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That's the way the cookie crumbles.

simply go the way that the old man has shown you the most secret path.

jammy dodger !!!!!!!

Is it a member of the British Royal Family?

If that is what we get then your arguments make sense. But actually what we will probably get is a central bank run by the same vested interests which are manipulating the situation to bring it about. I agree that not all government is bad and I also think that if you are interested in inner work then you have to work within the existing system - whatever that is. But it is also important to be as aware as possible of the mechanisms which are used to control society because this is part of learning about the human condition.

Correct! 5/10 for spelling. Anyway you have the riddlestick. Hurrah

Agreed Rabbit

neither bank nor book holds enough money for me I've crunched my credit.

Stig, Thank you for the riddlestick. "What has a skin and more eyes than one? It's very nice when it is done." ??????????????????????????

Actually I agree with you Paradise - what counts is the effect on us. BUT if by understanding what is happening we get less shaken up by it - well then this might be a good thing. I guess all of us on here are interested in internal working and believe that what counts is our individual level of realization or enlightenment and that there is an opportunity, even in stressful times like these to wake up our awareness to better levels of understanding. It doesn't have to be either or and can be both/and. Li Jiong, Surely the problem is that we are paying for other people's greed over which we have no control.

Has anyone else considered this, that the current financial instability and banking crisis may well be deliberate. It is part of a long term strategy to introduce global institutions like a real world bank. That is a single body which controls money and business world wide. In order to get 'us' to agree to this plan 'they' have to make us sufficiently frightened - so that we will sign up to emergency measures. Already governments in America and Europe are nationalizing or part nationalizing what were private banks. My prediction is that they will soon start saying that national governments are not enough to deal with the crisis and that we need an international body with both reserves and regulatory powers which will ensure 'stability' in global finances.

just 'The way we do' could be a Taobum's motto. We did it our way.

How about .... fire?????

Yeeeeeeesssssssssss !!!!!!!!!!!! Your turn.

Nope!

I never was, am always to be, No one ever saw me, nor ever will, And yet I am the confidence of all To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball. What am I?

Edam

Riddlebump?

parmesan mayo is dripped onto little gem lettuce, eat it now.

Hi ToL, Thanks for these links. All I can say is that the Tree of Life was not used explicitly in Ancient Egypt. Now you take a view on this, that it was somehow a secret teaching and that the Jews learned it from them - but I think this is unlikely (but possible). The other way of looking at it is that the Tree of Life is a kind of universal key which can be applied to the Egyptian Religion as much as any other system. In which case, with care you can see the work that the writer quoted in your links is valid. I haven't read his books so I don't know but the Tree of Life diagram does have some oddities - like calling a Jackal headed deity Sebek when usually this would be Anubis - but there may be a reason for this. All I can say is that individuals receive inspiration and express it in their own way. It is up to everyone else to make there minds up if the work they present is useful or not. I would say though, that while there is a lot to learned by looking at correspondencies between different systems, there is also a danger of getting very confused. Each system is self consistent - but there is no natural consistency between systems. The Egyptians definitely believed in rebirth - but had no teaching on reincarnation as such. By rebirth they referred to the continual renewal of the sun and stars (and by extension of souls) through the cycling of the universe. Kings also had something called the Sed festival in which they ritually died and were reborn (this occurred after about 30 years of reign). There was also a title of some gods 'Repeater of births' . It would seem logical that they believed in reincarnation but they never actually said anything like - you come back again. Pythagoras lived around 500 BC which is pretty late in Egypt's history. Its possible that he learned about reincarnation in Egypt but that it was not necessarily an Egyptian idea because Egypt became a kind of melting pot of ideas in the late period.

Let harmony be Whatever the notes dictate the best melody.

times without bidding I'll raise you by a thousand with these five aces.

Hi, The Kabbalah is Jewish mysticism and there is no such thing as an Egyptian version of it, although as the Jews were in Egypt for a considerable period of time there is no doubt that they absorbed some ideas. The Pyramid Texts date to about 2365 BC and were old when first written down. So the Egyptian Religion is far older than Judaism. However I imagine that it could be a meaningful exercise to for instance place some of the Egyptian gods on the Tree of Life - but care needs to be taken because this could be very confusing.

hippopotamus. although hippos are quite nice in dark chocolate.

recharge ecstatic my batteries were all dead but now the light's on.