{"id":365,"date":"2018-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egyptianwisdomcenter.org\/the-egyptian-pictorial-metaphysical-images-script\/"},"modified":"2023-01-03T00:35:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T05:35:12","slug":"the-egyptian-pictorial-metaphysical-images-script-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/egyptianwisdomcenter.org\/ro\/the-egyptian-pictorial-metaphysical-images-script-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Egyptian Pictorial Metaphysical Images\/Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The Egyptian Pictorial Metaphysical Images\/Script<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Ancient Egyptians\u2019 pictorial system is commonly called &#8216;hieroglyphs&#8217;, which comprises a large number of pictorial symbols. The word hieroglyph means \u2018holy script\u2019 (<em>hieros <\/em>= holy, <em>glyphein <\/em>= impress). Hieroglyphic writing was in use in Egyptian temples until about 400 CE.<\/p>\n<p>Each pictorial image is worth a thousand words and represents that function or principle on all levels simultaneously, from the simplest, most obvious physical manifestation of that function to the most abstract and metaphysical. This symbolic language represents a wealth of physical, physiological, psychological and spiritual ideas in the presented symbols.<\/p>\n<p>The metaphorical and symbolic concept of the Egyptian hieroglyphs was unanimously acknowledged by all early writers on the subject, such as Plutarch, Diodorus, Clement, etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In his treatise on Isis and Osiris,which is one of the most instructive sources for our understanding of Egyptian religious ideas, Plutarch mentions the hieroglyphs and their metaphorical and allegorical significance, in several places. In his <em>Moralia, Vol. V<\/em>, Plutarch states:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em>&#8220;The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">babe<\/span> is the symbol of coming into the world and the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">aged man<\/span> the symbol of departing from it, and by a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hawk<\/span> they indicate God, by the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fish<\/span> hatred, and by\u00a0the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hippopotamus<\/span> shamelessness.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Plutarch, like ALL classical writers of his era, emphasized metaphysical intent as the sole principle of hieroglyphic writing, which is a pictorial expression of divine ideas and sacred knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Plutarch listed an extensive number of distinguished Greeks who visited Egypt at different times. Among them, he mentioned Pythagoras, whose admiration and dependence on \u2018the symbolic and occult teachings of the Egyptians\u2019 is emphasized and illustrated by a comparison of the allegorical method used in the so-called Pythagorean precepts and \u2018<strong><em>the writings that are called hieroglyphs<\/em><\/strong>\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chairemon lived in Alexandria\u00a0before he went to Rome, where he was the tutor of Nero from 49 CE onward. Chairemon described 19 hieroglyphic signs in his books, followed by an explanation of the allegorical significance of each.<\/li>\n<li>Diodorus of Sicily, in his\u00a0<em>Book I<\/em>, stated:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em>&#8220;Their\u2014the Egyptians\u2019\u2014writing does not express the intended concept by means\u00a0of syllables joined one to another, but by means of the significance of the objects\u00a0that have been copied, and by its figurative meaning that has been impressed\u00a0upon the memory by practice. For instance they draw the picture of a hawk, a\u00a0crocodile &#8230; and the like. Now <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the hawk signifies to them everything which happens\u00a0swiftly, since this animal is practically the swiftest of winged creatures<\/span>. And the\u00a0concept portrayed is then transferred, by the appropriate metaphorical transfer,\u00a0to all swift things and to everything to which <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">swiftness<\/span> is appropriate, very much\u00a0as if they had been named. And the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">crocodile is a symbol of all that is evil<\/span>.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clement of Alexandria,in about 200 CE, gave an account of the hieroglyphs. The metaphorical and allegorical qualities of the hieroglyphs are at the same time explicitly mentioned, and his examples are expounded in the same symbolic way as those of earlier writers.<\/li>\n<li>The best description came from Plotinus, who wrote in\u00a0<em>The Enneads <\/em>[Vol. V-VI]:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The wise men of Egypt, either by scientific or innate knowledge<\/span>, and when they wished to signify something wisely, did not use the forms of letters which follow\u00a0the order of words and propositions and imitate sounds and the enunciations of philosophical statements, but by drawing images and inscribing in their temples one particular image of each particular thing, they manifested the non-discursiveness of the intelligible world, that is, that every image is a kind of knowledge and wisdom and is a subject of statements, all together in one, and not discourse or deliberation. But [only] afterwards [others] discovered, starting from it in its concentrated unity, a representation in something else, already unfolded and speaking it discursively and giving the reasons why things are like this, so that, because what has come into existence is so beautifully disposed, if anyone knows how to admire it he expresses his admiration of how this wisdom, which does not itself possess the reasons why substance is as it is, gives them to the things which are made according to it.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Egyptian hieroglyphics may appear to be an unnecessary burden that the Egyptian priests have \u201cinvented\u201d to maintain secrets away from other people. The fact of the matter is that such perceptions are far from the truth, on all accounts. Explanations will unfold to show that the concept of pictorial images in the Egyptian Hieroglyphics is the common denominator between all human beings everywhere and the divine forces of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>[An excerpt from <\/strong><\/span><strong>The Egyptian Hieroglyph: Metaphysical Language by Moustafa Gadalla<\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>]<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/egyptianwisdomcenter.org\/ro\/produs\/the-egyptian-hieroglyph-metaphysical-language\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/egyptianwisdomcenter.org\/product\/the-egyptian-hieroglyph-metaphysical-language\/<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/books2read-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/CACHE\/images\/ubl_book_images\/book_display_image_HdDDHlu\/8bf5efaff503f1ace8ddab1942515082\" \/><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/egyptianwisdomcenter.org\/ro\/produs\/the-egyptian-hieroglyph-metaphysical-language\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/egyptianwisdomcenter.org\/product\/the-egyptian-hieroglyph-metaphysical-language\/<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Egyptian Pictorial Metaphysical Images\/Script &nbsp; The Ancient Egyptians\u2019 pictorial system is commonly called &#8216;hieroglyphs&#8217;, which comprises a large number of pictorial [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-365","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egyptianwisdomcenter.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egyptianwisdomcenter.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egyptianwisdomcenter.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egyptianwisdomcenter.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egyptianwisdomcenter.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/egyptianwisdomcenter.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egyptianwisdomcenter.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}