Initiation
by Elisabeth Haich
(366 pages, pb, $18.00)
Seed Center
P.O. Box 1700, Redway CA 95660
ISBN 0-916108-04-X
1965

It is amazing to me how many of the people interested in Sacred Geometry and Ancient Egypt seem to have never heard of this book. If you are a fan of John Anthony West and Peter Tompkins, you will be fascinated by Elisabeth Haich's account of her past life in Ancient Egypt, circa 4500 B.C. This book was first published in 1960 (in German). Yet, many of the recent discoveries and understandings of Ancient Egypt are casually alluded to here.

The writing is remarkably clear, unlike much of the "channeled" material. She also reveals a deeper understanding of the tetrahedron, unlike anything you have read elsewhere. There is so much good material in this book that I have found it hard to choose selections. I've decided to present a portion of the Sacred Geometry discussions from chapter 33 and 34. This should be enough to convince you that this book belongs on the shelf of every serious student.

Chapter Titles

1. Awakening

2. Lion and Light

3. My Parents are not 'My' Parents

4. Sunrise is Different

5. I want to get Away

6. I long for Unity

7. The Red Man

8. My Future Appears

9. Struggles of Love

10. First Encounter with Death

11. First Visions of the Future

12. The Past Awakens

13. Second Encounter with Death

14. Darkness

15. Turning Point

16. Struggle for Light

17. I take My Vow

18. The Horizen Brightens

19. Visions

20. The Ayur-Vedas

21. There was Light

22. Past becomes Present

23. HE

24. Sons of God

25. Years of Preparation

26. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

27. The Twelve Sets of Twin Characteristics

28. The Lions

29. Telepathic Exercises

30. The Future and Sunrise

31. Bo-Ghar and the Staff of Life

32. Ptahhotep's Instruction:

33. The Form of the Pyramids: Satan

34. The Four Faces of God

35. The Epochs of the World

36. Final Preparations

37. The Initiation

38. As a Priestess

39. We will meet Again

40. The Lion

41. Mist and Re-awakening

42. Roo-Kha and the Twelve Pills

43. The Young Priestess appears

44. Ima and Bo-Ghar

45. The Challenges are Repeated

46. Conclusion


Selected quotes:

'The highest creature on earth is man. It is his task to carry out the completion of the spiritualization of the earth, a task at which all living creatures are at work, each within the limits of its own particular stage of development. And every human being who transforms himself from a being identical with the body into a being reawakened in spirit, a divine being - identifying his consciousness with the divine self - has fulfilled his duty. He has spiritualized a bit of the earth. He has advanced by one step the salvation of the earth. Then he can cooperate as a helper in the salvation of other beings.

'And now you know why you're standing here before me. It's because the self of the earth, which at the same time is our own self, loves the earth and all its creatures, drawing the earth towards itself, into divine unity, just as a bridegroom draws his bride to himself This striving towards union, characteristic of all love, expresses itself in everything - including our bodies - as weight!

'This force which we call weight is at work in every form of nature, and when we build we must reckon and work with this force, never against it. When we take proper account of it, it helps us preserve our buildings for a long time. If we were to try to build against the laws of these forces, all our structures would collapse in practically no time at all.

'It's enough for you to understand that in the pyramidal form the resultant of forces is the most favourable one possible for the preservation of buildings for many thousands of years against the ravages of nature.

'The pyramids - particularly the great pyramid - have been built according to various mathematical and astronomical laws in order to serve the people as clock and calendar. You will learn these laws another time. Moreover, the fact that the lateral faces stand at an angle of 51 degrees to their base enables the pyramid to reflect the sun's rays far out to sea and far into the desert. Thus our pyramids also serve as lighthouses. All the laws on which they are based, together with the history of those who have built them, are inscribed on the ceramic tiles with which they are covered. When the sons of men some day discover the secret of our writing, they will be able for a long time to read right from the pyramids themselves the knowledge and information I am giving you now, the mathematical and astronomical laws we have applied, the secrets of the pyramids and all our scientific knowledge. In the darkest ages of the earth, however, these written records will also disappear, so the sons of men will later have to discover all truth for themselves.

'You must learn the law of the three-dimensional world which is based on the law of the spirit and could not exist without it.

[...]

This divine state in which the creator recognizes himself may also be expressed symbolically by numbers:

"God in his state of resting within himself is 1 in 3 and 3 in 1. 1 and 3 are still an unseparated unity.

"In the field of geometry, the form of the equilateral triangle is the symbolic image of God in which the recognizer, the recognized and the recognition are one and the same: 1 in 3 and 3 in 1.

'Every form is the manifestation of the force that has built it. Thus every form is the image of the creative force that builds it and dwells within it. Divinity in its primordial state of resting within Itself always manifests itself in the form of a triangle. The triangle represents perfect harmony and perfect equilibrium as its three corner points all lie exactly the same distance from each other. On the other hand, when the aspect of God to which we refer as "resting within itself moves out of the dimensionless state, beyond time and space and into the three dimensions, it becomes the creative aspect of God and always manifests itself in the number 4. As long as the numbers 1 and 3 form a unity in divinity, they remain 3 in 1 and 1 in 3. But when they emerge from the divine condition of unity, they separate, and out of the "1 in 3" there emerges "1 and 3", and that makes 4. The equilateral triangle contains, hidden within itself, 4 smaller equilateral triangles.

'This law also contains the secret of the key number of the three-dimensional world: the number 7.

'Now try to imagine how the first energy of manifestation emerges out of the dimensionless state into the three dimensions. Close your eyes and I'll project this truth into your consciousness.'

I do as Ptahhotep tells me, closing my eyes and turning my attention inward. All of a sudden I see a point, and I hear Ptahhotep's voice:

'In order for a force to emerge from the dimensionless state and manifest itself, it needs a point of departure. A point is dimensionless, has not yet emerged from unity, but is necessary for manifestation. Because a point consists of only one single factor, it bears within itself the number of unity, the number 1.

'When the force whose first manifestation was a point emerges from the dimensionless state and is effective for a period of time, the point moves and forms a line.'

With my inward eye I see how the point gradually becomes a line and I hear Ptahhotep's voice.

'The first dimension, length, is born. In its essence, the line is endless and thus, as a first manifestation, also represents the number 1. But in the world of manifestations, the world where everything always has a beginning and an end, a line is always bound to involve three factors, its starting point, its end point and the intervening space between the two. Thus the line represents the number 3, the key number for the one-dimensional world.

"Now you must have noticed that there no possibility of manifesting or of finding the number 2 in a unity. As a matter of fact after the first manifestation of the point, which represents only 1 single factor, we immediately jumped to three factors - without the number 2. When a point moves, no matter how little, to form even the tiniest, shortest line, we're already dealing with the 3 factors not 2. A line in infinity of course, represents the number 1; but when it has a beginning and an end, it automatically represents the number 3.

'In order for the number 2 to arise, there has to be a splitting of unity. The number 2 can only be born when two units are set beside each other. But inasmuch as nothing has any real existence outside unity, unity must project a reflection outside itself. Thus there arises a fission, a separation, which means the death of unity. That's why the word for "doubt" - which represents a kind of cleavage within one's mind and soul - is so closely related to the word for 2. This is true in every language.

'Let us now watch how the second dimension arises from the first. A line consists of a series of points. Assuming the creative energy is active in each of these points with the same force and for the same period of time, each of these points moves outward from itself into the second dimension; each of them becomes a line, and out of the totality of these lines a plane is created: An equilateral rectangle.

'The second dimension - width - is born.

'The rectangle is four in one and one in four and thus consists of five factors: the four manifested lines: Line of departure, terminal line, right and left lateral lines, and the fifth factor: the non-manifested area enclosed by these lines. And so the key number of the two dimensional world is the number five.

'But creative forces continue to work. The plane also consists of points, and if the same force works outward from each of these points in the same direction and for the same period of time, all these points move into the third dimension, and a cube has been created from the plane.

'The third dimension is born - height.

'The cube is six in one and one in six and it consists of seven factors: the six manifested limiting planes and the seventh, unmanifested factor, its cubic contents. The key number of the three-dimensional world is the number seven.

'As you see, the basic form of matter is the cube. The various crystals are built in conformity with this law, and in them you can find either the cubic shape itself - as in the case of salt for example - or the basic elements of the cube in various aspects and variations. If we now investigate the characteristics of the cube, you will also understand the laws of the variants.

'Starting from one of the corner points of the cube, try to find a plane in which all three dimensions of the cube are contained. If you merely cut straight through, you get a plane containing only two dimensions of the cube. In order to find a plane containing all three, we must begin at one corner and cut through obliquely to the opposite corner points. Thus one corner of the cube is cut off.

'If we continue in the same manner, we cut off all four corners of the cube, and what's left is a very different shape: a tetrahedron., the faces of which are bounded by four equilateral triangles.

'So now you see that hidden within the cube is a shape with quite different laws, for the shape consists, not of rectangles, but of four triangles. If we were to flatten out these four triangles into a plane, they would form a single, equilateral triangle, the symbolic representation of God.

'Just like the equilateral triangle which makes up its mantle, the tetrahedron is the very incarnation of harmony and equilibrium. Since each of its corner points is equally distant from each of the others, there is no strain or tension in a tetrahedron, but rather a condition of rest in equilibrium. By way of contrast, the corner points of the cube, just like those of the square, lie at different distances from each other, and this means that both in the square and the cube there is a condition of everlasting stress. The matter in our three-dimensional world is built up in cubic form, but hidden within itself it contains the form of the tetrahedron based on divine equilibrium. Matter cannot exist without the divine content.

'The whole three-dimensional world is built up on this same law, quite irrespective of whether the form concerned is considered to be inanimate matter or a living creature. Whether a given form is that of a plant, an animal or a human, the body of each of these is subject to the laws of the three dimensional world. Hidden and invisible within this body, however, is the higher, divine self - life -eternal being! Only man is able to manifest his higher self - that is God - through his thoughts, words and deeds, when he identifies his consciousness, not with his body, but with its spiritual content, with its self. As long as a person identifies himself only with his body, he is like an opaque cube in that he reveals only the characteristics of matter, crowding the divine creative principle into a latent, unmanifested state. No one suspects that the tetrahedron - the divine self - so different from the outward cubic shape, is dwelling within!

'On the other hand a person who uses his body, his thoughts, words and deeds only to manifest the divine creative principle, while leaving the characteristics of his physical existence - his person - in the unmanifested state - such a person, to continue using the same figure of speech, is like a cut cube whose corners and inner content are turned outward so that its inner triangles - the equilateral triangles of the divine tetrahedron - are visible.

'Such a person uses the material, square shape only as a secure base in the three-dimensional world, allowing his weight to rest on this base.

"But the shape of the cut cube turned inside out is the pyramid. Thus we see the pyramid is the symbolic form of the God-man, who reveals his divine, selfless nature and completely manifests God on earth. The salvation of the earth, the spiritualization of matter is completed in the person of the God-man. The divine self - the creator - is seated in complete majesty on its throne and rules over matter, over the body.

'By way of contrast, the symbolic representation of materialistic man who uses his intellect for the service of his material being is the cross - or a "T" - formed out of the four squares making up the surface of the cube. On this cross, or "T" the secret, indwelling, divine self is crucified.

'In such persons, divinity is robbed of its power. It cannot manifest itself and is subject to the laws of the material world. It is crucified on the two great beams of the three-dimensional world - on time and space - and dies on this cross of matter. Its death, however, is not final! Even in the consciousness that has sunk down to the lowest level, the divine creative self sometime undergoes resurrection and saves the suffering human being. Materialistic man, in his ignorance through crucifying his own higher self - God within himself - creates ceaseless tortures and sufferings for himself, he becomes the criminal who is also crucified beside the divine one. The pains awaken him; his higher consciousness is aroused, and with the resurrection of his divine self, he experiences his own salvation because he recognizes himself in him!

'The members of the divine race who fled to the far corners of the earth carried these symbols with them wherever they went, proclaiming to humanity the secret, hidden truth within them. In every part of the earth people will find these symbols in stone, in metal, or baked clay, in various sizes, large or small. Most people will believe that they represent a person who has been crucified, and only a few will recognize that the representation symbolizes the divine creative principle crucified on the two beams of time and space.

'The pyramids will continue to stand for thousands of years, proclaiming to humanity the highest truths which have been built into them. People with eyes and ears will find and recognize these elements of truth, even though they may not be able to fathom all the mathematical and astronomical laws of the pyramids, and some few highly developed persons will even be able to attain the truth proclaimed. On the other hand, for primitive minds the pyramid will always be a puzzle - just like the Sphinx -until they reach the point of being able to solve their own puzzle.


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