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KMT Ontology and Cosmogenesis
Mon, May 5, 2008 - 11:48 PM
University of kemet
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Philosophy and Cosmology
1. Each individual type in Nature is a stage in the cosmic embryology which culminates in human beings. Different species developed various "functions" that the Kmtians called "Neters," and have their apotheosis and integration in Conscious Human being. Functional consciousness is a way of knowing reality from the inside.
Ancient Kmt was based on this inner knowing, very unlike our own outer-oriented one. The ancient Kmtians were aware of the limitations of purely cerebral consciousness, the Set mind that "granulates" experience into fragments of time and space and is behind our increasing abuse of nature and of each other. Granulated experience produces our familiar world of disconnected things, each a kind of "island reality."
2. Language is not a simple means of communication, but as an interface between people and with the divine. The universe life is part of a "Great Chain of Being". From the lowest particle to the greatest deity, all partake of certain characteristics and are linked together into a great scheme of existence. The foundations of this bridge of resonance are within sacred letters and numbers, with vibrations and harmonics. Ancient Kmt had an underlying symbolic code, a magnificent numerical system, which operated as an initiated form of language.
3. KMTian Wisdom thought of Heaven as the seat of the Neters, that is to say, the creative Causes or agents of continuous creation and the principles which through reflection into the earthly world maintained its existence. Temples were conceived of as the seats of the Neters, each a dwelling-place of the particular Principle to which each of them was dedicated.
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Cosmos before the Present Universe 1. Early KMTic thinkers grappled with the questions of existence, origins, knowledge of the world, the cosmos, and how they came into being. The philosophical implications of grappling with questions of existence by relying on observations of material world were tremendous. For one, the cosmology, philosophy and world view that evolved to characterize this ancient people were firmly rooted in material reality; they did not make up explanations and understandings of the world around them; rather they observed the lessons directly from nature. These practices laid the foundation for the sciences and the building of civilization. 2. Cosmology: Before all, there existed Nwn, a watery abyss, absolute in essence, which already contained all primary matter. That matter was posited in the form of water extended, quite naturally, from their experiences along the Nile [this was a civilization that evolved along the Nile]. In time, matter would gain consciousness of itself and manifest itself as creation. The creative essence emerges from within Nwn and begins the work of creation. There is no independent creator standing over and apart from creation; rather the source of creation exists within creation itself. 3. In the beginning there is matter (water), in a form apparently inchoate, obscure, abyssal, yet potentially powerful, dynamic, creative, innovative, a generative source. Right from the start, matter is posited (in the form of primal water) at the origins of the universe; this primordial matter was in a form qualitatively different than what would later emerge from (be born of) it. NOTE in KMT Water means also Emotions 4. Modern science suggests that the universe originated in a manner similar to African Kmt's cosmology, though not in water. African Kmt's error (the primordial matter was liquid) was due to their technological development at the time. 5. The most important thing to note is that they posited matter prior to anything else. 6. That the Nile was so central to their existence, it was natural that water would come to represent the primordial mass called Nwn. Nwn-primal matter, primal, abyssal water. Atum, Re represented the creative reason (and consciousness), which then gave rise to all of creation [philosophical implications-reason, intelligence organizes chaos. 7. We cannot understand the world around us without having developed a set of strategies, tools, categories, concepts that permit us to take in sensual stimuli, mentally organize it, understand it, and respond appropriately. This process (of intelligent understanding) requires the existence of a language that permits members of a population to communicate with one another about reality. |
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Sat, May 10, 2008 - 9:09 AM
Nwn: The Primal Waters 1. The beginning of all beginnings was Nwn, the primal, absolute mass of water, container of all seed, home to all creative potential. It was reality before the universe we know, already pregnant with the ‘raw material' of creation in a latent state. 2. In the cosmogony of The Book of Coming Forth by Day, it was within the primordial chaos that the demiurge achieved consciousness of itself. Only after that rise to self-consciousness did the demiurge come into real existence, on its own and by itself. Then it began to work. 3. Everything in the world had a starting point, a genesis, with the exception of Nwn; Nwn was the uncreated reality of moist, watery, abyssal depths, fecundating and creative. 4.In African philosophy, the concept of water is the logical outflow from the lived experience of the African environment. All stream outward from the great cosmic waters, flowing into the real world as a generous force working to seed the earth, touching all it reaches with it s animating vitality. Water is and water lets be. 5. Water is the drought-ending energy that clears the way for the active life, season after season, day after vital day, in a tireless cycle. 6.Nwn is not simply a name for some inert, primal abyss, rather it flows across space and time. The Great Waters are constantly revived, and new life born out of their quickening flow. 7. Nwn is a structural concept, a vehicle of progress. The concept of Nwn infuses historical meaning and human intelligence in the present, while retaining its immanent status. |
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Sat, May 10, 2008 - 9:09 AM
Primal Egg 1. The cosmic egg, represents the morning of the nascent world, the world in the state of becoming 2. The egg represents the concept of completeness, perfection, wholeness-of purity, youth and life. By the same token, it evokes the future, the world about to be born from it. Basic Elements: Water, Fire, and Air 1. In African Kmt philosophy, there is no opposition between ‘matter' and ‘spirit.' Nature is a whole, within which matter and consciousness are merged. Water is a substance; living water is a germinating force, an energy, a divinity. Matter and spirit are different manifestations of reality. 2. The objective object is inseparable from the subjective subject. 3. Because it was a living system of thought, African Kmt philosophy is frequently identified with religion; this is not justified. |
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Sat, May 10, 2008 - 9:10 AM
Ontology and Cosmogenesis 1. From the moment it exists, That Which Is causes being to come into existence 2. Through its own power, its own energy and movement, that That Which Is comes into existence; it engenders itself, from itself 3. It is the Absolute, that which exists by itself, from the beginning, before Creation 4. That Which Is causes the other modes of existence to come into being through love and through its own will, being alone by its own power. Being is absolute, it is also love and will 5. Being is in addition, and above all, reason. Being designs projects in its heart; in complete, lucid consciousness 6. Reason encompasses the entire design, then the creative plan presents itself before the Creative one, in front of it, completely visible, with no confusion. Creation is a clear concept, neat, distinct, unambiguous to the Creator, who is absolute love, will and reason, an active energy, the very essence of efficiency, master of the whole 7. Through Creation, the existence of What Is gets multiplied, becomes a fecundating process, is diversified 8. Creation is an enterprise of beginnings, and, in a sense, proof of the existence of what is to demonstrate one's existence means to cause to come into being other modes of existence; it means to create, to produce 9. In African Kmt, the heart was the seat of intelligence, reason, and intellectual perception-what is conceived in the heart is uttered by the mouth 10. In the beginning there was reason, followed later by the word-the Demiurge first conceives what is to be and then causes the palpable existence by pronouncing the actual name of that which is invoked into existence through the power of the word, the efficacy of creative utterance 11. Nwn was imagined as what existed before the ordered, organized universe came into existence after the emergence of Ra (consciousness), on its own, in Nwn as ‘being in a state of becoming 12. Nwn, the basis and reason for all subsequent becoming. It is the same time the matrial cause, the formal cause, the effective cause ad the final cause of everything, of the gods and of their creatures. It is the undifferentiated absolute, with no describable or knowable form. 13. Yet Nwn is the ground of Ra's being, and existence comes into beging from the manifested existence of Ra 14. Nwn is the principle at the root os all principles, the foundation of all foundation; Nwn itself derives from no foundation 15. Some commentators have misconstrued all significant African Kmt texts as religious documents; African KMTologists have a duty to combat this generalized tendency. Evidence indicates it is the result of prejudiced assumptions, no less dangerous for being implicit 16. The reality is that ancient Kemites reflected on being, life, death, etc. 17. The African Kmt scarab, a highly typical symbol, occurs and recurs whenever the issue is the creation of Being and all that exists: Kheper, to be, to exist; kheper-djes-ef, he who came into existence by himself; kheperu, modes of existence of Being; kheperi, Being or What Is. 18. The vision is of creation as a continuous process, sustained to the end of time. The implication is of a universe in perpetual transformation, incessantly changing. It is of a universe always active, perennially creative. Within it, however, all elements, all beings and all things, begin necessarily from earlier, unique forms. Here we have a conception of the universe as a continuous process of creation, the cosmos as one immense, uninterrupted creative gesture. |
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Sat, May 10, 2008 - 9:11 AM
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