“O great city, O heart of Egypt, your habitations are overthrown and your sacred shrines lie buried beneath the sands of time. The dust of ages enwraps you, as a dead one is swathed within the tomb. Your temples still stand and ring with noise, but the solemn shrines are silent. They have become an abode for the wild dog and scorpion, and your roads are highways of wickedness.

“Behold, in the days long gone down into dust, the whirlwind came and earth poured out her wrathful breath, so that you were burnt. The evildoers were swept away by the waters, and the wicked ones were

swallowed up in the fires. The days of the years were shortened and the times of all things altered. The seasons were turned around, so that the seed rotted within the soil, and no green shoots came forth to greet the day. All buds withered upon the vines, the land lay dead under its grey shroud. The moon changed the order of her ways, and the sun set himself a new course, so that men knew not where they were and all were afflicted. The stars swam in a new direction, and the whole order of things was changed. Yet, O Egypt, even from those days of calamity you emerged unbroken, your spirit intact,

your heart unshaken. What has happened to you, O land of mine?

“Weep, O land of Egypt, weep for the things that have gone. Weep for the spirit now-departed. Weep for the betrayed gods, weep for The Great God so high above them that you scarcely knew him. Weep for the destruction that has befallen you. Weep for all the beauty and glory that have gone down into the dust. Weep for eternal ages, and sleep for evermore. Your spirit has departed, your life had ebbed away, your vitality has burnt itself out, only the empty corpse remains. The generations yet to tread the Earth will know nothing of you. They will see no more than the dead, dried, mummified thing. The loving life that once vitalized it so gloriously, they cannot know. O Son of Kebew, forgive the people of this land for their ways. Reveal your greatness by serving those who no longer walk in the light of your instruction, even as you served their fathers in days gone by.”

-The Kolbrin Bible (Man:33:1-3)

Sacred Shrines Buried

This quote from the Kolbrin Bible indicates that Egypt was already losing its status as a world leader of spiritual development, even at the time this was written many centuries ago. If you have studied ancient spiritual schools at all, you know that ancient Egypt was a leader in spiritual sciences. Unfortunately, materialism took over, as it did in so many other places. As a result of this loss, crime became common, which is why it says the roads became “highways of wickedness.”

Days Long Gone

It isn’t difficult to understand this part of the quote. The whirlwind and the wrathful breath of the earth probably refer to volcanoes and tornadoes. While there are no active volcanoes in Egypt today, it is believed that there were some in ancient times.

There may also have been earthquakes causing tsunamis, which explains the part about evil ones being swept away by water. But we may be talking about a greater catastrophe than any of this. It may be that either the poles of the Earth reversed, causing the planet to flip over, or the poles of the sun reversed. Either of those things could have caused great catastrophes on earth. Another theory is that a large asteroid may have passed very close to Earth, causing the catastrophes. Whatever happened, the point being made is that the ancient temples of spiritual development were destroyed or damaged to the point where they stopped being used, resulting in a descent into materialism. A recent news article says there is evidence of a major cataclysm in the Nile Delta of Egypt in ancient times.

The Great God

The quote continues by saying the people of Egypt should weep for the betrayed gods and the Great God they hardly knew. Of course, the students, adepts, and masters in the great spiritual schools knew of the Great God, the one and only True God, but only the most advanced students were able to reach the very high level of consciousness that permitted them to communicate directly with God and his Angels., so only they could claim to truly know God.

“The physician must know the courses of the Watchers. He must know their times and their comings and goings. He must know the secret of the Lord of Forms and the way of the Guide of Souls. He must know who are the Owners of Forms and who are the Formless Ones.

“He must know their abode. He must know the road and the four ways of entry. He must know the nature of the double power. He must be a master at drawing forth the spirit. He must know the outside of man, the things which flow over it. He must know the inside man, the substances which fill it. He must know the heart, the muscles that move out from it, controlling every action of the body.

“These are words to fill the ears of the physician. These things are written on his heart. The physician sits on a throne of silence. The physician absorbs the pains of the sick through his ears. If any man opens the door of his heart to the physician, the tongue has no knowledge of what the ears have heard. The inmost room is open to the silent man. The heart of the physician is not puffed up because of his knowledge. He talks with the simple man as though he were wise. The words of the physician are as

healing herbs. The physician bears himself so that when the eyes of the sick fall upon him, they are half cured. The eyes of the physician see through the flesh, When he sat before his master, he learned to bear patiently the chastisements for his own failings, now, he can justly reprove another for his. The tongue of the physician is dipped in honey, not in guile. Where Truth adds to suffering without benefit, then he may veil it, but never will he do so without purpose or care.”

-The Kolbrin Bible (Man:32:2-4)

The Watchers

In some ancient lands, spiritual beings such as angels were called Watchers because they watched over us. They also helped people turn to God and develop their spiritual selves as well as helping to protect them from evil forces and beings within certain limits because the realm of matter is the realm of the fallen angels.

Lord of Forms

The Lord of Forms is God, but the law of physical forms is the Demiurge, the false god. The Guide of Souls is the true God, although spiritual teachers and Gurus are also guides to the Soul. So what this part of the quote is saying is that in order for a physician to do his job properly, he must be aware of both good and evil beings, positive and negative influences. That seems obvious to most of us, but many practicing medicine today have no knowledge of the spiritual and treat only physical ailments as if the body has no connection to the spirit. A proper physician knows that sometimes taking care of spiritual needs can also help heal the physical body.

Throne of Silence

This tells us that even in ancient times, it was considered improper for a doctor to talk about his patients and their illnesses. Of course, a doctor could say she has healed someone of this disease or another without naming the patients.

Absorbs the Pain of the Sick

Physicians generally don’t do this, although some have enough empathy to feel some of what the patient feels. It is true, however, that many spiritual healers heal by first taking the illness from the patient into themselves, then using their own healing powers to heal themselves. Gene Savoy, Sr. was known to use that method when he was young and strong.

The Physicians Words

The good physician doesn’t berate the patient for being overweight or for going for a hike in a wilderness area and coming in contact with poisonous plants. A real physician heals without being judgmental. By the same token, the good physician uses the treatment he thinks will work best, even if others may consider it outdated. He also has to consider the beliefs of the patient. If the patient doesn’t believe herbs or other natural treatments work, then the doctor may have to treat that person with drugs. On the other hand, the patient who doesn’t trust modern drugs should be treated with natural treatments when possible.

“There is no boundary for light. It was unknown when it began. Nothing was when light was not. Nothing was when radiance was not. Nothing was when life was not. There was never a boundary for light. Nothing was when water was not.

“Water is prior to darkness. Prior to darkness is water. Nothing is without an end. No number is before the uthras were. Light beings are prior to darkness. Prior to darkness are uthras and older than their inhabitants. Goodness is prior to the malice of the place of darkness. Gentleness is prior to the bitterness of the place of darkness. Living fire is prior to the consuming fires of the place of darkness. Praise is prior to the practice of sorcery and witchcraft. Hymns and books are prior to the sorcery of Hewath, the terrible woman.

“Darkness can’t be measured by light. The house of gloom isn’t lighted. The house of gloom isn’t lighted, and turbid waters have no sparkle. Darkness grew and creatures formed. Darkness formed, and when it formed it tested its force. It harbored malice in its mind. It imprisoned its own kanna, the place of the soul. It imprisoned its own kanna, and everything it did was nothing. The children of darkness are nothing, but the children of life stay. The house of evil is nothing, and its consuming fires die. Its sorcery dies and ends, since it has no place in eternity. It comes to nothing. The generations of life stay forever. The living instruction rises and illuminates a perishable living place.”

-The Ginza

No Boundary for Light

We know that there are boundaries for some types of physical light, so it should be obvious that what the Ginza is talking about is Spiritual Light. The traditional Bible has God creating Light before anything else, but that still gives people the idea that there was a time when the Light didn’t exist. That idea is false simply because everything that is purely spiritual exists outside of the limits of time and space, so it has no beginning and no end, no boundaries of any kind. And as the quote says, nothing existed before Light.

Nothing Before Life

The statement that nothing existed before Life means spiritual life. Spiritual Life, like Spiritual Light, exists outside of the limitations of space and time. But this means more than that. It tells us that Life is everywhere and everything is alive. Perhaps not in the physical sense, yet all things are alive on the spiritual level. Native Americans understood this and said all things have a spirit, even rocks, mountains, and rivers. Since a spirit is always alive, that means those things are alive as well.

Water Before Darkness

Since Darkness refers to the fallen realm of matter, this also cannot refer to physical water. It means the Word of God, which “flows” from the Godhead like water to enlighten those who attune themselves to it.

Nothing is Without an End

This one can be confusing because of the sudden shift. All of the previous lines of the quote talk about spiritual things. In this case, it means physical things. All physical things come to an end. Some will argue that they don’t come to an end; they just change form, but for the form that was, an end has happened.

No Number Before the Uthras

An odd way to word it, but what this is saying is that there were no beings existing before the high-level Spiritual Beings that are here called Uthras, but we would call them Angels or beings of Light. Since the physical realm was an offshoot of the spiritual realm, physical beings, which is what I think was meant by “no number,” could not have existed before spiritual beings.

Goodness Prior to Darkness

Since Spirit came before matter, goodness existed before Darkness. This doesn’t mean the kind of darkness you get when you turn out the lights in a room. The Darkness means the realm of the fallen angels, also called the Demiurge. Since that realm of matter was “created” by changing Spirit into something else, Spirit had to exist first, and true Goodness is found only in Spirit.

House of Gloom

This is obviously a reference to the lower dimension generally called Hell. There is no Spiritual Light in that lower dimension, so if one wishes to turn away from Hell and head toward Heaven, it must be done while still living physically in the third dimension where it is still possible to access the Spiritual Light from God, especially now that we have the Sun of Righteousness shining down on us.