Symbol and the Symbolic: Egypt, Science and the Evolution of Consciousness

R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz spent 15 years at the Temple of Luxor studying its art and architecture. In "Symbol and the Symbolic", he explains that true progress in human thought can be made only if we call upon the "symbolizing" faculty of human intelligence, the faculty developed and refined in the Temple Culture of ancient Egypt and reflected in the hieroglyphs that have come down to us undisturbed. The mentality of ancient Egypt, argues the author, helps to frees us from our present intellectual impasse, while "symbolism" must be recognized for what it really is: the intuitive means of overcoming the limitations of reason and of achieving a higher humanism.