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          In the Vedic Age prior to the Puranic, as pointed out in these Chronicles, only pure geometry was required for higher processes. These sacred geometrical structures were called vedi; commonly translated as altars. But as the Sanskrit word reveals, knowledge was the essence of those sacred structures.
          When darkness set in, similar to Egypt, the Hindu temple arose and displaced the simple, direct and hallowed vedi. And they grew in size and grandeur to the monuments we know today. This was a necessary subterfuge when the Knowledge was forced underground. But it was nonetheless a diminishing: while the outer form increased and became more elaborate, the essence, the knowledge went ever deeper under the coverings that slumber provided. However, certain aspects were preserved. In analysing them we can now discuss in greater depth the joint contribution of these two great civilisations. For example, the question of spatial conquest is revealed as central to the pre-pharaonic civilisation of Egypt in every aspect of their extant monuments. But to better appreciate the relationship we must see this spatial obsession in relation to its true sense which is a cosmic direction – i.e., EXPANSION. Thus, the very massiveness of all Egyptian structures, starting with the Sphinx and Pyramids of Giza down to the later Pharaonic temples and tombs, indicate that they were consumed with an obsession to somehow leave an imprinting involving the spatial conquest; or better, to fulfil a destined purpose as a civilisation involving the principle of expansion. Ancient Egypt thus fulfilled its part of the bargain which the Sphinx was prophesying – the Lion half.
          On the other hand, Vedic civilisation, while evolving along similar lines within an identical timeframe, expresses an obsession with the complimentary cosmic direction, CONTRACTION. Egypt displayed its spatial obsession through the massive structures it bequeathed to human civilisation. Nothing in those extant monuments encourages the psychic experience so central to every Hindu Temple. In the latter there is a compelling, irresistible contraction that forces the seeker into his/her innermost central space in an interiorising drive into the soul. And this is fully expressed in all Hindu structures. Whereas in any Egyptian monument the exact opposite is experienced: the aspirant is cosmicised by the sheer grandeur of their proportions, and, above all, their alignment.
          At this point it must be noted that India stands for the soul of the Earth. The divine Purpose of the existence of this third planet from the Sun is a psychic evolution, a planet within the System where the soul can evolve and create a superior manifestation in a transformed field. This was not Egypt’s task. A partnership is the call of the hour for reasons which will be made clear.
          Also to be noted is that the expansion induced in the Egyptian monument is not the same as a dissolution into transcendence of Buddhist structures, or in the Christian Gothic Cathedrals where the size and opulence force the seeker to experience a humbling before the overwhelming power of the Creator. In Egypt cosmic transcendence was never the issue as it is in Buddhism; or else what we find in the later orthodox religions of the Age of Pisces when otherworldliness and heavens after death became the sole focus of worship. Pre-pharaonic Egypt was not obsessed with transcendence but with the cosmic direction it was called upon to establish on Earth: expansion. It did not seek to obliterate cosmic existence but to find a harmony with and within the material universe.
          However, this would have little relevance until the other end of the Sphinx/time-axis had manifested. Unless the principle of contraction becomes established, the work of expansion the ancients accomplished will serve to destroy the Earth because what is demanded is balance, equilibrium, known to the ancients, - but now a knowledge long lost. This is what must be offered by India as centre-soul of the Earth.

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