Quantum Philosophy and the Ancient Mystery School - Part 2

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Quantum Philosophy and the Ancient Mystery School

 

(Today's New Science Philosophy - Old or New?)

 

- By Edward F. Malkowski

 

 

Philosophy of the Anthropocosm [Man Cosmos]

 

Who we are and why we are here, the ultimate mystery, will likely remain a

scientific mystery. Intuitively, however, this mystery can be understood upon

the realization that our existence as a conscious biological form can be traced

to cosmic events, and that the prerequisites for our existence can be traced to

a universal state. Our Earth is dependent on the sun and the solar system in

which it is gravitationally trapped; which is dependent on the Milky Way Galaxy,

in which it is gravitationally trapped; which is also held in place by other

forces including, but not limited to, our neighboring galaxies. Any interruption

in this line of cosmic dependency would likely result in the cessation of our

existence. Thus, it can be said that the cosmos is the true nature of Man, and

form is the sole means of its expression.

 

Although it seems as though we are insignificantly small compared to the rest of

the universe, there is a single truth to our existence that cannot be denied and

lends credence to the abstract nature of Man - the reality of the observer. We

observe and perceive an ordered, yet dynamic, arrangement of energy we naturally

translate into sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. To take away the measures

of this reality means reality's destruction, which suggests the universe was

never concrete in the first place. We only perceive that it is. Therefore, like

Plato in his cave, we can conclude that the concreteness and form in which we

live are really only the knowledge of such things. Einstein agreed implicitly in

one of his famous statements: 'Reality is an illusion albeit a very persistent

one.'

 

The most interesting question is, where does our ability to observe and perceive

come from? According to physicists, it comes from an event called 'state vector

collapse' where all possible states of the system (the universe) collapse into a

single observed state.

 

During the 1920s, while Heisenberg and Bohr were further developing quantum

theory, they realized that a new viewpoint had to be created to achieve a proper

understanding of the quantum world. The classical view of a discrete world would

simply not work. To accomplish this, they embraced the idea that the world is

fundamentally not a collection of discrete objects, but an indistinct, unified

world of energy where, at times, discrete objects are perceived. Heisenberg

developed his wave matrix theory, and Schrödinger his wave mechanics, to explain

their insights. Although slightly different in their approach, these two

theories offered a more accurate description of the atomic structure than did

classical physics.

 

What their theories state is that all matter exists as a wave structure that we

cannot directly see. What we do see is the localization of the wave structure

with its release of energy, which is a simple way to explain state vector

collapse. The energy released is what physicists call a photon (a particle of

light). We perceive the released energy as a particle, even though it is really

a wave. This occurs for us because that is how the human brain works.

 

Without state vector collapse there would be no perception of separation, no

form to experience and, consequently, no expression. The cosmos would remain in

an undefined state of absoluteness, a potential of all cosmic possibilities.

 

All matter that makes up the cosmos is actually configured energy that now

exists as a result of stellar nucleosynthesis and supernova. Carbon, nitrogen,

oxygen, and other heavy elements-the building blocks of life-were created as a

result of large stars collapsing under their own weight and then exploding with

tremendous heat, spreading newly created elements into empty space to form

interstellar clouds. New research suggests that even amino acids, important for

protein synthesis, were formed in interstellar clouds. Thus, scientists argue

that since the elements that make up our bodies are the results of a cosmic

process, then we are made from stardust and are literally children of the stars.

 

The Big Bang origin of the universe has been the model of choice for

cosmologists for many decades now, but it has always been a scientific paradox.

Our known laws of physics are not valid until after the moment of the Big Bang.

So, how do we arrive at a universe that we experience, which sprang from

nothing? Perhaps the Big Bang is only a perspective to explain the current body

of scientific data, and does not accurately represent actual events. As is all

of nature, perhaps the universe is cyclical and oscillates between the

never-ending destruction and creation of galaxies. No one really knows.

 

However, what we do know and can be certain of is our conscious experience. It

is the one thing all six billion of us can agree upon, and the key to

understanding nature. According to the Anthropocosm, Consciousness creates a

venue in order to experience, and does so through the unique quantification of

its qualities. This cosmic and anthropic 'New Science' understanding of Man puts

forth the same principles that were built into the architecture of Luxor's

Temple of Amun-Mut-Khonsu.

 

The temple was not about the piety of a man, but our solar legacy as the

philosophical 'Divine Man' portrayed in the great statues of Ramses - the birth

of the sun. The temple was (and is) a form of communication, a lesson, and at

its core its builders' philosophy is carved in stone. Amun, Mut, and Khonsu were

not 'gods' in the western religious sense, but principles that form and explain

the nature of mankind as coherently as such an abstract subject can be

explained.

 

The definition of Man and the story of the human experience were built into the

temple architecture. Physically, the temple describes the structure of man, from

the importance of the femur in the creation of blood cells, to the role of the

pineal gland in the brain. Spiritually, the temple conveys life's cosmic drama

and Man's spiritual immortality. Amun was the 'Hidden One' or the 'Invisible

One,' best described today as the western concept of God, omnipotent and

omnipresent, or, from a scientific viewpoint, the energy field that pervades all

that exists. From the ancient Egyptian point of view, Amun was self-created, the

creative power and source for all that exists. Mut, which means 'mother,' was

Amun's cosmic wife and the mother of 'the Son' Khonsu who represented the King.

 

However, the Kingship of Khonsu was not a physical kingship but refers to a

cosmic (or spiritual) ruler made flesh through the principles of nature. Thus,

Khonsu the King represents the essence of mankind - the archetypal 'Man' - and

essence of all who ever lived, is alive now, and will live in the future.

Khonsu, by being associated with Re and Thoth, represented the essence of life's

energy and Man's wisdom and knowledge, where mankind is a consequence of the

universe's evolution culminating in the physical endowment of the universe's

self-perception. In myth, Khonsu was a lover of games, but was also the

principle of healing, conception, and childbirth. Literally, he was 'the king's

placenta.'

 

Just as the ancient Uroboros - the circular serpent biting its tail -

symbolizes, through our modern scientific endeavors we have come full circle in

understanding ourselves. No one knows for sure in what culture or at what time

the Uroboros was first fashioned as a symbol, but it is one of mankind's most

ancient symbols.

 

Plato tells us in the Timaeus, since nothing outside of him existed, this

serpent was self-sufficient. Movement was right for his spherical structure, so

he was made to move in a circular manner. Thus, as a result of his own

limitations, he revolves in a circle, and from this motion the universe was

created. From Egypt's Ptolemaic period, the artist who drew the Chrysopoeia

(gold making) of Kleopatra wrote within the circular serpent: The All Is One.

Thus, the serpent is the ancient Egyptian symbol depicting self-creation and the

source of life: " It slays, weds, and impregnates itself, " writes Erich Neumann

in The Origin and History of Consciousness; " it is man and woman, beginning and

conceiving, devouring and giving birth, active and passive, above and below, at

once. "

 

For the ancient Egyptians, the Uroboros - the serpent - represents the creative

principle of the cosmos, as well as the cosmos itself. Since the serpent's form

is singular, without appendages, but has a forked tongue and forked penis, its

form is an apt symbol of creation's initial movement from an undifferentiated

state into a world of multiplicity; a movement from One to Two. What Schwaller

refers to as the 'Primordial Scission.'

 

The Uroboros, however, is not just an ancient mythical symbol, nor is it the

fabricated imagery of the primitive mind. Rather, it is Man's identification

with the seamless, eternal state of oneness whose essence is a deep memory of an

origin that words cannot explain and has to be understood through esoterism. As

such, the Uroboros's esoterism is as valid today as it was at the dawn of Man,

as physicist Joel Primack and his wife, Nancy Ellen Abrams, demonstrate in The

View from the Center of the Universe, a modern cosmological treatise in which

the Uroboros is portrayed as representing the quantum unity of all that exists

within the vast dimensions of the cosmic scale.

 

 

The Spiritual Technology of Ancient Egypt

 

The Western world view has a long history of separating the physical from the

conceptual; the scientific from the religious. So together, spirituality and

technology appear contradictory. This contradiction, however, is based on a

naïve and exoteric view of 'spirit' and 'technology.'

 

Spirit is not some immeasurable, metaphysical thing. Rather, spirit is the

driving force behind the human experience, the quest for knowledge, and the

building power of civilization that can be measured by achievement. Technology

is mankind's application of knowledge into industry which provides for the

civilization's wellbeing. Technology, which is the application of science into

civil practicalities, is also the building power of civilization.

 

Even though technology's final product is most evident, it is the spirit of Man

that turns ideas into concepts, and concepts into knowledge, which through

engineering brilliance, turns science into technology and makes life more

efficient and comfortable. Every product ever made began with someone's

inspiration and creativity. So, spirit and technology are really different

aspects of the same human endeavor.

 

The desire to know inspires us, and the ever increasing level of knowledge and

technology has allowed us to reach new depths in understanding our state of

existence. But what might have inspired the ancient Egyptians? Schwaller de

Lubicz believed that ancient Egypt was the legacy of a technical civilization

for which there is no history or knowledge of in today's world, a civilization

for which spirit and technology were integrated into a worldview that embraced

life's mystery. For me, it is this technical and spiritual legacy that is so

evident in the art and culture of ancient Egypt.

 

The Spiritual Technology of Ancient Egypt expounds upon the works of Schwaller

de Lubicz and tells the untold story behind the birth of the western religious

tradition. The Egyptian Mysteries, as they were called, inspired the greatness

in men who instilled the concept of the Anthropocosm [Man Cosmos] into our own

sacred literature, and it is the same philosophical understanding of Nature that

is at the forefront of today's New Science; whether symbolized by the Uroboros

or Schrödinger's wave equation, human consciousness exists as a local

manifestation of a self-perceiving Universe.

 

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