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On De Lubicz and Sacred Science "I must emphasise that there
was no "golden age" in the society which we have labelled "ancient Egypt". Some scholars, such as R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz and John Anthony West have suggested that Egypt was a wonderfully
enlightened culture with a "sacred science", but I think this is a dangerous attitude. On the contrary, it is obvious to me, from my research, that dynastic Egypt was an elitist state, which used its so-called
"sacred science" to subjugate the common people."
(The Phoenix Solution p. 416)"In the earliest dynasties, religion was used to impress and intimidate the Egyptian people, whose own afterlives
were made conditional on the successful resurrection of the king. Hence the common people were deprived of a large portion of their earnings in the form of taxation, so that the king could be despatched amid pomp and
splendour to his own glorious afterlife as an Akh. It is easy to forget the existence of this lower class when we marvel at the golden splendours of the kings in the Cairo Museum, but the hard reality is that the rich
got richer while the poor stayed poor - as is still the case in virtually every country in the world today. It may have been a "golden age" for the kings, but it was effectively an age of psychological slavery
for the people, whether they realised it or not."
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