The Tree of Life
The Kemetic tradition & Egyptian tradition
The tree as the source of Life
In the early period of Ancient Egyptian history, there was a teaching of the TREE OF LIFE. This was a special teaching describing the secret wisdom about the nature of the universe and of the journey of the soul. The goal is to regain one's divine stature and transcendental place. In its earliest form, the Ancient Egyptian city of Anu and the Tree was seen as the source of life.
Tree of Life
In Kamitan (Ancient Egyptian) myth, the tree is a life sustaining and enlightening source, and the tree goddess is the divinity (Goddess) of wisdom who lives in the tree and extends its bounty to the spiritual aspirant.
Isis is often pictured holding the ankh or the symbolic expression of the universal spiritual light as manifested in duality. As seen in Egyptian paintings and sculpture it is through the ankh that the vital enlivening Shakti/Shekhina current is transmitted.
Ankh
The Ancient Egyptian Ankh is composed of two hieroglyphic symbols. The top of the ankh hieroglyph is called Shen and it means eternity. It is composed of a rope that has been formed into a circle and knotted at the bottom. The other glyph is a vertical line which is a determinative glyph that means object, as in the objects that exist in time and space. So this combination of eternity, which is derived from the Spirit, and the objects of time and space, which are finite, ephemeral and limited, produces a “life process” which we know as mortal existence on earth.
Tree of Life as Goddess
The Djed pillar
The Ancient Egyptian Mystical Tree and the Implications of the Pillar of Asar
The Djed symbolizes the awakened human soul that is well “established” or “steadfast” or “stable" in the knowledge of the Self, that is, enlightened. The idea is to become steadfast and upright as a tree (vertical), as opposed to unstable and falling over horizontally as the dead, in order to reach up to unite the earth and the sky, thus mastering duality.
The Djed pillar. The tree is cut down to make a pillar
Example of the Asarian Djed
The Tree of Life which is the body of Asar Himself
Djeddu
Djeddu thus means having the knowledge of what is below and above and transcending both, thereby attaining the goal of Mysticism, to transcend duality and become one with all.
Why is the Djed Pillar such an Important Concept?
The name Djed contains the term DJ meaning Serpent. Dj comes back in Dj-huti (Thoth/Hermes), Dj-inn (a Magical Serpent Ghost) and Djedi (An Egyptian Magician).
The name Djedi was used in the famous Movie Star Wars. The Djedi are called the Skywalkers because they are able to use the Power of the Serpent to move in Space/Time, the Fifth Dimension.
Jedi - Star Wars - Where does it come from?
Ankh - Tree of Life
In other cultures the Serpent Power is called the Kundalini.
One of the most important secret rituals in the Cult of Osiris was called the Raising of the Djed. When you Raise Your Backbone you are opening the Path of the Serpent to let the Electro Magnetic Field of Mother Earth move you to the Fifth Dimension.
The Force
Knowledge
Self-Discipline
Isis and Osiris In Egyptian mythology
Asar (Osiris) and Aset (Isis) in the Kemetic tradition
Osiris usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld, and the dead, but more appropriately as the god of transition, resurrection, and regeneration.
Heru (Kemet) or Horus (Egyptian) is the child of Asar & Aset
The TREE OF LIFE
is a ladder, if you will... it is a web of connections that connect the physical with the spiritual. A tree, in this sense, is like a ladder that makes a connection. Ordinarily you think of a tree that rises up from the ground and reaches up, it actually connects the earth to the sky. The tree comes up from the earth, from the seed. It raises up its trunk and then spreads out its branches. At the top of the tree you have the sky, at the bottom you have earth. And you can climb a tree and get to the top also. Likewise you can climb the tree of Anunian Theurgy.
The Tree of Life of Anunian Theurgy
In the Kemetic Tree of Life
each sphere and its divinity represent a particular human and/or a transcendental philosophical issues (lower five spheres) and cosmic issues (upper five spheres) that must be experienced and mastered in order to progress.
Aztec Tree of Life.
Egyptian Ankh cross of Life
the christian cross
the cross of Jesus is often referred to as a Tree of Life. In present day practice, the Christmas tree was originally supposed to be a manifestation of the same idea. The star at the top of the Christmas tree was supposed to symbolize the attainment of Cosmic (Christ) Consciousness.