Imagining the World into Existence: An Ancient Egyptian Manual of Consciousness

by Normandi Ellis

Reveals the secret language and words of power that enabled the ancient Egyptians to imagine the world into existence • Reveals ancient Egyptian Mystery teachings on immaculate conception, transubstantiation, resurrection, and eternal life • Explores the shamanic journeys that ancient Egyptian priests used to view the unconscious and the afterlife • Provides the essential spiritual tools needed to return to Zep Tepi, the creative source Drawing from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Pyramid texts, the Book of Thoth, and other sacred hieroglyphic writings spanning the three millennia of the Egyptian Mystery Traditions, Normandi Ellis reveals the magical language of creation and words of power that enabled the ancient Egyptians to act as co-creators with the gods. Examining the power of hieroglyphic thinking--how thoughts create reality--and the multiple meanings behind every word of power, the author shows how, with the Neteru, we imagine the world into existence, casting a spell of consciousness over the material world. Uncovering the deep layers of meaning and symbol within the myths of the Egyptian gods and goddesses, Ellis investigates the shamanic journeys that ancient Egyptian priests used to view the unconscious and the afterlife and shares their initiations for immaculate conception, transubstantiation, resurrection, and eternal life—initiations that later became part of the Christian mystery school. Revealing the words of power used by these ancient priests/sorcerers, she explains how to search for the deeper, hidden truths beneath their spells and shows how ancient Egyptian consciousness holds the secret of life itself. Revealing the initiatory secrets of the Osirian Mystery school, Ellis provides the essential teachings and shamanic tools needed to return to Zep Tepi--the creative source--as we face the transitional time of radical change currently at hand.

Genres: Egypt, Occult, Egyptology, History, Spirituality

437 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 12, 2012

About the author

Rev. Normandi Ellis is an archpriestess of Isis through the Fellowship of Isis, is a Spiritualist minister, clairvoyant, astrologer and author of 13 books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and essay. She facilitates trips through the sites of ancient Egypt. You may contact her through her website www.normandiellis.com. Please keep checking back for further information on workshops, lectures, and publications.

Reviews

[Victor Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Years ago as a very young aspiring writer, I was planning a novel to demonstrate that the deepest spiritual truths in all the world's major religions were actually one and the same. Now, decades later and two novels along those lines written and published and into the third, I was doing some research on Alexandria in the First Century and then deeper into Egypt in space and time. Here I encountered Normandi Ellis and her work, especially Imagining the World into Existence, only to discover that I had met and talked with Normandi many years ago in Boulder, Colorado, when I was plotting that first novel. How I enjoy observing the circle completing itself. Ouroboros!

Congratulations to Normandi as my friend who has, as Thoreau advised, gone confidently in the direction of her dreams, who has lived the life she imagined. And evidently has taken many other people along with her.

Rather than comment extensively as this work deserves be done, I will simply allow Normandi's deep reverence for Egyptian primeval spirituality to infuse the background of my own work, as, per her description, the many Egyptian “mystery” elements crept unacknowledged into Hellenic and then Christian mythology and theology (eschatology, trinity, transubstantiation, etc.). Beyond all the strife and division across the ages, there is truly One Mind. Thanks for taking us back to one of the earliest sources of that insight, Normandi.

[Alexander Kennedy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed learning about some of the hieroglyphs and how words relate to one another. This book does a very good job of explaining how magic, or heka as the Egyptians called it, functioned. I also really enjoyed the inclusion of some myths into the book.

[Pinar · Rating 1 out of 5]

full of incorrect etymologies and new agey 'connections'; not sure why I'm even reading it.

[Caitlyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Took me a long time to finish because it's pretty dense and dry, but the author is so knowledgeable and passionate that it does really draw you in.

[Isobelle Fox · Rating 2 out of 5]

Among my complaints while reading this book: 1) it wanders almost aimlessly from start to finish and feels more like a stream of consciousness diary of the author's thoughts on the subject than a book proper. There are chapters and chapter subdivisions but they don't really serve any particular purpose. 2) It presents as etymological fact a number of connections between words which appear upon inspection to be more like clever literary deconstructions. Many of them are very interesting and not without merit other than the fact that they are presented as fact when they are not. This caused me to question the validity of many other things the author asserts which also made me question why I was bothering to read the book.

[Spider Goddess · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is quite good. There is a great deal of information in here, and one can tell that the author is very enthusiastic about the topic. However, the information presented is not well organized, and one can feel a bit distracted by the poor transitions. Aside from this, however, the book is quite good and presents a number of theories that are well researched.

[Nate Silver · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting concepts but adds a lot of new age belief without understanding the context of the original beliefs. Maybe good for new age magic practitioners.

[Donald Grant · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thoth would be proud....

This is a book that anyone interested in Ancient Egypt should read. It is the kind of book one reads once, then rereads to take notes and study. Ellis' passion for Egypt fills the pages and gives the reader an emotional experience a standard text might not.
Although there are a lot of illustrations, there could be more, especially a flow chart of the various gods discussed. Except for that minor flaw the book gives a very detailed account of the myths behind the gods. The book will stir a desire to want to learn hieroglyphs, a task I have tried and failed at.
This one gets five stars.