Book Review: Her-Bak by Alexandra Sarris

In this episode, we descend from the sun-scorched courtyards of the Egyptian peristyle into the shadowed silence of the inner hypostyle, where philosophy is no longer the rote repetition of accepted wisdom but the perilous confrontation with essential principles—the neters—that structure reality itself. We explore how Her-Bak—an inquisitive boy who refused to accept surface-level answers, guided by the Sage and the questioning priest Pasab—embarked on a journey from the comfortable certainties of the outer temple to the terrifying transformative potential of initiation. We examine the philosophical vision of R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, who spent fifteen years in Egypt not excavating tombs but reading stones, attempting to recover a living wisdom that had been buried beneath centuries of dead interpretation.From the rejection of the dead stick and the recovery of the living twig, from the disaster of the ill-made footstool to the hard-won entry into the hypostyle, from the distinction between the peristyle priests who accept their limitations and the seekers who yearn for transformation to the nature of the neter as principle rather than being—we trace the monumental, deeply contested, and astonishingly influential legacy of Egyptian wisdom as refracted through the Schwaller de Lubicz lens and ask: In a world that has forgotten how to read its own symbols, that mistakes words for things and rituals for realities, do we have the courage to ask the soul-searching questions, or will we retreat into the comfortable security of the peristyle, content with the dead sticks we have been given?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Book Review: Her-Bak Classification: V2 - 805.1 - 1 Author: Alexandra Sarris III° Date: March, XIII Publication: Cry of the Jackal, I.1, Anubis Pylon Subject: Initiation Reading List: #2L📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Isha Schwaller de Lubicz, Her-Bak -Isha Schwaller de Lubicz, Her-Bak, Disciple -R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, The Temple in Man (trans. Robert & Deborah Lawlor) -R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, The Temple of Man (forthcoming in English) -R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, The Egyptian Miracle -Lucie Lamy, Egyptian Mysteries: New Light on Ancient Knowledge -John Anthony West, Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt -Peter Tompkins, Secrets of the Great Pyramid -Erik Hornung, Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many -Henri Frankfort, Ancient Egyptian Religion: An Interpretation -Jan Assmann, The Search for God in Ancient Egypt -James P. Allen, The Philosophy of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom -Alexandra Sarris III°, "Book Review: Her-Bak" (Cry of the Jackal, I.1)🏷️ HASHTAGS#HerBak #Egypt #EgyptianPhilosophy #SchwallerDeLubicz #Neter #Initiation #Peristyle #Hypostyle #MeduNeter #LivingTwig #EssentialPrinciples #AncientEgypt #TempleOfMan #TempleInMan #IshaSchwallerDeLubicz #CryOfTheJackal #AnubisPylon #Philosophy #WisdomTraditions #EsotericEgypt #Occult #Hermeticism #Set #Xeper #BlackFlame #LeftHandPath #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #AncientWisdom #TheSage #Initiation #SpiritualJourney #SoulSearching #Egyptology #TempleOfSet #Mysteries #EgyptianMysteries #Footstool #Artisan #Craft #Principle #Function #Being #Meaning #Symbolism #Hieroglyphs #DeadStick #LivingTwig)