2. The Book of Knowledge. 9. 2. Lila

The BOOK of KNOWLEDGE,
a novel by Alexandra Kryuchkova
in the “PLAYING ANOTHER REALITY” series

PART 2. ANOTHER REALITY

Day No. 9

CHAPTER 9.2. LILA

After breakfast, instead of needles, we had an interesting procedure with burning incense on the stomach, which, as I understood it, was used there to remove all the negative out of the body. I won’t be able to describe it, because after the sticks and magic herbs were lit above my body, I instantly left it and went straight to my Temple of the Soul. As soon as I opened the door…

“Hello, Lila!”

I turned around and saw my Moon Cat coming down the wooden stairs from the second floor of the Temple.

“Hey Moony! Why did you call me that?”

“You are Lila to me. In Sanskrit, it means ‘a game’, or ‘to pass the time’.”

“Do you mean, I am a game?”

“You know even without me that everything that exists is an illusion. You are an illusion here. I am an illusion, too. The game of the imagination of the deity. Rather, Lila is precisely a Divine game, and not the earthly games of people. All you see here is your Lila. Truth is immutable, it’s beyond form and images. You and I are images here. We, the real ones, don’t have earthly images. By the way, do you know why your Temple of the Soul have a starry sky instead of a roof?”

“I don’t know, Moony!”

“You lived in Egypt. This Temple is your memory of the temples you have once been to. The worship of the Sun and the Stars was performed in them, their ceilings represented a vault of blue or dark blue color, covered with stars. There were four curtains in the corners, like 4 cardinal directions and 4 elements. So here you have 4 doors, not to mention the cruciform construction of your beautiful virtual house.”

“Moony, what else was in those temples?”

“There were a lot of frogs. The frog is one of the most ancient Egyptian deities. It sits in the lotus flower, or even without lotus. Temple lamps were made in the shape of frogs, the words ‘I am the Resurrection’ were carved on them. Many archaeologists found frogs on mummies. For some reason, you didn’t remember about the frogs yourself. You also forgot that the Baptismal Font was installed in front of the entrance to any Temple. Rites with Holy Water in Egypt were used no less than now in Christianity.”

“What did they do with Holy Water?”

“The same thing, Lila. The priests took brushes in their hands and sprinkled images of gods and mere mortals, and temples, and houses, and fields, and food. You know, the rite of communion with bread and wine existed in Egypt as well. The bread and cakes of Isis were placed on the altar. The Egyptians put a cross on bread. After the consecration and breaking of the bread, the priests distributed it to the people, which symbolically was the flesh, and the wine was the blood of the deity.”

“You’re from Egypt, aren’t you, Moony?”

“Kemi, or Khemi. That was once the name of that Great Country. If you want, we can walk there with you now.”

I nodded happily. We headed for the left door of the Temple. The cat went through it first. Out of habit, I opened the Door, stepped outside and closed it behind me. The cat smiled. There was a dark blue Sky around us, the one I had always painted.

“Now we’ll get into certain files, as you say, so that you can remember,” the cat purred contentedly and poked his paw at what seemed to me a star, which began to approach us, increasing in size, turning into a huge ball. “Get inside, we need to merge with it!”

And so we were already walking with Moony through a beautiful city dominated by various shades of ocher. Nobody seemed to notice us, but there were people around, those people who lived there in those times. Some houses, temples, streets.

“Ocher is one of the favorite colors of the Egyptians. The heyday of Egypt, Lila, fell on its earliest period. Those Egyptians knew far more than most people in your Earthly Reality. Do you see there the dam in the distance? Pharaoh Menes diverted the flow of the Nile to the east, to Memphis.”

“Is Memphis Cairo?”

“Yes. Look around, don’t you notice the abundance of hieroglyphs? On individual stones, on walls, on sarcophagi, on any stone surfaces, wherever you can write something, they are written. The Egyptians try to pass their knowledge to those who will come after, because they already know that the Library of Alexandria, created by Ptolemy II in the 3rd century BC, will be destroyed and plundered, and about a million papyrus scrolls collected in it will be read only in the Library of the Universe. The stones will remain. Look at that man over there, do you recognize him?”

“No, Moony.”

“Pythagoras. He studies here. Then one day he’ll say that Thoth went down with him under the Great Pyramid and revealed to him the secrets of geometry. Euclid studied in the Library of Alexandria. In fact, the Greeks got their knowledge from the Egyptians. Many Greek temples will be dedicated to Egyptian deities.”

“Who is Thoth?”

“The most mysterious of the gods. God of Wisdom, chronicler, judge. He has the head of Ibis, he has a pen and a tablet in his hand. He writes down everything, including thoughts, and then weighs it on the scales and judges people. He is holding also the Eye of Horus, that is, the Third Eye, and your Ankh. And over there, do you see the clock? Here they know both about ordinary and astronomical time, as well as the fact that the Earth is a ball. They know the composition of the Milky Way, and much more about the Moon than your people. Look at that man, he is a doctor. He’s got the Memphis Stone in his hand. He turns a stone into powder, which is used here as an anesthetic. They pour it on the sore, the pain goes away, but the Consciousness remains. In Egypt, many people are well versed in both chemistry and alchemy.”

A woman walked past us. I thought she saw me.

“Pretty, isn’t she?” Moony murmured.

“Yes.”

“Did you pay attention to the fabrics of her clothes? The Egyptian fabric is famous all over the world. The glass ornaments around her neck are similar to those made in your favorite City-on-the-Water. They know here to pour gold between two pieces of glass. The Egyptians imitate all precious stones in glass. Let’s go to the temple?”

We entered a huge stone building with pleasant music playing inside.

“This Temple in Karnak is dedicated to the Sun, the symbol of life and wisdom, it has 140 columns, one of its halls is larger than any temple in your country. The music you hear is healing, it’s used to heal the mortals who come here. The head priest of the temple is sitting over there. Pay attention, he has long arms, it’s considered belonging to the caste of High Adepts and Initiates, as in India. By the way, do you eat chicken eggs, scrambled eggs, omelettes?”

“Moony, why are you asking me this strange question?”

“I don’t think you like them. Even when you have nothing else for breakfast, except for a dozen eggs languishing in your refrigerator, you prefer to drink tea only. Am I right?”

“Yes, I don’t know why, but it’s true. Why, Moony?”

“Ask the priest.”

“No, why should I distract him with such an earthly stupid question? Explain it to me yourself.”

“Look over there, on the wall. Who is painted there?”

“A serpent.”

“The Unmanifested God is depicted as the Serpent of Eternity, wrapping around a container of water. His head is moving over the water, so he fertilizes it with his breath. This is how the Universe, or the World Egg, is born. The Egyptian god of Time is depicted with a goose on his head. The goose here is the carrier of the dual element of Air and Water, the first properties of the Universe. The God Ra in the Book of the Dead shines within the Egg-Sun. The egg was dedicated to the goddess Isis. That’s why the Initiates in Egypt don’t eat eggs. It’s tantamount to a crime.”

“Are you saying that I was an Initiate here?”

“I’m not saying anything. I want you to recall.”

“Why is there a statue of the black bull?”

“This is Mnevis, the symbol of the Sun God Ra, his living embodiment. Ravi in Sanskrit is one of the names of the Sun. Heliopolis is considered to be his abode, the City of the Sun. Ra is the ever-burning Light, the Universal Soul in its manifested aspect, the Sun.”

“Is the blue color in the temple a symbol of Heaven?”

“The ancient Egyptians teach that the true color of the Sun is blue. And of the Heaven, as well.”

“Moony, I think that not only God Ra, but also Osiris should be connected with the Sun.”

“Osiris is a great god, but in fact he is the son of Saturn, the heavenly Fire. Osiris is associated with the Sun, but was born on Mount Sinai. In Egypt, the Sun is considered a descendant of the Moon. ‘Sin’ is one of the names of the Moon, therefore Sinai is the Moony Mountain, although it is considered the birthplace of almost all the solar gods like Dionysus, Zeus, for example.”

“Was Osiris really killed by his brother at the age of 28?”

“He was killed by matter, his own physical body, the shadow of the real Osiris. Osiris has 4 aspects: spiritual – light, mental – mind, lunar – astral body and matter – physical body. The last aspect was personified in Typhon. Osiris resurrected on the third day and ascended into Heaven, becoming the ruler of the Afterworld. The symbol of the Moon, the Hare, is dedicated to Osiris, and the messenger of Osiris is Ibis. This bird will never drink water if it’s even slightly polluted. A sacred bird in Egypt, especially for the Copts.”

“If the symbol of the Moon is Hare, why do I call you Moon Cat, and you have never corrected me?”

“Actually, I’m Tau. In your country, people call cats ‘Meow’. In Egypt – Tau, from the verb ‘tai’, it means to see. Tau, as you know, is also the name of the Egyptian cross. In the Mysteries, it was placed on the chest of the Initiate, so that at the moment of rebirth to a new life, his astral body wouldn’t disintegrate into atoms, but would merge with the Divine Spirit. Tau is a magical talisman. It also symbolizes the Tree of Life. Horus raised the dead with the help of the Tau. Someday you’ll see this image yourself, on the ruins of Thebes.”

“You are a clairvoyant, it’s clear, but I didn’t realize your connection with the Moon.”

At that moment, several cats ran up to us from the corner of the Temple. They sniffed me curiously from all sides and hissed in displeasure. My Moon Cat meowed something to them, and the cats calmed down and went away.

“Did you pay attention to their eyes, Lila? Don’t you get the connection? As a feline, I am a Moon symbol. The cat in Egypt is a sacred animal dedicated to Isis, the personification of the Moon, as Osiris is the personification of the Sun. The cat can see in the dark, its pupils are perfectly round, glowing at night with a phosphorescent brilliance. The cat observes the Moon, watching its phases of increase and decrease. Like the Moon, the contemplator of heaven, the cat is a small earthly Moon. The goddess Pasht, or Bastes, has the head of a cat. You have seen many statues of this Goddess in the British Museum. Pasht guards the Sun-Osiris, protecting him from the Serpent of Darkness, his eternal enemy. It’s also believed that the cat punishes the guilty. Black Magicians often turn to it for help. Black Cats accumulate negative astral energy. The Magicians use it for dark purposes, it’s easier for them to connect to the Lower Astral through a Black Cat. Someday I’ll show you the city of Bubastes, dedicated to cats, it’s not so far here. Cats were especially honored there, as, indeed, Isis, at least five thousand years ago. They have their own tombs in the caves of Bubastes. I was buried there among other hundreds of thousands of my relatives. And my Khaba, or KA, now lives in the Temple of your Soul.”

“KA, Khaba, what is it?”

“Kha means the body, Khaba – the astral body that has a connection with the Moon, KA means the animal Soul, the animal principle, BA is the Highest Soul, Sakh is a mummy. My BA is underdeveloped in compare with yours. When my time comes, I will return to Earth to develop my BA.”

The priest poured something into his glass and drank it.

“Is he drinking wine?”

“No, the Moon.”

“What’s?”

“It’s soma. Soma is the name of the Moon in Sanskrit, and also the juice of the Soma plant. Many priests use it to enter into a trance. After a while, the priest will begin to see us. You can talk to him. Magic is practiced here on the New Moon and the last quarter of the Moon. Drinking soma, White Magicians gain strength and the ability to communicate with the Light Side of the Moon. Sorcerers get strength from the Dark Side. They say, there is Hell, or the Lower Astral. By the way, Osiris after the transition to Another Reality lives on the Moon. Plutarch will describe the celebration that exists here, the entry of Osiris into the Moon. I like the Moon, it’s unusual, not like others, it constantly dies and is reborn. The Queen of the Night, Goddess of Death, Rebirth and Magic. The number 7 is associated with it, being a quarter of its month of 28 days. In Babylon, the god Sin is the Moon, and the Chaldeans have the Moon cult. One of the eyes of Horus, the son of Osiris and Isis, is the Moon, the other is the Sun. Another strange name of the Moon, ‘Lord of the Sun’, was brought here from Atlantis. But you should know better than me everything that is connected with Atlantis.”

“Is the Moon a symbol of good or evil?”

“It depends on which side of the Moon, I mean, whether it’s Black or White. During the Full Moon, the flow of the Astral Light to the Earth intensifies. People’s astral bodies become nervous, all sorts of hallucinations appear, as well as mental instability, a problem to fall asleep, or, conversely, sleepwalking. But it’s also easier to meditate, to leave for the Astral. The door between the worlds opens. However, the Moon is a corpse.”

“Why a corpse?”

“It’s a celestial body that continues to disintegrate into atoms after its death. It’s just a long process. The Moon is older than the Earth. Once it was alive, and then gave its life force and principles to the Earth. Therefore, many people in Egypt believe that man came from the Moon, which is now just a shadow, attracted to its child. It’s a ghost, Lila.”

The priest suddenly opened his eyes and looked straight at me. He saw me! He shouted something and waved his arms. My Moon Cat jumped on his knees and meowed, “Tau!” The priest fell silent, but continued to drill me with an absent look.

“Moony, does he see us?”

“Yes. You can ask him any question.”

“Have I ever lived here?”

“Yes,” the Priest nodded.

“Did I pass the Initiations?”

“Water… Crocodiles… Labyrinth… Hall of the Dead… Tablets… Sun Dance… Sarcophagus… Water… Crocodiles… Labyrinth… Hall of the Dead… Tablets… Sun Dance… Sarcophagus… Sarcophagus… Sarcophagus…” The priest closed his eyes and kept muttering something.

“Moony, what did he say?”

“He said what he saw about you. Let’s go to the Pyramids. It’ll be easier for you to remember there.”

Having left the Temple, we instantly found ourselves right by the Great Pyramids.

“Moony, why isn’t it hot in here?”

“Lila, you are in the astral body, how can you feel hot? However, Hermes told the world about the pyramids on the seashore, the waves were crashing against them. There was no desert here, so it wasn’t hot, in fact. Your people wonder who and when built these magical structures, there are a lot of speculations, right? But the exact date is known only to the Initiates. It can be read in the Heavenly Computer, it’s not in earthly books. In Heaven, I went into an interesting file and read the following, ‘The Sun rose twice where it had set before, and twice set where it had risen before.’ Let’s go say hello to the Sphinx.”

“Tau!” meowed the Cat, jumping up on the Sphinx’ right paw.

“Hello, Sphinx!” I said mentally.

The Cat jabbed its paw at the roughness of the stone.

“These are traces of damage from the constant impact of the sea waves. You know, an earthly man calculated that it would take at least a millennium of continuous rains to leave such marks. I like the Sphinx, the biggest sculpture on your planet, Lila. Under one of its paws, there is the entrance to the Dungeon. Here in Giza, there is a huge Underground City. It connects the Pyramids and the Sphinx, and its labyrinths and corridors lead far beyond the borders of the country. There are many hermits in Egypt, but not all of them can go down to the Secret City. You have been here and, definitely, walked through the Great Labyrinth.”

“Have you seen this about me now?”

“Not me, the Priest in the Temple. I believe him. Okay, let’s go to the Great Pyramid. Moreover, you are a pyramid yourself. What do you think it means here?”

“The Pyramid connects Heaven and Earth.”

“That’s right, the merging of Spirit with Matter. Spirit aspires to Heaven. You can also say that it’s an image of the tree growing from top to bottom, which you painted. Its root is in Heaven, and the branches diverge across the Earth in the four cardinal sides, like a square at the base of the Pyramid. A bridge between Heaven and Earth. Therefore, inside the Pyramid it’s good to merge with Another Reality. The Pyramid is a symbol of creativity, it contains the principles of Geometry, Mathematics, Astronomy and Music. It’s no coincidence that Pythagoras will say that he studied in the Pyramid. Look how perfectly fitted the stones are! Even the blade of a knife won’t go through.”

We went inside.

“Note that the entrance is located above ground level. In India, all cave temples are dug in pyramid-shaped rocks, and the entrance to them isn’t below, but at a certain distance above.”

“Why is that, Moony?”

“Tibet, Egypt, Babylon, Chaldea and the place the Mayans lived, as you say, all these are places of the same people, or rather, one race. The skulls of the ancient Egyptians are elongated, and their ears are bigger than yours. Do you know where similar ones will be found? In Peru and Tibet. The same hieroglyphs, symbols, words, rituals existed in different countries. It’s no coincidence you are drawn to Tibet and Egypt, remembering your Atlantis. After Atlantis, you ended up in Egypt. When you lived in Tibet, I don’t know, however, it doesn’t matter now.”

We went up to the Sarcophagus Room.

“Each Pyramid, Lila, has seven levels. They correspond to the Seven Spheres, the Seven Planets, like the floors of the Tower of Babel, the Seven Principles in man, the Seven Races.”

“Listen, Moony, I think I was lying in this sarcophagus, moreover, I entered inside it myself. But I wasn’t a mummy, was I?”

“When you entered it yourself, you were not a mummy, for sure. Sarcophagus are all different. In Greek, the word sarcophagus means a stone tomb, it comes from the words, ‘to feed on flesh’, its main purpose is to absorb the physical body as quickly as possible. You’ll see an example of such a sarcophagus in Lycia. It’s made of special limestone. By the way, have you ever read the epitaphs on Egyptian sarcophagi? ‘I wished no harm to anyone’ or, for example, ‘I did good to other people’. Do you have many people on the Earth now who can say that about themselves? In the Egypt, we are just walking around, sarcophagi are made of black basalt and red granite, or alabaster, because a wooden coffin with a mummy is placed inside. The task is to preserve the mummy. But there is another word for tomb or sarcophagus, used only if talking about the Mysteries. Look inside the sarcophagus, Lila, what’s there?”

I looked inside and saw nothing.

“Exactly, this sarcophagus is for the procedure of Initiation, not for a mummy.”

“Moony, can I dive in there?”

“Dive, so you’ll remember sooner. Moreover, today is not a Full Moon for the adepts to come here.”

I lay down in the sarcophagus, and a familiar feeling seized my Soul. All that had already happened to me, right there, that’s why the pressure chamber of RAM was associated by me with the sarcophagus. My Cat sat down on the edge of the tomb, hung his astral tail inward, periodically wagging it in all directions.

“Moony, I remembered! I remembered the water test! I used to see it in my dreams as a child! I had to go down to the pool. Everything was very strange there, so I couldn’t understand what it was. In my current Earthly Reality, such pools don’t exist. I had only one breath. I had to take a very deep breath, because after that I found myself under water. It was the pool, not the sea. I went down to the depths and had to find a passage to the next room. It was as if there were partition walls inside the pool. I had to exit through another compartment, not the one I entered. So, in that dream, I was painfully searching for a way out all the time. Once, a man told me that inside the wall, somewhere low down, there was a small hole leading to the adjacent section of the pool. But to find it, you had to dive very deep. I didn’t get it right the first time. Then I ended up in the second section, but I couldn’t go up to the water surface. It was very scary, because I couldn’t breathe anymore. I was suffocating, Moony.”

“I understand what you are talking about. You had to exit through the third section. There were three of them. You thought there were only two. You had to dive under the next wall the same way. That was a test with crocodiles. A cruel one, yes, but it makes you overcome fear and feel your Self. Extreme situations are always artificially created for students, it’s necessary to reveal their connection with the Spirit and become a magician. Ray did the same with you, didn’t he? It was not a pool, but a temple. On the banks of the Nile. It was filled with water for testing. The Initiates were forbidden to return through the entrance. Emerging in the middle section, you rejoice to have found a way out, but then you see a bunch of crocodiles. Crocodiles on fed to the full, they are not interested in you, but you get scared. You have not enough air, you have to surface, and the crocodiles are swarming. It’s difficult to guess the existence of the third section, to find a hole in the second partition almost at the bottom and calmly swim out.”

“What do crocodiles mean in Egypt?”

“Safek is God of Darkness and Night, his symbol is crocodile, Typhon. He is also Capricorn, the mysterious sign of the Zodiac. By the way, the sacred letter ‘M’, as you know, in addition to the personification of the male and female principles in one, is the sign of the wave. Makara is the 10th Sign of the Zodiac, or Capricorn, translated from Sanskrit, it means a water monster. The duality of the Crocodile symbol means Heaven and the Earth together, the Sun and the Moon. Crocodiles can be in the Water, and on the Earth, right? Therefore, the Crocodile is dedicated to Osiris and Isis at the same time. There is an image of the Sun in the ship, carried by the Crocodile. In a sense, it’s the Serpent, shedding the skin to be renewed. The Crocodile is also a symbol of Lower Egypt. There are a lot of crocodiles and their mummies there. Ordinary mummies had often the head of a crocodile. The Trinity Crocodile is a symbol of the Supreme Trinity in man: Atma, Buddhi and Manas, although they can also be attributed to what you call the Upper Triangle above the Diaphragm.”

“I remember, there was a labyrinth there. I walked it for a long, long time. I thought I was walking it in Atlantis.”

“You walked it both there and here. There is nothing strange about that. Everything here comes from there. A network of underground passages connected Atlantis with Egypt and Tibet. The most famous catacombs were in Memphis and Thebes. Those leading to Libya were called ‘serpents’. Herodotus will describe the Great Labyrinth in such a way that it will seem greater than this Pyramid: about 3,000 rooms, half of them are underground, and some of them are the tombs of sacred crocodiles. The trials also take place in a dark Cave with many doors, all of which are locked. It’s an agonizing feeling, you can’t go outside, right, Lila? And then you were taken to the Cave, completely filled with mummies. There was a coffin with the bloodied body of Osiris inside. The cave was called the Gate of Death.”

“I remember only the cave with people who seemed to be dead, but alive. It seems to me that it was in Tibet, there are those in samadhi.”

“This is the Mummies Cave. But the meaning is the same, the Initiate walks between their bodies to look into the eyes of Death. Here they also pass through the Hall of Spirits, where they reproduce the Judgment in Amenti, after that the secret name is told to the Initiate.”

“There is a Big Dog, isn’t it, Moony?”

“Yes, not a dog, in fact. A three-headed dog-like creature, the Guardian of the Threshold, the Guardian of the Doors at the entrance to Amenti, the realm of Osiris. Later this dog from Egypt was borrowed by the Greeks and the Romans. You have been there, surely.”

“Why are you so sure?”

“Otherwise you wouldn’t have got the Ankh. Therefore, to remember, imagine now that you have crossed the Threshold. What do you see, Lila?”

I closed my eyes and found myself in a large dark Hall.

“Someone is sitting on a throne with an Ankh and a strange stick in his hand.”

“This is Osiris, but not with a stick, with a hook of attraction to earthly attachments. What is there, in front of the altar?”

“Lotus flowers. There are many strange creatures on the side. Jurors? Everyone is saying something, and the Dog is like on a podium.”

“They are 42 accusers, the embodiment of one’s deeds during lifetime, both good and evil. The Dog is the symbol of the Accuser.”

“Thote is standing with a feather and the Book of Life. Horus and Anubis are next to the scales. A woman brings the Ghost. When the accusers speak, the scales are swinging to one side or to the other.”

“Maat, the Goddess of Truth, has brought the Soul to the Judgment. Now the verdict will be announced, and the Boatman will come, the Spirit of Death. Later in Greece, he would be called Charon. He will take the Soul with him in order to transport it through the Void to the appropriate region of Amenti according to the sentence.”

“He has come. He’s got a head like a hawk.”

“Come back! Open your eyes, Lila!”

I opened my eyes.

“And how many areas are there in Amenti, Moony?”

“It’s believed to be 14. Perhaps it would be more correct to say 7 plus 7. There is the Hall of Eternal Sleep and Darkness, the House of the Good Father with many palaces, the Land of Spirits. There are many areas there. The most important is that there is the Field surrounded by an iron wall, on which each Soul is allocated a small area where it harvests 7 cubits of rye, these are the results of the Soul’s deeds on the Earth. Either the rye grows up poisonous to kill the Soul, or, on the contrary, it’ll become Holy food, so the Soul will live forever. The field is the Astral World, or Sphere.”

“Do you mean, the Soul is destroyed or merges with the Spirit, like in the case of the Saints?”

“That’s right, it becomes a Pure Spirit for Eternity and never returns to Earth. As a rule, it’s possible only after seven times seventy-seven lives, Lila. They say here, the Spirit should know the names of the Guardians of the Seven Races of each Circle. Otherwise, the astral body is absorbed into Amenti by the Son of the Earth, the Serpent. And the Spirit returns again through one of the Doors of Amenti, on which is written ‘Entrance’, or ‘Exit’, depending on which side of the door to look at.”

“7 circles, 7 races in each circle, 11 incarnations in each race. Listen, I saw a scarab on a mummy whose Soul was judged, and a book next to it.”

“The Book of the Dead, they sometimes put it in sarcophagus for the mummy to read at leisure. No mummy is found without a few scarabs. This is a wish of the Resurrection for the deceased. The sacred beetle personifies the Resurrection of the Highest Principles of man, that is, the Spirit, its reincarnation in a new body. Okay, we have dealt enough with Amenti. Now you should remember the next step of Initiation. What do you see?”

“Papyri and a Book, like a stone one.”

“These are works on Alchemy, including the great Hermes Trismegistus. The mythical Egyptian, one of the currents in philosophy, Hermeticism, will be named later in his honor. Plato will say that it was Hermes who discovered letters, numbers, geometry and astronomy. Alchemy was studied from a whole mountain of papyri, the common name of which is the Emerald Tablet.”

“According to legend, a tablet called the Emerald Tablet was found on the dead body of Hermes. Tablet is an emerald plate with a small report on the preparation of the philosopher’s stone. Have you read it, Moony?”

“Yes. Of course, as you understand, it was not emerald, but simply wise. Exactly simply. Everything ingenious is simple. In fact, Hermes managed to write about everything on one page.”

“I read it too, Moony. It’s clear as a cloudless day. For example, what is so obscure in the statement, ‘Above is the same as Below’?”

“Well, it’s clear to you and me… Hermes will also teach that it’s impossible to talk about God, since nothing Corporeal can express the Incorporeal. God is not Mind, but the Cause for the existence of Mind, not the Spirit, but the Cause for the existence of the Spirit, not Light, but the Cause for the existence of Light. They say that periodically returning to the Emerald Tablet, one will discover something new every time.”

“When you speak, Moony, you keep confusing verb tenses. Your Hermes has once already died, but then you say, that he will teach. I keep trying to figure out what time we are in, either before Hermes, or after?”

“You think in terms of the earthly standards. In Another Reality, everything exists simultaneously and infinitely, and there is neither yesterday nor today, as on the Earth. We are now in the already accomplished Past, which exists as the eternal Present. It doesn’t matter when Pythagoras or Hermes runs here. Everything that has already been realized on the Earth has fallen into this Sector. We can say at any time, Hermes has already died, is alive or has not even been born yet. Depending on what we say, we immediately move to that frame of the movie when our words take place to be true. You just don’t notice the movement. Everything here exists in one and single eternity.”

“I remember myself dancing the Sun Dance in the Great Hall. I like to dance in the center of the circle. I also remember being told about Sirius, the brightest star in the sky in the Constellation Canis. Brighter than Sirius, there are only the Sun, Moon, Venus, Jupiter and Mars. There are two Sirius there, a big one and a small one. The latter is a white dwarf. In China, Sirius is called the Heavenly Wolf. Sirius is one of the closest stars to us. In the Koran, one of the names of God is Lord of Sirius. Sirius is influenced by Venus. In the Middle Ages, Sirius was identified with the chrysolite stone and juniper bush. But I don’t remember anything else. Just once, I wrote some strange verses about the Heavenly Dog in my poem.”

“It’s no coincidence that this time you incarnated under the star of the Initiates, that is Sirius. In the past, you were taught the astronomical dance of the priests, showing the movement of the planets. I’m not sure exactly, but somewhere I heard that Isis was in the Constellation of the Dog, or Canis, and Sirius is associated with the Ring ‘Transgress Me Not’. Do you remember this Ring?”

“Yes, of course, Moony! I have already talked about it on the Earth. And then I ended up in a sarcophagus, right?”

“I think that was happened to you. Although another sacrament is practiced here, it’s associated with the exchange of Spirits and the transfer of life from one body to another. I don’t think you got that far. But it was after the sarcophagus and the Initiation that you were given the Ankh.”

“Was I supposed to die here, Moony? I remember being covered with a lid. How many days have I been here?”

“Three days. At first, you spent a long time to get ready. Then you drank Soma or something similar that promotes lethargy. A similar coffin ceremony was later practiced by the Greeks. However, it happens, that Souls don’t return. In general, few people reach the sarcophagus test. You have to pass all the previous ones. There are several schools in Egypt, each has its own practice. Whoever the Master recognizes as ready comes here.”

“I went out through the top of the Pyramid, unwinding in a spiral, and became all. Sometimes during RAM meditations, I enter a similar state when I am no longer there. It cannot be explained in words. My Teacher told me how to get to the Center of the Universe.”

“I was present here once at the Initiation. They said that at first there is a merging of Consciousness and Subconscious, of the Left and Right Hemispheres, then a merging with everything. But I didn’t understand anything else.”

“Listen, can a person breathe in here?”

“Yes, there are special air ducts. It’s harder to return to Reality not forgetting anything.”

“It took me a few days to come back to my senses.”

“Do you see, Lila, an Ankh in this room?”

I sat down in the sarcophagus and saw the Key spinning clockwise in the center of the room.

“Yes.”

“Now you can go out.”

I sat next to the Cat on the edge of the sarcophagus.

“All who return are considered newborns. You are now reborn to a New Life. Hold out your right hand with the inside of your palm upwards. Try to attract the Ankh. If you really passed all these tests, including the sarcophagus, and in the current incarnation are going on Your Path, started in the distant past, the Ankh will gladly fall into your hand.”

“I’m scared, Moony. What if it’s all Lila?”

The Cat smiled and nudged me with the tail.

“Fear is the only thing that gets in the people’s way, but you are different! Come on, stretch out your hand, be brave! Don’t pull the cat’s tail!”

I held out my palm towards Ankh. Suddenly, it lit up with a silver glow, illuminating the entire room. It was rotating faster and faster clockwise, then flew up to my forehead, lightly hit me in the Third Eye, flew off towards my outstretched palm and, smoothly waltzing like a maple leaf, sank into it.

I squeezed the Key in my hand and joyfully looked into the Cat’s eyes.

“Who would have doubted,” Moony meowed. “Now it’s time for you to go back, Lila. Close your eyes and imagine that you are in your earthly body. When you open your eyes, you’ll see the room you left only half an hour ago according to the earthly time.”

“Thanks, Moony! Tell me, will I… find Him?”

“We often talked about earthly love before you came to the Earthly Reality. Honestly, I don’t understand you. You know that everything earthly is an illusion. You can see clearly. You have Knowledge. You possess the Ankh. Why do you need him?”

The Cat jumped to the floor.

“It’s hard for me to live on the Earth without Love, Moony. I came back to the Earth to love.”

“You returned to the Earth to give people another Heavenly Book. He is just another earthly game, which, as I told you at the very beginning, has nothing to do with the divine word ‘Lila’.”