre-flood origin, and built by Atlanteans. Archeologist Robert Schoch places the age of the sphinx to at least as early as 5,000 to 7,000 BC, but researcher John Anthony West believes it could even be as old as 12,500 BC or more.

The original builders of the sphinx are not known. Instead, using circumstantial evidence, mainstream Egyptology has promoted the idea that the pharaoh Khafre built the sphinx and the second largest of the Great Pyramids at around 2,500 BC even though there are no references to Khafre building either. Restoration block work on the sphinx is believed to date to as early as this time—which would indicate that the sphinx was already weathered and in need of restoration by then.

The oldest known sacred texts in the world are called The Pyramid Texts. They have been dated to soon after Khafre’s reign (around 2,400 to 2,300 BC), and were discovered on the walls of a number of pyramids at a site called Saqqara. They contain the oldest references to the sphinx and Great Pyramids, in which they speak of Anpu/Anubis surrounded by a sacred lake at the Giza Plateau. This reveals that at this time, the sphinx may have still retained its original form. They do not contain references however, to who built the sphinx or Great Pyramids, leaving the time before around 3,000 BC as a veritable black out in the history of Egypt.

A few hundred years after Khafre’s reign, Egypt was hit with droughts, floods, and plagues for around 150 years. During this time (around 2,150 to 2,040 BC) social order broke down and mobs plundered and vandalized the Giza site. The sphinx may have been severely damaged during these riots (causing such a disfigurement to the head that the knowledge of what it was may have been lost, also giving cause for later pharaohs to restore the face with their own image), and many artifacts and texts looted and destroyed. The gold pinnacle that topped the Great Pyramid was probably removed at this time. All that survives is what is set in stone and was too large to destroy—the core structures of the Great Pyramids and sphinx with their encoded and unified mathematical, astronomical, and esoteric wisdom.

Social order returned to Egypt in around 2,000 BC. After this the head of the sphinx was re-carved at least once, leaving the final image of pharaoh Amenemhet II (not Khafre or Khufu, who have been attributed with building it, and look nothing like it) who reigned from 1,876 to 1,842 BC. By this time sphinxes with lion’s bodies and the heads of pharaohs or rams were appearing as statues. It is clear that the knowledge of what the sphinx had been was already lost by the Egyptians at large themselves.

Then, the sphinx itself was nearly totally lost. Today the area around the sphinx and pyramids is a parched, sandy desert. In fact, periodically for hundreds and thousands of years at a time, the sphinx has been covered up to its neck in sand. The famous Dream Stella between the sphinx’s paws records how the pharaoh Thutmose IV, in around 1,400 BC, had a dream beneath the head of the sphinx that at the time protruded above the sand. In the dream the sphinx spoke to Thutmose IV saying that if he restored the sphinx, in return the sphinx would make him king.

This reveals that by 1,400 BC the sphinx had already been long neglected to the sands of time. Rain and the once lush surrounds had long since departed the area, as well as the original civilization of Giza. The focus of Egyptian culture had moved elsewhere.

By the time Thutmose IV had his dream, the sphinx’s head had already been altered and made into the face of a pharaoh. Anyone who views the sphinx today can see the incredible disproportion between the tiny head of the sphinx with its large, elongated body. This disproportion was created through one, successively re-carving the head, making it smaller each time; and two, adding block work casing to parts of the sphinx’s body which had the effect of enlarging it.

Images and statues of Anubis/Anpu in his jackal/dog form, associated with death and resurrection continued however, even though his association with the sphinx had been severed. This knowledge survived through sacred texts that were passed down over thousands of years, with older texts becoming reincorporated into newer ones.

The sphinx was vandalized once more by a fanatical Muslim, who hacked at the nose, which is still missing today. Around the same time in 1,300 AD after an earthquake shook Cairo, the Great Pyramids were stripped of their outer casing to rebuild the city.

From at least 2,500 BC successive restorations have been done on the sphinx, right up until the present day. Ancient Egyptian block work which covers the lower part of the sphinx’s body, including the tail and paws, was later added to by the Greeks and Romans who used the sphinx as a place of worship during their occupations of Egypt. This has been further added to by modern stones. The addition of all these restoration stones has had the effect of widening the torso, massively enlarging the paws, and possibly adding the curled up tail, to create a leonine form instead. It is now impossible to pull back these stones (no one would give permission) to reveal the original form of the torso, paws, and tail. The sphinx has also been concreted, lengthening the pharaoh’s headdress, smoothing the neck, and filling in huge gaping rivets in the body.

In our times the sphinx is no longer a site of sacred reverence, but has morphed into a star attraction, replicated in Las Vegas, completely detached from its original esoteric origins. However, through the experience of the same sacred knowledge of the original builders, the sphinx can once again be understood.

The Gradual Loss of the Esoteric Knowledge of Ancient Egypt

There is no evidence to suggest that the Great Pyramids were ever used as the tombs of pharaohs, although later pyramids were. They served an entirely different and esoteric purpose. What happened to Egypt, probably a number of times, as has happened to all original esoteric sites and cultures, is that the people there declined in spiritual knowledge. Whilst the ancient sites themselves preserve the original understanding of spirituality, the people who inhabit them invariably lose it as the cycles of nature dictate.

What we see throughout history, repeatedly all over the world, is that the knowledge of spirituality is lost as people themselves lose the capacity to understand and value it. Eventually, the knowledge is turned into a blind religion, the real esoteric practitioners are pushed out, the knowledge becomes distorted, given meanings it never had, and taken over by megalomaniacs and those with entirely selfish and malevolent agendas – who then use it as a tool to control and enslave people, at times inverting the practice of the teachings of light into black magic with blood rituals, sacrifice, violence etc. When the knowledge of spiritual principles is lost, society declines morally (spiritually), often they are no longer able to hold themselves together, and are destroyed. This sometimes allows other civilizations to rise and give the spiritual knowledge anew in a different form. Life moves in cycles and as Atlantis fell, so too will this civilization. This is the cycle of life and death that is visible in all of creation.

Ancient Egypt was undoubtedly once inhabited by a highly spiritually advanced and intelligent people, it’s greatest achievements are its oldest. There is also no doubt that it eventually descended into a religion ruled by a megalomaniac elite—scenes at temples even came to depict festivals of drunkenness. Originally the Great Pyramids of Egypt were built free of any attribution and were dedicated to the sacred initiatory rites. Later, lavish tombs were created only for Pharaohs and nobles to assure them safe passage in the afterlife, laden with riches and inscribed with various parts of esoteric teachings. This knowledge, which the elite had reserved for themselves, was eventually interpreted by the public and mass moral decline and degeneration set in; excavations have uncovered caches of millions of slaughtered and mummified animals (including newborn puppies) used to appease the gods. One dating from around 747 BC, was dedicated to the worship of Anubis in which dogs were bred specifically to be killed and mummified only moments after being born. Obviously this has nothing to do with Anubis in any real sense and showed just how far society in Egypt had strayed from the knowledge. The priests of the once sacred temples, started taking money and gifts for people to buy their way into heaven, rather than upholding the principles of divine cosmic order. This kind of behavior illustrates why the esoteric knowledge was always kept so secret—to maintain its sanctity, and ensure its use for good and rightful purposes by those who knew how to use it. As Jesus would say – don’t throw your pearls before swine lest they trample them underfoot. Not only does the knowledge get trampled upon, but also its practitioners when placed before uncomprehending people.

Spiritual Knowledge Turned into a Religion of the Afterlife

The history of Egypt spans many thousands of years during which time the esoteric teachings became a religion merely of the afterlife. Sacred initiatory texts which explain the passage of the initiate in life, through the tests and trials of the process of enlightenment, became interpreted as the passage of the soul only after death, as inner death became confused with physical death.

The Egyptians depicted how unless one attains a spiritual stage, a person does not have immortality, but continues in the deathly dream of the subconscious before entering the jaws of the Egyptian crocodile goddess Ammit known as “the eater of the dead” after the circuit of lives, to be given over to eventual destruction in the underworld, or hell, which the Egyptians called the “Place of Annihilation”. This was the fate of the evil dead described by the Egyptians as it is in many other spiritual teachings.

The way to avoid this annihilation became distorted over time. It was originally through esoteric inner transformation, but it was later supposedly reached through repeating spells, by being buried with charms, and inside lavish tombs. Over time, the understanding of spiritual principles was replaced by the material or empty symbolism, whose meanings are either devoid of esoteric principles or are simply mundane.

I have passed by the roads of Rosetau [ancient name for Giza plateau] by water and on land; these roads are those of Osiris; they are in the sky. If a man knows the Spell for going down into them, he will be like a god directed by the followers of Thoth. He will indeed go down to every heaven to which he desires to descend. But if he knows not this Spell for passing on these roads, he will fall a prey to the tribunal of the dead, his destiny being that of one who has nothing, and is without (his) justification eternally.
~ The Book of the Two Ways

Instead the focus of the religion became a lavish preparation for the journey in the afterlife, rather than making the journey to attain enlightenment and immortality (or imperishability as in Egypt) within life itself. For enlightenment itself, material tombs and riches are useless as what we only take what we have within ourselves beyond death, and that depends on what we create spiritually inside in life. There is no doubt the Egyptians inherited an incredible knowledge of the realm of the afterlife, but the initiates, the early elites, recognized that this realm did not belong only to death but could be accessed in life, and experienced through having out-of-body experiences.

Although the sacred esoteric texts of Egypt became a religion that had steered away from the esoteric towards the mundane, the legacy of ancient Egypt is so great that the knowledge contained in its structures and teachings have remained a source of guidance for initiates throughout the ages.

Conclusion

What is generally known about the sphinx and the pyramids has been colored by thousands upon thousands of years of culture, multiple restorations, additions, and changes in form and function. The Sphinx isn’t what some have come to believe—a bizarre statue dedicated to a megalomaniac pharaoh, but is a sacred esoteric symbol of one of the most significant stages in spiritual transformation, and an integral part of a message of enlightenment left in the Giza complex by an advanced people long ago.

Anpu/Anubis was the sphinx who stood as the guard at the passage between those belonging to the physical, earthly realm, and those who had attained immortality, making sure that only those who fulfilled the requirements of resurrection passed through. For a few today, the process of spiritual resurrection is as relevant and important as ever in the purpose of life; Anpu and the gods of ancient Egypt watch over the sacred process; while the Giza Plateau still serves as a site for rites of initiation and spiritual resurrection, of a part of human experience that is hidden to the uninitiated, which takes place beyond the physical body.

~ Copyright 2012 Belsebuub and Angela Pritchard