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Jaap den Haan | 26.07.2007 10:45 | Analysis | Gender | World

Curse of the pharaos

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Lately a kind of inner voice was much distracting as I was working with a computer, which can be already quite hypnotic, but it proved to be correct (which is not the same as true to me). My age is always essential to people in direct ratio to how I don't wish to consider it myself as it tells nothing about where you or I stand in life but in a mechanical, chronological and chronic society to which we are subservient at all times.
Only mentally lazy people take this for granted.
It is chronic by means of a type of control assuming time to be an automatic rectifier, adapting everyone to one basic concept as everyone dies and loses in the end and the theory has won. Time is based on the rhythm of a political and economic reality and their joint material investment in us. We can only obey.
This inner voice is a form of pestering from naivety, characteristic of anonymous lovers and friends, and imitated by who seek my appendix or the other way round. I don't know which comes first, for time to me is just causality, karma if automatic, a logic which people seem to miss except in slowly dying for the system.
I recently asked someone what life is like between abortion and euthanasia, but I got no reply.
These preoccupations don't bring the timeless that people seek within reach.
Education is part of a strategy of the state, also in a democracy. And so we are obliged to it for life, sometimes less mentally free than we were under some of the dictators of the past. We can see the results. Psychiatry seems to be the only industry still growing in the West, moulding the mind of several nations to an uncritically dull and obedient standard.
In reaction to this people seek freedom rather than obligation in sex, for without freedom there can be no love. But this has become political as well and has been abundantly exploited. It is really the point where prostitution and pornography have begun.
Always throwing the first stone to divert attention from its own decay, the state is clearly part of this convention.
That is why I deny that the earth is round. It is absolutely as square as it can be.
I used to think that man represents time and woman space, and respectively Logos (logic) and Eros, but I changed my mind. Superficially speaking, women live more with time than (with) men.
This is biological. They have their period and by analogy are more curious about the weather forecast and the news than men.
Mahatma Koot Hoomi once observed that people too compulsively imitate nature. Is that why there is so much bloodshed?
And he said that woman is Lady Echo who always has the final say.

In this way the last will be first, and the first will be last.

Sigmund Freud completed his book Moses and Monotheism after he had fled to London from Vienna to escape the Nazis in 1938. This was his last work before he died in 1939. In it he claimed that the monotheistic religion of Moses was borrowed from Akhenaten, often referred to as the first individual in history, and the first known to be addressed as "pharaoh", in ancient Egypt, in the fourteenth century before Christ. "Moses" means "son" in Egyptian. See "Thutmose", "son of Thoth", and so on.
Others have suggested that Akhenaten's grandfather Yuya on his mother's side was the same as Joseph the dream-teller in the Bible, the Old Testament (who was sold by his brothers as a slave into Egypt, due to jealousy, but rose to a high social position). This means the latter would have been vizier to Thutmose IV, who is indeed known to have had an inclination to prophetic dreams. Thutmose's most celebrated accomplishment was the restoration of the Sphinx at Giza and subsequent commission of the Dream Stele. According to Thutmose's account on the Dream Stele, while the young prince was out on a hunting trip, he stopped to rest under the head of the Sphinx, which was buried up to the neck in sand. He soon fell asleep and had a dream in which the Sphinx told him that if he cleared away the sand and restored it he would become the next pharaoh.
Freud was not completely true perhaps, but his analysis carried a deeper symbolism than he might have known. Akhenaten and Nefertiti were among the very few pharaohs who had themselves intimately portrayed together as a couple for a symbolic reason. This was in one of the only cultural and spiritual revolutions, during the so-called Amarna period, Egypt had ever known. Akhenaten later may have claimed to be exclusively descended from both the male and female aspects of his solar deity, the Aten (or Aton; see also the "atom", its reflection). Hence the many speculations about the sexual character of Akhenaten, whose representation was intentionally transformed towards that of a hermaphrodite, albeit a rationalisation (still) causing confusion, like most rationalisations. This caused a conflict and likely a separation with his wife, which according to history took place, and this again was the basis of Freud's investigations. The subject of his last book was no distraction from but basis and culmination of his psychoanalysis.
The tolerant and peaceful Aten, Akhenaten's private revolution, forbade and nearly extinguished its rivals, but ultimately could not overcome the many customary ethnic gods of sex, war and other sports to which man of his time attributes almost every daily occurrence. But the idea of the One God implying the equality and inclusiveness of all men was not completely lost either. Akhenaten although went into history as the heretic king.
The Aten constituted a fairly rational religion, the basis of the Adonai of the Hebrews and the Adonis of the Greeks, and its echo may be found back in the name of Athens. In fact the term religion has already in it the word Re, another name for the Egyptian sun(-god), which re-peats itself in every day, re-incarnates as it were, and is the basis of karma or cause and effect. Carna means protectress of vital organs, carno flesh in Latin.
Religion has always had much to do with sexuality, for we owe our life to it biologically, while religion speaks of a spiritual origin at the same time, trying to harmonise these two. This has not always succeeded, as neither have we, to harmonise our physical and spiritual ancestry, or even define these to begin with, but many complexes may have been based on historic failures, our past examples and archetypes.
It is therefore significant that the famous bust of Nefertiti was already in Germany, in das Ägyptisches Museum of Berlin, during the rise to power of Adolf Hitler. While it was claimed by Egypt, Hitler annexed it as German forever. He fell in love with Nefertiti and went insane. She looked like an Aryan and became a Nazi trophy.
In 2003 the bust of Nefertiti experienced another tragedy after the many falsifications of her reign with Akhenaten. It received a contemporary body from a hired sculptor, evidently based on some of her older-age representations from ancient Egypt and contrary to the taste of both ancient and modern-day Egypt and Nefertiti herself.
In this way we see the head of a young woman on the body of a somewhat worn-out long-distance runner with narrow thighs and hanging breasts, rather insipid, not even touristic.
It is true that many religions based on her since her reign have been misrepresentations, but one of the most marked misrepresentations was Nazi Germany. This can be no coincidence.
Exactly in this context ought to be interpreted the well-known curse of the pharaohs. It is true that Akhenaten had six daughters and just one son, but the latter was not likely the adopted Moses but Tutankhamen (originally Tutankhaten). The circumstance of six daughters was not yet enough for a curse.
Only when the boy Tutankhaten was misused to be the last of his dynasty and when he died as a result of being debased to a mere sporting relic called Tutankhamen, in honour of the god of war Amen (now a parade), the curse of the pharaohs came into effect. The most pronounced consequence of this curse, which initially was a superficial fancy of journalists after the death of some members of a group that had excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen during the first world war, was therefore the second world war. The Egyptians were not stingy with time.
Presumably Tutankhaten had got isolated after the divorce or death of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. Sigmund Freud has had the intuition to take this historical drama as a source, at least measure, of modern disease in a civilisation and its discontent.
It is not hardly a coincidence how Nefertiti has overseen Nazi Germany devastate the world and get devastated itself as if accomplishing an ancient revenge. The Germans were not the only ones at fault, but they certainly were the most tasteless.
Some of this can be found in the archives of history. Contemporary hypocrisy is not yet able to estimate the law of cause and effect. This is what Sigmund Freud has correctly understood and tried to help solve. He knew the roots, whatever his choice of words.
This hypocrisy is based on a suppressed sexuality, he says, rationalising our bisexual origin and dependence on the other, from pride, arrogance and self-centredness.
People tend to spoil what was given them in their compulsory and reactionary conceit which the distinction of sex sought to overcome, not to enhance it as it is. Next to this they destroy the future for possibly coming generations, which more likely they will be themselves by their karma (the same compulsion).
It is only in the sexes that we can see how democratic nature really is. Science may try to achieve a completely democratic society based on the grievances of sexless and colourless people and create all sorts of abnormalities; these are Atlantean and cannot endure unless in another cultural and physical abyss for mankind.

Jaap den Haan

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