Crocodile Initiation at Kom Ombo
In the feminine world of emotions and feelings, if they are not in balance within the initiate, this imbalance will stop us from evolving. Until the emotional balance is achieved, we can proceed on the patlv of enlighten-ment only a certain distance, then all will stop. For without love and com-passion and a healthy emotional body, the mind will fool itself into thinking all is well. It will create the sensation that the initiate is reaching enlighten-ment when in truth he or she is not.
We are bringing the following ceremony to light because it is a perfect example of the importance that the Egyptians placed on overcoming fear,
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one of the negative emotions. Fear was and still is the primary force that stops a person from growing into the light. As we move into the higher worlds of light, we manifest our thoughts and feelings directly. This fact of nature becomes a tremendous problem, since we will almost always manifest our fears first. And in manifest-ing our fears in a new world, a new dimension of exis-tence, we destroy ourselves and are forced to leave the higher worlds. Therefore, what all the ancient races have discovered, and what we are rediscovering now in modern times, is that in order to survive in the higher worlds, we must first overcome our fears here on Earth.
To reach this goal, the Egyptians built special temples aong the Nile.
Fig. 10-7. Isis offering ankh to Osiris.
Fig. 10-8. Another offering of the ankh.
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Fig. 10-9. Temple at Kom Ombo.
Fig. 10-10. Two left eyes.
Fig. 10-11. Cross section of ceremonial hole in next figure.
Figure 10-9 is the temple at Kom Ombo. It represents the second chak-ra, the sexual chakchak-ra, of twelve chakras that run up the Nile—thirteen if you wish to count the Great Pyramid. Kom Ombo is the only temple that's dedi-cated to polarity, or duality, which is the basis of sexuality, and two gods are associated with it. In fact, it is the only temple dedicated to two gods in all of Egypt: Sobek, the crocodile god, and Horus. As you face the temple, the right half of this temple is dedicated to darkness and the left side to the light.
An interesting event recently hap-pened in this temple—sort of a sign of
the times. There was a major earth-quake in Egypt in 1992, and Gregg Braden told me that he was sitting in this temple when the earthquake hit. Ptactically everything on the dark side fell, but the light side didn't lose a brick. As you will see in this work we do, the light is now stronger than the dark.
The carving in Figure 10-10 is on the rear wall of that temple at Kom Ombo. Two left eyes of Horus show that this is the emotional-body school, the feminine school, and that it's really two schools dedicated to two gods. On the left you see the 45-degree rod of resurrection.
The first time 1 went there I took a friend, and the second time she took me. This was my second trip in 1990, and we went through a beautiful cere-mony that my friend had set up in Kom Ombo. For part of the ceremony we climbed down in a hole, and Figure 10-11 is a cross section of that hole.
A big granite slab comes down in the middle, al-lowing only a little space between the bottom of it and the ground. So we squeezed underneath the low part and came back out the other side. That was the physical part of this ceremony. Here's a photo of somebody going down into it
[Fig.10-12].
But I could see that there must have been more to it than that in the ancient past. My friend was working with a large group of people, so I mostly watched that day. I was conscious of Thoth's presence the whole time I was in Egypt, so I asked him, "Is that it?" He said, "No, there's more than that." So I asked, "Well,
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would you tell me?" He replied, "All right. This knowledge might be help-ful to you."
Thoth told me to climb up high onto a wall at the back side of the tem-ple and look back. So I climbed up on that wall, looked back and took this picture [Fig. 10-13]. The entrance to the ceremony hole was at point B, just off the picture. You can see the Nile in the background to the left of the large structure. The river ran along the front and the water from the Nile :ame right up into the temple. This was a temple where water and croco-diles were used in the teachings.
On the previous photo [Fig. 10-12], you can see the little wedge-shaped pegs at points A [Fig. 10-12b]. They use pieces of metal shaped like that to lock two stones together so that they don't move around during earthquakes;
drat makes it more stable. Those wedges actually hold walls in place at these points. Where the man is going down into the hole there used to be walls on both sides. When you are up high on the other side (where I took this pic-ture), you can see the litde wedge holes going all the way to the top at C.
Walls at D and E had originally extended forward to where I took this pic-ture, and you can see a secret hollow space in the middle. In this view from die back of the temple, the left side of this hollow center was the side of the
"dark," and the right side was the side of the "light." If you were on either side o( this wall, you wouldn't know there was a hollow place in the middle. It would be pretty hard to tell because you'd think that the other side of that wall was the other side of the temple.
At each of the temples in Egypt, they would create situations to force you to have experiences you would not
normally bring on yourself, so that when you had similar experiences you would become stronger and less fearful.
You would be put in extremely fearful situations to overcome your fears.
That's what this secret hollow space was all about—an exercise to over-come fear, a specific kind of fear.
Fig. 10-12. Entrance to the ceremony hole.
You can see the right hand and top of head the man descending into it.
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Fig. 10-12b. Shape of wedge at points A.
Fig. 10-13. What's left of the initiation site in Kom Ombo.
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Fig. 10-14a. Crocodile pool used for initiatory experience.
Fig. 10- 14b. Top view of the crocodile pool.
That was more or less the function of the complex as Thoth explained it to me. Figure
10-14a is a section, viewed from the side, of die hol-low place between the walls. The walls at A and B spanned the short distance to walls C and D, and this formed a sort of mazelike channel going from one visible opening to the other. Inside this channel was water—and crocodiles—maybe one tying on the ledge in the center, having a good ol' time waiting for some human to enter the water.
Light came in through the opening at E.
Imagine yourself as a neophyte about to undertake this test. After much preparation and meditation, you would stand on the steps at F, look down and see a little square of water at your feet no bigger than about one square yard. You would not have any idea what was in the water or where it led to. Then you were told to go into the water and not come out the way you went in. You, the neophyte, had only one breath—and you had to be careful, be-cause if you hurried to jump in without cau-tion, you would hit the granite slab at point G.
But your training would have taught you to be careful in all unknown situations. So at first you had to move around this granite slab.
When you got to the bottom, which is about 20 feet deep and under wall A, you would emerge out of the darkness of the channel and look up toward the light. Then you would see the crocodiles. You can imagine the fear that would come up in such a situation. There was not much the initiate could do at this point ex-cept swim upward, squeeze by these fearful life forms and get out. That's what happened with almost everyone the first time around, accord-ing to Thoth.
What you didn't know was that these crocodiles were fully fed so they would not hurt you. But that hardly makes a difference to initiates down in that channel holding their breath and looking up at them. They didn't lose anybody to the crocs, but nevertheless . . .
When you, the initiate, stepped out of the water at E [see top view, Fig. 10-14b], you were told that you had just failed. Then you would have to go through more and more and more training. When your teachers thought you were ready, they would put you through this ceremony a sec-ond time. This time you knew about the crocodiles, that you had only one
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breath, and that the way out was not past the crocs toward the light. So you would go down to the bottom again, and at the moment of your greatest fear. when you could actually see the crocodiles, you had to search for
an-other way out. The opening at H is where we went down and came up for my friend's ceremony. So if you found the opening at H, you had to go far--- down and under wall B before you could swim up and out another pitch-blackk channel, not knowing for sure that it was even the way out.
This was the kind of initiation the Egyptians performed in these schools very calculated experiences. And these experiences were many and var-ied. This building had all kinds of special rooms designed to overcome fear.
This temple also had a positive side, where they studied tantra—not just sexual pleasures, but understanding the sexual currents and other sexual energies and their relationship to resurrection. They also studied breathing
and its relationship to all things that arc human. The mundane ability to simply stay under water that long was quite a feat.
Now that we understand the importance of fear, I will talk about direct experience and the secret of the Well.
The Well under the Great Pyramid
The room in the Great Pyramid called the Well was closed off in about 1983 for safety reasons. They installed an iron door at the opening to the descending passage up at the main level, and kept a guard there for a long time. This was because many people had died in the Well, so many that they finally closed off the room to tourists. They had died of unbelievable things—for example, poisonous snakes and spiders that don't even exist in Egypt! The last incident happened just before they closed the Well. Some kind of poisonous gas appeared in the air and killed a group of people who were doing ceremony in the room. Nobody knows what it was.
This space has a very unusual nature, especially toward the end of the runnel, where it ends at a wall. In this tunnel there is a connection be-tween the third and the fourth dimensions. Whatever you think and feel happens, for real. If you've got any fears, they will become real. They will manifest and will not allow you to survive in the new world. If you are fear-less, then you are free to manifest in the positive, which opens the door to the higher worlds. As you will see, this is the nature of the fourth dimen-sion: whatever you think and feel happens.
This is why the Egyptian mystery schools took students through twelve years of training where they were faced with every fear known to man. Kom Ombo held only fears associated with the second chakra. Each chakra has its associated fears. They took initiates through every fear you can imagine, so that by the end of twelve years they were absolutely fearless because they had overcome all fear. All the mystery schools and training schools around the world did exactly the same thing in various ways.
The Incas were incredible. The things they did to get you into a fear state and then overcome it were unmentionable. In contrast to the
Egyp-tians, they didn't care if they lost a high percentage of their people. They were intense. The Mayans did the same thing. Remember the Mayan ball games where two teams would practice all year long to play a game that was like basketball, but it is believed that the winners had their heads cut off?
They believed it was an honor to die this way, but it was really all part of a higher-dimensional training program.
Another interesting thing that's happened many times down in the tun-nel below the Pyramid is that people would lie down, close their eyes and have an awesome experience, then wake up in the sarcophagus in the King's Chamber! They'd ask, "How did that happen?" This has been written about many times, and the present-day Egyptians haven't a clue how this could take place. What happened was that the people who experience this phenomenon didn't have the right training, so they were pulled back along the black-light energy vortex, traveled through the Great Void and came to j the beginning of the black-light vortex. Then they reversed polarities and went down the white-light spiral into the sarcophagus.' It brought the whole being, body and all, right back through into this other reality.
There were many, many problems with people lying down in the sar-cophagus in the King's Chamber and having experiences that were irratio-nal by modern standards. For that reason they moved the sarcophagus a long time ago. They pulled it askew and pushed it back so it doesn't line up with the field at all. When you lie down in it now, you can't get your head in the beam. It's not even possible now. The Egyptians know. They under-stand; they're not dumb. And they've been there for a long, long time. Of course, they have a story about why the sarcophagus was moved, but tiiey are silent about why they have not moved it back to its original position.
They understand about the sarcophagus, though they didn't understand about the tunnel beside the Well. So in 1984, after this group of people died down in the Well tunnel, they sealed die whole area off and wouldn't allow anyone else into it. When we went there in 1985 and explained to them drat it was only the end of the tunnel where the problem was, they opened up the rest of the area to the public. Now it's open except for the tunnel. The entire area was closed off for a period of only about a year.
The Tunnel beneath the Great Pyramid
In the original Flower of Life workshop I used to tell stories each day, be-cause it is one of the best methods I know to give and receive information.
The story I am about to tell is my personal experience in the tunnel so that you can understand the nature of the initiation the Egyptians went through and the nature of the fourth dimension, which will become more and more important as this book unfolds. This happened exactly as I perceived it, and I hope this story opens an insight within you. You do not have to be-lieve it. You can take it as just a story if you wish.
What follows has been edited because it is too long in its entirety, but the most important points have been retained.
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In 1984 Thoth appeared to me and said that I was to prepare for an initia-tion in Egypt. He said it was necessary for me to go through this initiainitia-tion in
order to connect with the Earth's energies and move with the Earth's changes in the future. Thoth told me that for this initiation I had to arrive in Egypt without any help from myself. I could not buy a ticket or make any arrange-ments on my own. I also could not even tell anyone that I wanted to go to Egypt. Somehow the events in my life had to naturally take me there without any effort on my part. If they did, then the initiation would begin. If they did not. then the initiation would not happen. The beginning rules were simple.
About two weeks later I visited my sister, Nita Page, in California. I had not seen her in a very long time. She had just gotten back from China, so it seemed like a perfect chance to meet. Nita is always traveling. She has been to almost every major city and country in the world many times over.
She loves to travel so much that she eventually bought a travel agency to blend her love with her job.
As I was sitting with her in her home, I was careful not to talk about what Thoth had requested of me. But without any words on my part, it just happened. It was late at night around 1:30 A.M. and we were talking about China. There was a book on her coffee table called The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manley P. Hall. As she was talking, she casually flipped open the book to a page that showed the Great Pyramid, and the conversation changed to Egypt. After a while, she looked me in the eye and said, "You have never been to Egypt, have you?" I said no, and she said, "If you ever want to go, I will pay for everything. Just let me know."
I had to bite my tongue not to talk about what Thoth had requested of me, but I did. I did not say a word. I simply told her thanks, and that if I ever wanted to go, I would call her.
My sister had been to Egypt twenty-two times and had probably been to
My sister had been to Egypt twenty-two times and had probably been to