Tree of Life Meditation System -- Day 8 -- Het-Heru

Hetep Everyone,

We are surrounded by images that our five senses can detect and identify, defining our reality. We use a lot of our energy to orient ourselves in this reality. Few of us give conscious thought to the images with which we surround ourselves. If we were to give images more thought, we would be much better at directing our emotions.

When I speak of images, I'm not just thinking in terms of two dimensional pictures. I'm also referencing three-dimensional images, including people, pets, houses, cars, symbolic images like political, economic, and social systems, governments, the environment, etc. Images are unlimited by time and space so also, I think in terms of thought processes and the hidden that our senses have not been trained to detect like electromagnetic fields and possibilities and actions that lead to events beyond our sight.

Images are so powerful that one of the first steps in changing reality is changing the images to reflect that reality. Once you develop an emotional attachment or meaning to that image, you will be motivated to take the action necessary to enhance the reality of that image.

Advertisers are brilliant at applying this concept and getting you emotionally hooked on buying their products. Advertisers are not the only ones who do this. We do this every day of our lives. Everything that we are surrounded by is there either because we placed it there or we put ourselves in the situation to be where that image was.

This is one heck of a presumptuous statement, you might say. Well, it is, but I'm also speaking on a cosmic level, considering the fact that we choose our own births. Okay, I don't want to lose track of the subject of images so I'll save the birth issue for another discussion. What really interests me is consciously choosing our images. Just in case you're interested, Feng Shui is a very good place to begin to consciously choose your own images.

Many of us who study the Metu Neter do so because we want to uplift ourselves and our communities out of oppression. We seem to be very clear on what we don't want, but what is it that we really want? Think of the joy we could cultivate from developing those images and the beliefs that could empower them toward manifestation. What if we put all of the energy that we use to complain about what we don't have into creating what we want? What kind of communities and societies would we build? It's a lot to consider.

Here is the Law of Het-Heru, personalized from the words of Ra Un Nefer Amen in his book Maat: The 11 Laws of God.

Het-Heru: It is not what I imagine. It is who is imagining. Am I a Human or a Divine Being?

Insight: For starters, I want to cultivate images that reflect the Divine, Creative being that I am and nurture how this affects my family. I'm witnessing the spreading and growth of peace throughout my family members where desperation reigned. It's slow going, but it's growing. If I don't judge my family for judging me, I find that they eventually accept me.

Another thing about family that I think is true is that all of the problems that we want to fix out there in the community exist in our families. Helping my family is helping the community. From myself to family to community to world -- I think that's a good plan.

That's it for now. Until next time,
Hetep

Tree of Life Meditation System -- Heru Revisited

Hetep Everyone,

Sleep is a powerful thing. You go to bed with questions and you wake up with answers. You go to bed confused and wake up with clarity. It's wonderful; therefore, I want to continue my discussion on Heru.

Heru was named Horus by the Greeks. Heru is the Christ image, the God who has arisen from the dead. In Kemetic (Ancient Egyptian) terminology, one interpretation of this is that Heru is the representation of our waking consciousness as opposed to the consciousness we use when we are asleep. Sleep is symbolic of death. Not knowing this or, perhaps, wanting to mislead others, Europeans misinterpreted the story of Heru and named the Kemetic book about him, The Book of the Dead. The True title is The Pert Em Hru (Becoming Awake or Coming Forth By Day). Heru is God arisen from the grave -- the grave being your subconscious mind. Heru is God freed from the limitations of simply running our subconscious bodily functions like blinking our eyes.

That same energy that moves our bodily functions in synchronous orbit moves the planets around the sun, the sun around the galaxy, the galaxy around the universe, and the universe around the cosmos. As such, we are made in the likeness of God -- As above, so below. We are creators with the potential to command that energy, but first, we must wake up to the conscious knowledge and experience of it.

On a personal note, I have information about my potential, but not conscious knowledge or experience of it. This is why I persist in my participation of the meditation cycles. I want to consciously experience the power of creating, not just my own reality, but a reality that is harmoniously aligned for all.

This is why I was so disappointed yesterday in my performance. I refused to acknowledge my own power, locking myself into activities that did not fit the form and function of my objectives. I did not use the tools available to me in the Heru Sphere of the Tree of Life. These tools consist of a type of meditation called Men Ab. Briefly, Men Ab consists of:

• Pausing -- Stilling the Will -- Stop what you're doing
• Breathing -- taking slow deep breaths similar to those used in nightly meditation
• Using imagery like the Sesh Metut Neter -- imagine wearing the crown shown in the above picture to remind you of uncorrupted power
• Chanting or singing the Hekau -- Words of Power given in the Metu Neter Vol. 1: The Great Oracle of Tehuti and the Egyptian System of Spiritual Cultivation
• Thinking, feeling, or doing what will fit the form and function of your objectives

Using these tools could have restored me back to consciousness. Instead, I was locked in a trance state of dis-empowering thoughts and images all of which were emotional and fear-based. This is okay. It simply means that I am getting to the source of things that have blocked me. Those blockages are alive and want to stay that way.

The blockages are called Set, known today as Satan. Heru fights Set. Our enlightened consciousness (our True Will) fights to subdue our limited ego. This is so much more than mere "will power". Will power is forcing yourself to do something you know you should do. The Will of Heru is thinking, feeling, and acting based upon an indwelling intelligence (the subconscious mind of the True Self). The indwelling intelligence is directly linked to the perfectly balanced power that moves the universe in synchronous harmony. This means that thoughts, feelings, and actions based upon the True Will (Heru) cause no conflict and will result in immediate or eventual creative alignment. We access and cultivate this indwelling intelligence through our nightly meditations. The intelligence rises or resurrects itself through our waking consciousness (Heru), during the day, thus the true title of The Book of the Dead -- The Pert Em Hru (Becoming Awake or Coming Forth By Day)

Heru is symbolized as a hawk because in a hawk-like way, we must monitor our thoughts, feelings, and actions according to our True Will, protecting them from our limited ego (Set). During the day, Set produces for us a reality through images, beliefs, and affirmations. Like a hawk, we must learn to see through Set's illusions with clarity, using our inner eye (known as the Third Eye, Tehuti's Eye, the Pineal Gland) to follow our True Will as we create a more balanced reality.

Now, I am ready to talk about Het-Heru, but I will do so on a different post.

Until next time,
Hetep