
Winged Pharaoh

Neyah wouldn’t let him, and asked how the memory part of the spirit was written. Father took the reed from Neyah’s hand and drew a jar.… “For a jar holds fluids, which of all earthly substances are nearest to that which has not earthly form. When a man is born for the first time, his jar of memory is empty; gradually through his many lives it is fi
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“The ba is written sometimes as a winged human head, which is the older form, and sometimes as a human-faced bird. For the ka-ibis is the highest part of the body and it is in the head, and the ba is the first part of us that is conscious of leaving Earth and of being ‘winged’.