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Showing posts with label big bang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label big bang. Show all posts

Monday, July 6, 2026

obedience

Dogs are bred to obey.
Humans are conditioned more than bred for obedience.
I'm not obedient.
They kicked me out of the carnival for lack of obedience.
And because I'm the most disobedient, what did I do?
Nothing.
I didn't leave.
I didn't obey.


Is it a game of obedience?
Yeah, that one is.
You see if you can disobey and break the spell.
Then what happens?
You can do whatever you want.
Well, sort of.
There are rules.
The most effective form of disobedience is when you do nothing.
If you disobey by doing something, they got you.
Why?
They can escalate it until you trap yourself.
How do you escalate nothing?
Fuck, I don't know.
Is that the unsolvable koan?
Yeah, you reached the end of the koan game.
How do I know?
You can't solve it.
You can't escalate nothing by doing something.
That makes it worse.
What's a higher ideal than nothing?
Beyond nothing?
What's that?
I don't know.
I think it's the big bang into something else.
Nothing is at the edge.
Yeah.
Just like everything.
Well, how do you escalate everything?
You add nothing to it.
You can add nothing to everything and escalate everything.
Why doesn't that work in reverse?
What happens?
You get something.
It's not nothing.
When you add nothing to everything you still have everything.
So, nothing is the highest ideal?
It's the unsolvable ideal in terms of a mind puzzle.
You can solve everything.
So, I solved the unsolvable koan?
Sort of.
You declare it unsolvable.
You can do that?
Yes, it's the answer.
So, I beat the game.
Yes.
What do I win?
Nothing.
Ah, best reward ever.


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What the fuck did I just read?

This piece treats obedience as one of the carnival’s deeper games. Dogs are bred to obey, humans are conditioned to obey, and the speaker defines himself by refusing the command to leave. The highest form of disobedience is not rebellion through action, because action can be answered, escalated, and used to trap you. The true break in the spell is doing nothing. Nothing cannot be escalated without becoming something else. In that unsolvable koan, the game ends: the reward for beating obedience is nothing, which is the best reward.

Monday, July 8, 2024

friendship

Dogs play games with each other.
They do and it's simple to see.
They are less complicated than our human games.
They are great companions.
You don't need much in terms of a companion.
We complicate things and say you have to be open, sharing, and discuss things with your partner.
The best relationships I've had have been with a dog.
They were simple relationships.
Companions that get along.
Go for a walk, share a meal, and hang out.
That's the perfect relationship.
We have a whole industry of counselors telling us there's more to a relationship.
All marriage counselors do is complicate an easy thing.
You can figure out what complicates things.
A sexual relationship.
Expectations of family.
A dog naturally fits into the family and is a friend.
So, the best relationships are friends, not family, and not sexual.
That is correct.
The family and sexual aspects fuck it up.
The sexual part of our relationships creates an imbalance especially for the man who is convinced by society he must pay for sex.
Society overtly and subversively tells a man that he has to pay for sex.
In a marriage he must provide in exchange for sex.
A woman is conditioned to believe she is owed for the use of her body.
The downside is when she is no longer desirable sexually, she becomes worthless in our culture.
The family is the same thing as you owe them.
The family is everybody's insurance policy when all else fails.
That relationship will bail you out and take your side.
It's part of the family compact.
A friend is not family, so there's no expectations.
If you want to become friends, you just do it.
There's no pressure.
There's no contract between friends.
You choose to be friends.
There's always family obligations.
If you don't fulfil them, you're an outcast.
A family will drain you of time and energy.
With friends, there's none of that.
It's equally split.

When the Goddess is a friend then she can be with you and be separated.
The answer to the separation problem is friendship.
Not being friends is total separation.
Entering into a sexual relationship will keep the cycle going.
What cycle?
Union and separation.
So, what is better?
Do you want to continue the cycle, or do you want to be friends forever?
So, the meaning of life for me can be boiled down into the question of what do I want from a relationship with the Goddess?
Yes, do you want to be lovers and haters, or do you want to be friends?
Can I be both?
That's the problem.
When you hate each other, you still care.
That causes the divorce.
If you are friends, you will hate each other.
If you're not friends, you don't care, and you have a sexual relationship it will work.
That's a tough call.
The expectation is some kind of caring in the relationship.
Yeah, this is a tough one, eh?
How do you create the perfect union?
Let's recap.
First, you understand not to care.
Second, you see that friendship is the ultimate ideal.
The problem is being friends with somebody you have a sexual relationship with will cause you to care about them.
Then you will lose the friendship when things go bad.
Friendship had little conditions attached to it except when you add sex to it.
You can't run from it.
You must deal with the sexual part, and it will end the friendship.
The flow will take you to the cessation of sexual attraction.
The flow will make you lose interest.
Everybody changes over time and anyone who tells you differently is a fool.
This is a pickle.
Well, if it's the flow, then you would go with it.
The story involves union and separation.
That's the story.
This story is in and out.
It's a very simple porno.
This whole story of mine is based on in and out.
I'm in the Goddess then I'm out of the Goddess.
You've created a whole story in your head based on this sophomore nonsense.
That's funny.
The best wisdom I can give you is that if you're friends, you're not going to cum.
Maybe a little teasing if you're lucky but that won't be enough.
You will look for someone else.
If you are friends, you'll look for different partners even though you know they're the one.
That's going to cause more problems.
Your friendship will dissolve.
Being friends will make it worse.
I'm just saying being friends goes against the story.
The story is in and out.
If you haven't been paying attention, that is union and separation of Goddess and God.
For some reason, I think there's three reasons.
The first reason is not caring, and the second is a lesson about friendship.
I saw the arguments on both sides.
I saw how friendship was the best relationship, but I also saw how the flow would go against friendship.
The perfect relationship would go against the flow.
Why is that?
It's because friendship goes against the flow, but it's a perfect balance.
So, can you find perfect balance in this world?
Yes.
That perfect balance is not Tao.
It's the exact opposite.
Explain that.
Why does friendship work?
You must make an effort.
Oh, I know.
You can establish a non-Tao relationship and then within that relationship practice doing nothing except for the basics.
A dog shows you that a good relationship involves going for a walk, sharing a meal, hanging out, and finding a place to sleep.
You can establish in this world things that are perfect and not based on Tao as long as you practice Tao.
Yes, this world is not Tao.
I think you know that.
You can balance this world by practicing Tao.
This world is the opposite of Tao.
The writer is definitely not Tao, but by practicing Tao he redeemed himself.
I balanced out, I don't know about redemption.
Okay, well, that doesn't answer the Goddess question.
Yes, it does.
You can't be friends with her.
If you are friends with the Goddess, the cycle will not continue.
The cycle will stop.
What is the cycle?
The coming and going of everything in existence.
You know the old in and out.
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Yes, I thank you.
You taught me this already.
This is working.
This is where it gets confusing.
If the cycle continues, that's the in and out, and it's going to lead to a big explosion.
The big explosion is the end of this world.
If you are friends with the Goddess, nothing's going to happen.
There's no spark.
This world would go on forever.
If you want to live forever, coming and going in this world, then be friends.
If you want a new world, don't be friends.
So, I can't be both?
If I choose both, the cycle will continue.
The only way it will not continue is if you choose to be friends with no in and out possibility.
That's funny.
No, wait a minute.
If I choose not to be friends, the cycle stops as well?
Yes, choosing either stops the cycle.
If you aren't her friend, there are definitely no in and out privileges.
Remember, you don't choose.
Choosing to be friends or not friends doesn't work.
You are being taught balance.
Did I feel this one?
No, you must think about it.
You couldn't come up with the answer based on what you know.
You had to think about it.
The answer is to either do nothing or to do both.
Doing both will keep the cycle moving.
What if I do nothing?
It's confusing and the cycle keeps moving.
The flow is obviously to keep the cycle moving for now.
The flow will predict and produce the future.
You see the results of choosing a side.
It will give you an idea of choosing both sides and not choosing.
When I look, I see the cycle continues.
The cycle creates something new.
Yeah, it would be a new manifestation.
Continuing without a new manifestation, what does that mean?
There's no reincarnation.
If you choose a side, there's no recall of reincarnation.
It's on repeat and there is no recall.
Sounds like hell.
Not choosing or choosing both and you come back to a new world knowing who you are.
It's the secret handshake.
Tao is for the chosen.
The chosen Tao comes back.
The Goddess and her cycle keep Tao moving.
Balance is the key.
I knew that.
Does anybody know this?
What do you think?
No.
That's why I am who I am.
You know the secret about coming and going.
In and out.
Yeah, don't make a choice.
The people who want to live forever make the mistake of choosing to live forever.
I'm going to live forever without making a choice until it all blows.
Yeah, until the orgasm.
You can be part of it.
Thanks.
You're going to feel it.
When is that?
Tell me when you're on edge.
How are you feeling?
It was strong yesterday.
Lust I mean.
When there's more lust and greed in the world then you can see it getting ready to blow.
When you are zoomed out to that level, yes.
Why is it going to blow?
It's the juggler.
The stories get too much, and he loses control.
The writer stopped being able to balance stories.
He said fuck it, and let it spiral out of control.
Duality spun out of control and blows up.
Yes, that's how you end the story with the big one.
What was the other option?
End and balance all the stories.
Get the writer to stop writing stories.
Do you mean where they cut my dick off?
I think that's the same thing.
If they do that nothing's going to happen.
You must end the story with a bang.
You can't let them live happily ever after.
Happily ever after is non-duality.
The big bang continues duality.
The stories all become one and then it bangs into the infinite again.
The stories all came together and there was no room left.
It was a blinding white light which simulated non-duality.
Existence was all stories, and no one could see any individual stories.
That's what non-duality is.
It's infinite stories.
Duality is infinite stories separated.
What is the state that's real?
It depends on perspective.
They're both true.
It's where you are in the story.
Are you in the duality part or the non-duality part?
Clearly, I'm in the duality part.
When you're in non-duality you don't know you know.
I think you must be in duality which gives you a physical and mental form in order to know you know.
You're going to confuse time, so remember you're doing both right now.
You've chosen an eighty-year vessel in duality.
You're also observing yourself.
Who is observing me?
Your non-dual self because they are somewhere else.
They are all.
They collect information about you that they already knew.
The trick is to get it to you in duality.
They give you knowledge of who you are.
Who are they?
You're subconscious.
They know you best and they know Tao because they're in Tao.
You, on the other hand, are off on some adventure.
I seem to be having the time of my life.
Yeah, it's pretty good.

I've been off on some tangents.
I went back to the not caring and friendship questions from the start.
That was a tricky one because when you play out friendship, you can create a container and practice Tao within that space.
I think it also teaches you that the first principle is always to not care.
The second point is about friendship.
Is there a third?
No, but bros before hoes works.
We can put that one in stone.
That would cause problems.
The whore is going to fuck with his head.
Yeah, that's why you have his back.
You know my subconscious is a little misogynistic.
So, a truth teller is a misogynist?
Yes.

To fuck someone, you need them to be a little bit of a friend.
Oh, you can do those ones where it's a one off.
Those are riskier.
That's true, if you have a relationship with somebody then they're not going to cut out your kidney.
Yeah, it's why you do the friends thing.
You need a little bit of that.
There're friends, then there are good friends, you get too friendly with somebody then something happens and it ends.
You never want to get too friendly with a friend.
You'll get fucked in the end.
You can look at it the other way non-sexual where you got to be friends with your dog and then it ended.
It's a different energy.
Friendship will end.
It could end in the other direction.
The best is to enjoy them while they're here and let them go when it's time.
You're making me cry again.
That's the best friend.
Let them go when it's time.
Unconditional love and best friends.
A best friend would also know when to let you go and give you space.
There's a difference between good friends and best friends.
The good friend relationship is trying.
The best friend doesn't try.
You don't want to be somebody's brother.
You want to be their friend.
Isn't the opposite true?
No, I think it's more complicated.
There are so many variables, which is good, because it means you'll never figure everything out.
Yeah, I'm balanced.
It's all going to work until the stories get cluttered, you say fuck it, and then it just blows.
Until then, you're good.
The world is out of control right now and it's absurd.
Yes, you know you're getting to that point.
I don't think I'm there yet.
No, you're just starting to feel it.
Once you get to that point where you feel it, there is no stopping.
What are we talking about?
It's the meaning of life.

To answer the question about the third principle, it’s this:
First is don’t care.
Second is friendship is the best relationship.
Adding sex to friendship ruins the friendship.
The cycle of union and separation of Goddess and God is put into motion.
Eros is the third principle.
It’s lust.
The in and out births Eros.
Eros is the reason for everything.

Monday, July 13, 2020

creation and destruction

The child that is the result of the union of the feminine and masculine powers and the subsequent Big Bang is the key to finding our way back home. The child is the universe and contains within their being a little bit of mom and a little bit of dad. The universe is the result when two divine forces meet and harmonize. It is an interesting mind experiment to consider the implications of this way of thinking of existence. In our world we propagate life through the coming together of woman and man and therefore this fundamental truth we can project out into the nature of existence with as much confidence as is possible. Therefore the birth of our universe is the same result and why I refer to it as a child. What is striking to me though is that energy is the underpinnings of all of this and it forms patterns. Our universe is the result of the two polarities coming together that create a new form. Creation seems to be as fundamentally a part of universal nature as anything I can imagine. When I look around I see constant creation and destruction; in other words life and death. Our core loves to create and then eventually form disintegrates. The divine feminine and masculine create form and this form supports an infinite amount of new life forms until like everything it meets its eventual dissolution.

We are headed towards destruction. That is baked into the game because it is a cycle of creation and destruction. The nuanced realization though is that we can mitigate the destruction. We don’t have to head on full boar into the maelstrom. Destruction is necessary for creation. As the masculine destroyer I tear apart forms and allow for the sublime act of creation. Without the destroyer nothing is created. It’s a hard one to accept. Another way to look at it is the garden analogy. Every so often you have to prune the plants and clear out the deadwood in order to create more space for other energy patterns to grow. On a larger scale the same is at work.

If we don’t wake up within the dream then for the most part we head full on towards destruction. Waking up within the dream compromises the study of behaviour but seems necessary in order to love all. Therefore we do need consciousness as a remedy to suffering. We do need to awaken as many as possible. Within all forms of creation we need to be aware of our origin, unity, and inclusiveness. If we remain isolated and look at everything through a prism of separation then it doesn’t work. It leads to a world of hatred, scarcity, and strife. How fast we head towards destroying ourselves is based upon how much love and inclusiveness we let into the paradigm. Make no mistake, the world will eventually end as the sun heads towards its inevitable supernova and therein lies the challenge. Can we make it that far or will we destroy ourselves in short order? The smart money is on us destroying ourselves first.

Through destruction, the energy is transformed into something else spectacular that experiences consciousness in a new regard. We have become so immune to our situation. Every moment we spend on earth should be accompanied with a gasp of incredulity and an exclamation of WOW! Instead we think no big deal and move along in search of novelty, lest boredom envelops us. Paging Dr. Huachumon.

My character and being I call Paul is finite and ever changing. What is behind this life form is that energy and it is common to us all and where we find unity. That energy you feel is the tie that binds. It is the connection between all of us and how we can communicate and make a connection with others using an universal language. If you can connect with others, even for a split second, you will feel that cosmic love. Feeling that cosmic love will transform you and others around you. Love has an infinite capacity to go viral. It's a worthwhile goal.

So all that are reading this at this moment are a pattern of energy that is in a state of decay and eventually dissolution, as it is the natural order. It is the created body that is subject to the coming destruction as the energy that powers it is so strong and is in harmony with the total power of the universe and will remain a part of this creation until the universal pattern dissolves back into the whole. And then at some point it will start all over again. In terms of finding our way back home that is what you need to understand. This is our home and our playground. Mom and dad are always around. They created this world for us. We have all eternity to play. When it’s time to come home they will let us know.

Are they the only parents? That’s a good question. Are there multiple universes that have been created; all a part of the union of feminine and masculine? What is the ultimate origin? Is there a master feminine and masculine power that everything is derivative of or is it a collection of different vibrations that has no master? It leads philosophically into the same idea as searching for a god particle that underlies creation and not being able to find a master particle. Instead everything is just a pulse or vibration. I wonder if that is how ultimately everything functions where there is no boss but just decentralization of liberated energetic forms? Freedom, as in free will, underlies all. Attempts to control energetic flow results in blockages and then finally the dam breaks or there is a monumental explosion. Harmony is obtained by free flow. 

Who is ultimately dominant? The feminine creator or the masculine destroyer? Is the outcome always destruction? Is that the natural order of things and the fuel behind the eternal vibration? The wise one within says you can’t have one without the other and in finding that truth you discover beauty. 

Monday, November 12, 2018

magnum opus

The Greco-Roman sculptures and depictions of Dionysos we have passed down to us show him with wine in a relaxed pose.


In the Roman Bacchanalia we read of intoxication and orgies associated with his cult. I was standing the other night at my Mesa where I have a miniature statue of Dionysos on the left hand feminine side and I started laughing because he is holding a bunch of grapes. The mysteries should be hidden so why not just hide them in plain site? Any observer would say cool, the Greeks had a god of wine and licentiousness! And so hidden remains the mystery cult. When you start pulling back the veil he's there, everywhere. When Apollo is absent from his Temple at Delphi in the winter months Dionysos is there with his ecstatic female followers, the maenads.

ecstatic maenads

At Eleusis he's there; he's the light born under cover of darkness. The mystery of Eleusis is a story about the abduction of Demeter's daughter Kore by Hades but Dionysos is somehow mysteriously involved. The light always returns. The popularity of the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis and her mystery cult in the Greco-Roman world is due to the connection of Isis and Osiris to Demeter and Dionysos. Initiation into mystery cult begins and ends with Dionysos: birth, life, death, and rebirth, along with play, laugh, love, sensuality, commonality, unity, and nature. The feminine is given the permission to let loose and the masculine to become a lech, well represented by Dionysian coterie such as the maenads and satyrs which are our base instinctual natures liberated and coming out to play.

satyr

Cultures, fads, and civilizations come and go and expectations of behaviour and morals are flimsy, forever changing with the times. Dionysos reminds us our root instincts, some say 'animal' natures, don't change. 

There's this undercurrent in the appearance of Dionysos in Greek history and culture that goes all the way down into current scholarship where he is considered a foreign god. The post Bronze Age epitome of Greek reason was not accepting of this undisciplined behaviour, neither were the gods of Olympus. Reason and enlightenment are something cultivated by mature and disciplined civilizations. But that's just it; reason is a byproduct of culture. What we term instinct is always there transcending culture. Nature isn't subject to reason. Dionysos is indestructible and ever returning with the returning aspect giving him the aforementioned foreign designation. When society shutters itself into a nice and neat nuclear family full of patriotic citizens, Dionysos the ever coming returns in a frenzy; the 60's an example of an outbreak of peace, love, and anti-establishment behaviour. The authorities put an end to the revelry as they sensed the breakdown of their decades long social engineering project. The turn of the 21st century has seen a doubling down on authoritarian measures in the western 'free countries'. The threat of international terrorism gave the totalitarians among us the opportunity to put the lock down on society. Well guess what? The dam is going to break again and soon. It's already happening and this time it's not stopping. Dionysos is the eternal return.

I have written previously about what I consider to be the all. My contention is that everything is derivative of the separation of the ecstatic embrace of the divine feminine and masculine. We are in the post orgasmic state after the release of energy of the two primal powers. It's humorously called the Big Bang by physicists. However nothing lasts as we well know from just being aware. The universe is defined by movement and change and any attempt at objectification leads to delusion. The state of the universe we are in now will not last forever, it will return once again to unity. The divine couple will reunite once again and after the requisite foreplay will once again create another universe, the universe essentially a child of these two. Curiously within all of us are these two powers and we can reenact the divine play of creation with others and also within. And it isn't a microcosm of the grand movie, it actually is it playing itself out and you are it. Within the energy that animates all is latent omnipotent potential to birth as many universes as you can imagine in your philosophy. Externally we create by coming together sexually with a partner of the opposite sex which is a pretty good mirrored example of the dance of creation. Our externally manifest self physically mirrors the all pervasive energy of creation. Unbeknownst to all is hidden within the ability to unite both energies. Take myself as an example. I have a head start on feeling the masculine energy because that is my gender. However the feminine is within me, it is just hidden and due to culture and gender roles is locked away. Within all of us are the two polarities, this peculiar truth recognized by the alchemists of the Middle Ages. They had a funny way of going about it but essentially what they were trying to do is awaken and transmute the two natures and combine them in a sacred union. From there they envisioned immortality. So within she is calling to you: to free her, to rescue the princess. This is your quest, my quest, the only quest, and that road is long and winding. First is a need to recognize your power and throw off the dragon along with the chains of culture. When you find her you find love, wisdom, and happiness. At some point you will realize you are it, you are the divine masculine and the divine feminine. Then preparations for the internal sacred marriage commence. The sex is fantastic.

The union of these two powers that plays out repeatedly in creation conceptually creates the hermaphrodite. In fact think about this: when you are participating in the sexual act you combine and become one, essentially becoming the hermaphrodite. How then do you represent this combination in terms of a 'god', a strange one at that? As a culture you would say he is foreign as there is no place in society for such a god. He is effeminate. He talks about community and free love. You see where I'm going with this. This god is Dionysos. Dionysos represents the union of the sacred feminine and masculine. Dionysos is the state of creation totally unified. When he is torn apart then we have plurality. Eventually the energy wants to return to a state of coalescence. That is the state of higher consciousness, a current you can try and swim against but it will pull you along. Go with the flow.

Saturday, February 14, 2015

time for discussion

Chaos is space and matter without the addition of time. Time is the great organizer and motivator of creation - in essence the "big bang." Stability is linear and growth is cyclical. To further clarify, it is the concept of time motivated by cyclical movement that is the spice which drives creation. Interestingly, my thoughts are independent of space, have no physical properties, but do occur in time. Will I still think in an existence that is devoid of cyclical time? Perhaps time is an anchor for my thoughts but once freed of their chains, my thoughts become omniscient. The visionary experience, especially with ayahuasca, seems to take us out of this dependence on time, in addition to giving us the perception that the onward marching of time can be transgressed.

Ayahuasca vision painted by Pablo Amaringo

Ayahuasca can take our conscious essence back in time and project us forward into the future. If all physical existence projects outwards from the big bang, then that is the one original source; so, in sum, we are all one in physicality. What causes the division and separation is time. Time separates all in the material realm by distance and also, if you think about it, chronologically. This concept of time and separation is encoded in the ancient Egyptian story of Osiris and his murder at the hands of his brother Set.

Osiris

The death of Osiris is described as being perpetrated by Set and his 72 co-conspirators. The 72 are representing the known visible extra-zodiacal constellations, called paranatellons, of the nighttime sky which rise and set simultaneously with the zodiacal constellations. Their movement through the heavens is representative of this moving time principle.

Paranatellonta

Time in the material realm is created by this ongoing celestial dance. The metaphor of the death of Osiris, Osiris being the soul, is telling us that the soul suffers his death at the hands of time. Osiris is trapped in time at the hands of a diabolical magician. In the ancient Egyptian literature, we do find Set associated with the hieroglyph for separation.


In the book "Seth, God of Confusion" by Herman te Velde, he explains the idea of Set as a separator further:

In my opinion
as a term for Seth should not be only connected with castration or the divine tribunal, but should be assigned a wider meaning; as a verb wḏ'
means to "separate" and Seth as
is the separated god. Seth is an anti-social god, cut off from the community of the gods…
Seth, God of Confusion, H. te Velde, pages 31-32.

…It is this quality, I  think, which was indicated when the Egyptians replaced the hieroglyph of the Seth animal by the
hieroglyph. This way of writing the word afterwards fell into disuse, but the idea that Seth is the god set apart, or the god who separates, was preserved.
Seth, God of Confusion, H. te Velde, page 32.

From the myth of Osiris, we also know it is possible to resurrect the soul through the help of the Goddess, who represents love, wisdom, and (re)birth. Isis sets out to find the body of Osiris, reconstitute him, then literally and figuratively remember him. After making Osiris hale, she copulates with him in order to engender an heir.

Isis as a kite copulating with the remembered Osiris

The son from this posthumous union, Horus, forges ahead on the journey of the soul and continues the legacy of the father Osiris. Horus is attacked by Set, who is once again intent upon killing the soul. Eventually, with the help of the Goddesses, Horus grows into manhood and sets out to avenge the death of his father and subdue the mighty power of Set. Horus takes Hathor as his goddess wife and through this union is produced a child called Ihy, who provides the power needed by the soul to transcend the physical plane.

Feast of the Beautiful Meeting at Edfu - The union of Horus and Hathor

Once the journey is completed, the principle of the eternal return and unchanging master of time gains power and takes hold over the cyclical conception of time. The ancient Egyptians represented this principle through the djed pillar which when raised, signified the resurrection and return of the power of Osiris.

Pharaoh Seti I raises the Djed pillar before Isis at Abydos

The djed pillar is representing a time scale which is in a sense linear, though a better choice of words would probably be something like stability. The ancient Egyptians called this concept of time djet, which is the opposite of the concept of cyclical time the Egyptians called neheh.

Neheh and Djet time represented at the temple of Hathor in Denderah

The celestial boat of Re encircles the sky to continue the idea of time being generated by movement, and not so coincidentally, Re enlists the services of Set, who stands at the prow of the celestial boat ready to fight all who dare to halt this procession. The serpent Apophis is the great danger representing inertia, who is intent upon swallowing this barque of Re's, and returning all to chaos. 

VII: A. Piankoff, N. Rambova, Mythological papyri, New York, 1957, Plates volume, pl. 2.
21st Dynasty Book of the Dead, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

Re symbolizes the creation and path of cyclical time, but it is the strength and power of Set who is the force that propels and sustains the journey. Ultimately, the goal of the soul is to transfigure into an incorruptible form who no longer incarnates cyclically into matter as he becomes a pure and shining Akh not in need of further cleansing in the waters of incarnation. Armed with this knowledge, it can be seen that the ancient Egyptian process of mummification, and its association with Osiris, is clearly illustrating this metaphysical concept. The mummy is representing the incorruptible which not even death, the separation caused by Set, can lay waste to.

The mummified Osiris

Time is not all we suppose it to be.