Great Pyramid - Sphinx
For about ten thousand years, that is to say, ever since the beginnings of the first civilizations of Africa and Asia that preceded our European civilizations, the colossal Sphinx of Giza, carved from the rock and couched in the tawny desert sand, has propounded this formidable problem to every passer-by.
For from that dumb form, with its haughty countenance, there issues a superhuman language more impressive than any speech. “Behold me, “ it says. “I am the Nature-Sphinx. Angel, eagle, lion and bull, I have the august visage of a god, and the body of a winged and roaring beast. You have neither my croup, my claws, nor my wings, but your burst resembles mine. Who are you? Whence come you? Whither do you go? Have you risen from the slime of earth, or did you descend from the glowing disk of the sun that now rises gloriously above the mountains of Arabia? As to myself, I am, I see, I know – from everlasting. For I am one of the eternal Archtypes that exist in the Light Unmanifest, but … it is forbidden to me to speak otherwise than by my presence. As to you, ephemeral being, obscure voyager, fleeting shadow – seek and discover! – or else despair!”
Edouard Schure
And those painful questions have been burning in peoples’ souls for thousands of years.
And now – which is breathtaking – this ancient mystery, which has bewildered sages throughout the ages, the same one that would not let philosophers rest, allows itself today to be touched and to reveal its proud visage. It is a significant act in our times, which elevates a human but also abashes him.
Has the time come to remember that aside from the fading form of a human there is another, eternal portion that comes from God’s World and is ought to return there?