My Sacred Journey to Egypt 2009

My Sacred Journey to Egypt 2009 - The Obelisk

05/20/2012 02:37:00

Welcome back everyone.

Today we continue our visit to Karnak Temple where we see the two obelisks

We take up with Dr Morad as we walk through this great temple towards the obelisks where we stopped and listened as Dr Morad spoke about them.

That thing is called an obelisk...an obelisk is a big needle...the big needle in English language is called the obelisk because they thought it looked like a needle and sometimes they call it Cleopatra's needle in books and so on.

The one that is in London belonged to Cleopatra then they called it Cleopatra's needle from that moment.

Lets talk about what is the obelisk....the obelisk is one piece of granite...heavy is thousands of tons..one piece...it came from Aswan and how they cut it and how they moved it and how they put it here...we don't know.

But if you look there it is full of writing..

If you translate the writing it is commorating what the King made in his life and he is dedicating that to the God of the temple.

Its like a memorial pillor outside the temple telling the God what I made for you....yes I ordered first this number of gold coins for you...this number of oxen I slaughtered for you... all that story.

The other thing I want you to notice is the shape of it...it ends with a pyramid.

Actually a sun ray carrying that message from earth to the Gods and everyday as soon as it appears....energy source inside the earth sending things to the sky all the time.

And this is the connection between the earth and the heaven was through this...and it full of energy...full of energy.

If you look at this one (referring to second one) this is bigger...there..and this is having another suprise for us...the name is written there of the King who made it...Hatshepsut.

And what is written is...

Oh my father the God Amun Ra

I order these two obelisks from the

granite of Aswan to be made in seven months.

Make both of them in seven months and millions of years they will be here and generation after generation will pass by them and they will wonder how they made it....how they made it.

We know the obelisk is a sunray sending and receiving the energy but many people don't understand why the baboons...a kind of monkey are here.

When the appearance of the sun comes to the earth there are monkey's and baboons actually shouting and raising their hands to receive the energy from the obelsik that you see.

Actually the monkey was once the figure of the God Thoth...the Godof knowledge and wisdom.

Join me again soon as we continue to explore the beauty of Egypt, but for now I'll leave you with this clip Pyramids of Giza and Obelisks in Egypt...enjoy

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Pyramids of Giza and Obelisks in Egypt

Huge obelisks made of solid granite pose a mystery, as it would have been difficult to have worked with this stone thousands of years ago. The quarries at Aswan can be visited, and you can see the Unf...

My Sacred Journey to Egypt 2009 - Inside Karnak Temple

04/29/2012 17:51:00

Welcome back everyone

Today we go into Karnak Temple and as we approach this huge palace there sits on each side of the entrance leading up to the Temple, an avenue of rams.

It is written that originally there were three avenues of sphinxes, one of which was two miles long and linked up with the avenue of human headed sphinxes in Luxor.

Below is a wonderful Youtube video showing Karnak Temple in the past to present day.

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Temple of Karnak

مدينة الاقصر وفي معبد الكرنك كانت زمان والي حتي الان فزيارتك ليها اعمار واليكم هذا

Now we'll join Dr Morad again as we go inside Karnak Temple

First hall is called prestyle hall or open court.

The Egyptians were having an avenue of rams...the ram is the symbolic animal of Amon.

The rams were going to the Temple inside and then this in ancient times...hundreds of years another King came and he push the rams back to the wall and he built instead of them rows of columns representing the papyris.

Every temple must have a Holly of Hollies room of the God's.

In front of it the big hall for celebration....we call the hypostyle hall. In front of it an open court we call it prestyle and then the two walls...we call them pylons and the gate between them.

If the Temple is going to expand or Kings were back to add to that, they were adding in front of these buildings.

Yesterday at Kom Ono we saw hypostyle halls remember, first one where the King was putting the crown...... and the second one....this embodies 134 columns and all are representing the papyris ...if you look up you see the colour ....all the temple was coloured like that...all of it.

We have these beautiful colours...you see the colors between the ceiling and the columns there..there and there.

This is exactly...the whole temple was wired like this having bright colors like that.

But of course flood and earthquakes and buried under the mud for thousands of years...washed most of these things except the high ones which are on the wall which was in reach.

The colors were stones powdered and mixed with egg white and painted. Its called tempra in art and they use the tempra technique of doing that.

This technique when you leave it becomes old and it becomes more strong...the colour never fade.

This is one of the techniques that in resonance time of Michael Angelo and all those people used it...this is to keep the things very old and very bright as much older.

You can see them they are three or four thousands years old.

There are the names of Rames II...because Rames II is the King who made 95% of this hall. His father started and he's the one who finished it....then whenever you look at the cartouche's.. the names they are Rames II.

Every column you see has a cartouche carrying the name of Rames II.

Every Egyptian King had five names and five titles. If you remember he must be Horus....the first name is Horus and then the tittle.

The second name is a King who is crowned by the two ladies...the cobra and the vulture...the third name is the son of Ra.

The son of Ra appeared as a duck and a disk of Ra...the son of Ra..

Rames is the big cartouche in front of us....see the God Ra on the top....the disk on top of his head and that big column you see the cartouche to the left on the top of it there is a man sitting....having the ankh in his hand and the disk of Ra on top of his head.

It is very hard to imagine what Dr Morad is describing about the cartouche so I've added a Youtube video's of Karnak Temple for you where the guide in the video is referring to the cartouche's that Dr Morad is talking about.

Enjoy......

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Temple of Karnak Part I - including Description of Cartouche

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My Sacred Journey to Egypt 2009 - Karnak Temple

03/30/2012 03:00:00

Welcome

Today we visit the Temple of Karnak.

Before we begin I would like to talk about the preparation and work that goes into organizing a trip such as this.

This trip certainly would not have been so wonderful if it was for the dedication of Medhat our tour organiser and Elisabeth Jensen.

As you have read our Egyptologist Dr Morad who's depth of knoweldge is simply amazing gave us a greater insight and understanding of the places we visited.

It wasn't simply a story but more history lesson.

Our private visits and meditations led by Elisabeth allowed us to truly connect with the Ancient Gods and Goddesses.

Karnak Temple as narrated by Dr Morad

The name Karnak was given to the Temple because next to it is a village called the Karnak villiage....and they named it according to that.

But actually the origin name was the house of Amun Ra.

Then who is Amun Ra...one of the Egyptian beliefs of the Creation... you remember when I said it was dark and ocean and piece of land.

This happened in the north....to the north there was a Temple of the sun God there... in the middle of Egypt there was another Temple talking about a different way of Creation.

Not so far from this they said.... so the world was created from four elements...four...each one of those is a husband and wife...then they will be eight Gods.

The first you know...darkness..the God of darkness...Goddess of darkness.

The second one you know it....ocean...the ocean...the God of the ocean and the Goddess of the ocean.

The third one they called it the eternity...till the time.

The fourth one made them power...then a piece of land emerges and the story continues.

The word hidden is Amun okay...then Amun is that hidden power.

Amun was brought to a small city in Ancient time...and he was the local God of that place and they let him marry another wife here... and his wife was the wife of the hidden power as well.

Far away from here in Egypt...but we don't know what happened and they let him marry Goddess here called Mout spelt mout and they had a son called Khonsu.

Khonsu is the moon God....Amun Ra is the sun God...okay.

And he would belong to this area like small one of the crocodile we saw before in other areas and so on.

This is in the previous history Old Kingdom time....the Capital was Memphis near Cairo.

Middle Kingdom the Capital was in one of the oasis's ...Aswan.

Then Egypt was occupied by foreigners...foreign people came with horses and chariots... Egyptians never knew horses and chariots before then....they attack Egypt and occupy Egypt for three hundred years.

Then the Egyptians started struggle to liberate themselves from those hocks....they were called hocks and the people who started the struggle were rulers of this city.

When they made the victory they apppreciated that victory happen to them because of the support of Amun.

Then they started to bring in a bigger house....a bigger Temple...then the temple became bigger, bigger and bigger and most important Temple of the history of Egypt in the vicinity here.

Thats why in this temple we can tell the history of Egypt backward from the last Pharaoh and Greek and going to the Middle Kingdom time inside...and it had ten gates, not only one or two like the Temple we saw before...this one has ten gates.

Instead of wasting your time of all this talking about the history...just to know who is Amun and he became the greatest God and in the New Kingdom.... Luxor became the Capital.

The name Luxor was not Luxor....the name in Ancient time was Wase then the Greeks called it Thebes and the arabs called it the palaces.

They found these buildings and they thought they were palaces....and they were not mistaken because they were palaces of Gods....then they called it the city of the palaces. The palaces are in Luxor so they called it Luxor according to that.

It became a big capital ...they become very powerful after they liberated the country.

They conqored the war...then whenever they went to occupy a new country the Gods income which is tributes and offerings and gold and people, slaves and all that stuff.

At least twenty five percent of the whole income of the country was coming into this Temple.

And then imagine that Temple was very rich and very powerful....even when I take you inside the Holly of Hollies..the room you were praying inside...it was covered with gold sheets and all these pictures you can see them....were stone lapis lazuli and turquoise and so on.

Next we go inside the temple of Karnak.

My Sacred Journey to Egypt 2009 - Kom Ombo

03/03/2012 23:13:00

Welcome back and a warm welcome to everyone across the world.

One of the wonderful things that I can see from my website www.isisblessings.com is the number of people who visit and where they come from.

Since beginning this blog more than 2000 people have viewed it and since its inception in 2010 over 12,000 have visited isisblessings.

I can not take all the credit for this blog as without Dr Morad we would not have been blessed with so much knowledge and wonder.

As I previousley mentioned, the reason for doing the blog was to share My Sacred Journey to Egypt in 2009 with those who are not able to visit or have been and enjoy going back via this form.

So thank you to all that continue to visit from Australia, America, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Japan, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Israel, India, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Malaysia, Netherlands, Phillippines, Russian Federation, Romanai, United Kingdom and Ukraine.

I hope I haven't missed anyone!

Today we visit the Temple of Kom Ombo, a double Temple with one side dedicated to the God Haroesis and the other side to the God Sobek.

It is written that the design is almost perfectly symmetrical with two side - by -side sanctuaries and parallel passage ways leading through the outer parts of the Temple.

Dr Morad is with us once again to take us on a journey of discovery through this unusal but beautiful Temple.......

The Temple was built by the river and this area of the Nile is having a bug u turn....it slows down the current of the river.

When it slows down fish lay eggs and then the area is full of fish...then the fisherman came to fish here and they caught a lot of fish.

But also the crocodiles found they are full of fish to eat....they found the fisherman more delicous than the fish...they left the

fish then ate the fisherman.

Then who was controlling that crocodile from stopping doing harm....Sobek.

So they built the Temple of Sobek and they give him the daily service we talked about. Sobek will be satisfied and will order the crocodiles not to do harm.

This is the idea of having local Gods everywhere....we have big Gods like Ra, like Horus, like Isis and also we have local Gods like the Cat in the north for example....like Hathor in some places...like Sobek...like the Scoporpian Goddess in some other places.

Then this is the idea...then Sobek was shipped here and as you notice now it is like people don't feel comfortable to worship that God but they need need to worship that God to stop the crocodiles.

Then they made the Temple of two Gods instead of one.

Horus the beloved one and his enermy actually...Sobek or Seth.

In the centre they could keep the yin and yang...balance the area.

The Temple is for both of them... for Horus and Sobek together and this is something unique in Egyptian Temple. To have a Temple for two Gods is not common...but in this place to keep the equilibrium between the two forces...the white and the black or yin and yang or whatever you call it as it is..actually it keeps the balance.

When we go inside this area it is called the Holly of Hollies with two rooms representing the two Gods Sobek here and Horus there(see sanctuaries on left & right and stairways on map).

If you look around you there is a room here and a room there and a passage between them.

But this passsage was hidden by one wall in the back.

Nobody could see this passage ...and this is the corridor around the Holly of Hollies...everything was built around it...you go down and crawl back into this room...a crypt......can you hear my voice is amplified.

The priest would come through the door..go down in the hidden area...then the priest was hidden and then when the King was asking for Oracles and Prophecy, the answer coming from here...meant someone washiding here and no one knew where the voice was coming from.

Let us move outside to see where the crocodiles were kept .....

The pool was filled with water for the crocodile who was kept for the God... the pool had to have something to open and close for the water to come in... to fill the pool... it was coming from a well... then they had buckets filling the pool for the crocodiles.

From where the water was coming this was connected to the Nile and the water was coming from right here....if the water rise here by these steps they were counting every month and everyday and they measure the Nile.

The taxation system was delivered according to the Nile....the water is okay the crocodiles will be fine..the tax is like that...the water is less than ususal no taxes this year ....something like that.

Then counting these steps for measuring and the priests is going down from this entrance actually...look there...there is a door and we used to take the people down but some slipped and they close it. Nobody going down anymore.

This is what is known as the Nilometer.

The well was used for purification, cleaning the Temple, cooking what ever.

Below more images taken around the Temple.

Coming up ....Karnak Temple

My Sacred Journey to Egypt - Isis Temple

02/12/2012 04:57:00

Welcome back everyone.

The Temple of the Goddess Isis on the Island of Philae was one of my most memorable private visits in Egypt.

We were woken at 5 am in preparation for our ceremony in this beautiful temple.

As we made our way across to the island in our small boat it was dark and everyone was silent.

All that could be heard was the gentle lapping of the water against the side of the boat.

Arriving we all filed quietly in to the Temple and to the room known as the Holly of Hollies.

We'll join Dr Morad as he talks about this wonderful place.

The place you enter is called the Holly of Hollies.

Every Temple consists of limited items and additions after that but every Temple must have a Holly of Hollies.

The Holly of Hollies is actually the top secret room in an Egyptian Temple where the Goddess or the God is living there.

Remember every Temple has a Father, Mother and Son.

The other rooms are the rest of the Temple..normally in the Temple we find everybody see's the back of the Temple, but actually it is the beginning of the Temple.

Firstly the room of the God or Goddess who belongs to the Temple and then the husband and wife.

In front of it which is where everybody is standing there is a big hall...consists of columns and pillars and it like the celebration one.

But notice inside the Holly of Hollies one is dark... when the light goes off we didn't see anything because remember the story that creation started from darkness and ocean and then suddenly a piece of land emerged and the Creator who created himself appeared at the top of this house....the outside representing the mortar of him and the statue of the Goddess who was put here... is representing the appearance of the Creator.

Notice when we go outside we go down steps which is the opposite ...it is raised up from the ocean and darkness and when you are here and when the light goes off...nobody else could see in here.

Because it is dark ....when we go inside we can see everything out which is the God can see and nobody can see him.

He goes out...when he goes out he goes in a procession...carried in a boat and there you can see the pictures of these boats outside or in the other temples....then he is like shinning to the people and when he comes to the light... its like sitting in the sunshine.

Other pictures on the wall....what are all these other pictures.

Well actually all these pictures either prayers to the Gods or instructions of the service to be done to the God.

What kind of service ...the God was considered a person in need of his needs...and the priest was coming at the crack of dawn as he did and nobody was allowed to enter this room except for one person who's the Holly person....supposedly the King because the King cannot be in all the thousands of Temples in the same moment to do the service.

Then there was a man helping him do that...was called the High Priest...he was the only one who was allowed to enter the room.

The priests have asssitants as well...then the priests have grades and nobody was allowed to pass his line according to his grade.

Then the priests are there and can not come here because their grades are not allowed them to pass the this line....the highest one that could go inside is the High Priest.

What we call it...daily service from sunrise till the sun sets....when the sun sets he goes home...the door is closed and nobody can enter till the next dawn when he comes and opens it.

Lets see some of these pictures and what that means...this side first...if we look at all these pictures we see here..there..everywhere...these are instructions of what is going to happen from sunrise to sun set...hour per hour actually.

What I want to tell you or to show you some of these very important sacred things.

Look at this picture....that man...this is the King and his name is written in the word in a kartush of course.

His name is written because this Temple was rebuilt remember...the last people who rebuilt the Temple at that time actually were Greek.

Then the name is written here....but what is the King doing....forget about his name...he is holding the eye...some of you say the Eye of Horus....and Horus's name is written here...Horus is the Falcon and look at this...this is the house of Horus...you see that.

We define this Hed Hor ...the shelter of Hor or Horus which is the name of the Goddess we call Hathor.

Then this is the Goddess Hathor and this is Horus himself and the eye is given to him.

What is this story of this eye and what did eye represent....in the early early hisory of the Gods you remember there was a kind of war happening between Horus and his Uncle Set ....the darkness and power.

In one of these battles the Uncle took the eye of Horus...he made one of his eyes blind.

Isis the Mother Goddess of healing power ... she collected all these pieces and fragments of the pieces...she made a special eye and returned it back to Horus...not only to see but to be protected from the evil forever.

Then if anybody is carrying this eye...it is a very powerful eye to protect any person from evil ...see he is returning the eye back to him which was made by Isis ..this was a big ceremony.

The other thing there is ....Osiris the Mummy...you see him here and you see the wings of Isis is protecting him.

The other protected symbol I want you to see is not clear but I want you to imagine ...look here he's holding two things can you see that...and you know of course the sister image it with me no is the head of the Goddess with two ears of a cow because she was representing the one who offers the milk...but on top of her head there is a design of like a Temple but actually its a box made of wood surrounded by these two things...see them.

These are just wire springs and you shake it they vibrate...when they vibrate they make tunes. The harmony of the energies and that temple box is working like a musical box...making a sound...very big when you shake it and used in ceremonies for Goddess Isis and Hathor.

Unfortunately I do not have defined pictures depicting what Dr Morad is describing but below are others that adorn the temple walls.

Visit http://www.isisblessings.com/ Philae Island Temple of Isis to see more pictures of this beautiful place.

Coming soon - Kom Ombo Temple

My Sacred journey to Egypt 2009 - Aswan

02/01/2012 04:59:00

Welcome back everyone.

I'd like to begin by briefly talking about how my blog began for those who are new visitors to my site.

My earliest recollection of my facination of Egypt and its history goes back to my school days when we did a school project where I first learnt about the Great Pyramids and the world of the Pharaohs.

Little did I know that some years later... definately to many to mention, that I would be blessed to visit this wonderous and mystical country.

In 2007 I met and began studying Isis Lotus Healing with Elisabeth Jensen, Founder of the Isis Mystery School in Adelaide South Australia www.isismysteryschool.com and later that year I went on my first Sacred Journey with her and seventeen other people.

We visited some amazing places and of course took lots of photo's.

On my return my interest in Egypt's ancient history and its people past and present, just grew and grew.

In 2009 I went on my second Sacred Journey to Egypt with Elisabeth and on my return undertook the Isis Lotus Healing Teacher's Course - read more at isisblessings.com

We were very lucky to have our own Egyptologist Dr Morad who travelled with us throughout our tour.

He was very happy for me to record his stories and upon my return I transcribed them.

I began my blog to allow others to read and learn more about this incrediable country and its Ancient Mythology (see previous blogs)

Dr Morhad will once again share his knowledge beginning with the city of Aswan.

The name of the city in Ancient times was called the ivory market and to pronounce it by the Egyptians language in this time was Swan...then it became Aswan now a days.

But the original name is Swan.

And that island...we are going to...it was a big market because they were coming by boats...bringing all these ivory...and not only ivory but ivory was the famous thing.

They were bringing lepard skins and wood for arrows and arrow bows and all the stuff...was brought there.

Then the island was the island of the market of the ivory.

Then it was called Elephantine Island accordingly.

But this island before being a market it was a place of very famous Ancient God in the Egyptian mythology.

That God was Khnom...and Khnom in Egyptian mythology is the one who makes the mankind from the clay...you remember that at the beginning of the creation by his hands he took the clay....he makes the statue of the man on a potter wheel and the creation of the human appears.

And he is one of the big Gods in the Egyptian mythology and he was known in this area since the history of Eygpt was known.

And Isis was known as well in the same area.

Then two big temples were here...one for Khnom and one for Isis.

Even sometimes we found problems between the priests about the properties ...no those are ours....no they belong to us and those kind of problems... and sometimes they fight with each other till a contract was signed between them in front of the Gods and written on a island on a big rock of granite.

When they build the Temple of Isis they left it as it was...in the wall is a big piece of granite...it doesn't match with the design but this is the old contract about the properties.

Of course every temple from now on we are going to visit...belong to three Gods...Father..Mother and son...always like that...we call it the Triad which is the Trinity in English...then every temple must have Father, Mother and son.

And sometimes one temple have a chapel for the wife.. a chapel for the son and a big one for the owner of the temple as a God.

All three rooms in the back...a big room for the owner of the temple and husband and son... if she is a female or wife and son if he is a married God like that.

This is something that you have to know every temple must have this Triad...this family...Father, Mother and son.

Here the temple like any temple I mentioned to you before was rebuilt and rennovated and rebuilt and rennovated through the history.

It never continued the same building in more than three thousand years but it was rebuilt several times till the Greek time.

When the Greek came our official memory...the Greek here in 300 BC...the Greek actually brought their own religion and they did not understand the Egyptian religion in the beginning.

People...the Egyptians are worshipping animals...they have cows and they have rams because Khnom is a ram...by the way ram headed human...body...then you'll find the Egyptian Gods are human bodies and different animals head and they were not animals....they were connected to these animals but they were not animals in their belief.

The Greek thought they are animals and they closed the temples and those people who were shipping animals all over the temples....when they did so they lost Egypt.

The Egyptians never obeyed them or listened to them.

Then one called Bartholomew the second who was the second Greek King of Egypt...advise to reopen the temples and he did...when he reopened the temples all the Egyptians obeyed them.. and then they respected the Egyptian beliefs...even though they did not believe in it and in this case even they encourage the priests to continue because by this way...they could control the whole people who are big believers.

Then in the Greek time these temples were funded or allowed to be funded under the Greek orders and gifts and everything like that.

Then we'll go there we see the remains of this temple from the Old Kingdom...we'll see the remains specifically in the Greek time and we'll see the remains in the New Kingdom time and different Kings.

This means this place was Holly all these three thousand years and many more coming here and there.

By the way that King Bartholomew...when he did reopen the temples the Egyptian's priests thanked him because he is Greek...they couldn't understand the language...then they wrote him a thanking letter on a big stone...to thank him in Greek.

They wrote it in Greek language but their own language is in hieroglyphics and it was written in hieroglyphics and Greek... this is what we call a presenter stone...a stone which was used to decipher the language.

Because of that thanking letter this King in particular ...thanking him in Greek and Egyptian... then we know the this language... Greek is known.

Egyptian wasn't known... then one French archaeologist could read the Greek and said this must be the transcription of that and this was the beginning of deciphering the language.

The big stone is kept in the British Museum now and is called the Rosetta Stone.

Coming soon ....we go inside the temples with Dr Morad

My Sacred Journey to Egypt 2009 - Tanis (Bubastis) Temple

01/23/2012 03:52:00

Welcome back everyone

Today we visit Tanis (Bubastis) Temple and Dr Morad also gives us the opportunity to better understand and appreciate the history and beauty behind the building of Egypt's Great Temples.

Temple is not a word in the Ancient Egyptian language...and what you think about a Temple is not what they think about the Temple.

Then what was the Temple...the Temple was called the house of the God and God is living in this house and nobody was allowed to go and disturb the God in the house.

And the servants of the God were called the priests and their job is serving the God....daily from sunrise to sunset.

And all the people did if they wanted something from these Temples and Gods...they were coming outside the Temple...knocking on the door...the priest would open the door and listen to them...what exactly they want.

They carried a message to the God in his room...and the room was called the Holy of Hollies.

The other thing I want you to understand is the God would know in this spot in this instance...the human appeared.

In a time the people they worship these Gods...for example if they suffered from scorpions killing them here and there...they would pick up the God who controlled the scorpions and they built him a house and they gave him service everyday from sunrise till sunset.

The Gods would be satisfied from the service....he would protect them from the harm that can happen by these scorpions.

Then you'll find the God here in this area was the scorpion God.

The other area was the cow Goddess because the meaty bits from the cattle who would be protected...then they would bring the Goddess who controlled the cow....this was Hathor in some places.

Then they built that God a house and they built it by the material they are using.

We will go back 10,000 years BC...only the material there they were using was straw....straw huts.

Then the house of the God was designed by the straw huts like their houses as well.

Then after thousands of years they discovered we can mix the straw with mud and we can make bricks....mud bricks....and they use these mud bricks for building.... and they came to the same location of the God and they move the straw house...and they built one by mud bricks but in the same spot.

Then the spot was so Holly even after thousands of years past and many buildings had been added.

They recycled the building....but the soul of the God and the power of the God still in that same spot.

And after years the mud gets deteriorated...they have to renew it...then every time it was the duty of the King in charge to keep this Temple alive and then a lot of rebuilding and rebuilding of the same place.

Then they discovered the stones....then they made the same design of the straw hut by the stone and so on.

Kings came and built it here in the Temple which you did see.

Most of these were re built by the older King who was called Rames II and the date of Rames II is one thousand two hundred years before Christ.

But the Goddess Bastet was known ten thousand years before his appearance....then that give you an idea about the importancy of the place.

Some of you came to me and I showed you the old stones that were used by the King to make his statue and the bottom of the stone draws the remains of a Temple before writings of the Temple before.

In the same area a little bit further to the east from where we are standing....we found a big cemetery of mummified cats....thousands of them as mummies were found in that location.

A lot of them now are moved in the different museums and most of them are kept in the area there.

And there were a lot of sacred animals who were buried in different Temple.

In that area cats were found here because the Goddess Bastet was the Goddess of this spot here and had a big Temple and the true Bastet is the name of the place.

What happened to the mummies in general....if these mummies were found especially in the 17 & 18 th century...18 mostly... there was a kind of idea in Europe that you can heal by the Egyptian mummy dust.

Then they were imported a lot of the mummies....human mummies or animal mummies from Egypt....and actually powdered them and use them for healing...put them in bottles and that's what destroyed a lot of our mummies....what ever they were because it was a big business happened in that time.

Next.......All aboard as we travel overnight to Aswan on the train.

My Sacred Journey To Egypt 2009 - Our Journey Throughout Egypt Begins

01/15/2012 01:32:00

Welcome back everyone and thanks for the messages

of appreciation.

Today we begin our journey throughout Egypt and we will be joined again by Dr Morad as he shares his interesting and informative stories and of course his humor.

So lets begin!

On our trip you will see Cairo is very crowded, especially those of you from Australia....when you drive sometimes 6 hours and you see a person...a kangaroo.

Here you find between a person and a person...another person...between a car and another car ...a car.

Then we have the traffic attention together... and the people who are planning to sit in the front...I advise you don't have weak hearts because you'll have strokes about every five minutes and heart attack from driving in Cairo.

And of course this will be a good chance for the healer's to work with you when you have your heart attack....then some will be happy with me today.

Our driver will give alot of heart attacks and a lot of business.

While we're driving in Cairo we'll talk about subject here...subject there.. and after leaving Cairo we'll travel a short distance...in kind of desert really.

Then we'll reach the delta...the delta is the most fertile area of Egypt and we see countryside there and villages till we reach our first stop...which will be the Temple of the cat Goddess...she was called Bastet....there we'll see the Temple and talk about it ....spend a period of time there and we'll return to Cairo.

And then people who got a heart attack in the front can switch with the others....to have another heart attack for them as well ...and they can have the experience and the healers can make more money.

When we come back we'll have sometime between the arrival of Cairo and the overnight train to Aswan.

Then we'll go to see a Papyrus institute and see a demonstration of how the Ancient Egyptian's made papyrus paper.

We can see the papyrus paper almost 4,000 years old in the museum and we know how this was in very good condition.

Then we'll see the real ones because in the street they say there banana leaves....they don't take as real papyrus...these are banana leaves when they come to do that.

But we'll go and see the real ones on our return back from our trip today.

How long will it take....estimated time of going there is two and half hours or three days depending on the traffic in Cairo.

Traffic rules are non existant and people do not use their indicators, instead using their car horns and flash their lights.

The roads are shared between horse and buggy's, cars, buses and older trucks.

Some trucks would have like a open back with a canopy over it and people seated inside and then there would be more people standing holding on to the rails of the truck.

I think we would call it rafferty's rules in Australia.

Everyone for themselves....stopping and starting in the middle of intersections and roundabout's.

What you see around you ....look you will see fields and green fields and then ugly houses.....you see these ugly buildings here and there.

The law in Egypt is this land which is cultivated land...is completely to build on it... any buildings because our land is limited.... less than five percent of our land is cultivated....the rest of it is desert and this five percent is not enough to feed the people here.

We import alot of our food from abroad especially the wheat ....but what happened ... Cairo expanded and expanded and came to the pyramids.

All this area was empty one day.

When it came near the pyramids...the price of land here to be building land...raised incredibly high.

Then the farmers found out...there was a chance to sell it to build on it and he can make alot of money...more for those farmers for the next hundred years....he can make it in one shot by selling it.

But... its against the law...who cares...its a crime you understand me.

The crime amount is nothing compared to the money they are making.

Then they do it tricky way...they sell it to the builders and the one bought it is building it...then the buildings are unfinished....look at them...it is a sign they are for sale ...apartments here.

They make them unfinished complely in and out..cheap..and then they can find buyers...buy this price quickly and those buyers buy and they finish them for themselves inside.

Everybody is finishing his flat from inside and they don't care about outside because it cost them more money...then they finish it from inside only.

Second its against the law...they are buildings here without plans...they cannot make plans until the government gives the plan....then there are built haphazard.

There are no home loans in Egypt, people buy a piece of land and bricks and build themselves.

If they run out of money it may take them years to build the next floor.

You will find the streets are very narrow....the sewage system is not supplied and they force the government to supply them clean water and electricity....then you see satellite dishes and every one like that but actually sewage system is one of the problems of this place.

The streets are not paved there muddy and when it rains..it never rains in this country...they become muddy and so on.

Thats why they look ugly for this again.

The newspapers by the government ...they would like to commute all those people in other healthy houses and demolish the area and then its new things here.

I doubt...because they can't move about a million people living in these places.

Next we visit Tanis ( Bubastis)Temple to meet Goddess Bast.

Happy New Year Everyone

01/08/2012 03:53:00

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone.

It has been a long time between blogs.

As one year ends and a new one begins it is not uncommon for some of us to spend a little time in reflection.

With 2012 upon me I've been doing exactly that and I'd like to share with you a look back at 2011.

My dear friend Lynda related the following saying to me recently

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to be over

It's about learning how to dance in the rain.

I agree life can be like that and upon serious thought it best describes what 2011 was like for me....a year of excitement... personal growth.... chaos... solitude and endings.

For many years I have been interested in learning massage therapy, so I set my self a goal to undertake a course in 2011.

In February I completed an Introduction to Massage through the Australian College of Massage in Adelaide.

I enjoyed it so much that I enrolled for a Diploma of Remedial Massage.

I am pleased to anounce that Isis Blessings now offer's Theraputic Massage and in the future will be offering Remedial Massage, including Deep Tissue and Sport's massage.

See the website for more details http://www.isisblessings.com

In August I was invited to the Mystical Dragon in Melbourne to teach Isis Lotus Healing Level 1.

I'd like to thank Amanda, Nolene and all my students for a wonderful weekend of healing and sharing.

In September I attended a Kwan Yin Violet Light Healing Day led by Elisabeth Jenson at the Isis Mystery School in Adelaide.

Kwan Yin is the beloved Goddess of compassion.

Her energy assits you to magnify your healing energy through your hands and heart.

A beautiful course that nourishes the soul.

Visit http://www.isismysteryschool.com/course_info to register for the upcoming course on Febuary 11 2012 in Adelaide.

Early in 2011 I wrote about the declining health of my parents.

My Dad aged 92 was diagnosed with Leukemia in March and could no longer care for my Mum and she went to live in our local nursing home in Crystal Brook.

It was a particularly hard time for them both after being together for 42 years.

It was a quite chaotic period for me where I found much of my time was taken up looking after them.

Later in the year she had a fall and broke her hip and wrist.

Unfortunately she never fully recovered and passed away in October.

In December my Dad died unexpectantly from a short illness.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their prayers, phone calls and condolences. Two beautiful souls now at rest.

David Cooper wrote 'In the end, everyone is our teacher, on one level or another. The child is our teacher, our friends, our family, the stranger on the street. Every experience is a challenge; a teaching is always hidden in it. Every thought that bubbles up in our mind can teach us things about ourselves, if we are able to listen'.

2012

It is written that each week brings us 168 golden hours. We spend approximately 56 hours for sleep and recuperation; 28 hours for eating and personal duties and 40 - 50 hours for earning a living. We have 30 -40 hours left to spend just as we wish.

But how do we spend them? (Author Unknown)

I think where ever our journey takes us in life it is important to take time for ourselves; to walk and enjoying our surroundings; to take time to relax; to being creative and to spend time in unhurried conversations with friends and family.

I am pleased to say that I will be returning to the Mystical Dragon on May 19 & 20 th 2012 to teach Isis Lotus Healing Level 1 and later in the year to teach Angel Miracles 1 & 2.

Visit http://www.mysticaldragon.com.au/ for details.

OPENING DAY FOR ISIS MYSTERY SCHOOL TEMPLE

When :- Sunday, January 22, 2012
Time :- 1.30pm - 5.00pm
Where :- Suite 3/18 – 20 Scholefield Road Seacliff SA 5049
FREE EVENT – All Welcome! See you there.

Visit http://www.isismysteryschool.com/course_info for details

My Sacred Journey to Egypt 2009

2012 see's us travelling through Egypt visiting the Great Temples, West Bank & The valley of the Kings, Dr Morcos Centre and much more.

Visit http://www.isisblessings.com.au/

Blessings to you all

Sue

My Sacred Journey to Egypt 2009 - The Great Pyramids with Dr Morad

07/10/2011 02:10:00

Hi everyone

Dr Morad is back with us again to talk about the Great Pyramids and the discovery of the Solar Boat.

'The Pyramids built in the beginning to help the King climb to heaven...because he was considered the son of the Creator Ra.

They started to make steps and this is the first ever pyramid built in Egypt and is called the Step Pyramid of Sakkara and the King was called Djoser.After that they found out that these steps aren't high enough to reach the heaven.

Then they thought of another way to make connection between heaven and the earth...between the Creator Ra...the sun disk and the earth...and the only connection is the suns rays.

Then they built a pyramid to represent these sun rays is coming from the heavens down to the earth having that shape of the pyramid.

Then this idea of having the pyramids as buildings... they have been spread all over the country according to the Kingdoms...according to the Capitals.

The pyramid we saw first is called the Pyramid of King Khufu...which is the Great Pyramid of Egypt...the Great Pyramid of Giza Plateau.

Giza is an area in Cairo and the King who built it was called Khufu...the Greek pronouce it Cheops...and the son of this King built the second pyramid which we call it the middle pyramid...and the son was called Khafre...the Greek pronounce it Khephren.

The third one was built by the grandson of the King Cheops...and the grandson was called Menkaaure...the Greek pronounce it Makarinous.

Those are the three famous Pyramids of Egypt.

The Great Pyramid is considered the only one of the Ancient Seven Wonders of the World...still exists...all the other six have been destroyed and none of them existing on this earth...except the Greek Pyramid of King Cheops or Khufu or Egypt...that one which is still there.

Around the Pyramids...there are small pyramids...those are for the female Royal family like the mother...the wife...the Queen...the daughter...princess...all have their own pyramids around...at least small ones.

Next to the Great Pyramid in 1954 they discovered a stone area covering a place...when they move these stones they found a big boat...was dismantled and buried.

It took them ten years to rebuild it and when they rebuild it... they found it is taking the shape of what is called the Solar Boat.

The Solar Boat is imaginary boat...imaginary by the Egyptians...represents the Creator Ra who was a sun disk...crossing the sky...blue sky that looked like an ocean.

And they imagine that God Ra is crossing the sky in that boat and they called it the boat of the day.

Then he was using the boat from the horizon of the east...where sun shines...to the horizon of the west...when sun sets

At the west he changes the boat and he takes the boat of the night to go to the underworld...while it is dark here...its daylight there.

Then this boat which was discovered next to the Great Pyramid is one of six boats...in pits...were found...two of them as boats were found.

The one that exists now which is the Solar Boat...the one that is next to it now...they are bringing it up and rebuilding it these days.

I'm talking these days November 2009...but this boat was discovered more than twenty years ago or more.

That one they are bringing up now...they left it as it is to be protected...till be ready for rebuilding and this is the time for rebuilding.

We think that the boat which is existing now...I mean the rebuilt one...was buried with other boats... the only one to be used by the King in the other world.

Because of its shape it looks like a Solar Boat...maybe also its used for the ceremonial journey to the underworld when the sun sets the same day of the death of the King.

Thats why the common name of the boat is the Solar Boat.

Was it used by the King in his life or not...it seems it was used by the King while he was alive and then buried with him to re use it in the afterlife'.

The Solar Boat on display in the museum.

Next I talk to Dr Morad about the interior structure of the Great Pyramid.