NEW ACROPOLIS FEATURES THE DOCTRINE OF THE HEART IN EGYPT - Comments on the text by José Carlos Fernández - Prof. Lúcia Helena Galvão Welcome to our chat today, will be about the last text of professor José Carlos Fernández, that we will address in this lecture, and deals with the Doctrine of the Heart in Egypt. Very particularly, in my humble opinion I believe it is one of his best texts. It is divided into two parts, and we did a summary, from both parts, and we are going to present it today. Always making it very clear: It
is a summary, an approach to the main ideas, does not dispense reading, the text has several other details that are not here. But, it is important that we understand this idea of the Heart, which is still very significant today, imagine in Egypt, this idea of the heart that we still want to represent today . If you turn on an AM or FM radio, many romantic songs talk about the heart "Because the heart is this, the heart is that." But we usually associate it with something sentimental. In such a way, that in our days it has
even become commonplace, this idea became a little vulgar, because we lost the key to the symbol The symbolism of the Heart is ancient, and as far as we know, they have their first appearances, exactly in Egypt. Before we start talking a little bit more about this symbolism, I want to point out a few things for you: The symbolism of the heart is closely associated with the idea of the center, this idea that is so powerful and crosses the universe at various scales. The idea that things emanate from a center, and from that center they get
their body, they get their existence, their manifestation. From a center they expand and manifest. So, you can take an atom with its center, or a galaxy, or a solar system, or a cell, or a city that is founded, where the first thing that is done is to found a little church, say a mass there and the city expands around that center. A small city, until today, you will see that it gravitates around this central, which is the square of the mother church, that is, the idea of the center, that is, the idea of the center,
although unconsciously we are always using, is always a reference for us of something that is around something fundamental, of something essential and sometimes even of something sacred. So, the Center for Egypt represents many keys, for example the bridge between heaven and earth. For example, the place where our voice is most honest, more truthful, where we are more ourselves, where our essence lives, and where our meeting point with God lives. All of our chat today is going to revolve around those ideas. Many things from Egypt, and also some explanations that professor José Carlos makes, and some
that I also added from several other traditions, from several other authors. Speaking of the same thing, that is to say, besides everything it is old and it is a recurring symbol. The great civilizations of humanity, the great thinkers of the past. Come on! Let’s, on this trip, to better understand what the Egyptians understood, by the symbolism of the heart. We will realize that in the West, especially in the West from the modern age to the present, that the heart is associated with emotions, I wouldn't even say feelings. That cute Valentine's Day heart, associated with passions,
emotions, hardly a mature feeling, a marriage of many years although there is love there, that love has solidified into something deeper. One would not represent their feelings to the other with a small heart. It turns out that it is something a little emotional, and not exactly sentimental. So, in the West it was very related to that, in Eastern traditions, the heart was not very associated with feelings or emotions, was associated with intelligence, intuition and wisdom. Let's talk, for example, in India and how it is closely related. The heart of man with another form of understanding,
another brain, another central that processes information and gives us deep diagnoses. It is the seat of the most truthful and deepest discernment. So, we noticed at first this very marked difference. Although, in antiquity, even in the West, it was not thought that way, Plato himself, let's quote him, did not think that way. In Christian and Islamic cultures, within theology, It is very common to place the heart as God's altar.. God considered as the heart of the world from where everything emanates and where everything comes back to. Let's talk, later, of this characteristic of the divine
as a heart. The altar of God is the heart of man, it is the heart of all things, that is, it is the divine itself that exists and governs our life from our heart. Within Christianity, we can see the symbolism of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary, as a super important symbol. It took a long time for me to understand a little bit of this symbol, of this Sacred Heart of Jesus studded with thorns. In other words, it is a very strong, very significant symbol. Although, sometimes, we don't stop to to think about it.
The heartbeat represents the pulse of the universe, the whole universe is a constant pulse. So, it is as if the heartbeat is analogous to the movement of the manifested universe, as if the whole Cosmos were a big heart. Later, we will detail this vision a little more of the manifested universe, represented by a heart. It is interesting, that when you consider, that the manifested universe, it manifests and behaves like a heart. When a man finds his heart, when he learns to hear it, it has a communication corridor with all the hearts of the universe, including,
with the heart of the One. And then it is said that the wise man is the one who knows how to listen to his heart, because through it you hear all the hearts of the manifestation, even the Great Heart, from which everything emanates and where everything returns. Therefore, a wise man is a man with an awakened heart. Moving on, in India, we will see very strongly the symbolism of the heart how the heart looks like an inverted triangle. So, many times, this heart is associated with the female, the manifestation The gods in India generally had
their Shakti, its feminine complement. It is as if the masculine symbolically represents the spirit, and the feminine the manifestation of that spirit in the manifested universe. And the heart is exactly that command center, that communicates the ideas, the essence with existence. So the heart is associated, still in our sentimental view of the current West ... We have the impression that the heart is feeling and therefore is more related to the feminine, which is a set of prejudices. But, there may also be an echo of the old traditions. So, the Shaktis, were associated with that heart
of the divine. It is the Divine present in the manifestation. The Egyptians had some ways of representing the heart, but the main two were a vase .... For those who have seen that scene in which the dead man's heart is weighed, in the Duat, where the man's heart is placed on a plate, and on the other the plume from the head of the goddess Maat, who is the goddess of justice. The heart that is placed there, is a vase with two little handles. The heart is represented, sometimes, by this vase and sometimes by the Ibis,
an animal that has a very fine beak, which is associated with the idea of discernment, by being able to select, like tweezers, clearly select what he wants to eat, that is, an ability to select and discern. This Ibis is very much associated with the God Thot, which is often associated with Hermes trismegistus. The character who would be the founder of Egyptian Hermeticism. And this Thot passes on to other traditions, like the Greek Hermes and the Roman Mércurio, that is, the heart of man associated with a God, who was eminently a communicator between heaven and earth.
Since the Egyptian Thot, even Greek Hermes, who has a hat with wings and wings on his heels. His job was to go up and down, from heaven to earth and vice versa, communicating the two worlds. You see, if the heart is associated with this character, it is a sign that this is the function of the heart. Communicate these two worlds, communicate with the ethereal. They say, that God Ptha would have conceived the world in his heart, and then he would have manifested, made the world exist through the word. All of this would give a new
lecture, as we could take many things out of it. Because the word, as quoted by Fiat light in the Bible, it is the manifestation of something that was previously hidden. I'm thinking about something and then I say: Heart. That word Heart is a visible representation, audible in the world, of what was previously invisible, was just thought. So, it is said that the word is the logos of divine thought. The word represents the creation of the universe, Ptha, the creator God. He would have thought the world in his heart, he would have processed the world in
his heart, and it would have manifested through the word, then the word would be the divine logos. According to Professor José Carlos Fernández, those priests of Anubis, who in Egypt prepared the corpse for mummification, we know this process, more or less, through history. They removed the organs from the corpse and placed them in canopic vessels. But, they did not remove the heart. Because that dead man would have to have his heart as a testimony of his life in the court of Maat. Therefore, the heart was left in the body, so that your counterpart,, which is
the subtle heart, could be placed on the scale along with the Maat plume, each on a plate. To measure whether it was heavier or lighter than Maat's feather. Hearts heavier than the plume of justice would have to return to the world, the lighter ones went up to the Amente, the land of Ammon. The land where Osiris lived. The heart was considered as the God of each man, the symbol of the presence of divine consciousness. Isn't that interesting? So, the heart is the presence of the divine within you. It’s like that precious stone, of a level
of preciousness, which does not belong to that world. It is that indissoluble cell, as if it were a cell of God. It is the divine that lives in each being of creation, it is its center, it is its heart. Moving on. Plato in Timaeus, for those who have heard, the Timaeus is Plato's most complex work, extremely symbolic, with a style very different from everyone else, which are dialogues that can be followed with logic. The Timaeus is very different, because it is full of symbols that are very difficult to understand. At one point, Plato speaks from
the heart in the book Timaeus. And he says the following: '' As for the heart, vessel knot and blood source which circulates quickly through all members, was put, as it were, in the guard post. '' He would be the center, the guard post, that communicates with everything through the blood it pumps. Records all the information that is brought to it by the blood, and could transmit its voice to all parts of the body, as long as the man gave its a voice in his life. So, it is that advanced sentinel of the man's identity, there
lies your old self, there lies your essence. '' The heart is listened to by everything that has sensitivity in the body, the essence of the lived experiences is stored there. '' It's interesting, because when the heart is taken to the scale in the Duat and weighed along with the Maat plums it’s the heart that’s weighed , because all the blood that passes through it tells the story of the whole human body to him. The whole life of this human being would be recorded there, and the life of this human being will be judged. And it
keeps that recorded history to itself. Much like what Plato said, a little while ago. The man's life is recorded there. So it is this life that is weighed, it is all told in your heart. Let's see, as the Egyptians said that this story could be sublimated, and make the heart light, even though life has many mistakes. It is possible! Much like what in India they called karmic redemption. You can sublimate the whole experience, with a condition, which is exactly one of the secrets in the book of the dead. How can your heart not be stolen
from you? May time not steal your heart, let it not become mortal. It is not the property of the heart to be mortal. This physical heart does, but not all its subtle representatives. it is said then, that for the heart to be lighter than the feather of Maat, inevitably, it has to be a heart of fire. Imagine a heart, it’s impossible for a human being who hasn’t made a mistake in life and any mistake makes the heart heavier,, more than the feather of Maat. So, there is only one way for this heart to go to
Amenti and become lighter than Maat's feather. When he is a Heart of Fire. What does that mean? When it burns, all the acts of human life, and makes everything light up. All mistakes served as firewood, for that heart to light. But, it must have been lit. We will see what lights the heart, makes it become a heart of fire, it is the abstinence from any selfish act. A life totally given over to the divine purpose, the life that serves the purpose of the whole, nature and good. Much like the idea of Indian Dharma. Neither a
comma to the left nor to the right, of the Dharma. This heart, in this way, becomes a torch, a heart of fire, that ignites all mistakes, because they all served to make that light come on. It's like the story of karmic redemption, all mistakes served so that you could become aware, wake up and remember who you are. All mistakes were valid, there is no longer any reason to have karmic consequences of mistakes that brought man to wisdom. It is an identical concept in two very ancient and beautiful traditions. The Aztecs often say that the heart
is a knot, that ties spirit and matter. They use the same image of the knot, used by Plato. A knot that ties spirit and matter. Once again this idea, of the heart as a bridge between two worlds. In Tibetan Buddhism, they have a very interesting concept, portrayed by Helena Blavatsky in The Voice of Silence '. There is the path of the eye and the path of the heart. The path of the eye, is traced by Arhat, and the path of the heart through the Bodhisattva. What does the eye path mean? Wanting the wisdom to break
free from the conditions of the world, to free yourself from pain, that is, wanting wisdom for selfish reasons. This eye path does not go very far. What is the path of the heart? When you want to move forward, but you want to take all of humanity with you. Go slower, come back a little, suffers a little more. as long as you can be a flame that leads a crowd of human beings behind you. It is said that Buddha would have said at the doors of Nirvana. Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, the doors of Nirvana would have said:
I don't rest until I see the last man's back, penetrating Nirvana. So if he is going to see the back of the last man, the last one will be himself. When it could be one of the first. This is the path of the heart, is a path that removes all kinds of selfishness, and makes man feel that his heart and the heart of the universe is one. Therefore, he no longer strikes for a body. the heart uses a body as a tool, but it beats to the universe. In relation to the heart, the Egyptian tradition,
says the following:: "Even ignorance, is better than Head-learning with no Soul-wisdom to illuminate and guide it" If you do not have the Soul-wisdom , the Head-learning will only harm you. If you became a dead heart, a heart of stone, the Head-learning will work, totally, in favor of selfishness. Because the awakened heart is what moderates selfishness. The heart that was ignored and came to wither and die. it will be totally surrendered to the networks of selfishness. Therefore, this knowledge will add up to selfishness. Plato said something very similar considering that Greece received great influence from Egypt,
it is likely that it came from the same place. And he said: "Absolute ignorance is preferable to knowledge in inappropriate hands." absolute ignorance is better than knowledge that works for division, for everything that separates, and not for what unites. Consider that, Good, for Plato, is what unites, that recovers the unity in multiplicity, that is, it follows the course of the universe. It's like Pythagoras said, it starts at one and ends at ten, because one plus zero is equal to one again. Everything was born, and everything returns to unity, "The Heart is the Sun in man,
and the Sun is the Heart of the system. " Beautiful the wordplay, that represents a reality. It's our Sun, and light, life and sustenance emanate from it. And the Sun fulfills the same role within the solar system. Perhaps the heart of the galaxy does it the same way, this nest of galaxies, this wall, this super agglomerate, wherever else, perhaps they are all fed by a heart. Plato already said, that the circumference is the most perfect of shapes, because all points are equidistant from its heart, from its center. "There are torch men, and stone men." Torch
men are those with an awakened heart, so they are so sensitive, and everything that goes through them is recorded, measured, weighed by the Maat plume. And see if things are in place, if they can help to bring them back to their place. The true awakened heart, weighs things with the feather of Maat, and always works for justice, is always sensitive to recover this harmony to the extent of its possibilities, within the limits of their possibilities. While a heart of stone, is that man who ignored his heart so much, that it dies, dries up and remains
a rock in the heart of man, and is insensitive to that voice, it becomes a plaything in the hand of selfishness, as we have already said. According to professor José Carlos Fernandez, he narrates the existence of an amulet, that existed in Egypt, in the shape of a heart. Not the little valentine heart, it was the organic heart. This amulet, in the shape of a heart, it represented diverse symbols, gods that referred to some virtues. The wisdom, beauty, rebirth like a phoenix, the heart of fire is like a phoenix. "The memory of the essential, the mirror
of God. " As if it were a little God, who lives within us, all the time, reflecting the greatness and attributes of the great God. So the voice of the heart it's something sacred, metaphysical, which is that voice of purity, identity, clear values, that demands a human attitude towards life, human responses to life. And if you don’t answer, don’t give it an answer, it hurts until it's gone. And then, shut up forever. So, if your heart still hurts, celebrate! There is still hope in you. Pliny, in Rome, says that the Roman God Mercury, he was
president of the words and concepts of the heart. As stated earlier, Mércurio is the same Hermes, that was represented by Ibis. It governs the words and concepts of the heart. It is said that the only real words, are the sacred words 'Hieros Logos', which is said from the heart. It is blown into our ears and our lips, through the heart. if they are not banal and empty words, as Buddhism says, that they bring no comfort to those who hear them. Horapolo - a Greek priest of the century. III AD - wrote a work called Hieroglyphics.
It was a first attempt at interpretation, of the Egyptian hieroglyphs. And he says the following: That the heart was the first letter of the Egyptian alphabet. And it was represented as an Ibis. It's very interesting! The Ibis, the God Thot, was considered the creator of Egyptian writing. So, all writing was dedicated to him, having as its first letter the Ibis, according to that author. Plutarch, will say more or less the same thing, of the Platonic Academy that lived between 40 and 120 AD He will say that: 'From Thot came intelligence and memory, and that real
knowledge emanated from the heart " More or less the same idea, just to make a historical overview. Let's go to the Ptahhotep maxims, I intend to comment on this book, or what is still there. Some fragments still exist and it is beautiful. It’s hard to comment on a book like that, there is no phrase that you can overlook. They are all very beautiful. Ptahhotep, that Egyptian vizier, who lived around the end of the 25th century BC Imagine! He leaves a series of wonderful phrases. "The heart is the true measure that gives the key to morality."
(Ptahhotep) What you can put before your heart without being ashamed, and without immaculating it, this is moral. Bathe your thought, word and deed, in the waters of the heart. The heart of man is the greatest mystery in the universe. By putting things, thoughts, words and action, in front of the heart and not to cloud your mirror, this is moral. Moral in the timeless point of view, not only of that civilization. Not living according to the heart makes the heart disappear. (Ptahhotep) That is, Ptahhotep, in the 25th century BC, already says that the heart, being so
ignored, shut up forever, as if it died. and results in a body without a center, and if it has no center, that body will follow any center, that your environment proposes, your environment proposes to you. You turn a leaf in the wind. "No gift is better than the heart. Those that reach the heart those whose words do not selfishly revolve around themselves. "(Ptahhotep) Stop to realize, This exercise has already been proposed in other lectures, and I usually do it myself, you are walking down the street, and from time to time you hear a conversation here
and there. When you are in a park, and listen to the conversations of the people who are there, in general in the conversations we hear people talk about someone, selfishly. Spoken words to put your point of view on the other, and generally reducing, and not evaluating it as a Virtue. In general evaluating poorly, criticizing. That is, our words are so selfish, focused on the projection of our little 'I', about the projection of our personality, and by decreasing that of the others. The conversations are absolutely personal and selfish. He says: 'These are not words, they are
noises' Words, really, are totally selfless, and focused on making the man walk on the path of Horus, on the path of union of heaven and earth. There is a concept, Indian, which has already been addressed in other lectures. It's the SUTRATMA concept, which is like all human beings are pearls and a single silver thread passed through all of them. In fact, not only human beings, all beings in the manifested universe. Our essence, which is our heart, it wouldn't be 'ONE' our but it would be a continuum that goes through all beings. It's like my heart,
your heart and the heart of the whole universe, were episodes of that thread. This SUTRATMA, which goes through the whole universe. Our heart would be the insertion point, of the silver cord of the divine. It's not just ours. And when we hear our hearts, we hear its mysteries, we find fraternity as a concrete need. You can no longer ignore the countless other hearts that are part of mine. "The heart goes astray when it hears your belly." (Ptahhotep) "He must move away from the bowels' appeals" Ptahhotep, again. when the human being doesn't learn to dive into
your heart, deepen your voice, the energy of the heart is dispersed. He may begin to hear not the body as a whole, or the voices of heaven and earth. But, start to focus on the voices from the bowels of the human being, of your guts, of your belly, which is all about survival. Survival instinct, perpetuation of the species, with the greatest possible comfort and nothing more. This is an empty heart, mischaracterized, was raped. A heart on the brink of death, or already dead, inclusive. Instincts take the place of the heart, and start to dictate their
maxims as the total and absolute meaning of life. "The burning heart make the paths of the divine ours. "(Ptahhotep) Another beautiful Egyptian phrase, The burning heart dilutes the separativeness, and starts to consider the path of the divine, which leads all beings to unity as your path, your interest, the goal of the whole is your goal. You become an integral part of the whole, aware of the goals of the whole. So, as my hand works for the good of my body, just as each cell of mine should work for the good of my body, so is
a man whose heart has awakened. The paths of the divine, the paths of the body, they are also the paths of the cell. When that cell has its heart awake, if it's a cell that has lost its center, its essence, its memory, and its identity, it can work against the body. Do you realize that this is the dilution of borders? Of what in Tibet is called heresy of separativeness. I always use an example, which is from professor Jorge Angel Livraga, founder of the new acropolis. When he tells you to look at the sand on a
beach, where you run your finger and make a groove. run your finger and make another groove. Then you say: 'There are two grooves, two beings.' But in a little while the wind will blow and everything will turn to sand again. We are like this, a groove, stuck in the sands of time, momentarily, and soon the wind will pass, and we become what we always were, a part of the unit. All separativeness is an illusion, and the heart knows it. You learn to dive into it, the heart knows it and will communicate the divine objective to
you, as your goal. Above and beyond, and almost exclusive. Above all selfish goals. And even capable, through fire, to dilute those selfish goals. Another very beautiful Egyptian teaching: "The miser lacks rest; your soul does not rest in life or beyond; take away all real property " For the miser, everything that is really good departs from him. He runs after shadows. Flee from your old self, and becomes a slave to now. Realize what an interesting thing this is, because the miser is looking for things that he will never have because they don't exist, they are shadows.
And give up the only thing that could really be his. The heart and all its roses are real. The heart speaks of justice, if you are fair, who can take that from you? The heart speaks of fraternity, if you are fraternal, who can take that from you? Everything that is not yours can be taken from you, even that physical body will one day go away. It's a matter that doesn't belong to us, it belongs to nature So, the miser, seeking shadows gives up what is real. Deliver what is real, in the name of shadows. And
he doesn't find peace, because he is a seeker of things he never finds, or when you find will never retain. Because they disappear, they flow through your fingers, they are not real. So, live in anguish and find no peace even in this world, nor any other. And the one who runs away from his 'eternal being' who is actually his eternal being, becomes a slave to now. By running away from yourself, you run away from the only possible freedom that is through your heart, he can be in heaven and on earth, and in the hearts of
all beings, that is, the greatest possible freedom. By alienating ourselves from it, we become slaves to circumstances. See how beautiful this sentence is, it seems to me that it is from the book of the Sarcophagi. And says the following: "What is violent lacks heart. Who is frivolous at heart will not found an address. " It doesn't have a center, does not have an identity. One who is violent, the first thing he violates is his own heart. The first victim of the violent, is his own heart. This broken heart, increasingly loses his voice, your ability to
speak up, and to be present in all our days signaling our actions. We will talk about that. How the voice of the heart is out there within us. It is not the voice of the passions, it has nothing to do with it. It’s more of a deep awareness, which is constantly signaling the right direction in our life. Every violence it suffers, more and more it, hurt, keeps silent and loses his voice. At some point, you no longer hear it, does not hear the voice of silence. The heart, in the form of a vase, which is
measured with the Maat pen, it gives balance, justice, because the Goddess Maat is the goddess of Justice. The wise seven of Greece, within the Delphic maxims, which are attributed to them, they said: "Nothing in excess." They realize that the balance, the lack of excess, 'The Center', it is the voice of the heart. Search for the essence, balance, justice, search for everything in its place. In India, this center of balance was represented as Sattva, and also like straight action. For those who know the Bhagavad Gita, the entire book talks about right action. In the Buddhist tradition,
Dhammapada is the middle way, the center, the heart of your life. In the Hebrew Talmud, it says: "If your heart runs, make it go back to its place. " The heart has to be in the center, it's like a sentinel, it's like the one who scores the straight path, the straight direction. the human direction, the human path, which awaits you. Confucius says another very interesting thing: "The heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any." (Confucius) It sees the needs of the whole body, however, while still
feeling the needs of the soul. It sees all the needs of the land, while feeling the needs of heaven. It is your essence, and is able to see its entire context, record its entire history. But, without becoming cloudy and not getting involved. When your heart starts to get out of place and get involved with things, means he is seriously injured and losing his nature, his identity. It is a heart that has already been badly treated, and is becoming insensitive. In the book of the dead, that book of the hidden abode, which we know as 'The
Egyptian Book of the Dead.' There are a series of phrases and chapters dedicated to the idea of the heart, Professor José Carlos lists some of them, are we going to meet them? "From the heart, one must build the human being." Remember the city that is built from the mother church? All things radiate from the center. In the center they have their sacred touch, which says in the name 'of what' they were built. What is the spirit of that city, to what it serves. So, too, man from his heart man is built. And it is in
your heart that your identity resides, purpose of your existence. and the direction you should go, to find yourself again. "At the heart is the key to the states of luminous consciousness." I don't know if you already had the perception, but when we feel, in some way, our heart heavy A mistake something that doesn't match what we consider to be noble, fair and good. As the best we've ever experienced, you hardly have great inspirations. I like to occasionally write some poems. But when my heart is heavy, I have no inspiration It seems that there is no
communication of anything that is valid, not a word worth be said when your heart is cloudy. The legitimate, profound word that brings comfort to those who hear it, it becomes completely absent. When your heart closes its doors, mourning for a day that was not human. Learn to experiment. Experiences are not out of this world, they belong to this world. "How to free the heart from the devouring claws of time and its rulers." It is one of the things that the book of the dead puts. How to make the heart sublime, and don't be trapped by
time or the clutches of time, don't be devoured by it. "The heart that imprints man's footprints on earth is judged." These are some of the teachings present in this papyrus collection, that we call the Egyptian 'Book of the Dead'. Another beautiful Egyptian phrase "Your heart belongs to a God, that led you to this body; you can renew it uniting with the God who lives in him. God renews your heart, heart renews your life and renewed life purifies the body. If you leave it, it will be a corpse. " It is silent, and the flow of
life is broken. And you only survive, no longer lives. Horus lives in the heart and he would be the one, who makes the bridge between the world of Isis and Osiris in Ament. One who is able to fight the "Set" shadows which is a communicator between heaven and earth, and is halfway there. Horus resides in the hearts of beings. Just like that medium, the center among all the worlds. The heart is important, then, for the Egyptians, because it is the center of man and it writes, it marks the land the designs of heaven, and makes
the voices of the earth reach the heavens. It's a communicator, it connects these two worlds. It collects the best of the land, and write on earth the designs of heaven. Confucius talks a lot about it and it's beautiful, the decrees of heaven. They are written on earth by those who have a pure heart, for those who hear the voices of your heart. There would be no decree from heaven written on earth, if it didn't pass through the man's heart. There is a lot waiting to be born, through our heart. Many things to be printed on
the earth, through our heart. "Only damage the heart the actions that Heaven abhors. " True pain is that which damages the heart, and professor José Carlos Fernandes, quotes an Egyptian phrase, that says the following: "Let no violence be exerted on me!" It's the heart saying: Don't be violent with me! It's the worst of pain, that leaves man as a mere ... walking corpse, a body without a heart, is a body without purpose. It is a body without identity, it is a plaything. "Only the actions that Heaven abhors damage the heart. " It is a very
concrete experience, it is very important for us to fix our attention and understand. Sometimes before you sleep you feel your physical heart hurting. The impression I have is as if I have a pin stuck in that heart. Something that hurts, that bothers. And when you consult your mind, it says, "You had a perfect day! You haven't done anything wrong. Wow! You did everything right. You met people and greeted them, you did everything right. "You were kind to everyone. " Then you tell the mind to shut up, and ask the heart: What is it? If you
stand in front of it, as if you are facing a temple, And you asks: What happened? It's impressive! Because, it takes you right to the moment. Where, you formally greeted a person, but you didn't look her in the eye. If you had looked, you would realize that this person needed more than a formal greeting, she needed you, your attention and love. And you didn't see it, for acting mechanically, in a hurry Because of your inattention, or whatever. What the mind has not registered, it is stuck in your heart, like a thorn, and there's only one
way for you to relieve that pain. It is to shut up the mind, to come before it and say: I see, I acknowledge and commit myself. That I will fight against this, from now on! It's very interesting, because this commitment facing the heart, it's like someone goes there and pulls out that thorn, and the pain goes away immediately. Do this experience! Standing in front of the heart is like standing in front of a temple door, that communicates with several tabernacles, as if facing the sacred. Not the sacred only in you, but the sacred in the
universe, the mystery of the universe. And it signals when it's still alive, it signals that your day was not consistent with the maxims of the whole, the One with the trail that you must go, which is the trail of the One. It hurts! and it hurts physically, it is important that you learn to acknowledge this. Every night, make an assessment of your day, and ask your heart: How was it? And if it hurts, it's a message, a message it has to tell you and if you ask it will show you. where you ran over heart
codes, the protocols of your heart. There is a text in the Sarcophagi, where an Egyptian God speaks: "I put your heart inside the body for you, so that you can remember what you forgot. " It's very beautiful, that! The divine being, within this polytheistic tradition, was a God that said, I put your heart inside your chest, for you to remember, who are you. If you go in there, you will find your old self, your eternal self, your true identity. A memory call, inside there is that cell of God that is your true identity, your internal
name. Within your heart, there is something divine, a cell of God which is the task that you came to accomplish in the world, is the task that you owe to the whole, is the sacred word 'Hieros logos' that you have to write on earth, in matter. So that others can read it through you. That's what the heart is for, It brings the message fundamental, It keeps your internal name, the sacred word. At a certain moment, still in this text of the Sarcophagi, it is said: "May your heart not be taken away." This is often said
in the Egyptian book of the dead: "Take care that your heart is not taken away." The physical heart it will be taken by matter, because it is made of matter. But, there is this more subtle heart, that is behind that physical heart. It is this memory of the subtle heart, that they don't want to let it be taken away, that you lose everything you have stored throughout your life, if you stored anything. There is no concern in the book of the dead with the memory of the mind, but only with the memory of the heart.
I wonder why? The memory of the mind keeps the futile and superficial things in life, that sometimes you don’t even have to die, during your life you forget. The memories of the heart keep those seeds of reality and eternity, that you have harvested throughout your life. It holds a more productive fruit of your life. What really added up, for you and the world. The book of the dead and the text of the sarcophagi, they don't care much about the memory of the mind. But, do all the encouragement to protect the memory of the heart, which
is the valid fruit of your life. Again in the Sarcófago text, professor José Carlos quotes a beautiful passage this text is full of beautiful quotation, "... Not a spirit would take my heart away, for my God has the way open to him, and lives in him. And soon you will be able, Celestial spirits, restore this heart to you to the places of perpetual joy. " My God has the way open to him and lives in him. Let's understand this in more depth, it's not 'God lives in my heart, because I love him and think about
him all the time', It's much more than that. The heart would be a cell of the divine itself, a part of it ingrown on me. Osiris that was shattered, and its pieces were placed all over the world. This piece of the divine, ingrown in my chest, this precious jewel that when I bring it up, It becomes the brightest, the most significant and justifies my whole life. God lives in my heart, because my heart is part of it. As if it were a small piece of a large diamond. "Don't let your heart fail!" Ani Papyrus which
is one of the many papyri that make up the book of the Egyptian dead. Don't let your heart fail! if you still hear its voice learn to stimulate that voice more and more by listening more. Practicing talking to that voice and asking what it wants to say to you, trying to visualize. Realising that through that voice, you have much more depth in understanding yourself and all the people and things you touch. Because the deep communicates with the deep, and the superficial with the superficial. Realize that through that voice, your words make more sense, become builders
valid messages, they become little pieces of truth. Pieces of realities in the world of illusions. Don't let your life end, without having heard your heart that is the seat of your whole life. I remember an event, which I share in many lectures, and I find it interesting to share again. When the Greeks fought with the Persians, far fewer warriors in the marathon battle. And incredibly they managed to win. But their concern was that someone would arrive in Athens, before sunset on the third day. They had agreed with the Athenians, that if they hadn’t victory message,
until sunset on the third day, that they destroy the city, lest it be desecrated by the Persians. They won, who knows how. And send the sprinter, who is like a current athlete, called Fidipides and tell him to run get to Athens and warn of victory. And Fidipeds went running madly, for if he were not fast, Athens would be destroyed. And when he arrives in Athens, he has breath only to say the word: "Nenikekamen!" We won! And he fell dead. Athens has been preserved with all its beauty, with all its temples. Perhaps, there is a Nenikekamen
that will be pronounced by each one of us, and our hearts keep that word. We cannot fall before that word is said. So, let's not let our hearts fail, not before we gave its message to the world, e não antes de termos escrito a palavra sagrada, that it told us to write in the sands of time and matter, so that others through our life may also awaken their own hearts. That's basically it. Thank you so much. We have some questions, let's go to them: Was Egypt reincarnationist? Yes, it was reincarnationist and the weight of the
dead man's heart was very clear in that regard. Those who didn’t have a heart lighter than the feather of Maat need to return to the world, they were devoured by a monster that had a lion's body and an alligator's head. They were devoured by this monster and returned to live on earth. For a very simple reason, their heart only had things from the earth. There was no reason to send a heavy heart full of material things to a world where there is nothing material. You walk for where your heart points. So, they did work with
the idea of reincarnation. the idea of reincarnation, is not exclusive to India as one thinks,. There were several civilizations that thought so. How to reopen a hardened heart? If time had hardened your heart, you wouldn't even ask that question. When it really hardens, the person no longer believes in anything, is no longer able to get excited about anything else, other than personal advantages acquired at any price. This is a hardening that is difficult to reverse, and I don't know how to do it. There is a certain passage from the Egyptian tradition itself that talks about
this. Sekhmet the lioness goddess with his claws, she would be able to recover that heart. But, I don't really know that deeply and I don't even understand it. So I can't speak. But, in general, those who have some thirst, anguish, pain, some desire to donate some interest in this type of subject, that interest was sparked in you by your heart. After it is petrified, you will be talking about a person very insensitive to the pain of others. Almost a psychopath, as Dr. Ana Beatriz says so well. Totally insensitive to the pain of the other, then
it really is very complicated. We would have to understand the mysteries of Sekhmet that are not easy to understand. Why is Egypt still so fascinating? It is interesting because always caused fascination it seems that we intuit, and intuition belongs to the heart. We intuit that there is something there that we don't know what it is, but that validates and is worth knowing. It is said that in the Middle Ages every time that around Feudos, a strange person appeared who seemed a magician or something, they said: This one came from Egypt! Even if it’s because they
were afraid, there has always been an identification of Egypt with mysteries, with in-depth knowledge that we no longer hold. This has only one explanation: Something intuitive! That says, there was something, and that at some point we need to recover. For there is no rational explanation for this. This mystery, this fascination with things that are profound, they provoke us when we are saturated with superficialities. And that is the voice of the heart. Should we follow reason or the heart? Both! But, you have to consider that reason, logic is fundamental as Epiteto said. Protect your reason, and
it will protect you. But, reason has to be guided by the rules of the heart. Because when reason is guided by the rules of the guts it becomes a machine in the service of destruction, manipulation, taking advantage of everything. The reason is a logic that concatenates argument, but the direction the direction of reason is not to come from it. It must come from outside. Either it comes from the heart, or it comes from the guts. I give you something and ask: - Weigh it for me! You will use the entire measurement standard there, and that
metric system that you're going to use is pure reason. But, the thing that you will weigh, it was not your decision I gave it to you. If it's a flower, or if it's manure it's not your math that decides that. It's the one who gave you this thing to be weighed. Therefore, reason is fundamental, but it must have its direction given by the rules of the heart. Because otherwise, it is instrumental. It works up and down, it works for anything. Don't you think that the great tyrants of history, the great genocides of history, they didn't
know about logic. If they didn't know, they wouldn't have done the damage they did. It is instrumental, it is super necessary. But, it needs to be guided by the rules of the heart. It is the heart that gives direction. Enjoy and share! Like, share and subscribe to the channel! This is very important for us, as it helps us reach more people. I would like to share one more curiosity, our youtube channel is entirely organic, we don't pay advertising for that channel. So, it grows with your support, it grows because of your encouragement, the sharing you
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